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  1. The last decades, rehabilitation has become a challenging context for mechatronical engineering. From the state-of-the-art it is seen that the field of prosthetics offers very promising perspectives to robotic...

    Authors: Pierre Cherelle, Victor Grosu, Manuel Cestari, Bram Vanderborght and Dirk Lefeber
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15(Suppl 3):145
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  2. Virtual reality (VR) based applications play an increasing role in motor rehabilitation. They provide an interactive and individualized environment in addition to increased motivation during motor tasks as wel...

    Authors: Luara Ferreira dos Santos, Oliver Christ, Kedar Mate, Henning Schmidt, Jörg Krüger and Christian Dohle
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15(Suppl 3):144
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  3. This paper presents a review on design issues and solutions found in active lower limb prostheses. This review is based on a systematic literature search with a methodical search strategy. The search was carri...

    Authors: Michael Windrich, Martin Grimmer, Oliver Christ, Stephan Rinderknecht and Philipp Beckerle
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15(Suppl 3):140
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  4. In schizophrenia, executive dysfunction is the most critical cognitive impairment, and is associated with abnormal neural activities, especially in the frontal lobes. Complexity estimation using electroencepha...

    Authors: Yi Yu, Yun Zhao, Yajing Si, Qiongqiong Ren, Wu Ren, Changqin Jing and Hongxing Zhang
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:131
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  5. The Eigenspace-based beamformers, by orthogonal projection of signal subspace, can remove a large part of the noise, and provide better imaging contrast upon the minimum variance beamformer. However, wrong est...

    Authors: Saeid Aliabadi, Yuanyuan Wang, Jinhua Yu, Jinxin Zhao, Wei Guo and Shun Zhang
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:127
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  6. Accurate synchronization between magnetic resonance imaging data acquisition and a subject’s cardiac activity (“triggering”) is essential for reducing image artifacts but conventional, contact-based methods fo...

    Authors: Nicolai Spicher, Markus Kukuk, Stefan Maderwald and Mark E. Ladd
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:126
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  7. The use of speech based data in the classification of Parkinson disease (PD) has been shown to provide an effect, non-invasive mode of classification in recent years. Thus, there has been an increased interest...

    Authors: He-Hua Zhang, Liuyang Yang, Yuchuan Liu, Pin Wang, Jun Yin, Yongming Li, Mingguo Qiu, Xueru Zhu and Fang Yan
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:122
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  8. Efficacy and high availability of surgery techniques for refractive defect correction increase the number of patients who undergo to this type of surgery. Regardless of that, with increasing age, more and more...

    Authors: Robert Koprowski, Michele Lanza and Carlo Irregolare
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:121
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  9. Accurate segmentation of blood vessels plays an important role in the computer-aided diagnosis and interventional treatment of vascular diseases. The statistical method is an important component of effective v...

    Authors: Pei Lu, Jun Xia, Zhicheng Li, Jing Xiong, Jian Yang, Shoujun Zhou, Lei Wang, Mingyang Chen and Cheng Wang
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:120
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  10. Metal artifacts appearing as streaks and shadows often compromise readability of computed tomography (CT) images. Particularly in a dental CT in which high resolution imaging is crucial for precise preparation...

    Authors: Mohamed A. A. Hegazy, Min Hyoung Cho and Soo Yeol Lee
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:119
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  11. The existing techniques for simultaneous encryption and compression of images refer lossy compression. Their reconstruction performances did not meet the accuracy of medical images because most of them have no...

    Authors: Qingzhu Wang, Xiaoming Chen, Mengying Wei and Zhuang Miao
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:118
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  12. Bipolar vessel sealing is an efficient electrosurgical procedure for the occlusion of blood vessels particularly during minimally invasive surgery. Reliable knowledge of the thermal spread is crucial for a saf...

    Authors: Jay Wagenpfeil, Christina Schöllig, Volker Mayer, Ronny Feuer, Bernhard Nold, Alexander Neugebauer, Michael Ederer, Ralf Rothmund, Bernhard Krämer, Sara Brucker, Markus Enderle, Oliver Sawodny and Julia Rex
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:117
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  15. Tumor hypoxia is involved in every stage of solid tumor development: formation, progression, metastasis, and apoptosis. Two types of hypoxia exist in tumors—chronic hypoxia and acute hypoxia. Recent studies in...

