Vitreoretinal surgeries require precise, dexterous, and steady instruments for operation in delicate parts of the eye. Robotics has presented solutions for many vitreoretinal surgical problems, but, in a few o...
Authors: Muhammad Umar Farooq, Binxiang Xu and Seong Young Ko
Analyze the mechanics of Finochietto-style retractors, including the responses of thoracic tissues during thoracotomy, with an emphasis on tissue trauma and means for its reduction.
Authors: Guillaume Chanoit, Charles A. Pell, Gil Bolotin, Gregory D. Buckner, Jeffrey P. Williams and Hugh C. Crenshaw
The usability of dexterous hand prostheses is still hampered by the lack of natural and effective control strategies. A decoding strategy based on the processing of descending efferent neural signals recorded ...
Authors: Francesco M. Petrini, Alberto Mazzoni, Jacopo Rigosa, Federica Giambattistelli, Giuseppe Granata, Beatrice Barra, Alessandra Pampaloni, Eugenio Guglielmelli, Loredana Zollo, Marco Capogrosso, Silvestro Micera and Stanisa Raspopovic
Distraction osteogenesis (DO) is a novel technique widely used in human body reconstruction. DO has got a significant role in maxillofacial reconstruction applications (MRA); through this method, bone defects ...
Corneal biomechanical properties are important for the diagnosis of corneal diseases, individualized design and prognosis of corneal surgery. Clinical available devices such as Ocular Response Analyzer (ORA) a...
Authors: Xiao Qin, Lei Tian, Haixia Zhang, Xinyan Chen and Lin Li
The physiological processes and mechanisms of an arterial system are complex and subtle. Physics-based models have been proven to be a very useful tool to simulate actual physiological behavior of the arteries...
Authors: Shuran Zhou, Lisheng Xu, Liling Hao, Hanguang Xiao, Yang Yao, Lin Qi and Yudong Yao
Aged people all over the world are prone to fall down accidentally and be injured with fracture, such as the rib fracture. To protect the elderly, the safety vest has been developed to protect them from being ...
Authors: Jing Li, Duanduan Chen, Xiaoying Tang and Hanjun Li
Biodegradable stents display insufficient scaffold performance due to their poor Young’s Modulus. In addition, the corresponding biodegradable materials harbor weakened structures during degradation processes....
Authors: Kun Peng, Xinyang Cui, Aike Qiao and Yongliang Mu
Operative procedures for unstable pelvic ring fractures remain controversially discussed. Minimally invasive treatment options for pelvic ring fractures have several benefits for the patient. But they can also...
Authors: Christopher A. Becker, Christian Kammerlander, Adrian Cavalcanti Kußmaul, Matthias Woiczinski, Christoph Thorwächter, Christian Zeckey, Fabian Sommer, Christoph Linhart, Simon Weidert, Eduardo M. Suero, Wolfgang Böcker and Axel Greiner
For individuals affected by Type 1 diabetes (T1D), a chronic disease in which the pancreas does not produce any insulin, maintaining the blood glucose (BG) concentration as much as possible within the safety r...
Authors: Martina Vettoretti and Andrea Facchinetti
The clinical applications of transcranial focused ultrasound continue to expand and include ablation as well as drug delivery applications in the brain, where treatments are typically guided by MRI. Although M...
Authors: Pavlos Anastasiadis, Ali Mohammadabadi, Meyer J. Fishman, Jesse A. Smith, Ben A. Nguyen, David S. Hersh and Victor Frenkel
Geometric parameters have been proposed for prediction of cerebral aneurysm rupture risk. Predicting the rupture risk for incidentally detected unruptured aneurysms could help clinicians in their treatment dec...
Authors: Leonid Goubergrits, Florian Hellmeier, Jan Bruening, Andreas Spuler, Hans-Christian Hege, Samuel Voss, Gábor Janiga, Sylvia Saalfeld, Oliver Beuing and Philipp Berg
The aim of this study was to document more appropriate electrode location of a four-electrode-based electrical impedance technology in the monitoring of bladder filling, and to characterize the relationship be...
Authors: Yaning Li, Yinglin Peng, Xin Yang, Shipei Lu, Jinwu Gao, Chengguang Lin and Rihui Li
Bone tissue displays a hierarchical organization. Mechanical environments influence bone mass and structure. This study aimed to explore the effects of different mechanical stimuli on growing bone properties a...
Authors: Juan Fang, Jiazi Gao, He Gong, Tianlong Zhang, Rui Zhang and Bangchao Zhan
After the publication of the original article work [1], it was highlighted that the circuit information and the A/D converter used for acquiring sEMG signal were not correctly reported in the Methods section. ...
