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ExpertGaze - Applying new measurement technologies to facilitate knowledge transfer from experts to non-experts HOWEST University of Applied Sciences

The Tetra project ExpertGaze is investigating how measurements of behaviour, visual attention and stress levels during the execution of a task, can be of added value for building competences and supporting people in the performance of their jobs. Furthermore, it is investigated how measurements of experts can contribute to the training, support and/or accreditation of non-experts.The goal of the ExpertGaze project is to translate the already ...

CaliBrainVR - A calibration tool for the use of biosensors in virtual reality training & simulations HOWEST University of Applied Sciences

Jelle Demanet

Human Interface Technology Lab (HITlab), HOWEST University of Applied Sciences

The use of biosensors in VR/AR/MR training applications and training simulators to assess
the cognitive and emotional state of the user is on the rise, reflected in a fast-growing market
share for both hardware manufacturers of biosensors as companies offering internal and
external training support. However, the accuracy and reliability when interpreting
psychophysiological signals for a specific individual are often still ...

Genome and transcriptome engineering with CRISPR/Cas as a precision medicine for Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2L. University of Antwerp

Vincent Timmerman

Peripheral Neuropathies Group

Patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) have a hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy causing a length-dependent degeneration of their peripheral nerves. Most patients have a duplication on chromosome 17 resulting in a higher expression of the peripheral myelin protein 22 (PMP22). Finding ways to reduce PMP22 expression has led to the development of a treatment for this group of patients. However, a significant number of CMT patients ...

From model species to crop: enhancing the translation of functional traits in plants using an integrative network-based approach. Ghent University

Klaas Vandepoele

Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics

Basic research in model species like Arabidopsis thaliana has significantly increased our molecular understanding of plant growth and development during the last decade. Translating information about functional traits to crops with increased genome complexity is not trivial. Here, we propose an
integrative systems biology approach to enhance the accurate delineation of functional networks in plants.

Forwarding precision oncology by integrating cohort-derived molecular and clinical information. Ghent University

Kathleen Marchal

Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics

Combining molecular data and clinical annotation of tumor cohorts, now available in a public, but increasingly also in a clinical context has the potential to greatly advance clinical practice. However, the integration of these data is non-trivial. Therefore, we will develop methods to analyze such cohort-derived molecular and clinical information and apply them in the context of drug-based precision oncology.

ERC POC project: DEFOG: Data science tool for epidemic forecasting Hasselt University

Niel HENS

Centre for Statistics

Several organisations active in the health care market make decisions based on an estimation of the number of individuals infected with an infectious disease: hospitals adapt the supply of beds and staff, laboratories increase diagnostic testing capacity, public health and regulatory agencies develop control strategies, pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies optimize stockpiling whereas the latter also optimize the production rate of vaccines ...

Cognitive assessment platform (CAP): Capturing physiological interaction parameters of caregivers during stressful ICU interventions, towards the development of dynamic caregivers' assistant interfaces (CAI). University of Antwerp

Kristof Vaes, Guido De Bruyne

Laboratory Experimental Medicine and Pediatrics (LEMP), Product development

An intensive care unit (ICU) is a safety critical environment where caregivers' activities are crucial to human lives. Adverse events, defined as injuries or complications that are provoked by a medical human error rather than the patient's underlying disease, occur in about one-third of cases in adult ICU patients and the risk of error is cumulative. The risk factors of adverse events include high nursing workload, caregivers' sleep deprivation ...

Balance control in young children: a synergistic approach combining functional assessment and neuromechanics to unravel balance control mechanisms. University of Antwerp

Ann Hallemans

Movement Antwerp (MOVANT)

Adequate balance control is a prerequisite to achieve postures in early life and more complex gross and fine motor skills later in childhood. Balance deficits are a common problem in children with various pathologies such as cerebral palsy, developmental coordination disorder or sensorineural hearing loss. Because of the potential impact of these balance deficits on motor development, they need to be detected early in childhood. However, balance ...

iNNOCENS: data driven clinical decision support for improved neonatal care. University of Antwerp

Kris Laukens

Laboratory Experimental Medicine and Pediatrics (LEMP), ADReM Data Lab (ADReM)

Analysis of patient related vital parameters generated in a continuous manner on a neonatal intensivecare department offers the opportunity to develop computational models that can predict care-relatedcomplications. This project aims to develop a machine learning model that can predict acquired braininjury of prematurity. The model can than be implemented to generate bedside visualizations in thecontext of a self-learning digital early warning ...

Sequencing DNA of museum specimens to uncover the genetic basis of rapid adaptation to heavy fishing. University of Antwerp

Hannes Svardal

Systemic Physiological and Ecotoxicological Research (SPHERE)

We currently lack a detailed understanding of how organisms rapidly adapt genetically to environmental changes. However, gaining such an understanding is key in evaluating and predicting human impact on nature, can uncover the genetic basis of adaptive traits, and give insight into fundamental evolutionary processes. To address this, we will dissect the genetic factors contributing to rapid adaptation in Lake Malawi cichlid fish populations ...

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