Long-term electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the important diagnostic assistant approaches in capturing intermittent cardiac arrhythmias. Combination of miniaturized wearable holters and healthcare platforms en...
Authors: Xiaomao Fan, Qihang Yao, Ye Li, Runge Chen and Yunpeng Cai
Hemodynamic information including peak systolic pressure (PSP) and peak systolic velocity (PSV) carry an important role in evaluation and diagnosis of congenital heart disease (CHD). Since MDCTA cannot evaluat...
Authors: Yulei Zhu, Rui Chen, Yu-Hsiang Juan, He Li, Jingjing Wang, Zhuliang Yu and Hui Liu
Modelling and simulation may become clinically applicable tools for detailed evaluation of the cardiovascular system and clinical decision-making to guide therapeutic intervention. Models based on pressure–vol...
Authors: Massimo Capoccia, Silvia Marconi, Sanjeet Avtaar Singh, Domenico M. Pisanelli and Claudio De Lazzari
Impairments in proprioceptive mechanism with aging has been observed and associated with fall risk. The purpose of the current study was to assess proprioceptive deficits among high fall risk individuals in co...
Authors: Nima Toosizadeh, Hossein Ehsani, Marco Miramonte and Jane Mohler
Calcaneal fractures account for around 2% of all fractures and most of them are intra-articular fractures. Many implants have been used in the fixation of calcaneal fractures, but their biomechanical stability...
Authors: Ming Ni, Jiong Mei, Kun Li, Wenxin Niu and Ming Zhang
Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is very important, and MRI is an effective imaging mode of Alzheimer’s disease. There are many existing studies on the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease based on MRI data. ...
Authors: Xiaoheng Tan, Yuchuan Liu, Yongming Li, Pin Wang, Xiaoping Zeng, Fang Yan and Xinke Li
The association between repetitive hip moment impulse and the progression of hip osteoarthritis is a recently recognized area of study. A sit-to-stand movement is essential for daily life and requires hip exte...
Authors: Takuma Inai, Tomoya Takabayashi, Mutsuaki Edama and Masayoshi Kubo
Proximal humerus fractures are the third most common in the human body but their management remains controversial. Open reduction and internal fixation with plates is one of the leading modes of operative trea...
Neuroinflammation is primarily characterized by overexpression of proinflammatory mediators produced by glial activation or immune cell infiltration. Several kinases have been shown to be critical mediators in...
Authors: Chong Ning, Hui-Min David Wang, Rong Gao, Yu-Chia Chang, Fengqing Hu, Xianjun Meng and Shi-Ying Huang
Radionuclide-excited luminescence imaging is an optical radionuclide imaging strategy to reveal the distributions of radioluminescent nanophosphors (RLNPs) inside small animals, which uses radioluminescence em...
Authors: Xuanxuan Zhang, Shouping Zhu, Yang Li, Yonghua Zhan, Xueli Chen, Fei Kang, Jing Wang and Xu Cao
Although accurate modeling of the thermal performance of irrigated-tip electrodes in radiofrequency cardiac ablation requires the solution of a triple coupled problem involving simultaneous electrical conducti...
Authors: Ana González-Suárez, Juan J. Pérez and Enrique Berjano
OpenSim musculoskeletal models provide an accurate simulation environment that eases limitations of in vivo and in vitro studies. In this work, a biomechanical knee model was formulated with femoral articular ...
Authors: M. Marieswaran, Arnab Sikidar, Anu Goel, Deepak Joshi and Dinesh Kalyanasundaram
With the development of versatile magnetic resonance acquisition techniques there arises a need for more advanced imaging simulation tools to enable adequate image appearance prediction, measurement sequence d...
Authors: Artur Klepaczko, Piotr Szczypiński, Michał Strzelecki and Ludomir Stefańczyk
There are many situations where the skin and underlying soft tissues are compromised by mechanical loading in the form or pressure, or pressure in combination with shear. If sustained, this can lead to damage ...
Noninvasive magnetic resonance thermometry (MRT) at low-field using proton resonance frequency shift (PRFS) is a promising technique for monitoring ablation temperature, since low-field MR scanners with open-c...
Wearable textile electrodes for the detection of biopotentials are a promising tool for the monitoring and early diagnosis of chronic diseases. We present a comparative study of the electrical characteristics ...
Authors: Reinel Castrillón, Jairo J. Pérez and Henry Andrade-Caicedo
Accurately solving the electroencephalography (EEG) forward problem is crucial for precise EEG source analysis. Previous studies have shown that the use of multicompartment head models in combination with the ...
