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  1. Human balance during quiet standing is influenced by adding mass to the body with a backpack, with symmetrically-applied loads to the trunk, or with obesity. Adding mass to the body increases both the weight a...

    Authors: Kerry Elizabeth Costello, Sara Louise Matrangola and Michael Lawrence Madigan
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:20
  2. The detection of change in magnitude of directional coupling between two non-linear time series is a common subject of interest in the biomedical domain, including studies involving the respiratory chemoreflex...

    Authors: Joon Lee, Shamim Nemati, Ikaro Silva, Bradley A Edwards, James P Butler and Atul Malhotra
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:19
  3. The dominant frequency of the Fourier power spectrum is useful to analyze complex fractionated atrial electrograms (CFAE), but spectral resolution is limited and uniform from DC to the Nyquist frequency. Herei...

    Authors: Edward J Ciaccio, Angelo B Biviano, William Whang and Hasan Garan
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:17
  4. A biomedical signal can be defined by its extrinsic features (x-axis and y-axis shift and scale) and intrinsic features (shape after normalization of extrinsic features). In this study, an LMS algorithm utiliz...

    Authors: Edward J Ciaccio, Angelo B Biviano, William Whang and Hasan Garan
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:15
  5. Most studies on biodegradable magnesium implants published recently use magnesium-calcium-alloys or magnesium-aluminum-rare earth-alloys.

    Authors: Tim Andreas Huehnerschulte, Janin Reifenrath, Brigitte von Rechenberg, Dina Dziuba, Jan Marten Seitz, Dirk Bormann, Henning Windhagen and Andrea Meyer-Lindenberg
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:14
  6. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an important tool for cardiac research, and it is frequently used for resting cardiac assessments. However, research into non-pharmacological stress cardiac evaluation is li...

    Authors: Silmara Gusso, Carlo Salvador, Paul Hofman, Wayne Cutfield, James C Baldi, Andrew Taberner and Poul Nielsen
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:13
  7. In recent years magnesium alloys have been intensively investigated as potential resorbable materials with appropriate mechanical and corrosion properties. Particularly in orthopedic research magnesium is inte...

    Authors: Hazibullah Waizy, Andreas Weizbauer, Christian Modrejewski, Frank Witte, Henning Windhagen, Arne Lucas, Marc Kieke, Berend Denkena, Peter Behrens, Andrea Meyer-Lindenberg, Friedrich-Wilhelm Bach and Fritz Thorey
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:12
  8. Many microphones have been developed to meet with the implantable requirement of totally implantable cochlear implant (TICI). However, a biocompatible one without destroying the intactness of the ossicular cha...

    Authors: Hou-Yong Kang, Gao Na, Fang-Lu Chi, Kai Jin, Tie-Zheng Pan and Zhen Gao
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:10
  9. Falls can cause trauma, disability and death among older people. Ambulatory accelerometer devices are currently capable of detecting falls in a controlled environment. However, research suggests that most curr...

    Authors: Mitchell Yuwono, Bruce D Moulton, Steven W Su, Branko G Celler and Hung T Nguyen
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:9
  10. Arterial stiffness is a major contributor to cardiovascular diseases. Because current methods of measuring arterial stiffness are technically demanding, the purpose of this study was to develop a simple method...

    Authors: Hidehiko Komine, Yoshiyuki Asai, Takashi Yokoi and Mutsuko Yoshizawa
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:6
  11. Identification of recurrent patterns in complex fractionated atrial electrograms (CFAE) has been used to differentiate paroxysmal from persistent atrial fibrillation (AF). Detection of the atrial CFAE patterns...

    Authors: Edward J Ciaccio, Angelo B Biviano, William Whang and Hasan Garan
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:4
  12. Wireless capsule endoscopy has been introduced as an innovative, non-invasive diagnostic technique for evaluation of the gastrointestinal tract, reaching places where conventional endoscopy is unable to. Howev...

    Authors: Daniel C Barbosa, Dalila B Roupar, Jaime C Ramos, Adriano C Tavares and Carlos S Lima
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:3
  13. Undetected arrhythmic beats seriously affect the power spectrum of the heart rate variability (HRV). Therefore, the series of RR intervals are normally carefully edited before HRV is analysed, but this is a ti...

