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Non-linear connectivity and time lag also increased with the expression of the flexion synergy, as induced by greater SABD load levels, in stroke. This study provides new evidence of changes in neural connectivity and long-latency time lag in the stretch reflex response post-stroke. The results suggest the contribution of indirect motor pathways to synergy-related spasticity.Functional electric stimulation (FES) is a common intervention to correct foot drop for patients after stroke. Due to the disturbances from internal time-varying muscle characteristics under electrical stimulation and external environmental uncertainties, most of the existing FES system used pre-set stimulation parameters and cannot achieve good gait performances during FES-assisted walking. Therefore, an adaptive FES control system, which used the iterative learning control to adjust the stimulation intensity based on kinematic data and a linear model to modulate the stimulation timing based on walking speed during FES-assisted treadmill walking, was designed and tested on ten patients with foot drop after stroke. In order to examine its orthotic effects, the kinematic data of the patients using the proposed control strategy were collected and compared with the data of the same patients walking using other three FES control strategies, including (1) constant pre-set stimulation intensity and timing, (2) constant pre-set stimulation intensity with speed-adaptive stimulation timing and (3) walking without FES intervention. The error between the maximum ankle dorsiflexion angle during swing phase and the target angle using the proposed control strategy was the smallest among the four conditions. Moreover, there was no significant difference in the ankle plantar flexion angle at the toe-off event and the maximum knee flexion angle during swing phase between the proposed control strategy and walking without FES. In summary, the proposed control strategy can improve FES-assisted walking performances through adaptive modulation of stimulation timing and intensity when coping with variation, and may have good potential in clinic.In recent years, the development of Augmented Reality (AR) frameworks made AR application development widely accessible to developers without AR expert background. With this development, new application fields for AR are on the rise. This comes with an increased need for visualization techniques that are suitable for a wide range of application areas. PTC209 It becomes more important for a wider audience to gain a better understanding of existing AR visualization techniques. Within this work we provide a taxonomy of existing works on visualization techniques in AR. The taxonomy aims to give researchers and developers without an in-depth background in Augmented Reality the information to successively apply visualization techniques in Augmented Reality environments. We also describe required components and methods and analyze common patterns.Clinical researchers use disease progression models to understand patient status and characterize progression patterns from longitudinal health records. One approach for disease progression modeling is to describe patient status using a small number of states that represent distinctive distributions over a set of observed measures. Hidden Markov models (HMMs) and its variants are a class of models that both discover these states and make inferences of health states for patients. Despite the advantages of using the algorithms for discovering interesting patterns, it still remains challenging for medical experts to interpret model outputs, understand complex modeling parameters, and clinically make sense of the patterns. To tackle these problems, we conducted a design study with clinical scientists, statisticians, and visualization experts, with the goal to investigate disease progression pathways of chronic diseases, namely type 1 diabetes (T1D), Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). As a result, we introduce DPVis which seamlessly integrates model parameters and outcomes of HMMs into interpretable and interactive visualizations. In this study, we demonstrate that DPVis is successful in evaluating disease progression models, visually summarizing disease states, interactively exploring disease progression patterns, and building, analyzing, and comparing clinically relevant patient subgroups.Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved excellent successes for object recognition in still images. However, the improvement of Convolutional Neural Networks over the traditional methods for recognizing actions in videos is not so significant, because the raw videos usually have much more redundant or irrelevant information than still images. In this paper, we propose a Spatial-Temporal Attentive Convolutional Neural Network (STA-CNN) which selects the discriminative temporal segments and focuses on the informative spatial regions automatically. The STA-CNN model incorporates a Temporal Attention Mechanism and a Spatial Attention Mechanism into a unified convolutional network to recognize actions in videos. The novel Temporal Attention Mechanism automatically mines the discriminative temporal segments from long and noisy videos. The Spatial Attention Mechanism firstly exploits the instantaneous motion information in optical flow features to locate the motion salient regions and it is then trained by an auxiliary classification loss with a Global Average Pooling layer to focus on the discriminative non-motion regions in the video frame. The STA-CNN model achieves the state-of-the-art performance on two of the most challenging datasets, UCF-101 (95.8%) and HMDB-51 (71.5%).Stereo video retargeting aims at minimizing shape and depth distortions with temporal coherence in resizing a stereo video content to a desired size. Existing methods extend stereo image retargeting schemes to stereo video retargeting by adding additional temporal constraints that demand temporal coherence in all corresponding regions. However, such a straightforward extension incurs conflicts among multiple requirements (i.e., shape and depth preservation and their temporal coherence), thus failing to meet one or more of these requirements satisfactorily. To mitigate conflicts among depth, shape, and temporal constraints and avoid degrading temporal coherence perceptually, we relax temporal constraints for non-paired regions at frame boundaries, derive new temporal constraints to improve human viewing experience of a 3D scene, and propose an efficient grid-based implementation for stereo video retargeting. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves superior visual quality over existing methods.