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  1. In upper-extremity stroke rehabilitation applications, the potential use of Force Myography (FMG) for detecting grasping is especially relevant, as the presence of grasping may be indicative of functional acti...

    Authors: Gautam P. Sadarangani and Carlo Menon
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:59
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  2. In this paper we propose the use of global Kalman filters (KFs) to estimate absolute angles of lower limb segments. Standard approaches adopt KFs to improve the performance of inertial sensors based on individ...

    Authors: Samuel L. Nogueira, Stefan Lambrecht, Roberto S. Inoue, Magdo Bortole, Arlindo N. Montagnoli, Juan C. Moreno, Eduardo Rocon, Marco H. Terra, Adriano A. G. Siqueira and Jose L. Pons
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:58
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  3. Intra-arterial chemotherapy (IAC) for oral cancer can deliver a higher concentration of anticancer agent into a tumor-feeding artery than intravenous systemic chemotherapy. However, distribution of anticancer ...

    Authors: Hiroaki Kitajima, Marie Oshima, Toshinori Iwai, Yoshihito Ohhara, Yasuharu Yajima, Kenji Mitsudo and Iwai Tohnai
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:57
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  4. Joints kinematics assessment based on inertial measurement systems, which include attitude and heading reference system (AHRS), are quickly gaining in popularity for research and clinical applications. The var...

    Authors: Karina Lebel, Patrick Boissy, Hung Nguyen and Christian Duval
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:56
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  5. The development of a suitable extracellular matrix (ECM) scaffold is the first step in vascular tissue engineering (VTE). Synthetic vascular grafts are available as an alternative to autologous vessels in larg...

    Authors: Shuangyue Xu, Fangna Lu, Lianna Cheng, Chenglin Li, Xu Zhou, Yuan Wu, Hongxing Chen, Kaichuang Zhang, Lumin Wang, Junjie Xia, Guoliang Yan and Zhongquan Qi
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:55
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  6. Load cells are often used in rehabilitation robotics to monitor human–robot interaction. While load cells are accurate and suitable for the stationary end-point robots used in rehabilitation hospitals, their c...

    Authors: N. Alavi, S. Zampierin, M. Komeili, S. Cocuzza, S. Debei and C. Menon
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:54
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  7. The challenge of reconstructing a sparse medical magnetic resonance image based on compressed sensing from undersampled k-space data has been investigated within recent years. As total variation (TV) performs wel...

    Authors: Shanshan Chen, Hongwei Du, Linna Wu, Jiaquan Jin and Bensheng Qiu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:53
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  8. Reliable detection of central fixation and eye alignment is essential in the diagnosis of amblyopia (“lazy eye”), which can lead to blindness. Our lab has developed and reported earlier a pediatric vision scre...

    Authors: Boris I. Gramatikov
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:52
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  9. Pressure contour analysis is commonly used to estimate cardiac performance for patients suffering from cardiovascular dysfunction in the intensive care unit. However, the existing techniques for continuous est...

    Authors: Shun Kamoi, Christopher Pretty, Joel Balmer, Shaun Davidson, Antoine Pironet, Thomas Desaive, Geoffrey M. Shaw and J. Geoffrey Chase
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:51
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  10. Traditional brain age estimation methods are based on the idea that uses the real age as the training label. However, these methods ignore that there is a deviation between the real age and the brain age due t...

    Authors: Yongming Li, Yuchuan Liu, Pin Wang, Jie Wang, Sha Xu and Mingguo Qiu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:50
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  12. Gravity is omnipresent on Earth; however, humans in space, such as astronauts at the International Space Station, experience microgravity. Long-term exposure to microgravity is considered to elicit physiologic...

    Authors: Yoon Jae Kim, Ae Jin Jeong, Myungjoon Kim, Chiwon Lee, Sang-Kyu Ye and Sungwan Kim
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:48
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  13. Tendon motion, which is commonly observed using ultrasound imaging, is one of the most important features used in tendinopathy diagnosis. However, speckle noise and out-of-plane issues make the tracking proces...

    Authors: Bo-I Chuang, Jian-Han Hsu, Li-Chieh Kuo, I-Ming Jou, Fong-Chin Su and Yung-Nien Sun
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:47
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  15. Safe robot-assisted intervention using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guidance requires the precise control of assistive devices, and most currently available tools are rarely MRI-compatible. To obtain high ...

