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  1. Balance dysfunction is one of the most common problems in people who suffer stroke. To parameterize functional tests standardized by inertial sensors have been promoted in applied medicine. The aim of this st...

    Authors: José Antonio Merchán-Baeza, Manuel González-Sánchez and Antonio Ignacio Cuesta-Vargas
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:49
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  2. Although autogenous bone grafts as well as several bone graft substitute material have been used for some time, there is high demand for more efficient and less costly bone-substitute materials. Silicon-substi...

    Authors: Chengli Sun, Ye Tian, Wenxiao Xu, Changlong Zhou, Huanxin Xie and Xintao Wang
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:47
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  3. The combination of drugs and exercise was the effective treatment in bone injure and rebuilding in clinic. As mechanical strain has potential in inducing the differentiation of osteoblasts in our previous stud...

    Authors: Qiang-Song Wang, Xin-Chang Zhang, Rui-Xin Li, Jing-Gong Sun, Wei-Hua Su, Yong Guo, Hao Li and Xi-Zheng Zhang
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:46
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  4. When an implant is inserted in the bone the healing process starts to osseointegrate the implant by creating new bone that interlocks with the implant. Biomechanical interlocking capacity is commonly evaluated...

    Authors: Anders Halldin, Mats Ander, Magnus Jacobsson and Stig Hansson
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:45
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  5. With advances in technology and increasing demand, wearable biosignal monitoring is developing and new applications are emerging. One of the main challenges facing the widespread use of wearable monitoring sys...

    Authors: Alper Cömert and Jari Hyttinen
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:44
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  6. The current study aimed to investigate the immediate and long-term effects of laterally-wedged (LW) insoles on the knee loadings, the knee abductor moment (KAM) in particular, and the compensatory changes at o...

    Authors: Wei-Chun Hsu, You-Cai Jhong, Hao-Ling Chen, Yi-Jia Lin, Li-Fei Chen and Lin-Fen Hsieh
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:43
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  7. This paper proposes a semantic segmentation algorithm that provides the spatial distribution patterns of pulmonary ground-glass nodules with solid portions in computed tomography (CT) images.

    Authors: Chi-Hsuan Tsou, Kuo-Lung Lor, Yeun-Chung Chang and Chung-Ming Chen
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:42
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  8. Understanding the kinematics of the lumbar spine and hip joints during a golf swing is a basic step for identifying swing-specific factors associated with low back pain. The objective of this study was to exam...

    Authors: Frederick Mun, Seung Woo Suh, Hyun-Joon Park and Ahnryul Choi
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:41
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  9. Fingerprint recognition systems essentially require core-point detection prior to fingerprint matching. The core-point is used as a reference point to align the fingerprint with a template database. When proce...

    Authors: Mohammed S Khalil
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:40
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:30

  10. Wound measuring serves medical personnel as a tool to assess the effectiveness of a therapy and predict its outcome. Clinically used methods vary from measuring using rules and calipers to sophisticated method...

    Authors: Urban Pavlovčič, Janez Diaci, Janez Možina and Matija Jezeršek
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:39
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  11. Despite the occurrence of the nasal cycle being well documented, the functional purpose of this phenomenon is not well understood. This investigation seeks to better understand the physiological objective of t...

    Authors: David E White, Jim Bartley and Roy J Nates
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:38
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  12. Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) has become an increasingly investigated tool, especially with regards to monitoring of diabetic and critical care patients. The continuous glucose data allows the calculatio...

    Authors: Gábor Marics, Zsófia Lendvai, Csaba Lódi, Levente Koncz, Dávid Zakariás, György Schuster, Borbála Mikos, Csaba Hermann, Attila J Szabó and Péter Tóth-Heyn
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:37
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  13. The response and the reaction of the brain system to hypoxia is a vital research subject that requires special instrumentation. With this research subject in focus, a new multifunctional lab-on-a-chip (LOC) sy...

    Authors: Ahmed Alrifaiy, Johan Borg, Olof A Lindahl and Kerstin Ramser
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:36
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  15. The management and prognosis of aortic dissection (AD) is often challenging and the use of personalised computational models is being explored as a tool to improve clinical outcome. Including vessel wall motio...

    Authors: Mona Alimohammadi, Joseph M Sherwood, Morad Karimpour, Obiekezie Agu, Stavroula Balabani and Vanessa Díaz-Zuccarini
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:34
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  16. Bone substation grafts, such as hydroxyapatite (HA) and tricalciumphosphate (TCP), have been extensively used in clinical applications, but evidence suggests that they offer poor osteoinductive properties comp...

    Authors: Qing Li, Gang Zhou, Xin Yu, Tong Wang, Yuan Xi and Zhihui Tang
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:33
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  21. In type 1 diabetic patients, who have lost their ability to produce insulin, transplantation of pancreatic islet cells can normalize metabolic control in a manner that is not achievable with exogenous insulin....

    Authors: Peter Buchwald, Sirlene R Cechin, Jessica D Weaver and Cherie L Stabler
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:28
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  22. As an alternative technique to arthrodesis of the cervical spine, total disc replacement (TDR) has increasingly been used with the aim of restoration of the physiological function of the treated and adjacent m...

    Authors: Dorothea Daentzer, Bastian Welke, Christof Hurschler, Nathalie Husmann, Christina Jansen, Christian Heinrich Flamme and Berna Ida Richter
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:27
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  23. Classification of breast ultrasound (BUS) images is an important step in the computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system for breast cancer. In this paper, a novel phase-based texture descriptor is proposed for effic...

    Authors: Lingyun Cai, Xin Wang, Yuanyuan Wang, Yi Guo, Jinhua Yu and Yi Wang
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:26
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  24. Patients who develop critical arrhythmia during left ventricular assist device (LVAD) perfusion have a low survival rate. For diagnosis of unexpected heart abnormalities, new heart-monitoring methods are requi...

