Medical Education

The Society of European Robotic Gynaecological Surgery (SERGS) Pilot Curriculum for robot-assisted gynaecological surgery: authors' reply to a letter to the editor.

Pilot study of Society of European Robotic Gynecological Surgery (SERGS) curriculum for robot-assisted surgery.

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Radiology: A Survey at a Single Radiology Residency Training Program.

PURPOSE: Advances in artificial intelligence applied to diagnostic radiology are predicted to have a major impact on this medical specialty. With the ...

Modelling multi-rotor UAVs swarm deployment using virtual pheromones.

In this work, a swarm behaviour for multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) deployment will be presented. The main contribution of this behaviour ...

Midwifery students' understanding and knowledge of normal birth before 'delivery' of curriculum.

OBJECTIVE: To generate new knowledge that describes and explains the views and understanding, regarding midwifery and normal birth, that newly enrolle...

Neural Network Based Prediction of Conformational Free Energies - A New Route toward Coarse-Grained Simulation Models.

Coarse-grained (CG) simulation models have become very popular tools to study complex molecular systems with great computational efficiency on length ...

Educational effects using a robot patient simulation system for development of clinical attitude.

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of improving the attitude of dental students towards the use of a full-body patien...

Chaotic genetic algorithm and Adaboost ensemble metamodeling approach for optimum resource planning in emergency departments.

Long length of stay and overcrowding in emergency departments (EDs) are two common problems in the healthcare industry. To decrease the average length...

Method of Improved Fuzzy Contrast Combined Adaptive Threshold in NSCT for Medical Image Enhancement.

Noises and artifacts are introduced to medical images due to acquisition techniques and systems. This interference leads to low contrast and distortio...

Development of an expert system for the simulation model for casting metal substructure of a metal-ceramic crown design.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Nowadays, the integrated CAD/CAE systems are favored solutions for the design of simulation models for casting metal substr...

Abstraction, Sensory-Motor Coordination, and the Reality Gap in Evolutionary Robotics.

One of the major challenges of evolutionary robotics is to transfer robot controllers evolved in simulation to robots in the real world. In this artic...

Hybrid neuro-heuristic methodology for simulation and control of dynamic systems over time interval.

Simulation and positioning are very important aspects of computer aided engineering. To process these two, we can apply traditional methods or intelli...

Neuronify: An Educational Simulator for Neural Circuits.

Educational software (apps) can improve science education by providing an interactive way of learning about complicated topics that are hard to explai...

Active Self-Paced Learning for Cost-Effective and Progressive Face Identification.

This paper aims to develop a novel cost-effective framework for face identification, which progressively maintains a batch of classifiers with the inc...

System Integration and In Vivo Testing of a Robot for Ultrasound Guidance and Monitoring During Radiotherapy.

We are developing a cooperatively controlled robot system for image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) in which a clinician and robot share control of a ...

Correlated EEG Signals Simulation Based on Artificial Neural Networks.

In recent years, simulation of the human electroencephalogram (EEG) data found its important role in medical domain and neuropsychology. In this paper...

Optimizing NEURON Simulation Environment Using Remote Memory Access with Recursive Doubling on Distributed Memory Systems.

Increase in complexity of neuronal network models escalated the efforts to make NEURON simulation environment efficient. The computational neuroscient...

SpikingLab: modelling agents controlled by Spiking Neural Networks in Netlogo.

The scientific interest attracted by Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) has lead to the development of tools for the simulation and study of neuronal dynam...

Calibrating random forests for probability estimation.

Probabilities can be consistently estimated using random forests. It is, however, unclear how random forests should be updated to make predictions for...

A Heuristic Force Model for Haptic Simulation of Nasogastric Tube Insertion Using Fuzzy Logic.

Nasogastric tube (NGT) placement is an essential clinical skill. The training is conventionally performed on rubber mannequins albeit practical limita...