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Motor Imagery-Based Brain-Computer Interface Coupled to a Robotic Hand Orthosis Aimed for Neurorehabilitation of Stroke Patients.

Motor imagery-based brain-computer interfaces (BCI) have shown potential for the rehabilitation of stroke patients; however, low performance has restricted their application in clinical environments. Therefore, this work presents the implementation of a BCI system, coupled to a robotic hand orthosis and driven by hand motor imagery of healthy subjects and the paralysed hand of stroke patients. A n...

A Review of Robotics in Neurorehabilitation: Towards an Automated Process for Upper Limb.

Robot-mediated neurorehabilitation is a growing field that seeks to incorporate advances in robotics combined with neuroscience and rehabilitation to define new methods for treating problems related with neurological diseases. In this paper, a systematic literature review is conducted to identify the contribution of robotics for upper limb neurorehabilitation, highlighting its relation with the re...

Market penetration of intersection AEB: Characterizing avoided and residual straight crossing path accidents.

Car occupants account for one third of all junction fatalities in the European Union. Driver warning can reduce intersection accidents by up to 50 per...

Use of 2D U-Net Convolutional Neural Networks for Automated Cartilage and Meniscus Segmentation of Knee MR Imaging Data to Determine Relaxometry and Morphometry.

Purpose To analyze how automatic segmentation translates in accuracy and precision to morphology and relaxometry compared with manual segmentation and...

Resting-state functional connectivity predicts the ability to adapt arm reaching in a robot-mediated force field.

Motor deficits are common outcomes of neurological conditions such as stroke. In order to design personalised motor rehabilitation programmes such as ...

A review in gait rehabilitation devices and applied control techniques.

PURPOSE: The aim of this review is to analyse the different existing technologies for gait rehabilitation, focusing mainly in robotic devices. Those r...

Robotically-driven orthoses exert proximal-to-distal differential recovery on the lower limbs in children with hemiplegia, early after acquired brain injury.

Robotically-driven orthoses (RDO) are promising for treating gait impairment in children with hemiplegia after acquired brain injury (ABI). Despite th...

Towards Optimal Platform-Based Robot Design for Ankle Rehabilitation: The State of the Art and Future Prospects.

This review aims to compare existing robot-assisted ankle rehabilitation techniques in terms of robot design. Included studies mainly consist of selec...

Development of a New Robotic Ankle Rehabilitation Platform for Hemiplegic Patients after Stroke.

A large amount of hemiplegic survivors are suffering from motor impairment. Ankle rehabilitation exercises act an important role in recovering patient...

A new scheme for strain typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on the basis of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry by using machine learning approach.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), one of the most important clinical pathogens, conducts an increasing number of morbidity and morta...

Social Robotics in Therapy of Apraxia of Speech.

Apraxia of speech is a motor speech disorder in which messages from the brain to the mouth are disrupted, resulting in an inability for moving lips or...

A Poincare map based analysis of stroke patients' walking after a rehabilitation by a robot.

Since the past decade, rehabilitation robots have become common technologies for recovering gait ability after a stroke. Nevertheless, it is believed ...

Virtual Sensors for Advanced Controllers in Rehabilitation Robotics.

In order to properly control rehabilitation robotic devices, the measurement of interaction force and motion between patient and robot is an essential...

Predictors of activities of daily living outcomes after upper limb robot-assisted therapy in subacute stroke patients.

BACKGROUND: Upper limb recovery is one of the main goals of post-stroke rehabilitation due to its importance for autonomy in Activities of Daily Livin...

Human arm joints reconstruction algorithm in rehabilitation therapies assisted by end-effector robotic devices.

BACKGROUND: End-effector robots are commonly used in robot-assisted neuro-rehabilitation therapies for upper limbs where the patient's hand can be eas...

Motor and psychosocial impact of robot-assisted gait training in a real-world rehabilitation setting: A pilot study.

In the last decade robotic devices have been applied in rehabilitation to overcome walking disability in neurologic diseases with promising results. R...

fNIRS-based Neurorobotic Interface for gait rehabilitation.

BACKGROUND: In this paper, a novel functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)-based brain-computer interface (BCI) framework for control of prosthe...

Identifying neuropsychiatric disorders using unsupervised clustering methods: Data and code.

This article provides data for five different neuropsychiatric disorders-Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Alzheimer's Disease, Autism Spectru...

Kinematic measures for upper limb robot-assisted therapy following stroke and correlations with clinical outcome measures: A review.

AIM OF THE STUDY: This review classifies the kinematic measures used to evaluate post-stroke motor impairment following upper limb robot-assisted reha...

Comparison of proximal versus distal upper-limb robotic rehabilitation on motor performance after stroke: a cluster controlled trial.

This study examined the treatment efficacy of proximal-emphasized robotic rehabilitation by using the InMotion ARM (P-IMT) versus distal-emphasized ro...