    Authors: Keun Her, Chi Bum Ahn, Sung Min Park and Seong Wook Choi
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:25
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  27. The pupillary light reflex characterizes the direct and consensual response of the eye to the perceived brightness of a stimulus. It has been used as indicator of both neurological and optic nerve pathologies....

    Authors: Julián Espinosa, Ana Belén Roig, Jorge Pérez and David Mas
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:22
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  28. Consumer preference is rapidly changing from 2D to 3D movies due to the sensational effects of 3D scenes, like those in Avatar and The Hobbit. Two 3D viewing technologies are available: active shutter glasses ...

    Authors: Aamir Saeed Malik, Raja Nur Hamizah Raja Khairuddin, Hafeez Ullah Amin, Mark Llewellyn Smith, Nidal Kamel, Jafri Malin Abdullah, Samar Mohammad Fawzy and Seongo Shim
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:21
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  29. Unsupervised lung segmentation method is one of the mandatory processes in order to develop a Content Based Medical Image Retrieval System (CBMIRS) of CXR. The purpose of the study is to present a robust solut...

    Authors: Wan Siti Halimatul Munirah Wan Ahmad, W Mimi Diyana W Zaki and Mohammad Faizal Ahmad Fauzi
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:20
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  30. Closed-loop insulin delivery is an emerging treatment for type 1 diabetes (T1D) evaluated clinically and using computer simulations during pre-clinical testing. Efforts to make closed-loop systems available to...

    Authors: Yue Ruan, Hood Thabit, Malgorzata E Wilinska and Roman Hovorka
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:19
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  32. Non-healing chronic wounds, such as venous leg ulcers, can be monitored non-invasively by using modern sensing devices and wireless technologies. The development of such a wireless diagnostic tool may improve ...

    Authors: Nasir Mehmood, Alex Hariz, Sue Templeton and Nicolas H Voelcker
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:17
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  33. Seismocardiography is the noninvasive measurement of cardiac vibrations transmitted to the chest wall by the heart during its movement. While most applications for seismocardiography are based on unidirectiona...

    Authors: Mikko Paukkunen, Petteri Parkkila, Raimo Kettunen and Raimo Sepponen
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:16
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  35. Back pain is a common complication of wheelchair-bound elderly people. Seating system is a key factor that influences spinal curvature, back muscle activation, interface pressure, and comfortability. A seating...

    Authors: Chun-Ting Li, Chih-Hsien Chen, Yen-Nien Chen, Chih-Han Chang and Kuen-Horng Tsai
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:14
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  38. Cardiac cryoablation is a minimally invasive procedure to treat cardiac arrhythmias by cooling cardiac tissues responsible for the cardiac arrhythmia to freezing temperatures. Although cardiac cryoablation off...

    Authors: Michael Handler, Gerald Fischer, Michael Seger, Roland Kienast, Friedrich Hanser and Christian Baumgartner
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:12
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  39. The Forced Oscillation Technique (FOT) has the potential to increase our knowledge about the biomechanical changes that occur in Cystic Fibrosis (CF). Thus, the aims of this study were to investigate changes i...

    Authors: Adma N Lima, Alvaro C D Faria, Agnaldo J Lopes, José M Jansen and Pedro L Melo
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:11
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  41. Lung cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide; it refers to the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the lung. A computed tomography (CT) scan of the thorax is the most sensitive method for detecting c...

    Authors: Hiram Madero Orozco, Osslan Osiris Vergara Villegas, Vianey Guadalupe Cruz Sánchez, Humberto de Jesús Ochoa Domínguez and Manuel de Jesús Nandayapa Alfaro
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:9
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  43. Content-based medical image retrieval (CBMIR) system enables medical practitioners to perform fast diagnosis through quantitative assessment of the visual information of various modalities.

    Authors: Aouache Mustapha, Aini Hussain, Salina Abdul Samad, Mohd Asyraf Zulkifley, Wan Mimi Diyana Wan Zaki and Hamzaini Abdul Hamid
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:6
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  46. Accelerometry (the measurement of vibrations) and auscultation (the measurement of sounds) are both non-invasive techniques that have been explored for their potential to detect abnormalities in swallowing. Th...

    Authors: Joshua M Dudik, Iva Jestrović, Bo Luan, James L Coyle and Ervin Sejdić
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:3
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  47. To compare the acute effects of a cycling intervention on carotid arterial hemodynamics between basketball athletes and sedentary controls.

    Authors: Hai-Bin Liu, Wen-Xue Yuan, Kai-Rong Qin and Jie Hou
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14(Suppl 1):S17
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 1

  48. Atherosclerosis is one of the main risk factors cause acute cerebral-cardio vascular diseases. It's of great significance to establish an atherosclerosis animal model that can mimic the characteristics and nat...

    Authors: Wen Zeng, Xiaorong Wen, Li Gong, Jiayu Sun, Jing Yang, Jichun Liao, Can Qian, Wei Chen, Bin Song and Fabao Gao
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14(Suppl 1):S13
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 1

  49. The objective of this study is to observe the visual fatigue caused by watching 3DTV using the method of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The data of fMRI during three kinds of visual stimulation ...

    Authors: Chunxiao Chen, Jing Wang, Kun Li, Yuping Liu and Xin Chen
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14(Suppl 1):S12
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 1

  50. Tortuous arteries are often seen in patients with hypertension and atherosclerosis. While the mechanical stress in atherosclerotic plaque under lumen pressure has been studied extensively, the mechanical stabi...

    Authors: Arnav Sanyal and Hai-Chao Han
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14(Suppl 1):S4
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 1

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