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Volume 17 Supplement 2

Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Engineering Innovation (ICBEI) 2016

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Publication of this supplement has not been supported by sponsorship. Information about the source of funding for publication charges can be found in the individual articles. The articles have undergone the journal's standard peer review process for supplements. The Supplement Editor declares that they have no competing interests.

Taichung, Taiwan28 October - 1 November 2016

Edited by Wen-Hsiang Hsieh.

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  1. The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of moxibustion therapy on weight loss, waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio in young adult females. An experimental design, 51 Asian females were...

    Authors: Ching-Hsiu Hsieh, Chi-Chuan Tseng, Ju-Yu Shen and Pei-Ying Chuang
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2018 17(Suppl 2):149

    The Retraction Note to this article has been published in BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2020 19:6

  2. Recently, automatic molecular diagnostic devices to extract DNA have been extensively developed using magnetic beads. While various methods can be applied to the control of the beads, the efficiency of the con...

    Authors: Chang-Young Park, Young-Hyun Park, Yu-Seop Kim, Hye-Jeong Song and Jong-Dae Kim
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2018 17(Suppl 2):143
  3. Biomedical named entity recognition (Bio-NER) is a fundamental task in handling biomedical text terms, such as RNA, protein, cell type, cell line, and DNA. Bio-NER is one of the most elementary and core tasks ...

    Authors: Hye-Jeong Song, Byeong-Cheol Jo, Chan-Young Park, Jong-Dae Kim and Yu-Seop Kim
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2018 17(Suppl 2):158
  4. Biological and medical diagnoses depend on high-quality measurements. A wearable device based on Internet of Things (IoT) must be unobtrusive to the human body to encourage users to accept continuous monitorin...

    Authors: Wei-Hua Tang, Wen-Hsien Ho and Yenming J. Chen
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2018 17(Suppl 2):147
  5. In the past, manufacture of prosthetic socket by using traditional handmade method not only consumed research time but also required a special assembly approach. Recently, reverse engineering and rapid prototy...

    Authors: Cheung-Hwa Hsu, Chao-Hui Ou, Wei-Lun Hong and Yu-Han Gao
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2018 17(Suppl 2):145
  6. The accuracy and precision of liquid handling can be altered by several causes including wearing or failure of parts, and human error. The last cause is crucial since point-of-care testing (POCT) devices can b...

    Authors: Chan-Young Park, Jun Yeon, Hye-Jeong Song, Yu-Seop Kim, Ki-Bong Nahm and Jong-Dae Kim
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2018 17(Suppl 2):144
  7. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is used in nucleic acid tests of infectious diseases in point-of-care testing. Previous studies have demonstrated real-time PCR that uses a micro-PCR chip made of packing tape, ...

    Authors: Ji-Soo Hwang, Jong-Dae Kim, Yu-Seop Kim, Hye-Jeong Song and Chan-Young Park
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2018 17(Suppl 2):156
  8. In general, the image analysis of nucleic acid for detecting DNA is dependent on the gel documentation system. These experiments may deal with harmful staining agents and are time consuming. To address these i...

    Authors: Deuk-Ju Lee, Jong-Dae Kim, Yu-Seop Kim, Hye-Jeong Song and Chan-Young Park
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2018 17(Suppl 2):150
  9. Screening test using CA-125 is the most common test for detecting ovarian cancer. However, the level of CA-125 is diverse by variable condition other than ovarian cancer. It has led to misdiagnosis of ovarian ...

    Authors: Hye-Jeong Song, Eun-Suk Yang, Jong-Dae Kim, Chan-Young Park, Min-Sun Kyung and Yu-Seop Kim
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2018 17(Suppl 2):152
  10. The significant advancement in the mobile sensing technologies has brought great interests on application development for the Internet-of-Things (IoT). With the advantages of contactlessness data retrieval and...

    Authors: Cheng-Fa Chiang, Fang-Ming Hsu and Kuo-Hui Yeh
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2018 17(Suppl 2):154
  11. One of the most important processes in a machine learning-based natural language processing is to represent words. The one-hot representation that has been commonly used has a large size of vector and assumes ...

    Authors: Hye-Jeong Song, Byeong-Hun Yoon, Young-Shin Youn, Chan-Young Park, Jong-Dae Kim and Yu-Seop Kim
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2018 17(Suppl 2):155
  12. Pressure sensors have been used for sleeping posture detection, which meet privacy requirements. Most of the existing techniques for sleeping posture recognition used force-sensitive resistor (FSR) sensors. Ho...

    Authors: Rong-Shue Hsiao, Tian-Xiang Chen, Mekuanint Agegnehu Bitew, Chun-Hao Kao and Tzu-Yu Li
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2018 17(Suppl 2):157
  13. In this paper, we propose a system for data monitoring and control of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) externally. PCR is a technique for amplifying a desired DNA molecule by repeatedly synthesizing a specific ...

    Authors: Jong-Dae Kim, So-Yeon Lee, Yu-Seop Kim, Hye-Jeong Song and Chan-Young Park
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2018 17(Suppl 2):153
  14. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is a commonly used diagnostic imaging method for coronary artery disease. Virtual histology (VH) characterizes the plaque components into fibrous tissue (FT), fibro-fatty tissue...

    Authors: Ga Young Kim, Ju Hwan Lee, Yoo Na Hwang and Sung Min Kim
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2018 17(Suppl 2):151