    Authors: Chung-Wein Lee and Keith M. Stantz
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:114
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  16. Since hemodynamics plays a key role in the development and evolution of cardiovascular pathologies, physician’s decision must be based on proper monitoring of relevant physiological flow quantities.

    Authors: Kamil J. Chodzyński, Simone Gremmo, Omer F. Eker, Jacques Lalmand, Adel Aminian, Daniel Ribeiro de Sousa, Karim Zouaoui Boudjeltia and Grégory Coussement
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:113
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  17. Thoracoabdominal asynchrony is often adopted to discriminate respiratory diseases in clinics. Conventionally, Lissajous figure analysis is the most frequently used estimation of the phase difference in thoraco...

    Authors: Ya-Chen Chen and Tzu-Chien Hsiao
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:112
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  19. High order modulation and demodulation technology can solve the frequency requirement between the wireless energy transmission and data communication. In order to achieve reliable wireless data communication b...

    Authors: Yuan Yang, Nannan Quan, Jingjing Bu, Xueping Li and Ningmei Yu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:110
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  21. Amyloid β-protein (Aβ) plaque deposition is an important prevention and treatment target for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). As a noninvasive, nonradioactive and highly cost-effective clinical imaging method, magnet...

    Authors: Yongming Li, Xueru Zhu, Pin Wang, Jie Wang, Shujun Liu, Fan Li and Mingguo Qiu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:108
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  22. The goal of this paper is to present a computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model with moving boundaries to study the intraventricular flows in a patient-specific framework. Starting from the segmentation of real...

    Authors: A. M. Bavo, A. M. Pouch, J. Degroote, J. Vierendeels, J. H. Gorman, R. C. Gorman and P. Segers
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:107
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  23. The endothelial function has been proven to be an important factor in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, hypertension and heart failure. The flow-mediated vasodilation (FMD) of the peripheral artery is an en...

    Authors: Shing-Hong Liu, Jia-Jung Wang, Da-Chuan Cheng, Chun-Hung Su and Tzu-Hsin Lin
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:106
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  24. Microelectrode array (MEA) is a widely used technique to study for example the functional properties of neuronal networks derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESC-NN). With hESC-NN, we can investigate the...

    Authors: Kerstin Lenk, Barbara Priwitzer, Laura Ylä-Outinen, Lukas H. B. Tietz, Susanna Narkilahti and Jari A. K. Hyttinen
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:105
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  26. Inhaled nitric oxide (NO) is a selective pulmonary vasodilator used primarily in the critical care setting for patients concurrently supported by invasive or noninvasive positive pressure ventilation. NO deliv...

    Authors: Andrew R. Martin, Chris Jackson, Samuel Fromont, Chloe Pont, Ira M. Katz and Georges Caillobotte
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:103
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  29. Cardiovascular disease (CVD), the leading cause of death today, incorporates a wide range of cardiovascular system malfunctions that affect heart functionality. It is believed that the hemodynamic loads exerte...

    Authors: Siamak N. Doost, Dhanjoo Ghista, Boyang Su, Liang Zhong and Yosry S. Morsi
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:101
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  31. This study focuses on osteoarthritis (OA), which affects millions of adults and occurs in knee cartilage. Diagnosis of OA requires accurate segmentation of cartilage structures. Existing approaches to cartilag...

    Authors: Chunsoo Ahn, Toan Duc Bui, Yong-woo Lee, Jitae Shin and Hyunjin Park
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:99
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  32. Composition of atherosclerotic arterial walls is rich in lipids such as cholesterol, unlike normal arterial walls. In this study, we aimed to utilize this difference to diagnose atherosclerosis via multispectr...

    Authors: Cassandra Su Lyn Ho, Toshikatsu Horiuchi, Hiroaki Taniguchi, Araya Umetsu, Kohsuke Hagisawa, Keiichi Iwaya, Kanji Nakai, Amalina Azmi, Natasha Zulaziz, Azran Azhim, Nariyoshi Shinomiya and Yuji Morimoto
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:98
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  34. Teleoperated medical robotic systems allow procedures such as surgeries, treatments, and diagnoses to be conducted across short or long distances while utilizing wired and/or wireless communication networks. T...

    Authors: Sotiris Avgousti, Eftychios G. Christoforou, Andreas S. Panayides, Sotos Voskarides, Cyril Novales, Laurence Nouaille, Constantinos S. Pattichis and Pierre Vieyres
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:96
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  35. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a life threatening situation where the first person performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) most often is a bystander without medical training. Some existing smartphone...

