Infection control / Modes of transmission

Technical note: A PET/MR coil with an integrated, orbiting 511 keV transmission source for PET/MR imaging validated in an animal study.

BACKGROUND: MR-based methods for attenuation correction (AC) in PET/MRI either neglect attenuation of bone, or use MR-signal derived information about bone, which leads to a bias in quantification of tracer uptake in PET. In a previous study, we presented a PET/MRI specific MR coil with an integrated transmission source (TX) system allowing for direct measurement of attenuation. In phantom measure...

Visual servoing of continuum robots: Methods, challenges, and prospects.

BACKGROUND: Recent advancements in continuum robotics have accentuated developing efficient and stable controllers to handle shape deformation and compliance. The control of continuum robots (CRs) using physical sensors attached to the robot, particularly in confined spaces, is difficult due to their limited accuracy in three-dimensional deflections and challenging localisation. Therefore, using n...

Effects of Integrated Fuzzy Logic PID Controller on Satellite Antenna Tracking System.

An electrical device that transforms the electricity into the waves of radio and vice versa is termed the antenna. Its main deployment is in the trans...

Design and Implementation of a UAV-Based Airborne Computing Platform for Computer Vision and Machine Learning Applications.

Visual sensing of the environment is crucial for flying an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and is a centerpiece of many related applications. The abilit...

A hybrid Neural Network-SEIR model for forecasting intensive care occupancy in Switzerland during COVID-19 epidemics.

Anticipating intensive care unit (ICU) occupancy is critical in supporting decision makers to impose (or relax) measures that mitigate COVID-19 transm...

Designing a Contact Fingertip Sensor Made Using a Soft 3D Printing Technique.

The development of highly compliant materials and actuators has enabled the design of soft robots that can be applied in rescue operations, in secure ...

Composite-Learning-Based Adaptive Neural Control for Dual-Arm Robots With Relative Motion.

This article presents an adaptive control method for dual-arm robot systems to perform bimanual tasks under modeling uncertainties. Different from the...

GLOW: A Workflow Integrating Gaussian-Accelerated Molecular Dynamics and Deep Learning for Free Energy Profiling.

We introduce a Gaussian-accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD), deep learning (DL), and free energy profiling workflow (GLOW) to predict molecular dete...

Guiding the design of superresolution tactile skins with taxel value isolines theory.

Tactile feedback is essential to make robots more agile and effective in unstructured environments. However, high-resolution tactile skins are not wid...

Vegetable Size Measurement Based on Stereo Camera and Keypoints Detection.

This work focuses on the problem of non-contact measurement for vegetables in agricultural automation. The application of computer vision in assisted ...

Multifunctional Electronic Skins Enable Robots to Safely and Dexterously Interact with Human.

Human-robot collaboration is playing more and more important roles in current deployments of robotic systems in our lives. Haptic perception and intel...

Artificial intelligence in positioning between mandibular third molar and inferior alveolar nerve on panoramic radiography.

Determining the exact positional relationship between mandibular third molar (M3) and inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) is important for surgical extracti...

Analyzing the Effect of Vaccination Over COVID Cases and Deaths in Asian Countries Using Machine Learning Models.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading across the world, and vaccinations are running parallel. Coronavirus has mutated into a triple-mutate...

Development of a Robot Arm Link System Embedded with a Three-Axis Sensor with a Simple Structure Capable of Excellent External Collision Detection.

In order to effectively detect the contact state between the operator and the collaborative robot, a sensor with excellent external force detection pe...

The Problem of Observing Sociotechnical Entities in Social Science and Humanities Energy Transition Research.

The notion of "sociotechnical" is an important concept for interdisciplinary research on the transformation of the energy supply. Different branches o...

An insect-scale robot reveals the effects of different body dynamics regimes during open-loop running in feature-laden terrain.

The transition from the lab to natural environments is an archetypal challenge in robotics. While larger robots can manage complex limb-ground interac...

A Gesture Recognition Method with a Charge Induction Array of Nine Electrodes.

In order to develop a non-contact and simple gesture recognition technology, a recognition method with a charge induction array of nine electrodes is ...

Feature Identification With a Heuristic Algorithm and an Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithm for Prior Knowledge of Gait Events.

The purpose of this study was to compare a heuristic feature identification algorithm with output from the Beta Process Auto Regressive Hidden Markov ...

Video-Based Automatic Baby Motion Analysis for Early Neurological Disorder Diagnosis: State of the Art and Future Directions.

Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) are impairments of the growth and development of the brain and/or central nervous system. In the light of clinical ...

A Survey on Mathematical, Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models for COVID-19 Transmission and Diagnosis.

COVID-19 is a life threatening disease which has a enormous global impact. As the cause of the disease is a novel coronavirus whose gene information i...