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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

A Real-Time, Automatic, and Dynamic Scheduling and Control System for PET Patients Based on Wearable Sensors.

Shin-Yan Chiou, Kun-Ju Lin, Ya-Xin Dong

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shin-Yan ChiouDepartment of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan 333, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-8182-1676
Kun-Ju LinDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Tao-Yuan 333, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0003-1933-4564
Ya-Xin DongDepartment of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan 333, Taiwan.
Chang Gung University · TW

Funding

Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan MOST 109-2221-E-182 -020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Positron emission tomography (PET) is one of the commonly used scanning techniques. Medical staff manually calculate the estimated scan time for each PET device. However, the number of PET scanning devices is small, the number of patients is large, and there are many changes including rescanning requirements, which makes it very error-prone, puts pressure on staff, and causes trouble for patients and their families. Although previous studies proposed algorithms for specific inspections, there is currently no research on improving the PET process. This paper proposes a real-time automatic scheduling and control system for PET patients with wearable sensors. The system can automatically schedule, estimate and instantly update the time of various tasks, and automatically allocate beds and announce schedule information in real time. We implemented this system, collected time data of 200 actual patients, and put these data into the implementation program for simulation and comparison. The average time difference between manual and automatic scheduling was 7.32 min, and it could reduce the average examination time of 82% of patients by 6.14 ± 4.61 min. This convinces us the system is correct and can improve time efficiency, while avoiding human error and staff pressure, and avoiding trouble for patients and their families.

Indexed as

Positron-Emission TomographyWearable Electronic DevicesAlgorithmsHumansautomatic schedulingBluetooth Beaconcontrol systemPETwearable sensors

Identifiers

PMID33562605
PMCPMC7915651
OpenAlexW3127669696

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