Design and Implementation of Cognitive Examination Systems on Tablet PC
The birth rate in Taiwan is lagging behind most countries due to the decline of youngster and juvenile population.On the other hand,the advance in health care prolongs the elderly life that in turn causes side effect of increasing healthcare cost to government and elderly family.Unfortunately,most seniors are prone to deteriorating health,which may result in mental or physical impairment.Therefore,research in senile diseases will definitely become active.This study puts emphasis on the prophylaxis of elderly health care,especially the cognition related issues.Several systems,including visual,audio,and memory tests,are designed on Tablet PC for elderly to self evaluate their health status.The advantages of the proposed systems lie in providing the elderly handy tools to perform the evaluation without going back and forth to the hospital,receive the test results immediately,and retrieve the records anytime at home.The results from the proposed systems are compared with other methods to verify their effectiveness and practicality in early evaluation of senile dementia.
Mild cognitive impairment senile dementia Alzheimer’s disease Tablet PC
Yo-Ping Huang Tsung-Jung Hsin Shen-Ing Liu
Department of Electrical Engineering National Taipei University of Technology Taipei, Taiwan 10608 Department of Psychiatry Mackay Memorial Hospital Taipei, Taiwan 10449
国际会议
2013 ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering(2013 ICME复合医学工程国际会议)
北京
英文
1-6
2013-05-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）