Devices and Vaccines

Robotic Renal Autotransplantation: First Case Outside of North America.

A 38-year-old woman with a 2.7-cm left ureteral stenosis requiring chronic ureteral stent exchange e...

Assessment of upper limb spasticity in stroke patients using the robotic device REAplan.

OBJECTIVE:  To assess the capacity of the robotic device REAplan to measure overall upper limb peak ...

Ensemble of convolutional neural networks for classification of breast microcalcification from mammograms.

Human level recall performance in detecting breast cancer considering microcalcifications from mammo...

Applying a soft-robotic glove as assistive device and training tool with games to support hand function after stroke: Preliminary results on feasibility and potential clinical impact.

Recent technological developments regarding wearable soft-robotic devices extend beyond the current ...

Simulation-based design for robotic care device: Optimizing trajectory of transfer support robot.

This paper presents a framework of simulation-based design for robotic care devices developed to red...

Let's do this together: Bi-Manu-Interact, a novel device for studying human haptic interactive behavior.

Our area of interest is robotic-based rehabilitation after stroke, and our goal is to help patients ...

MIT-Skywalker: Evaluating comfort of bicycle/saddle seat.

The MIT-Skywalker is a robotic device developed for the rehabilitation of gait and balance after a n...

A novel pneumatic stimulator for the investigation of noise-enhanced proprioception.

Executing coordinated movements requires that motor and sensory systems cooperate to achieve a motor...

Feature selection using a one dimensional naïve Bayes' classifier increases the accuracy of support vector machine classification of CDR3 repertoires.

MOTIVATION: Somatic DNA recombination, the hallmark of vertebrate adaptive immunity, has the potenti...

SUBACUTE ARTERIAL BLEEDING AFTER SIMULTANEOUS MASTOPEXY AND BREAST AUGMENTATION WITH IMPLANTS: CASE REPORT.

Breast augmentation with implants is one of the most commonly performed plastic surgery procedures. ...

Further Development of a Robotic-Assisted Transfer Device.

The task of performing transfers, such as from a wheelchair to a bed, has a high risk of injury to ...

General Symptom Extraction from VA Electronic Medical Notes.

There is need for cataloging signs and symptoms, but not all are documented in structured data. The ...

[Development, identification and application of 33 monoclonal antibodies against cardiac troponin T].

The aim of this study is to prepare and characterize cardiac troponin T (cTnT) monoclonal antibodies...

Robot-assisted microsurgical forceps with haptic feedback for transoral laser microsurgery.

In this paper, a novel, motorized, multi-degrees-of-freedom (DoF), microsurgical forceps tool is pre...

Unsupervised selection of RV144 HIV vaccine-induced antibody features correlated to natural killer cell-mediated cytotoxic reactions.

HIV-1 vaccine injection has been shown less effective due to the diversity of antigens. Increasing t...

A device for controlled jet injection of large volumes of liquid.

We present a needle-free jet injection device controllably actuated by a voice coil and capable of i...

Assistive Device for Efficient Intravitreal Injections.

Intravitreal therapy is the most common treatment for many chronic ophthalmic diseases, such as age-...

[Endo-exo prostheses : Osseointegrated percutaneously channeled implants for rehabilitation after limb amputation].

BACKGROUND: In 1999 the first endo-exo femoral prosthesis (EEFP) was implanted in Germany in a patie...

Morbidity and Mortality Associated With Robotic Head and Neck Surgery: An Inquiry of the Food and Drug Administration Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience Database.

Immune Response And Anamnestic Immune Response In Children After A 3-Dose Primary Hepatitis B Vaccination.

BACKGROUND: Diseases caused by Hepatitis B virus (HBV) have a worldwide distribution. Pakistan adopt...

Osteoinductive Activity of DFDBA Materials versus Growth Factors on Gene Expression of MG-63 Cells: An In Vitro Study.

Guided bone regeneration using demineralized freeze-dried bone allograft (DFDBA) and growth factors ...