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  1. To compare quantitative computed tomography (CT) analysis and single-indicator thermodilution to measure pulmonary edema in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).

    Authors: Fan Zhang, Chen Li, Jian-ning Zhang, Hai-peng Guo and Da-wei Wu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:30
  2. Electrochemotherapy is a local treatment of cancer employing electric pulses to improve transmembrane transfer of cytotoxic drugs. In this paper we discuss electrochemotherapy from the perspective of biomedica...

    Authors: Damijan Miklavčič, Barbara Mali, Bor Kos, Richard Heller and Gregor Serša
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:29
  3. The fatigue that users suffer when using steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can cause a number of serious problems such as signal quality degradation and system...

    Authors: Teng Cao, Feng Wan, Chi Man Wong, Janir Nuno da Cruz and Yong Hu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:28
  4. Previous studies have consistently reported that decreasing seat height increases the peak hip and knee joint moments; however, these findings may not apply to biomechanical changes at very low seat heights. T...

    Authors: Shinsuke Yoshioka, Akinori Nagano, Dean C Hay and Senshi Fukashiro
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:27
  5. The efficacy of dynamic anterior cervical plates is somewhat controversial. Screws in static-plate designs have a smaller diameter and can cut through bone under load. While not ideal, this unintended loosenin...

    Authors: Vivek Palepu, Ali Kiapour, Vijay K Goel and James M Moran
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:26
  6. The spectroscopic conductivity distribution of tissue can help to explain physiological and pathological status. Dual frequency conductivity imaging by combining Magnetic Resonance Electrical Property Tomograp...

    Authors: Oh In Kwon, Woo Chul Jeong, Saurav Z K Sajib, Hyung Joong Kim, Eung Je Woo and Tong In Oh
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:24
  7. Achieving independent upright posture has known to be one of the main goals in rehabilitation following lower limb amputation. The purpose of this study was to compare postural steadiness of below knee amputee...

    Authors: Nooranida Arifin, Noor Azuan Abu Osman, Sadeeq Ali and Wan Abu Bakar Wan Abas
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:23
  8. Evaluation of computed tomography (CT) for the diagnosis of intestinal wall abnormalities and ischemia is important for clinical decision making in patients with acute abdominal pain to which if surgery should...

    Authors: Taichiro Tsunoyama, Tuan D Pham, Takashi Fujita and Tetsuya Sakamoto
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13(Suppl 1):S3

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  9. Respiratory motion is known to degrade image quality in PET imaging. The necessary acquisition time of several minutes per bed position will inevitably lead to a blurring effect due to organ motion. A lot of r...

    Authors: Michael Fieseler, Fabian Gigengack, Xiaoyi Jiang and Klaus P Schäfers
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13(Suppl 1):S2

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  10. Object detection in 3-D medical images is often necessary for constraining a segmentation or registration task. It may be a task in its own right as well, when instances of a structure, e.g. the lymph nodes, a...

    Authors: Klaus Toennies, Marko Rak and Karin Engel
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13(Suppl 1):S1

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  11. Surface electromyographic (S-EMG) signal processing has been emerging in the past few years due to its non-invasive assessment of muscle function and structure and because of the fast growing rate of digital t...

    Authors: Marcel Henrique Trabuco, Marcus Vinícius Chaffim Costa and Francisco Assis de Oliveira Nascimento
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:22
  12. There are several ways to measure the respiratory system, among them inductance plethysmography and three-dimensional kinematic analysis, methods of high cost and difficult transportability. The objective of t...

    Authors: Wagner L Ripka, Leandra Ulbricht and Pedro M Gewehr
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:21
  13. When the human body is introduced to a new motion or movement, it learns the placement of different body parts, sequential muscle control, and coordination between muscles to achieve necessary positions, and i...

    Authors: Ahnryul Choi, Su-Bin Joo, Euichaul Oh and Joung Hwan Mun
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:20
  14. Ankle characteristics vary in terms of gait phase and speed change. This study aimed to quantify the components of ankle characteristics, including quasi-stiffness and work in different gait phases and at vari...