Authors: Baohua Hu, Xiufeng Zhang, Jingsong Mu, Ming Wu and Yong Wang
Citation:BioMedical Engineering OnLine
2019
18:32
Published on: 20 March 2019
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original article was published in BioMedical Engineering OnLine
2018
17:27
Human intention recognition technology plays a vital role in the application of robotic exoskeletons and powered exoskeletons. However, the precise estimation of the continuous motion of each joint represents ...
Authors: Kexiang Li, Jianhua Zhang, Xuan Liu and Minglu Zhang
Entropy analysis has been attracting increasing attentions in the recent two or three decades. It assesses complexity, or irregularity, of time-series which is extraordinarily relevant to physiology and diseas...
Most current algorithms for automatic glaucoma assessment using fundus images rely on handcrafted features based on segmentation, which are affected by the performance of the chosen segmentation method and the...
Authors: Andres Diaz-Pinto, Sandra Morales, Valery Naranjo, Thomas Köhler, Jose M. Mossi and Amparo Navea
The analysis of abdominal sounds can help to diagnose gastro-intestinal diseases. Sounds originating from the stomach and the intestine, the so-called bowel sounds, occur in various forms. They are described a...
Authors: Konstanze Kölle, Muhammad Faisal Aftab, Leif Erik Andersson, Anders Lyngvi Fougner and Øyvind Stavdahl
The direction of the current research was to investigate whether electrocardiogram (ECG) signals have been impacted by using compression garments during exercise and recovery phase. Each subject is non-athlete...
Authors: Lan Thi Nhu Nguyen, David Eager and Hung Nguyen
Studies have shown that gait asymmetry and activity limitation can persist several months or years after ankle fracture. However, evidence of gait and trunk movement patterns following ankle fracture during th...
Surface registration is a one of the crucial and actual problems of computer aided surgery. This paper presents the modification of the non-rigid Iterative Closest Point Algorithm which takes into account an a...
Collagen, the most abundant extracellular matrix protein in animal kingdom belongs to a family of fibrous proteins, which transfer load in tissues and which provide a highly biocompatible environment for cells...
The heart wall exhibits three layers of different thicknesses: the outer epicardium, mid-myocardium, and inner endocardium. Among these layers, the mid-myocardium is typically the thickest. As indicated by pre...
Authors: Nida Dusturia, Seong Wook Choi, Kwang Soup Song and Ki Moo Lim
The resources of ultrafast technology can be used to add another analysis to ultrasound imaging: assessment of tissue viscoelasticity. Ultrafast image formation can be utilized to find transitory shear waves p...
Authors: Rubem P. Carbente, Joaquim M. Maia and Amauri A. Assef
This work presents a comparison and selection of different machine learning classification techniques applied in the identification of objects using data collected by an instrumented glove during a grasp proce...
Authors: Daniel Nogueira, Paulo Abreu and Maria Teresa Restivo
The research and analysis of cellular physiological properties has been an essential approach to studying some biological and biomedical problems. Temporal dynamics of cells therein are used as a quantifiable ...
The axial motion of aortic root (AR) due to ventricular traction was previously suggested to contribute to ascending aorta (AA) dissection by increasing its longitudinal stress, but AR in-plane motion effects ...
Authors: Wei Wei, Morgane Evin, Stanislas Rapacchi, Frank Kober, Monique Bernard, Alexis Jacquier, Cyril J. F. Kahn and Michel Behr
Ultrasound (US) therapy may improve osteoarthritis symptoms. We investigated the effects of US on the synovial fluid (SF) proteome in a rabbit knee osteoarthritis (KOA) model to explore its therapeutic mechani...
Authors: Qinglu Luo, Shuangquan Ji, Zhimi Li, Tao Huang, Siqin Fan and Qin Xi
Non-contact tonometers based on the method using air puff and Scheimpflug’s fast camera are one of the latest devices allowing the measurement of intraocular pressure and additional biomechanical parameters of...
Authors: Magdalena Jędzierowska and Robert Koprowski
Cervical cancer is preventable if effective screening measures are in place. Pap-smear is the commonest technique used for early screening and diagnosis of cervical cancer. However, the manual analysis of the ...
Authors: Wasswa William, Andrew Ware, Annabella Habinka Basaza-Ejiri and Johnes Obungoloch
Serial electrocardiography aims to contribute to electrocardiogram (ECG) diagnosis by comparing the ECG under consideration with a previously made ECG in the same individual. Here, we present a novel algorithm...
Authors: Agnese Sbrollini, Marjolein C. De Jongh, C. Cato Ter Haar, Roderick W. Treskes, Sumche Man, Laura Burattini and Cees A. Swenne
While spontaneous robotic arm control using motor imagery has been reported, most previous successful cases have used invasive approaches with advantages in spatial resolution. However, still many researchers ...
