Health Technology Research Lab BTH – Applied Health technology research at Blekinge Institute of Technology

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News 25.November.2024

Congratulations to Sarah Nauman Ghazi on Defending Her Licentiate Thesis

News 07.November.2024

Improving Oral Health Assisted by Smart Powered Toothbrushes and Exploring Their Role in Innovative Health Technology

Publications 23.August.2024

COPDVD: Automated classification of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on a new collected and evaluated voice dataset

News 23.August.2024

Personaldagar 2024 på Kosta Art Hotel!

News 25.April.2024

Oral Health and Cognitive Function Research Presented at ICBCB 2024

Publications 20.March.2024

The use of a digital life story to support person-centred care of older adults with dementia: A scoping review

News 11.March.2024

Symposium: Voice and speech research in medicine (Tıpta ses ve konuşma araştırmaları sempozyumu)

News 01.March.2024

Relative’s suggestions for improvements in support from health professionals before and after a patient’s death in general palliative care at home: A qualitative register study

News 18.December.2023

Applied Health Technology Research Conference at Scandic Karlskrona, December 11th, 2023

Publications 18.December.2023

Empowering Dementia Diagnosis: A Machine Learning-Driven Automated System

Publications 18.December.2023

Predictive Power of XGBoost_BiLSTM Model: A Machine-LearningApproach for Accurate Sleep Apnea Detection Using Electronic HealthData

News 06.December.2023

TIHA Doktorandgrupp Konferens

Research

The Health Technology Research Lab @ Blekinge Institute of Technology

The Health Technology Research Lab is an environment where research projects are conducted to create knowledge on the interaction between people, health, and technology. The research environment is cross-disciplinary and includes researchers, doctoral students, and collaboration partners from the academic sector, industry and local government. HTRL is also home for the health technology testbed, where companies and public entities have the opportunity to develop and test products and services n a clinical environment at the BTH Research and Education Clinic. The research projects at HTRL span the entire field of how technology can support people of all ages in achieving good health and quality of life.

Latest Research Publications

Publications 23.August.2024

COPDVD: Automated classification of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on a new collected and evaluated voice dataset

Publications 20.March.2024

The use of a digital life story to support person-centred care of older adults with dementia: A scoping review

Publications 23.January.2024

Relative’s suggestions for improvements in support from health professionals before and after a patient’s death in general palliative care at home: A qualitative register study

Publications 18.December.2023

Empowering Dementia Diagnosis: A Machine Learning-Driven Automated System

Publications 18.December.2023

Predictive Power of XGBoost_BiLSTM Model: A Machine-LearningApproach for Accurate Sleep Apnea Detection Using Electronic HealthData

Publications 23.September.2023

Support given by health professionals before and after a patient’s death to relatives involved in general palliative care at home in Sweden: Findings from the Swedish Register of Palliative Care

Publications 09.August.2023

Applied Machine Learning Techniques to Diagnose Voice-Affecting Conditions and Disorders: Systematic Literature Review

Publications 20.June.2023

Predicting Dementia Risk Factors Based on Feature Selection and Neural Networks

Publications 20.June.2023

Decision Support System for Predicting Mortality in Cardiac Patients Based on Machine Learning

Publications 16.June.2023

Early Prediction of Dementia Using Feature Extraction Battery (FEB) and Optimized Support Vector Machine (SVM) for Classification

Publications 16.June.2023

Machine Learning for Dementia Prediction: A Systematic Review and Future Research Directions

Publications 16.June.2023

An Intelligent Learning System for Unbiased Prediction of Dementia Based on Autoencoder and Adaboost Ensemble Learning

Publications, Research 04.January.2023

The prevalence of eHealth literacy and its relationship with perceived health status and psychological distress during Covid-19: a cross-sectional study of older adults in Blekinge, Sweden

Projects, Publications 09.December.2022

Health Care Professionals’ Views of Smart Glasses for Vital Signs Monitoring in Complex Care Environments

Publications 17.November.2022

Smart Glasses in Complex Care Environments, Initial Studies

Research

Applied health technology at Blekinge Institute of Technology BTH

Applied health technology (AHT) at BTH is an interdisciplinary subject incorporating both studies on how health directly or indirectly relates to the application and results of technology. It has a firm user perspective in where both the inherent qualities of the technology and the user’s perception of the same technology together make up the resulting functionality. Engineering design together with the domain knowledge from the health disciplines make up the intersection where AHT can be found. The strong environment of aging research, product development research and applied ICT at BTH has given the special profile of research areas that connects to and sometimes are incorporated by AHT. Examples of such research areas are aging and technology (gerotechnology), interaction design and health informatics.

Research Projects

Projects 31.May.2023

The DiaVoc project: Diagnosing vocal characteristics to track patients’ health

Projects, Publications 09.December.2022

Health Care Professionals’ Views of Smart Glasses for Vital Signs Monitoring in Complex Care Environments

Projects 23.February.2019

eDent- new technical devices for better oral health for older people

Projects, Research 17.July.2018

Test Arena Blekinge – New technology for older people

Projects, Research 17.July.2018

Test Arena Blekinge – Telemedicine for persons with heart failure | 2017-

Projects, Research 16.July.2018

SNAC IT – How the digitalization of society impacts older people’s lives

Projects 15.April.2018

BAIAA (Blekinge Artificial Intelligence study on Age Assessment)

Projects 23.February.2018

eNursEd – eHealth in Nursing Education

Projects 15.April.2017

RETRO -Relating Experienced To Recalled breathlessness Observational

Projects, Research 06.July.2015

SMART4MD

Projects, Research 06.July.2015

FI-STAR – Future Internet Social and Technological Alignment Research | 2013-2015

Projects 23.February.2015

SNAC Blekinge – Swedish National Study on Aging and Care

Research Profile

Gerontechnology

Gerontechnology is an interdisciplinary field of scientific research in which technology is directed towards the aspirations and opportunities for the older persons. Gerontechnology aims at good health, full social participation and independent living up to a high age, be it research, development or design of products and services to increase the quality of life. Gerontechnology is found at the crossroads of advancing technology and advancing age. Good health is of great importance to all older persons and increasingly so with progressing age.

Decision support with Deep Learning & AI in Healthcare

Combining a deep knowledge of the users in the welfare and healthcare systems with the capacity of modern computing creates new strands of research possibilities. BTH and applied health technology is in the research front here using deep learning and AI on the data we have gathered and are gathering to create new tools for health management.