Combining bioimpedance and myographic signals for the assessment of COPD during loaded breathing

…, L Estrada-Petrocelli, L Lijnen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is one of the most common chronic conditions.
The current assessment of COPD requires a maximal maneuver during a spirometry test …

Breathing pattern estimation using wearable bioimpedance for assessing COPD severity

…, W Groenendaal, L Lijnen… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Breathing pattern has been shown to be different in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
patients compared to healthy controls during rest and walking. In this study we …

Data augmentation and transfer learning for data quality assessment in respiratory monitoring

…, R Garcia van der Westen, L Lijnen… - … in bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Changes in respiratory rate have been found to be one of the early signs of health deterioration
in patients. In remote environments where diagnostic tools and medical attention are …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting 6-minute walking test outcomes in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease without physical performance measures

…, D Blanco-Almazán, W Groenendaal, L Lijnen… - Computer methods and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background and Objective Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) requires a
multifactorial assessment, evaluating the airflow limitation and symptoms of the patients. The 6-…

Controlled Breathing Effect on Respiration Quality Assessment Using Machine Learning Approaches

…, RG Van Der Westen, L Lijnen… - 2021 Computing in …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thoracic bio-impedance (BioZ) measurements have been proposed as an alternative for
respiratory monitoring. Given the ambulatory nature of this modality, it is more prone to noise …

Endurance exercise intervention is beneficial to kidney function in a rat model of isolated abdominal venous congestion: a pilot study

J Cops, B De Moor, S Haesen, L Lijnen, I Wens… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
In this study, the effects of moderate intense endurance exercise on heart and kidney function
and morphology were studied in a thoracic inferior vena cava constricted (IVCc) rat model …

Cardiac comorbidities in COPD patients explained through HRV and respiratory indices

…, W Groenendaal, L Lijnen… - 2020 Computing in …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients exhibit depressed heart rate variability
(HRV), while comorbidities may worsen the patients' prognosis. We investigated whether …

Relationship between heart rate recovery and disease severity in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients

…, D Romero, W Groenendaal, L Lijnen… - 2020 Computing in …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients exhibit impaired autonomic control
which can be assessed by heart rate variability analysis. The study aims to evaluate the …

[PDF][PDF] Comparator model for detecting changes in the ease of breathing of COPD patients

…, S Blanco-Almazan, L Lijnen… - KDH2023, the 6th …, 2023 - biblio.ugent.be
This paper introduces a new machine learning based comparator model to assess changes
in the ease of breathing of COPD patients during loaded breathing. The comparator model …

Stimulation of Collagen Production by Transforming Growth Factor-β1 During Differentiation of Cardiac Fibroblasts to Myofibroblasts

VV Petrov, RH Fagard, PJ Lijnen - Hypertension, 2002 - Am Heart Assoc
The aim of the present study was to elucidate how transforming growth factor-β 1 (TGF-β 1 )
can stimulate collagen deposition in cardiac tissue by interstitial cells via stimulation of …