A wireless body area network (WBAN) is a technology that is widely employed in the medical sector. It is a low-cost network that allows for mobility and variation. It can be used for long-distance, semiautonomous remote monitoring without interfering with people’s regular schedules. Detection devices are embedded in the human body in a simple WBAN configuration to continuously screen physiological boundaries or critical pointers. Confidence among shareholders (for example, medical care suppliers, clients, and medical teachers) is recognized as an essential achievement factor for data stream reliability in such an organization. Given the inherent characteristics of remote locations, it is critical to exercise confidence and security when conducting remote comprehension testing. In the present scenario, WBAN has majorly contributed towards healthcare and its application in medical services. Solid correspondence systems are frequently used to address trust and security concerns on WBANs. In terms of purpose, we present in this study a communication approach built on trust to protect the WBAN’s integrity and confidentiality. For ensuring authenticity, an enhanced bilingual distribution-based trust-management system (PDATMS) approach is used, while a cryptographic system is used to maintain anonymity. A MATLAB simulator is used to evaluate the performance of the recommended program. The recommended approach, according to the release information, improves accuracy by 96%, service delivery rate by 99%, throughput by 99%, as well as confidence, while reducing average latency.
Communication has proven to be an important element of our daily life. Communication disability makes it difficult for people to sustain ties with their family, friends, and social contacts, as well as their capacity to attain social and academic goals. A computerized forage of various academic databases were performed to figure out studies published in English since 1980 that directly examined any component of language, speech, or cognitive performance in emerging communication deficits in children. This study has been done to better understand communication disorders and how they impact people's lives. The purpose of this paper is to provide insight on the recent research, prevalence and the technology solutions available, as well as the affordability and accessibility of the technology solutions used with people with neurodevelopmental disorders. This capstone also highlights the importance of recognizing and understanding children's communication difficulties, as well as examines the various elements linked to communication disorders, including environmental and biological factors. The findings show that good intervention can help children to overcome communication barriers and avoid negative consequences and attain their full potential.
13 March 2025 in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine
The aim of this study is to develop Deep Learning (DL) enabled robotic systems to identify audio-based emotional pragmatics deficits in individuals with social pragmatic communication deficits. The novelty of the work stems from its integration of deep learning with a robotics platform for identifying emotional pragmatics deficits. In this study, the proposed methodology utilizes the implementation of machine and DL-based classification techniques, which have been applied to a collection of open-source datasets to identify audio emotions. The application of pre-processing and converting audio signals of different emotions utilizing Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) resulted in improved emotion classification. The data generated using MFCC were used for the training of machine or DL models. The trained models were then tested on a randomly selected dataset. DL has been proven to be more effective in the identification of emotions using robotic structure. As the data generated by MFCC is of a single dimension, therefore, one-dimensional DL algorithms, such as 1D-Convolution Neural Network, Long Short-Term Memory, and Bidirectional-Long Short-Term Memory, were utilized. In comparison to other algorithms, bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory model has resulted in higher accuracy (96.24%), loss (0.2524 in value), precision (92.87%), and recall (92.87%) in comparison to other machine and DL algorithms. Further, the proposed model was deployed on the robotic structure for real-time detection for improvement of social-emotional pragmatic responses in individuals with deficits. The approach can serve as a potential tool for the individuals with pragmatic communication deficits.
7 August 2026 in Universal Access in the Information Society