    Authors: Zahra Safaeepour, Ali Esteki, Farhad Tabatabai Ghomshe and Noor Azuan Abu Osman
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:19
  15. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common and debilitating abnormalities of the arrhythmias worldwide, with a major impact on morbidity and mortality. The detection of AF becomes crucial in preventing both a...

    Authors: Xiaolin Zhou, Hongxia Ding, Benjamin Ung, Emma Pickwell-MacPherson and Yuanting Zhang
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:18
  16. The intracranial aneurysm (IA) size has been proved to have impacts on the hemodynamics and can be applied for the prediction of IA rupture risk. Although the relationship between aspect ratio and hemodynamic ...

    Authors: Yunling Long, Hongyu Yu, Zhizheng Zhuo, Ying Zhang, Yang Wang, Xinjian Yang and Haiyun Li
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:17
  17. In many practical aspects of ophthalmology, it is necessary to assess the severity degree of glaucoma in cases where, for various reasons, it is impossible to perform a visual field test - static perimetry. Th...

    Authors: Robert Koprowski, Marek Rzendkowski and Zygmunt Wróbel
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:16
  18. Model-based reconstruction algorithms have shown potentials over conventional strain-based methods in quasi-static elastographic image by using realistic finite element (FE) or bio-mechanical model constraints...

    Authors: Minhua Lu, Dan Wu, Wan-hua Lin, Weifang Li, Heye Zhang and WenHua Huang
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:15
  19. Continuous positive air pressure (CPAP) users frequently report troublesome symptoms of airway dryness and nasal congestion. Clinical investigations have demonstrated that supplementary humidification reduces ...

    Authors: David E White, Roy J Nates and Jim Bartley
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:12
  20. Retinal implants have been developed to treat blindness causing retinal degenerations such as Retinitis pigmentosa (RP). The retinal stimulators are covering only a small portion of the retina usually in its c...

    Authors: Florian Waschkowski, Stephan Hesse, Anne Christine Rieck, Tibor Lohmann, Claudia Brockmann, Thomas Laube, Norbert Bornfeld, Gabriele Thumann, Peter Walter, Wilfried Mokwa, Sandra Johnen and Gernot Roessler
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:11
  21. Limitations in physical activity are considered as a key problem in patients with multiple sclerosis (PwMS). Contemporary methods to assess the level of physical activity in PwMS are regular clinical observati...

    Authors: Layal Shammas, Tom Zentek, Birte von Haaren, Stefan Schlesinger, Stefan Hey and Asarnusch Rashid
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:10
  22. Monitoring of intracranial pressure (ICP) is a cornerstone in the surveillance of neurosurgical patients. The ICP is measured against a baseline pressure (i.e. zero - or reference pressure). We have previously...

    Authors: Per Kristian Eide, Angelika Sorteberg, Torstein R Meling and Wilhelm Sorteberg
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:7
  23. Inner ear evoked potentials are small amplitude (<1 μVpk) signals that require a low noise signal acquisition protocol for successful extraction; an existing such technique is Electrocochleography (ECOG). A novel...

    Authors: Chathura L Kumaragamage, Brian J Lithgow and Zahra Moussavi
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:6
  24. Improvement in muscle strength is an important aim for the rehabilitation of hemiplegia patients. Presently, the rehabilitation prescription depends on the evaluation results of muscle strength, which are rout...

    Authors: Huihui Li, Guoru Zhao, Yongjin Zhou, Xin Chen, Zhen Ji and Lei Wang
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:5
  25. Color image segmentation has been so far applied in many areas; hence, recently many different techniques have been developed and proposed. In the medical imaging area, the image segmentation may be helpful to...

    Authors: Salim Ben Chaabane and Farhat Fnaiech
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:4
  26. Dendritic cells are potent and specialized antigen presenting cells, which play a crucial role in initiating and amplifying both the innate and adaptive immune responses. The dendritic cell-based vaccination a...

