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Swallowing impairment is a common complication in various geriatric and neurodegenerative diseases. Swallowing kinematic analysis is essential to quantitatively evaluate the swallowing motion of the oropharyng...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:120
Published on: 17 October 2017
Research
Exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation is a well-known cause of skin cancer. This is problematic for outdoor workers. In Denmark alone, occupational skin cancer poses a significant health and safety risk for ...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:119
Published on: 10 October 2017
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Hip fracture of elderly people—suffering from osteoporosis—is a severe public health concern, which can be reduced by providing a prior assessment of hip fracture risk. Image-based finite element analysis (FEA...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:116
Published on: 3 October 2017
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Peripheral neuropathic desensitization associated with aging, diabetes, alcoholism and HIV/AIDS, affects tens of millions of people worldwide, and there is little or no treatment available to improve sensory f...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:118
Published on: 3 October 2017
Research
Nowadays, the whole world is being concerned with a major health problem, which is diabetes. A very common symptom of diabetes is the diabetic foot ulcer (DFU). The early detection of such foot complications c...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:117
Published on: 3 October 2017
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Modeling physiological signals is a complex task both for understanding and synthesize biomedical signals. We propose a deep neural network model that learns and synthesizes biosignals, validated by the morpho...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:115
Published on: 25 September 2017
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At present, infrared (IR) imaging is used both as a non-invasive and a non-ionizing technology. Using an IR camera, it is possible to measure body surface temperature in order to detect tumors and malignant ce...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:113
Published on: 21 September 2017
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Heart rate fluctuates beat-by-beat asymmetrically which is known as heart rate asymmetry (HRA). It is challenging to assess HRA robustly based on short-term heartbeat interval series.
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:112
Published on: 21 September 2017
Research
Sunglasses popularity skyrocketed since its advent. The ongoing trend led to the creation of standards to protect consumers from injuries and secondary hazards due to spectacles use. In Brazil, the correspondi...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:114
Published on: 21 September 2017
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Sleep and sleep quality assessment by means of sleep stage analysis is important for both scientific and clinical applications. Unfortunately, the presently preferred method, polysomnography (PSG), requires co...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:111
Published on: 19 September 2017
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Heart rate variability (HRV) is a widespread non-invasive technique to assess cardiac autonomic function. Time and frequency domain analyses have been used in HRV studies, and their interpretations are linked ...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:110
Published on: 18 September 2017
Software
In the state of the art finite element AHBMs for car crash analysis in the LS-DYNA software material named *MAT_MUSCLE (*MAT_156) is used for active muscles modeling. It has three elements in parallel configur...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:109
Published on: 2 September 2017
Research
Reclining wheelchair users often add one or more sitting assistive devices to their wheelchairs, but the effect of these additional sitting assistive devices on the risk of pressure ulcers has rarely been inve...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:108
Published on: 29 August 2017
Research
Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) has been popularised for single-channel Electromyography (EMG) signal processing as it can effectively extract the temporal information of the EMG time series. Howe...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:107
Published on: 23 August 2017
Research
A key challenge in the realm of human disease research is next generation sequencing (NGS) interpretation, whereby identified filtered variant-harboring genes are associated with a patient’s disease phenotypes...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16(Suppl 1):72
Published on: 18 August 2017
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1
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Gene expression analyses demand appropriate reference genes (RGs) for normalization, in order to obtain reliable assessments. Ideally, RG expression levels should remain constant in all cells, tissues or exper...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16(Suppl 1):65
Published on: 18 August 2017
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1
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Quantitative gait analysis can provide a description of joint kinematics and dynamics, and it is recognized as a clinically useful tool for functional assessment, diagnosis and intervention planning. Clinicall...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:106
Published on: 18 August 2017
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Examination of physiological processes and the influences of the drugs on them can be efficiently supported by mathematical modeling. One of the biggest problems is related to the exact fitting of the paramete...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16(Suppl 1):77
Published on: 18 August 2017
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1
Research
Nowadays, sleep quality is one of the most important measures of healthy life, especially considering the huge number of sleep-related disorders. Identifying sleep stages using polysomnographic (PSG) signals i...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16(Suppl 1):78
Published on: 18 August 2017
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1
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Biology is experiencing a gradual but fast transformation from a laboratory-centred science towards a data-centred one. As such, it requires robust data engineering and the use of quantitative data analysis me...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16(Suppl 1):75
Published on: 18 August 2017
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1
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The present review collects the most relevant empirical evidence available in the literature until date regarding the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on the human motor function. tDCS...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16(Suppl 1):76
Published on: 18 August 2017
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1
Research
The characterization of protein–peptide interactions is a challenge for computational molecular docking. Protein–peptide docking tools face at least two major difficulties: (1) efficient sampling of large-scal...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16(Suppl 1):73
Published on: 18 August 2017
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1
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Many protein–protein interactions are mediated by a short linear motif. Usually, amino acid sequences of those motifs are known or can be predicted. It is much harder to experimentally characterize or predict ...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16(Suppl 1):71
Published on: 18 August 2017
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1
Research
The immunotoxicity of engine exhausts is of high concern to human health due to the increasing prevalence of immune-related diseases. However, the evaluation of immunotoxicity of engine exhausts is currently b...
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16(Suppl 1):66
Published on: 18 August 2017
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1
Research
This paper presents the preliminary results of a novel rehabilitation therapy for cervical and trunk control of children with cerebral palsy (CP) based on serious videogames and physical exercise.
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16(Suppl 1):74
Published on: 18 August 2017
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1