    Authors: Kjersti Engan, Thomas Hinna, Tom Ryen, Tonje S. Birkenes and Helge Myklebust
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:95
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  37. Misalignment in cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) images can adversely affect three-dimensional left ventricle modelling and downstream quantitative analysis. Currently, there are two types of approaches for de...

    Authors: Min Wan, Wei Huang, Jun-Mei Zhang, Xiaodan Zhao, John Carson Allen, Ru San Tan, Xiaofeng Wan and Liang Zhong
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:93
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  38. Clinical success of total ankle arthroplasty depends heavily on the available information on the morphology of the bones, often obtained from measurements on planar radiographs. The current study aimed to eval...

    Authors: Chien-Chung Kuo, Hsuan-Lun Lu, Tung-Wu Lu, Alberto Leardini, Mei-Ying Kuo and Horng-Chaung Hsu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:92
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  39. Coronary hemodynamics and physiology specific for bifurcation lesions was not well understood. To investigate the influence of the bifurcation angle on the intracoronary hemodynamics of side branch (SB) lesion...

    Authors: Claudio Chiastra, Francesco Iannaccone, Maik J. Grundeken, Frank J. H. Gijsen, Patrick Segers, Matthieu De Beule, Patrick W. Serruys, Joanna J. Wykrzykowska, Antonius F. W. van der Steen and Jolanda J. Wentzel
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:91
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  40. Many methods have been proposed to assess the stability of human postural balance by using a force plate. While most of these approaches characterize postural stability by extracting features from the trajecto...

    Authors: Chih-Yuan Hong, Lan-Yuen Guo, Rong Song, Mark L. Nagurka, Jia-Li Sung and Chen-Wen Yen
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:90
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  41. This work presents a generalized technique to estimate pulmonary ventilation-to-volume (v/V) distributions using the multiple-breath nitrogen washout, in which both tidal volume (V ...

    Authors: Gabriel Casulari Motta-Ribeiro, Frederico Caetano Jandre, Hermann Wrigge and Antonio Giannella-Neto
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:89
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  43. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is widely used in ophthalmology for viewing the morphology of the retina, which is important for disease detection and assessing therapeutic effect. The diagnosis of retinal ...

    Authors: Dongmei Fu, Hejun Tong, Shuang Zheng, Ling Luo, Fulin Gao and Jiri Minar
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:87
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  44. Osseointegration refers to the direct connection between living bone and the surface of a load-bearing artificial implant. Porous implants with well-controlled porosity and pore size can enhance osseointegrati...

    Authors: Wei Peng, Liangwei Xu, Jia You, Lihua Fang and Qing Zhang
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:85
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  45. Blood oxygen saturation of vein (SvO2) is an important clinical parameter for patient monitoring. However, the existing clinical methods are invasive, expensive, which are also painful for patients.

    Authors: Xu Zhang, Meimei Zhang, Shengkun Zheng, Liqi Wang and Jilun Ye
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:84
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  46. Magnetic fields may potentially interfere with the function of cardiovascular implantable electronic devices. Sterile magnetic drapes used to hold surgical instruments are often placed on the patient’s thorax,...

    Authors: Valerie Zaphiratos, Hubert Chiasson, Pierre Drolet, Bruno Benzaquen, Jacques Lapointe and Louis-Philippe Fortier
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:83
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  48. In this paper a new approach is applied to the area of marketing research. The aim of this paper is to recognize how brain activity responds during the visualization of short video advertisements using discret...

    Authors: Luis M. Soria Morillo, Juan A. Alvarez-Garcia, Luis Gonzalez-Abril and Juan A. Ortega Ramírez
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15(Suppl 1):75
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  49. This PATRICIA research project is about using pet robots to reduce pain and anxiety in hospitalized children. The study began 2 years ago and it is believed that the advances made in this project are significa...

    Authors: Ferran Larriba, Cristóbal Raya, Cecilio Angulo, Jordi Albo-Canals, Marta Díaz and Roger Boldú
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15(Suppl 1):72
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  50. Hydrocephalus is a medical condition consisting of an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within the brain. A catheter is inserted in one of the brain ventricles and then connected to an external val...

    Authors: Ángel Giménez, Marcelo Galarza, Olga Pellicer, José Valero and José M. Amigó
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15(Suppl 1):71
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