Jessica Zistatsis to Present at UW Medicine – Inventor of the Year Event

Jessica Zistatsis to Present at UW Medicine –  Inventor of the Year Event

Tomorrow a group of esteemed faculty and students will present their work during the UW Inventor of the Year event at the Don James Center, Husky Stadium on November 15, 2016 from 5-7:30 p.m.

Samual Browd, Jonathan Posner, and Per Reinhall will be recognized for their collaborative work inventing and developing a football helmet designed to mitigate the forces thought to contribute to concussions. Jessica will be presenting a poster for her pediatric exoskeleton and competing in a lightning pitch competition.

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Seattle News Coverage – Quite the buzz!

Our lab’s collaboration with miss Jayna and her family has made quite the buzz within our local news stations! We are very fortunate to work with Jayna and others who are co-designers and partners in the design process, who are dedicated to helping us create devices for not only themselves, but others that will benefit as well.

Jayna Doll is featured on three local news stations as a great drummer and design partner for upper-limb orthoses.

KING5, KOMO, and KIRO news all ran interviews with Jayna, Kat, and Bradley last night. Here are the links, in case you haven’t seen them!

KING5: http://www.king5.com/news/local/3d-printed-device-helps-girl-fulfill-drumming-dream/346454002

King5 also shared a video on their facebook page.

KOMO: http://komonews.com/news/local/uw-students-help-girl-with-rare-brain-condition-fulfill-dream-to-become-drummer

KIRO: http://www.kiro7.com/video?videoId=463374139&videoVersion=1.0

 

Darrin Howell Joins the Lab!

We are very excited to welcome Darrin Howell to our research team. Darrin earned is BS in Neuroscience here at the University of Washington and is now a research scientist within our lab. In addition to the exciting news of our new staff member, Darrin’s first day involved helping install the new AMPLab treadmill. A majority of our lab’s data collections will occur in this new shared space with Electrical Engineering and Rehabilitation Medicine. Welcome, Darrin!

Darrin stands on the left belt of the new treadmill within the AMPLab's space, while Dave the Bertec Technician tests the isntallation. Dave from Bertec, Darrin our new research scientist, and Keshia our lab manager and research scientist look in the sub-floor space where the new split-belt treadmill will be installed.

 

B Soran, L Lowes, KM Steele (2016) “Evaluation of infants with spinal muscular atrophy using convolutional neural networks.” European Conference on Computer Vision

B Soran, L Lowes, KM Steele (2016) “Evaluation of infants with spinal muscular atrophy using convolutional neural networks.” European Conference on Computer Vision

Peer-reviewed paper at European Conference on Computer Vision:

30-second videos from a depth camera can be used in the evaluation of infants with spinal muscular atrophy.

Experimental set-up with infant positioned below Kinect depth camera.Abstract: Spinal Muscular Atrophy is the most common genetic cause of infant death. Due to its severity, there is a need for methods for automated estimation of disease progression. In this paper we propose a Convolutional-Neural-Network (CNN) model to estimate disease progression during infants’ natural behavior. With the proposed methodology, we were able to predict each child’s score on current behavior-based clinical exams with an average per-subject error of 6.96 out of 72 points (<10 % difference), using 30-second videos in leave-one-subject-out-cross-validation setting. When simple statistics were used over 30-second video-segments to estimate a score for longer videos, we obtained an average error of 5.95 (8 % error rate). By showing promising results on a small dataset (N = 70, 2-minute samples, which were handled as 1487, 30-second video segments), our methodology demonstrates that it is possible to benefit from CNNs on small datasets by proper design and data handling choices.