    Authors: Peyman Shokrollahi, James M. Drake and Andrew A. Goldenberg
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:45
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  16. Mammography is one of the most popular tools for early detection of breast cancer. Contour of breast mass in mammography is very important information to distinguish benign and malignant mass. Contour of benig...

    Authors: Haixia Li, Xianjing Meng, Tingwen Wang, Yuchun Tang and Yilong Yin
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:44
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  17. The invasive fractional flow reserve has been considered the gold standard for identifying ischaemia-related stenosis in patients with suspected coronary artery disease. Determining non-invasive FFR based on c...

    Authors: Changzheng Shi, Dong Zhang, Kunlin Cao, Tao Zhang, Liangping Luo, Xin Liu and Heye Zhang
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:43
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  18. The aim of this paper was to establish a minimally invasive method for deriving the left ventricular time varying elastance (TVE) curve beat-by-beat, the monitoring of which’s inter-beat evolution could add si...

    Authors: Shaun Davidson, Chris Pretty, Antoine Pironet, Shun Kamoi, Joel Balmer, Thomas Desaive and J. Geoffrey Chase
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:42
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  19. Cytoskeleton is a highly dynamic network that helps to maintain the rigidity of a cell, and the mechanical properties of a cell are closely related to many cellular functions. This paper presents a new method ...

    Authors: Guohua Bai, Ying Li, Henry K. Chu, Kaiqun Wang, Qiulin Tan, Jijun Xiong and Dong Sun
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:41
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  20. In this study, starch and polycaprolactone (PCL), composite nanofibers were fabricated by co-axial needle electrospinning technique. Processing parameters such as polymer concentration, flow rate and voltage h...

    Authors: B. Komur, F. Bayrak, N. Ekren, M. S. Eroglu, F. N. Oktar, Z. A. Sinirlioglu, S. Yucel, O. Guler and O. Gunduz
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:40
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  21. Dual-source computed tomography (DSCT) is a very effective way for diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. The quantitative information of spatiotemporal DSCT images can be important for the evaluation of ca...

    Authors: Xuesong Lu, Rongqian Yang, Qinlan Xie, Shanxing Ou, Yunfei Zha and Defeng Wang
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:39
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  22. Epiretinal prosthesis is one device for the treatment of blindness, which target retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) by electrodes on retinal surface. The stimulating current of epiretinal prosthesis is an important...

    Authors: Jing Wu, Menghua Jin and Qingli Qiao
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:38
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  23. Studies have shown that turning is associated with more instability than straight walking and instability increases with turning angles. However, the precise relationship of changes in stability with the curva...

    Authors: Rui Xu, Xin Wang, Jiajia Yang, Feng He, Xin Zhao, Hongzhi Qi, Peng Zhou and Dong Ming
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:37
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  24. Current clinically accepted technologies for cancer treatment still have limitations which lead to the exploration of new therapeutic methods. Since the past few decades, the hyperthermia treatment has attract...

    Authors: Suriyanto, E. Y. K. Ng and S. D. Kumar
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:36
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  25. Cardiac dysfunction constitutes common cardiovascular health issues in the society, and has been an investigation topic of strong focus by researchers in the medical imaging community. Diagnostic modalities ba...

    Authors: Kelvin K. L. Wong, Defeng Wang, Jacky K. L. Ko, Jagannath Mazumdar, Thu-Thao Le and Dhanjoo Ghista
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:35
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  26. The human gleno-humeral joint is normally represented as a spherical hinge and its center of rotation is used to construct humerus anatomical axes and as reduction point for the computation of the internal joi...

    Authors: M. Crabolu, D. Pani, L. Raffo, M. Conti, P. Crivelli and A. Cereatti
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:34
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  27. There have been concerns that Electromagnetic security systems such as walk-through metal detectors (WTMDs) can potentially cause electromagnetic interference (EMI) in certain active medical devices including ...

    Authors: Joshua Guag, Bisrat Addissie and Donald Witters
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:33
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  28. In diffuse optical tomography (DOT), the image reconstruction is often an ill-posed inverse problem, which is even more severe for breast DOT since there are considerably increasing unknowns to reconstruct wit...

    Authors: Bingyuan Wang, Wenbo Wan, Yihan Wang, Wenjuan Ma, Limin Zhang, Jiao Li, Zhongxing Zhou, Huijuan Zhao and Feng Gao
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:32
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  29. The sequence of Q, R, and S peaks (QRS) complex detection is a crucial procedure in electrocardiogram (ECG) processing and analysis. We propose a novel approach for QRS complex detection based on the determini...