Authors: Johannes Vorwerk, Robert Oostenveld, Maria Carla Piastra, Lilla Magyari and Carsten H. Wolters
Accurate functional diagnosis of coronary stenosis is vital for decision making in coronary revascularization. With recent advances in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), fractional flow reserve (FFR) can be d...
Authors: Xinzhou Xie, Minwen Zheng, Didi Wen, Yabing Li and Songyun Xie
The physiological and hemodynamic features of bridging veins involve wall shear stress (WSS) of the cerebral venous system. Based on the data of cadavers and computational fluid dynamics software pack, the hem...
This study aimed to investigate the influence of injection rates of calibrating standard solution
on monitoring pulse indicator continuous cardiac output (PICCO, made in Germany), and thereby to provide signi...
Authors: Chen Shu-Lan, Lan Fang-Chen, Du Zhen-Shuang, Xu Ya-Ping, Zhao Hui-Ming, Zeng Cui-Ping and Miao Yu
Camera-based photoplethysmography (cbPPG) is a measurement technique which enables remote vital sign monitoring by using cameras. To obtain valid plethysmograms, proper regions of interest (ROIs) have to be se...
Authors: Alexander Trumpp, Johannes Lohr, Daniel Wedekind, Martin Schmidt, Matthias Burghardt, Axel R. Heller, Hagen Malberg and Sebastian Zaunseder
Schizophrenia is a clinical syndrome, and its causes have not been well determined. The objective of this study was to investigate the alteration of brain functional connectivity between schizophrenia and heal...
Cerebrovascular events are frequently associated with hemodynamic disturbance caused by internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis. It is challenging to determine the ischemia-related carotid stenosis during the i...
Authors: Dong Zhang, Pengcheng Xu, Hongyu Qiao, Xin Liu, Liangping Luo, Wenhua Huang, Heye Zhang and Changzheng Shi
Many studies have demonstrated that the geometry of the carotid bifurcation enables prediction of blood flow variation associated with atherosclerotic plaque formation. The phase angle between the arterial wal...
Authors: Lili Niu, Xiliang Zhu, Min Pan, Abbott Derek, Lisheng Xu, Long Meng and Hairong Zheng
The present study contrasts the accuracy of different reconstructed models with distinctive segmentation methods performed by various experts. Seven research groups reconstructed nine 3D models of one human fe...
Authors: Ehsan Soodmand, Daniel Kluess, Patrick A. Varady, Robert Cichon, Michael Schwarze, Dominic Gehweiler, Frank Niemeyer, Dieter Pahr and Matthias Woiczinski
Intracortical brain–machine interfaces (BMIs) harness movement information by sensing neuronal activities using chronic microelectrode implants to restore lost functions to patients with paralysis. However, ne...
Authors: Min-Ki Kim, Jeong-woo Sohn, Bongsoo Lee and Sung-Phil Kim
Most of the objective and quantitative methods proposed for spasticity measurement are not suitable for clinical application, and methods for surface electromyography (sEMG) signal processing are mainly limite...
Authors: Baohua Hu, Xiufeng Zhang, Jingsong Mu, Ming Wu and Yong Wang
Image segmentation is an essential and non trivial task in computer vision and medical image analysis. Computed tomography (CT) is one of the most accessible medical examination techniques to visualize the int...
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the most common diseases worldwide. Uncontrolled and prolonged hyperglycemia can cause diabetic complications, which reduce the quality of life of patients. Diabetic complicati...
Authors: Yuri An, Yujung Kang, Jungsul Lee, Chulwoo Ahn, Kihwan Kwon and Chulhee Choi
Critical care, like many healthcare areas, is under a dual assault from significantly increasing demographic and economic pressures. Intensive care unit (ICU) patients are highly variable in response to treatm...
Authors: J. Geoffrey Chase, Jean-Charles Preiser, Jennifer L. Dickson, Antoine Pironet, Yeong Shiong Chiew, Christopher G. Pretty, Geoffrey M. Shaw, Balazs Benyo, Knut Moeller, Soroush Safaei, Merryn Tawhai, Peter Hunter and Thomas Desaive
Most commercially available cochlear implants and hearing aids use microphones as sensors for capturing the external sound field. These microphones are in general located in an external element, which is also ...
Authors: Diego Calero, Stephan Paul, André Gesing, Fabio Alves and Júlio A. Cordioli
Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) has been in the forefront recently for measuring cardiac pulse rates from live or recorded videos. It finds advantages in scenarios requiring remote monitoring, such as medic...
Authors: Richard Macwan, Yannick Benezeth and Alamin Mansouri
At present, the enteral nutrition approaches via nose and duodenum (or nose and jejunum) are the preferred method of nutritional support in the medical engineering field, given the superiority of in line with ...
