Design and Evaluation of a Vision-Based UI for People with Large Cognitive-Motor Disabilities

Recovering from multiple traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a very difficult task, depending on the severity of the lesions, the affected parts of the brain and the level of damage (locomotor, cognitive or sensory). Although there are some software platforms to help these patients to recover part of the lost capacity, the variety of existing lesions and the different degree to which they affect the patient, do not allow the generalization of the appropriate treatments and tools in each case. The aim of this work is to design and evaluate a machine vision-based UI (User Interface) allowing patients with a high level of injury to interact with a computer. This UI will be a tool for the therapy they follow and a way to communicate with their environment. The interface provides a set of specific activities, developed in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team that is currently evaluating each patient, to be used as a part of the therapy they receive. The system has been successfully tested with two patients whose degree of disability prevents them from using other types of platforms.

Health Seek: A Deep Learning-Based Intelligent System to Aid Medical Diagnosis

Medical diagnosis is one of the most tedious and complex processes that healthcare personnel face in their day-to-day life. To establish an adequate treatment, it is essential to carry out a correct and early evaluation of each patient. Occasionally, given the number of tests that need to be performed, this evaluation process can require a significant amount of time, and can negatively affect the patient’s recovery. The objective of this work is the development of a new software that, using Artificial Intelligence (AI), offers the healthcare professional support in the process of diagnosing the patient, as well as preventing the probability of suffering a certain disease, based on test information analytics and demographic information available. The system allows storing multiple models based on Deep Learning (DL), previously trained for the diagnosis of different diseases. These models allow predictions to be made based on available medical information. As a use case, one of these models has been successfully tested in diagnosing stroke events.