    Authors: Rong Dong, Jinhua Long, Xiaoli Xu, Chunlin Zhang, Zongyao Wen, Long Li, Weijuan Yao and Zhu Zeng
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:2
  27. Good prosthetic suspension system secures the residual limb inside the prosthetic socket and enables easy donning and doffing. This study aimed to introduce, evaluate and compare a newly designed prosthetic su...

    Authors: Hossein Gholizadeh, Noor Azuan Abu Osman, Arezoo Eshraghi, Sadeeq Ali, Nooranida Arifin and Wan Abu Bakar Wan Abas
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:1
  28. The emergence of skin substitutes provides a new approach for the treatment of wound repair and healing. The consistent and steady release of angiogenic factors is an important factor in the promotion of angio...

    Authors: Yurong Zheng, Zhanzeng Feng, Chuangang You, Yunyun Jin, Xinlei Hu, Xingang Wang and Chunmao Han
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:134
  29. The information of electromyographic signals can be used by Myoelectric Control Systems (MCSs) to actuate prostheses. These devices allow the performing of movements that cannot be carried out by persons with ...

    Authors: Guillermo A Camacho, Carlos H Llanos, Pedro A Berger, Cristiano Jacques Miosso and Adson F Rocha
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:133
  30. Continuous and discrete wavelet transforms have been established as valid tools to analyze non-stationary and transient signals over Fourier domain methods. Additionally, Fourier transform based coherence meth...

    Authors: Amanmeet Garg, Da Xu and Andrew P Blaber
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:132
  31. Measurements of the morphology of the ankle joint, performed mostly for surgical planning of total ankle arthroplasty and for collecting data for total ankle prosthesis design, are often made on planar radiogr...

    Authors: Chien-Chung Kuo, Hsuan-Lun Lu, Tung-Wu Lu, Cheng-Chung Lin, Alberto Leardini, Mei-Ying Kuo and Horng-Chaung Hsu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:131
  32. Bone can adjust its morphological structure to adapt to the changes of mechanical environment, i.e. the bone structure change is related to mechanical loading. This implies that osteoarthritis may be closely a...

    Authors: Juan Fang, He Gong, Lingyan Kong and Dong Zhu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:130
  33. Autoimmune disease is a disorder of immune system due to the over-reaction of lymphocytes against one's own body tissues. Anti-Nuclear Antibody (ANA) is an autoantibody produced by the immune system directed a...

    Authors: Chung-Chuan Cheng, Tsu-Yi Hsieh, Jin-Shiuh Taur and Yung-Fu Chen
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12(Suppl 1):S5

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 1

  34. Weaning is typically regarded as a process of discontinuing mechanical ventilation in the daily practice of an intensive care unit (ICU). Among the ICU patients, 39%-40% need mechanical ventilator for sustaini...

    Authors: Jiin-Chyr Hsu, Yung-Fu Chen, Wei-Sheng Chung, Tan-Hsu Tan, Tainsong Chen and John Y Chiang
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12(Suppl 1):S4

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 1

  35. Breast cancer is the leading cause of both incidence and mortality in women population. For this reason, much research effort has been devoted to develop Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) systems for early detect...

    Authors: Dae Hoe Kim, Seung Hyun Lee and Yong Man Ro
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12(Suppl 1):S3

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 1

  36. Dementia is an age-related cognitive decline which is indicated by an early degeneration of cortical and sub-cortical structures. Characterizing those morphological changes can help to understand the disease d...

    Authors: Ying Chen and Tuan D Pham
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12(Suppl 1):S2

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 1

  37. In Caenorhabditis elegans early embryo, cell cycles only have two phases: DNA synthesis and mitosis, which are different from the typical 4-phase cell cycle. Modeling this cell-cycle process into network can fill...

    Authors: Xiaotai Huang, Long Chen, Hung Chim, Leanne Lai Hang Chan, Zhongying Zhao and Hong Yan
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12(Suppl 1):S1

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 1