Authors: Yoon Jae Kim, Hyung Seok Nam, Woo Hyung Lee, Han Gil Seo, Ja-Ho Leigh, Byung-Mo Oh, Moon Suk Bang and Sungwan Kim
My Diabetes My Way (MDMW) is the National Health Service (NHS) Scotland website for people with diabetes and their carers. It consists of an interactive information website and an electronic personal health re...
Authors: Scott Gordon Cunningham, Massimo Brillante, Brian Allardice, Nicholas Conway, Ritchie Robert McAlpine and Deborah Jane Wake
Arterial spin labeling (ASL) provides a noninvasive way to measure cerebral blood flow (CBF). The CBF estimation from ASL is heavily contaminated by noise and the partial volume (PV) effect. The multiple measu...
Authors: Yang Liu, Ze Wang, Ruihua Liang, Zhengrong Liang and Hongbing Lu
Docetaxel (DTX) is an anticancer drug that is currently formulated with polysorbate 80 and ethanol (50:50, v/v) in clinical use. Unfortunately, this formulation causes hypersensitivity reactions, leading to se...
Authors: Na Qu, Yating Sun, Yujing Li, Fei Hao, Pengyu Qiu, Lesheng Teng, Jing Xie and Yin Gao
Simulation of a left ventricle has become a critical facet of evaluating therapies and operations that interact with cardiac performance. The ability to simulate a wide range of possible conditions, changes in...
Authors: Jacob M. King, Clint A. Bergeron and Charles E. Taylor
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is the common cause of mortality in developed countries. The feasibility of whole-genome gene expression analysis to identify outcome-related genes and dysregulated pathways r...
Authors: Zhihua Liu, Chenguang Ma, Junhua Gu and Ming Yu
Quantizing the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) criteria into different categories with the single ultrasound modality has always been a challenge. To achieve this, we proposed a two-stage gr...
Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) is usually realized with a ring array. It can provide better imaging performance and more tissue information by emitting and receiving the ultrasound signal in different d...
Authors: Xinming Jiang, Yang Xiao, Yuanyuan Wang, Jinhua Yu and Hairong Zheng
Segmenting the hippocampal subfields accurately from brain magnetic resonance (MR) images is a challenging task in medical image analysis. Due to the small structural size and the morphological complexity of t...
Prolonged static sitting in wheelchairs increases the risk of pressure ulcers. This exploratory study proposed three dynamic sitting techniques in order to reduce the risk of developing pressure ulcer during w...
Authors: Chun-Ting Li, Yen-Nien Chen, Yen-Ting Tseng and Kuen-Horng Tsai
A direct blow to the knee is one way to injure the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), e.g., during a football or traffic accident. Robot-assisted therapy (RAT) rehabilitation, simulating regular walking, improv...
Authors: Juan C. Yepes, Mario A. Portela, Álvaro J. Saldarriaga, Vera Z. Pérez and Manuel J. Betancur
Lung segmentation constitutes a critical procedure for any clinical-decision supporting system aimed to improve the early diagnosis and treatment of lung diseases. Abnormal lungs mainly include lung parenchyma...
Authors: Mingjie Xu, Shouliang Qi, Yong Yue, Yueyang Teng, Lisheng Xu, Yudong Yao and Wei Qian
There exists a growing need for a cost-effective, reliable, and portable pulsation simulator that can generate a wide variety of pulses depending on age and cardiovascular disease. For constructing compact pul...
Authors: Tae-Heon Yang, Gwanghyun Jo, Jeong-Hoi Koo, Sam-Yong Woo, Jaeuk U. Kim and Young-Min Kim
Optical imaging is one of the most common, low-cost imaging tools used for investigating the tumor biological behavior in vivo. This study explores the feasibility and sensitivity of a near infrared fluorescen...
Authors: Kedi Zhou, Yichen Ding, Ivan Vuletic, Yonglu Tian, Jun Li, Jinghao Liu, Yixing Huang, Hongfang Sun, Changhui Li, Qiushi Ren and Yanye Lu
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is an emerging imaging technology that has been used to monitor brain injury and detect acute stroke. The time and frequency properties of electrode–skin contact impedance...
Authors: Lin Yang, Heng Li, Junjie Ding, Weichen Li, Xiuzhen Dong, Zhihong Wen and Xuetao Shi
Detection and quantification of cyclic alternating patterns (CAP) components has the potential to serve as a disease bio-marker. Few methods exist to discriminate all the different CAP components, they do not ...
Authors: Fátima Machado, Francisco Sales, Clara Santos, António Dourado and C. A. Teixeira
Phase-rectified signal averaging (PRSA) was often applied to assess the cardiac vagal modulation. Despite its broad use, this method suffers from the confounding effects of anomalous variants of sinus rhythm. ...
Authors: Hongyun Liu, Ping Zhan, Jinlong Shi, Guojing Wang, Buqing Wang and Weidong Wang
