An intelligent homecare emergency service system for elder falling

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 424-428

  Pan, Jiann I ^a   Yung, Cheng Jie ^a   Liang, Chung Chao ^b   Lai, Lien Fu ^c  

^a TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c Chung Hua Educational University   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Back propagation neural network; Elder falling; Emergency service system; Fall detector; Homecare; Multi agent system

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MEDICINE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; CLINICAL PROBLEMS; ELDER FALLING; FALL DETECTORS; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; HOMECARE; INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE AGENT; INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 84899216650     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: 14339277     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-36841-0_114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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