Clinical Trials

Interactive Compliance Control of a Wrist Rehabilitation Device (WRD) with Enhanced Training Safety.

Interaction control plays an important role in rehabilitation devices to ensure training safety and efficacy. Compliance adaptation of interaction is vital for enabling robot movements to better suit the patient's requirements as human joint characteristics vary. This paper proposes an interactive compliance control scheme on a wrist rehabilitation device (WRD) for enhanced training safety and eff...

Pilot Testing a Robot for Reducing Pain in Hospitalized Preterm Infants.

Optimizing neurodevelopment is a key goal of neonatal occupational therapy. In preterm infants, repeated procedural pain is associated with adverse effects on neurodevelopment long term. Calmer is a robot designed to reduce infant pain. The objective of this study was to examine the effects of Calmer on heart rate variability (HRV) during routine blood collection in preterm infants. In a randomize...

A randomized controlled trial of suicide prevention training for primary care providers: a study protocol.

BACKGROUND: Suicide is a national public health crisis and a critical patient safety issue. It is the 10th leading cause of death overall and the seco...

Defining host-pathogen interactions employing an artificial intelligence workflow.

UNLABELLED: For image-based infection biology, accurate unbiased quantification of host-pathogen interactions is essential, yet often performed manual...

Electroconvulsive Therapy Induces Cortical Morphological Alterations in Major Depressive Disorder Revealed with Surface-Based Morphometry Analysis.

Although electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is one of the most effective treatments for major depressive disorder (MDD), the mechanism underlying the the...

Outcome-Weighted Learning for Personalized Medicine with Multiple Treatment Options.

To achieve personalized medicine, an individualized treatment strategy assigning treatment based on an individual's characteristics that leads to the ...

Re: Bernard H. Bochner, Guido Dalbagni, Karim H. Marzouk, et al. Randomized Trial Comparing Open Radical Cystectomy and Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Radical Cystectomy: Oncologic Outcomes. Eur Urol 2018;74:465-71: Can the Pattern of Cancer Recurrence Truly be Assigned to the Surgical Modality?

Reply to Siebren Dijkstra and Carl J. Wijburg's Letter to the Editor re: Bernard H. Bochner, Guido Dalbagni, Karim H. Marzouk, et al. Randomized Trial Comparing Open Radical Cystectomy and Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Radical Cystectomy: Oncologic Outcomes. Eur Urol 2018;74:465-71. Can the Pattern of Cancer Recurrence Truly be Assigned to the Surgical Modality?

Comparison of peak oxygen consumption response to aquatic and robotic therapy in individuals with chronic motor incomplete spinal cord injury: a randomized controlled trial.

STUDY DESIGN: Randomized dual center controlled clinical trial.

Expressway crash risk prediction using back propagation neural network: A brief investigation on safety resilience.

This study presents the work in predicting crash risk on expressways with consideration of both the impact of safety critical events and traffic condi...

Leveraging Machine Learning Approaches for Predicting Antidepressant Treatment Response Using Electroencephalography (EEG) and Clinical Data.

Individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) vary in their response to antidepressants. However, identifying objective biomarkers, prior to or ea...

Real-time crash prediction models: State-of-the-art, design pathways and ubiquitous requirements.

Proactive traffic safety management systems can monitor traffic conditions in real-time, identify the formation of unsafe traffic dynamics, and implem...

The Addition of Viriditec Aqueous Ozone to Peracetic Acid as an Antimicrobial Spray Increases Air Quality While Maintaining Typhimurium, Non-pathogenic , and Reduction on Whole Carcasses.

Currently, the most utilized antimicrobial in processing facilities is peracetic acid, PAA; however, this chemical is increasingly recognized as a haz...

Effects of robot-assisted gait training in patients with Parkinson's disease: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted gait training (RAGT) was developed to restore gait function by promoting neuroplasticity through repetitive locomotor train...

Design and Implementation of a Bespoke Robotic Manipulator for Extra-corporeal Ultrasound.

With the potential for high precision, dexterity, and repeatability, a self-tracked robotic system can be employed to assist the acquisition of real-t...

Robot-assisted laparoscopic vs laparoscopic donor nephrectomy in renal transplantation: A meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND: Currently, the robot-assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (RDN) technique is used for live donor nephrectomy. Does it provide sufficien...

Efficacy and safety of CT-guided high-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy in primary and secondary malignancies of the pancreas.

PURPOSE: To evaluate efficacy and safety of CT-guided iBT in patients with primary and secondary malignancies of the pancreas.

Review of water quality criteria for water reuse and risk-based implications for irrigated produce under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, produce safety rule.

Questions related to the safety of alternative water sources, such as recycled water or reclaimed water (including grey water, produced water, return ...

Rapid and specific detection of Salmonella infections using chemically modified nucleic acid probes.

Salmonella is a leading source of bacterial foodborne illness in humans, causing gastroenteritis outbreaks with bacteraemia occurrences that can lead ...

Randomized Controlled Pilot Study of Antiretrovirals and a Behavioral Intervention for Persons With Acute HIV Infection: Opportunity for Interrupting Transmission.

BACKGROUND: Persons with acute HIV infection (AHI) have heightened transmission risk. We evaluated potential transmission reduction using behavioral a...