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Stroke survivors are often characterized by hemiparesis, i.e., paralysis in one half of the body, that severely affects upper limb movements. Continuous monitoring of the progression of hemiparesis requires manual observation of the limb movements at regular intervals and hence is a labour intensive process. In this work, we use wrist-worn accelerometers for automated assessment of hemiparetic severity in acute stroke patients through bivariate Poincaré analysis between accelerometer data from the two hands during spontaneous and instructed movements. Experiments show that while the bivariate Poincaré descriptors CSD1 and CSD2 can identify hemiparetic patients from control subjects, a novel descriptor called Complex Cross-Correlation Measure (C3M) can distinguish between moderate and severe hemiparesis. Further, we justify the use of C3M by showing that it is described by multiple-lag cross-correlations, representing the co-ordination of activity between two hands. The descriptors are compared against the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), the clinical gold standard for evaluation of hemiparetic severity, and studied using statistical tests for developing supervised models for hemiparesis classification.Clinical relevance-This study establishes the suitability of wrist-worn accelerometers in identifying hemiparetic severity in stroke patients through novel descriptors of hand co-ordination.Sports activity is characterised by the influence of different factors, which relate to both psychological and emotional stress of athletes. As a consequence, mental and physical preparations are fundamental in pre-competition and competition activities. In fact, being able to manage the reactions to stressful events and high demanding conditions, and adapt the strategy depending on the ongoing situation and opponent's reactions allow the athletes to properly process the surrounding information, evaluate all the possible solutions, and finally take the right decision. In this regard, the Skin Conductance (SC), Heart Rate (HR), and Skin Temperature (ST) signals were recorded during a grappling tournament from ten athletes with the aim to investigate if physiological assessments could provide an objective measure of athletes' attitude. The results proved that individual training programs can be tailored accordingly to the neurophysiological state of the athletes, but also that their awareness about both mental and physical preparations and attitudes could be improved.Recently, classification from compressed physiological signals in compressed sensing has been successfully applied to cardiovascular disease monitoring. However, in real-time wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring, it is very difficult to directly obtain the heartbeats information from compressed ECG signals. Thus arrhythmia classification from compressed ECG signals has to be handled in fixed-length segments instead of individual heartbeats. An inevitable issue is that a fixed-length ECG segment may contain multiple different types of arrhythmia. As a result, it is not appropriate to represent the multi-type real arrhythmia with a single label. In see more , we first introduce multiple labels into fixed-length compressed ECG segments to challenge the arrhythmia classification issue. Then, we propose a deep learning model, which can directly classify multiple different types of arrhythmia from fixed-length compressed ECG segments with the advantages of low time cost for data processing and relatively high classification accuracy at a high compression ratio. Experimental results on the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database show that the exact match rate of our proposed method has reached 96.03% at CR(Compression Ratio)=70%, 94.99% at CR=80% and 93.19% at CR=90%.The advancement in bioelectrical measurement technologies and the push towards a higher impact of the Brain Computer Interfaces and Affective Computing in the daily life have made non-invasive and low-priced devices available to the large population to record physiological states. The aim of this study is the assessment of the abilities of the MUSE headband, together with the Shimmer GSR+ device, to assess the emotional state of people during stimuli exposure. Twenty-four pictures from the IAPS database were showed to 54 subjects and were evaluated in their emotional values by means of the Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM). #link# Using a Machine Learning approach, fifty-two scalar features were extracted from the signals and used to train 6 binary classifiers to predict the valence and arousal elicited by each stimulus. In all classifiers we obtained accuracies ranging from 53.6% to 69.9%, confirming that these devices are able to give information about the emotional state.Classification of seizure type is a key step in the clinical process for evaluating an individual who presents with seizures. It determines the course of clinical diagnosis and treatment, and its impact stretches beyond the clinical domain to epilepsy research and the development of novel therapies. Automated identification of seizure type may facilitate understanding of the disease, and seizure detection and prediction have been the focus of recent research that has sought to exploit the benefits of machine learning and deep learning architectures. Nevertheless, there is not yet a definitive solution for automating the classification of seizure type, a task that must currently be performed by an expert epileptologist. Inspired by recent advances in neural memory networks (NMNs), we introduce a novel approach for the classification of seizure type using electrophysiological data. We first explore the performance of traditional deep learning techniques which use convolutional and recurrent neural networks, and enhance these architectures by using external memory modules with trainable neural plasticity. We show that our model achieves a state-of-the-art weighted F1 score of 0.945 for seizure type classification on the TUH EEG Seizure Corpus with the IBM TUSZ preprocessed data. This work highlights the potential of neural memory networks to support the field of epilepsy research, along with biomedical research and signal analysis more broadly.