    Authors: Marcus Karlsson, Rolf Hörnsten, Annika Rydberg and Urban Wiklund
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:2
  14. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) patients require mechanical ventilation (MV) for breathing support. Patient-specific PEEP is encouraged for treating different patients but there is no well establish...

    Authors: Yeong Shiong Chiew, J Geoffrey Chase, Geoffrey M Shaw, Ashwath Sundaresan and Thomas Desaive
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:111
  15. The duration of bronchoscopy examinations varies considerably depending on the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures used. It can last more than 20 minutes if a complex diagnostic work-up is included. With wid...

    Authors: Mikołaj I Leszczuk and Mariusz Duplaga
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:110
  16. During the cardiac cycle, the heart normally produces repeatable physiological sounds. However, under pathologic conditions, such as with heart valve stenosis or a ventricular septal defect, blood flow turbule...

    Authors: Mohammad Ali Akbari, Kamran Hassani, John D Doyle, Mahdi Navidbakhsh, Maryam Sangargir, Kourosh Bajelani and Zahra Sadat Ahmadi
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:109
  17. The aim of this research is to propose a small intestine model for electrically propelled capsule endoscopy. The electrical stimulus can cause contraction of the small intestine and propel the capsule along th...

    Authors: Sang Hyo Woo, Tae Wan Kim, Zia Mohy-Ud-Din, Il Yong Park and Jin-Ho Cho
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:108
  18. Accurate automatic segmentation of the caudate nucleus in magnetic resonance images (MRI) of the brain is of great interest in the analysis of developmental disorders. Segmentation methods based on a single at...

    Authors: Laura Igual, Joan Carles Soliva, Antonio Hernández-Vela, Sergio Escalera, Xavier Jiménez, Oscar Vilarroya and Petia Radeva
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:105
  19. In recent years, intra arterial chemotherapy has become an important component in head and neck cancer treatment. However, therapy success can vary significantly and consistent treatment guidelines are missing...

    Authors: Stephan Rhode, Manosh C Paul, Eckhard Martens and Duncan F Campbell
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:104
  20. A proper sleep system can affect the spine support in neutral position. Most of the previous studies in scientific literature have focused on the effects of customary mattresses on the spinal alignment. To kee...

    Authors: Karim Leilnahari, Nasser Fatouraee, Mahmoud Khodalotfi, Mohammad Amin Sadeghein and Yekta Amin Kashani
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:103
  21. Therapeutic irreversible electroporation (IRE) is an emerging technology for the non-thermal ablation of tumors. The technique involves delivering a series of unipolar electric pulses to permanently destabiliz...

    Authors: Christopher B Arena, Michael B Sano, John H Rossmeisl Jr, John L Caldwell, Paulo A Garcia, Marissa Nichole Rylander and Rafael V Davalos
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:102
  22. This article is a review of the book: 'Biomedical Image Processing', by Thomas M. Deserno, which is published by Springer-Verlag. Salient information that will be useful to decide whether the book is relevant ...

    Authors: Edward J Ciaccio
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:101
  23. Swallowing accelerometry has been suggested as a potential non-invasive tool for bedside dysphagia screening. Various vibratory signal features and complementary measurement modalities have been put forth in t...

    Authors: Mohammad S Nikjoo, Catriona M Steele, Ervin Sejdić and Tom Chau
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:100
  24. The computer-aided identification of specific gait patterns is an important issue in the assessment of Parkinson's disease (PD). In this study, a computer vision-based gait analysis approach is developed to as...

    Authors: Shih-Wei Chen, Sheng-Huang Lin, Lun-De Liao, Hsin-Yi Lai, Yu-Cheng Pei, Te-Son Kuo, Chin-Teng Lin, Jyh-Yeong Chang, You-Yin Chen, Yu-Chun Lo, Shin-Yuan Chen, Robby Wu and Siny Tsang
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:99
  25. Body electrical loss analysis (BELA) is a new non-invasive way to assess visceral fat depot size through the use of electromagnetism. BELA has worked well in phantom measurements, but the technology is not yet...