Authors: Ying Li, Yu Ye, Yang Mei, Haiying Ruan and Yuan Yu
Pulmonary nodule is one of the important lesions of lung cancer, mainly divided into two categories of solid nodules and ground glass nodules. The improvement of diagnosis of lung cancer has significant clinic...
Authors: Jing Yang, Hailin Wang, Chen Geng, Yakang Dai and Jiansong Ji
Diagnosing and treating anorexia nervosa is an important challenge for modern psychiatry. Taking into account a connection between the mental state of a person and the characteristics of their language, this p...
Authors: Dominik Spinczyk, Karolina Nabrdalik and Katarzyna Rojewska
Counter-pulsation control (CPC) by ventricular assist devices (VADs) is believed to reduce cardiac load and increase coronary perfusion. However, patients with VADs have a higher risk of arrhythmia, which may ...
Authors: Keun Her, Joon Yeong Kim, Ki Moo Lim and Seong Wook Choi
This article is a review of the book “Master machine learning algorithms, discover how they work and implement them from scratch” (ISBN: not available, 37 USD, 163 pages) edited by Jason Brownlee published by ...
Breathing sounds during sleep are altered and characterized by various acoustic specificities in patients with sleep disordered breathing (SDB). This study aimed to identify acoustic biomarkers indicative of t...
Authors: Taehoon Kim, Jeong-Whun Kim and Kyogu Lee
Decellularized animal organs have been used as scaffolds for tissue engineering. To make a properly functioning scaffolds, the extracellular matrix (ECM) components must be preserved after decellularization. B...
Authors: Sung Min Park, Seran Yang, Se-Min Rye and Seong Wook Choi
A hemiplegic stroke survivor with a moderate to severe gait disturbance may have difficulty walking using a one-arm walker. This study aimed to test the safety and feasibility of a prototype one-arm motorized ...
Authors: Ki-Hun Cho, SeungHyeon Pyo, Gi-Su Shin, Sung-Duk Hong, Se-Han Lee, DongGeon Lee, SunHae Song and GyuChang Lee
The QRS complex is the most noticeable feature in the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal, therefore, its detection is critical for ECG signal analysis. The existing detection methods largely depend on hand-crafted...
The goal of this paper is to present a critical review on the main systems that use artificial intelligence to identify groups at risk for osteoporosis or fractures. The systems considered for this study were ...
Authors: Agnaldo S. Cruz, Hertz C. Lins, Ricardo V. A. Medeiros, José M. F. Filho and Sandro G. da Silva
In the last few years, some studies have measured heart rate (HR) or heart rate variability (HRV) parameters using a video camera. This technique focuses on the measurement of the small changes in skin colour ...
Authors: Angel Melchor Rodríguez and J. Ramos-Castro
Open reduction and internal fixation of proximal humerus fractures can be difficult to achieve adequate, complication free results due to osteopenia of the proximal humerus and unstable fracture patterns. This...
Authors: Ali Jabran, Chris Peach, Zhenmin Zou and Lei Ren
Colonoscopy plays an important role in the clinical screening and management of colorectal cancer. The traditional ‘see one, do one, teach one’ training style for such invasive procedure is resource intensive ...
Authors: Tingxi Wen, David Medveczky, Jackie Wu and Jianhuang Wu
Muscular performance is an important factor for the mechanical stability of lumbar spine in humans, in which, the co-contraction of lumbar muscles plays a key role. We hypothesized that when executing differen...
Authors: Wenjing Du, Huihui Li, Olatunji Mumini Omisore, Lei Wang, Wenmin Chen and Xiangjun Sun
Extracellular matrices (ECMs) are often used in reconstructive surgery to enhance tissue regeneration and remodeling. Sutures and staples are currently used to fix ECMs to tissue although they can be invasive ...
Authors: Samuel J. Frost, Damia Mawad, Richard Wuhrer, Simon Myers and Antonio Lauto
Hippocampal atrophy is a supportive feature for the diagnosis of probable Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, even for an expert neuroradiologist, tracing the hippocampus and measuring its volume is a time cons...
Authors: Nicola Amoroso, Marianna La Rocca, Roberto Bellotti, Annarita Fanizzi, Alfonso Monaco and Sabina Tangaro
This paper presents the use of the texture matching method to measure the rabbit carotid artery elasticity value of the experimental group and control group respectively. It compares the experimental rabbits, ...
Authors: Bo Zhang, Junyi Gu, Ming Qian, Lili Niu and Dhanjoo Ghista