    Authors: Salah Hamdi, Asma Ben Abdallah and Mohamed Hedi Bedoui
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:31
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  31. Haemodynamic performance of heart valve prosthesis can be defined as its ability to fully open and completely close during the cardiac cycle, neither overloading heart work nor damaging blood particles when p...

    Authors: Francesca Maria Susin, Stefania Espa, Riccardo Toninato, Stefania Fortini and Giorgio Querzoli
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:29
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  33. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a well established imaging technique with different applications in preclinical research and clinical practice. The main potential for its application lies in the possibil...

    Authors: Petra Stohanzlova and Radim Kolar
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:27
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  34. Since the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal has a low frequency and a weak amplitude, it is sensitive to miscellaneous mixed noises, which may reduce the diagnostic accuracy and hinder the physician’s correct dec...

    Authors: Oussama El B’charri, Rachid Latif, Khalifa Elmansouri, Abdenbi Abenaou and Wissam Jenkal
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:26
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  35. Within this manuscript a noise filtering technique for magnetic resonance image stack is presented. Magnetic resonance images are usually affected by artifacts and noise due to several reasons. Several denoisi...

    Authors: Fabio Baselice, Giampaolo Ferraioli and Vito Pascazio
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:25
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  37. Long-term continuous systolic blood pressure (SBP) and heart rate (HR) monitors are of tremendous value to medical (cardiovascular, circulatory and cerebrovascular management), wellness (emotional and stress t...

    Authors: Qingxue Zhang, Dian Zhou and Xuan Zeng
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:23
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  40. The biomechanical properties of the cornea should be taken into account in the refractive procedure in order to perform refractive surgery more accurately. The effects of the ablation depth and repair time on ...

    Authors: Xiaojun Wang, Xiaona Li, Weiyi Chen, Rui He, Zhipeng Gao and Pengfei Feng
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:20
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  41. In breast ultrasound elastography, tissues displacements estimation is obtained through a technique that follows the evolution of tissues under stress. However, during the acquisition of B-mode images, tissue ...

    Authors: Taher Slimi, Ines Marzouk Moussa, Tarek Kraiem and Halima Mahjoubi
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:19
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  42. In this paper, a new method is presented that combines mechanical compliance effects with Poiseuille flow and push-out effects (“dead volume”) in one single mathematical framework for calculating dosing errors...

    Authors: Maurits K. Konings, Roland A. Snijder, Joris H. Radermacher and Annemoon M. Timmerman
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:18
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  43. Currently, many imaging photoplethysmography (IPPG) researches have reported non-contact measurements of physiological parameters, such as heart rate (HR), respiratory rate (RR), etc. However, it is accepted t...

    Authors: Bing Wei, Xuan He, Chao Zhang and Xiaopei Wu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:17
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  45. Anatomical atlases are 3D volumes or shapes representing an organ or structure of the human body. They contain either the prototypical shape of the object of interest together with other shapes representing i...

    Authors: Esther Dura, Juan Domingo, Guillermo Ayala, Luis Marti-Bonmati and E. Goceri
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:15
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  46. Under-nutrition in neonates is closely linked to low body fat percentage. Undernourished neonates are exposed to immediate mortality as well as unwanted health impacts in their later life including obesity and...

    Authors: Fatin Hamimi Mustafa, Peter W. Jones and Alistair L. McEwan
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:14
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  47. Although stents have great success of treating cardiovascular disease, it actually undermined by the in-stent restenosis and their long-term fatigue failure. The geometry of stent affects its service performan...

    Authors: Hongxia Li, Tao Liu, Minjie Wang, Danyang Zhao, Aike Qiao, Xue Wang, Junfeng Gu, Zheng Li and Bao Zhu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:13
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  48. Taking a bath sometimes poses a risk for subjects with chronic cardiopulmonary disorders, due to the thermal effect and water pressure on his/her body. The ECG measurement would be helpful for the early recogn...

    Authors: Kosuke Motoi, Yasuhiro Yamakoshi, Takehiro Yamakoshi, Hiroaki Sakai, Naoto Tanaka and Ken-ichi Yamakoshi
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:12
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  50. To improve the accuracy of ultrasound-guided biopsy of the prostate, the non-rigid registration of magnetic resonance (MR) images onto transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) images has gained increasing attention. Mutu...

    Authors: Lun Gong, Haifeng Wang, Chengtao Peng, Yakang Dai, Min Ding, Yinghao Sun, Xiaodong Yang and Jian Zheng
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:8
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