    Authors: Kim H Blomqvist, Jesper Lundbom, Nina Lundbom and Raimo E Sepponen
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:98
  26. Statistical learning (SL) techniques can address non-linear relationships and small datasets but do not provide an output that has an epidemiologic interpretation.

    Authors: Madhusmita Behera, Erin E Fowler, Taofeek K Owonikoko, Walker H Land, William Mayfield, Zhengjia Chen, Fadlo R Khuri, Suresh S Ramalingam and John J Heine
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:97
  27. This study investigates the variations of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) due to a real-life stressor and proposes a classifier based on nonlinear features of HRV for automatic stress detection.

    Authors: Paolo Melillo, Marcello Bracale and Leandro Pecchia
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:96
  28. Over the last decade, the number of neurostimulator systems implanted in patients has been rapidly growing. Nearly 50, 000 neurostimulators are implanted worldwide annually. The most common type of implantable...

    Authors: Oxana S Pantchenko, Seth J Seidman and Joshua W Guag
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:94
  29. Monitoring of vital parameters is an important topic in neonatal daily care. Progress in computational intelligence and medical sensors has facilitated the development of smart bedside monitors that can integr...

    Authors: Abbas K Abbas, Konrad Heimann, Katrin Jergus, Thorsten Orlikowsky and Steffen Leonhardt
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:93
  30. The subjects in EEG-Brain computer interface (BCI) system experience difficulties when attempting to obtain the consistent performance of the actual movement by motor imagery alone. It is necessary to find the...

    Authors: Donghag Choi, Yeonsoo Ryu, Youngbum Lee and Myoungho Lee
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:91
  31. Newborn mammals suffering from moderate hypoxia during or after birth are able to compensate a transitory lack of oxygen by adapting their vital functions. Exposure to hypoxia leads to an increase in the sympa...

    Authors: Steffen Schulz, Sina Reulecke, Michael Eiselt, Karin Schwab, Herbert Witte, Bernd Walter, Reinhard Bauer and Andreas Voss
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:88
  32. Segmentation is the most crucial part in the computer-aided bone age assessment. A well-known type of segmentation performed in the system is adaptive segmentation. While providing better result than global th...

    Authors: Hum Yan Chai, Lai Khin Wee, Tan Tian Swee, Sh-Hussain Salleh and Lim Yee Chea
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:87
  33. Valve dysfunction is a common cardiovascular pathology. Despite significant clinical research, there is little formal study of how valve dysfunction affects overall circulatory dynamics. Validated models would...

    Authors: Sabine Paeme, Katherine T Moorhead, J Geoffrey Chase, Bernard Lambermont, Philippe Kolh, Vincent D'orio, Luc Pierard, Marie Moonen, Patrizio Lancellotti, Pierre C Dauby and Thomas Desaive
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:86
  34. Electrotherapy is a relatively well established and efficient method of tumor treatment. In this paper we focus on analytical and numerical calculations of the potential and electric field distributions inside...

    Authors: Ana E Bergues Pupo, Juan Bory Reyes, Luis E Bergues Cabrales and Jesús M Bergues Cabrales
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:85
  35. Cerebral hyperperfusion syndrome develops in a small subset of patients following carotid artery surgery (CAS) performed to treat severe carotid artery stenosis. This syndrome has been found to have a close co...

    Authors: Fuyou Liang, Kazuaki Fukasaku, Hao Liu and Shu Takagi
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:84
  36. The electroencephalography (EEG) signals are known to involve the firings of neurons in the brain. The P300 wave is a high potential caused by an event-related stimulus. The detection of P300s included in the ...

    Authors: Arjon Turnip, Keum-Shik Hong and Myung-Yung Jeong
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:83
  37. Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder resulting in motor disturbances that can impact normal gait. Although PD initially responds well to pharmacological treatment, as the disease progresses...

    Authors: Steven T Moore, Valentina Dilda, Bandar Hakim and Hamish G MacDougall
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011 10:82