Recent Submissions

  • Graphomotor and Handwriting Disabilities Rating Scale (GHDRS): towards complex and objective assessment 

    Mekyska, Jiri; Safarova, Katarina; Urbanek, Tomas; Bednarova, Jirina; Zvoncak, Vojtech; Havigerova, Jana Marie; Cunek, Lukas; Galaz, Zoltan; Mucha, Jan; Klauszova, Christine; Faundez-Zanuy, Marcos; Ferrer, Miguel A.; Diaz, Moises (Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties. 2024 Mar;29(1):2024, 2024-03)
    Graphomotor and handwriting disabilities (GD and HD, respectively) could significantly reduce children’s quality of life. Effective remediation depends on proper diagnosis; however, current approaches ...
  • Computerized assessment of handwriting in de novo Parkinson’s disease: a kinematic study 

    Diaz Feliz, Lola; Sanz-Cartagena, Pilar; Faundez-Zanuy, Marcos; Arbelo-Gonzalez, José; Garcia-Ruiz, Pedro (Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 2024 Sep;126:107072, 2024-09)
    Introduction: Dysgraphia, a recognized PD motor symptom, lacks effective clinical assessment. Current evaluation relies on motor assessment scales. Computational methods introduced over the past decade ...
  • Effects of acute beetroot juice intake on performance, maximal oxygen uptake, and ventilatory efficiency in well-trained master rowers: a randomized, double-blinded crossover study 

    Garnacho-Castaño, Manu; Pleguezuelos, Eulogio; Berbel, Marina; Irurtia, Alfredo; Carrasco-Marginet, Marta; Castizo-Olier, Jorge; Veiga Herreros, Pablo; Faundez-Zanuy, Marcos; Serra Paya, Noemi (Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition. 2024;21(1):2373170, 2024)
    Background: Beetroot juice (BRJ) intake has been considereda practical nutritional strategy among well-trained athletes. Thisstudy aimed to assess the effects of BRJ intake on performance,cardiorespiratory ...
  • Cognitive impairment detection based on frontal camera scene while performing handwriting tasks 

    Candela, Federico; Romeo, Santina; Faundez-Zanuy, Marcos; Ferrer-Ramos, Pau (Cognitive Computation. 2024;16:1004-1021, 2024)
    Diagnosing cognitive impairment is an ongoing field of research especially in the elderly. Assessing the health status of the elderly can be a complex process that requires both subjective and objective ...
  • Online signature recognition: a biologically inspired feature vector splitting approach 

    Faundez-Zanuy, Marcos; Diaz, Moises; Ferrer, Miguel Angel (Cognitive Computation. 2024;16:265-277, 2024)
    This research introduces an innovative approach to explore the cognitive and biologically inspired underpinnings of feature vector splitting for analyzing the significance of different attributes in ...
  • Discriminative power of handwriting and drawing features in depression 

    Greco, Claudia; Raimo, Gennaro; Amorese, Terry; Cuciniello, Marialucia; Mcconvey, Gavin; Cordasco, Gennaro; Faundez-Zanuy, Marcos; Vinciarelli, Alessandro; Callejas, Zoraida; Esposito, Anna (International Journal of Neural Systems. 2024;34(2):2350069, 2024)
    This study contributes knowledge on the detection of depression through handwriting/drawing features, to identify quantitative and noninvasive indicators of the disorder for implementing algorithms for ...
  • Analysis of gender differences in online handwriting signals for enhancing e-health and e-security applications 

    Faundez-Zanuy, Marcos; Mekyska, Jiri (Cognitive Computations. 2023;15:208-219, 2023)
    Handwriting is a complex perceptual–motor skill that is mastered around the age of 8. Although its computerized analysis has been utilized in many biometric and digital health applications, the possible ...
  • Electric vehicle powertrains with modular battery banks tied to multilevel NPC inverters 

    Busquets-Monge, Sergio; Alepuz, Salvador; Garcia-Rojas, Gabriel; Bordonau, Josep (Electronics. 2023;12(2):266, 2023)
    Nowadays, the internal combustion engine in vehicles is being replaced by electric motors, giving way to the electric vehicle, which results in reduced environmental impact, higher efficiency and lower ...
  • Active thermal control in neutral-point-clamped multilevel converters based on switching-cell arrays 

    Alepuz, Salvador; Nicolas-Apruzzese, Joan; Rafiezadeh, Roya; Busquets-Monge, Sergio; Raya Di Francisco, Mariana Candela; Filba-Martinez, Alber (Electronics. 2023;12(19):4055, 2023)
    Neutral-point-clamped multilevel converters are a suitable solution to the implementation of low–medium voltage and power applications at present, thanks to their intrinsic superior voltage and current ...
  • Fast reliability assessment of neutral-point-clamped topologies through Markov models 

    Busquets-Monge, Sergio; Rafiezadeh, Roya; Alepuz, Salvador; Filba-Martinez, Alber; Nicolas-Apruzzese, Joan (IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 2021;36(12), 2021-06-08)
    This article presents detailed Markov models for the reliability assessment of multilevel neutral-point-clamped (NPC) converter leg topologies, incorporating their inherent fault-tolerance under ...
  • Exploración de patrones de interacción para su uso en la web semántica 

    Palacios, Alfons; García, Roberto; Oliva, Marta; Granollers, Antoni (Profesional de la Información. 2015 Dic 1;24(6):749-758, 2015-12-01)
    En los últimos años se han publicado múltiples propuestas de conjuntos de patrones de interacción aplicables al diseño y al desarrollo de interfaces web. Paralelamente, la web semántica (WS) mejora los ...
  • Selection of entropy based features for automatic analysis of essential tremor 

