Diagnostic algorithms (DAs) are key to enabling automated health management. These algorithms are designed to detect and isolate anomalies of either a component or the whole system based on observations received from sensors. In recent years a wide range of algorithms, both modelbased and data-driven, have been developed to increase autonomy and improve system reliability and affordability. How...

Background In patients with abnormal uterine bleeding, transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) is the first-line diagnostic approach to exclude endometrial pathology. If a thickened endometrium suggests endometrial pathology, sonohysterography, office hysteroscopy or dilatation and curettage are the second-line tests preferred, depending on availability and on the suspected pathology, to exclude malignan...

Infrared (IR) thermography in power-cycling experiments was combined in reliability studies of an RF power amplifier, operating at elevated junction temperatures. A powercycling technique (adjusted to reach high junction temperatures) was used as a life acceleration method. Several sets of IR measurements were performed for various working conditions to correlate the device power and the maximu...