Hirano Laboratory Fujita Health University

News

  1. Noa Yoshikawa, a master’s student in our laboratory, presented her work on measuring the mechanical properties of head arteries from body-surface pulse waves at the JSMBE Tokai Branch Meeting 2026.

  2. Our paper on predicting haemoglobin concentration at the initiation of cardiopulmonary bypass using support vector regression was published in the Journal of ExtraCorporeal Technology. [1]

  3. A collaborative paper using machine learning to analyse the relationship between brain lesion sites and swallowing and cognitive functions in stroke patients was published in Scientific Reports. [1]

  4. New 4th-year undergraduate students joined the laboratory.

  5. A collaborative paper on a method for capturing the non-Gaussianity of RR interval distributions was published in Heliyon. [1]

  6. The graduation ceremony was held, and our undergraduate students graduated.

  7. Collaborative work on heart rate measurement using an earphone-type wearable device with biodegradable piezoelectric sensors was presented at IEEE/SICE SII 2026. [1]

  8. Our work on estimating haemoglobin concentration at the initiation of cardiopulmonary bypass with a multilayer perceptron was presented at FAPS 2025.

  9. New graduate and 4th-year undergraduate students joined the laboratory.

  10. The graduation ceremony was held, and our undergraduate students graduated.

  11. A short-term exchange programme started between the Department of Radiological Technology, Fujita Health University, and the Department of Radiology, Khon Kaen University. To mark the launch, Dr Hirano gave a commemorative lecture at Khon Kaen University. [1]

  12. Fujita Health University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center signed an inter-university MOU. [1] [2]

  13. New 4th-year undergraduate students joined the laboratory.

  14. The graduation ceremony was held, and our undergraduate students graduated.

  15. A collaborative fMRI study showing how brain activity and peripheral vascular responses are linked during pain anticipation was published in Scientific Reports. [1]

  16. A collaborative paper on the non-invasive assessment of sympathetic activation across sensory stimuli using a peripheral arterial stiffness index was published in Frontiers in Physiology. [1]

  17. A collaborative paper identifying, with machine learning, the motor and cognitive functions needed for driving after stroke was published in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation. [1]

  18. Additional 4th-year undergraduate students joined the laboratory.

  19. New 4th-year undergraduate students joined the laboratory.

  20. Dr Hirano gave a presentation at IEEE EMBC 2022.

  21. Dr Hirano moved to the Department of Medical Equipment Engineering, Clinical and Educational Collaboration Unit.

  22. The laboratory website was launched.

  23. Hirano Laboratory was established.

  24. Dr Hirano was appointed Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Medical Information Engineering, Research Promotion Unit, School of Medical Sciences, Fujita Health University.