26-30 July 2026

EMBC 2026

Toronto, Canada
We.2.8: Hand and Wearable Sensing for Clinical Assessment
Wednesday, 29 July, 11:30 - 13:00
Location: Room 718B
Session Type: Oral
Session Co-Chairs: Qinyin Qiu and Dinesh Bhatia
Theme 7: Biorobotics and Biomechanics
Wed, 29 Jul, 11:30 - 11:45

We.2.8.1: HANDSPLATTER: AUTOMATED DIGITAL GONIOMETRY FROM NEURAL RENDERING
Emmett Chen, Neal Chen, Xiang Li, Quanzheng Li, Siyeop Yoon, Massachusetts General Hospital
Wed, 29 Jul, 11:45 - 12:00

We.2.8.2: Extensor Digitorum EMG–Based Early Grasp Detection to Reduce Assistance Onset Delay in Assistive Gloves
Sota Yoshida, Graduate School, Osaka Institute of Technology; Tsuyoshi Inoue, Osaka Institute of Technology
Wed, 29 Jul, 12:00 - 12:15

We.2.8.3: HIGH-FREQUENCY CONTINUOUS RULA ASSESSMENT IN CLINICAL SETTINGS
Max Bergholz, Cagatay Alici, Rebecca Rack, Jakob Reindardt, Luca Wegener, Jonas Fuchtmann, Dirk Wilhelm, M. Ali Nasseri, Klaus Bengler, Technical University of Munich
Wed, 29 Jul, 12:15 - 12:30

We.2.8.4: FULLY EVENT-BASED REGRESSION OF HAND DYNAMICS FROM SEMG USING SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS
Noah Rickermann, Elisa Donati, University of Zürich and ETHZ
Wed, 29 Jul, 12:30 - 12:45

We.2.8.5: Llama-4-ALS: A Locally Deployable LLM, Tuned with LoRA and Dynamic Hierarchical Data Augmentation, Supporting Speller-Based AAC for Individuals with ALS
Pradyumna Rao, Jiazhen Hong, Weinan Wang, Laleh Najafizadeh, Rutgers University
Wed, 29 Jul, 12:45 - 13:00

We.2.8.6: A NOVEL METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING FINGER DEXTERITY, WITH APPLICATION IN EARLY-ONSET HEMIPARETIC CEREBRAL PALSY
Julius Dewald, Jun Yao, Rachel Elder, Northwestern University