    López-de-Ipiña, Karmele; Solé-Casals, Jordi; Faundez-Zanuy, Marcos; Calvo, Pilar Maria; Sesa-Nogueras, Enric; Martinez de lizarduy, Unai; Riva de la, Patricia; Marti Masso, Jose Felix; Beitia, Blanca; Bergareche, Alberto (Entropy. 2016;18(5):184, 2016)
    Biomedical systems produce biosignals that arise from interaction mechanisms. In a general form, those mechanisms occur across multiple scales, both spatial and temporal, and contain linear and non-linear ...
  • A comparative study of in-air trajectories at short and long distances in online handwriting 

    Alonso-Martinez, Carlos; Faundez-Zanuy, Marcos; Mekyska, Jiri (Cognitive Computation. 2017;9:712–720, 2017)
    Existing literature about online handwriting analysis to support pathology diagnosis has taken advantage of in-air trajectories. A similar situation occurred in biometric security applications where the ...
  • Automatic analysis of Archimedes’ spiral for characterization of genetic essential tremor based on Shannon’s entropy and fractal dimension 

    López-de-Ipiña, Karmele; Solé-Casals, Jordi; Faundez-Zanuy, Marcos; Calvo, Pilar M.; Sesa-Nogueras, Enric; Roure Alcobé, Josep; Martinez de lizarduy, Unai; Beitia, Blanca; Fernandez, Elsa; Iradi, Jon; Garcia-Melero, Joseba; Bergareche, Alberto (Entropy. 2018;20(7):531, 2018-07-16)
    Among neural disorders related to movement, essential tremor has the highest prevalence; in fact, it is twenty times more common than Parkinson’s disease. The drawing of the Archimedes’ spiral is the ...
  • Quantitative analysis of relationship between hypokinetic dysarthria and the freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease 

    Mekyska, Jiri; Galaz, Zoltan; Kiska, Tomas; Zvoncak, Vojtech; Mucha, Jan; Smekal, Zdenek; Eliasova, Ilona; Kostalova, Milena; Mrackova, Martina; Fiedorova, Dagmar; Faundez-Zanuy, Marcos; Solé-Casals, Jordi; Gómez Vilda, Pedro; Rektorova, Irena (Cognitive Computation. 2018;10(6):1006-1018, 2018)
    Hypokinetic dysarthria (HD) and freezing of gait (FOG) are both axial symptoms that occur in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). It is assumed they have some common pathophysiological mechanisms and ...
  • Changes in phonation and their relations with progress of Parkinson’s disease 

    Galaz, Zoltan; Mekyska, Jiri; Zvoncak, Vojtech; Mucha, Jan; Kiska, Tomáš; Smekal, Zdenek; Eliasova, Ilona; Mrackova, Martina; Kostalova, Milena; Rektorova, Irena; Faundez-Zanuy, Marcos; Alonso-Hernández, Jesús B.; Gomez-Vilda, Pedro (Applied Sciences. 2018;8(12):2339, 2018-11-22)
    Hypokinetic dysarthria, which is associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD), affects several speech dimensions, including phonation. Although the scientific community has dealt with a quantitative analysis ...
  • Identification and monitoring of Parkinson’s disease dysgraphia based on fractional-order derivatives of online handwriting 

    Mucha, Ján; Mekyska, Jiri; Galaz, Zoltan; Faundez-Zanuy, Marcos; López-de-Ipiña, Karmele; Zvoncak, Vojtech; Kiska, Tomáš; Smekal, Zdenek; Brabenec, Lubos; Rektorova, Irena (Applied Sciences. 2018;8(12):2566, 2018-12-11)
    Parkinson’s disease dysgraphia affects the majority of Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients and is the result of handwriting abnormalities mainly caused by motor dysfunctions. Several effective approaches ...
  • Analysis of various fractional order derivatives approaches in assessment of graphomotor difficulties 

    Mucha, Ján; Mekyska, Jiri; Galaz, Zoltan; Faundez-Zanuy, Marcos; Zvončák, Vojtěch; Zvončáková, Katarína; Urbanek, Tomas; Havigerova, Jana Marie; Bednarova, Jirina; Smekal, Zdenek (IEEE Access. 2020 Dec 4; 8:218234-218244, 2020-12-04)
    Graphomotor disabilities (GD) are present in up to 30% of school-aged children and are associated with several symptoms in the field of kinematics. Although the basic kinematic features such as velocity, ...
  • Handwriting biometrics: applications and future trends in e-security and e-health 

    Faundez-Zanuy, Marcos; Fierrez, Julian; Ferrer, Miguel A; Diaz, Moises; Tolosana, Ruben; Plamondon, Réjean (Cognitive Computation. 2020;12;940–953, 2020)
    Online handwritten analysis presents many applications in e-security, signature biometrics being the most popular but not the only one. Handwriting analysis also has an important set of applications in ...
  • On the analysis of speech and disfluencies for automatic detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment 

    López-de-Ipiña, Karmele; Martinez de lizarduy, Unai; Calvo, Paula M.; Beitia, Blanca; García Melero, J.; Fernández, E.; Ecay-Torres, Mirian; Faundez-Zanuy, Marcos; Sanz, P. (Neural Computing and Applications. 2020;32:15761–15769, 2018-05-08)
    Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by a progressive and irreversible cognitive deterioration. In a previous stage, the so-called Mild Cognitive Impairment or cognitive loss appears. Nevertheless, this ...

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