Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2018
Near-infrared optical tomography (NIROT) has great promise for many clinical problems. Here we focus on the study of brain function. During NIROT image reconstruction of brain activity, an inverse problem has to be solved that is sensitive to small s...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2018
Medicine will experience many changes in the coming years because the so-called "medicine of the future" will be increasingly proactive, featuring four basic elements: predictive, personalized, preventive, and participatory. Drivers for these changes...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2018
Motor impairments after stroke are often persistent and disabling, and women are less likely to recover and show poorer functional outcomes. To regain motor function after stroke, rehabilitation robots are increasingly integrated into clinics. The de...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2018
This study deals with the use of a robot-assisted body-weight-supported treadmill training in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients with gait dysfunction. Twenty MS patients (10 men and 10 women) of the mean of 46.3 ± 8.5 years were assigned to a six-week...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2017
Traditional diagnoses on addiction reply on the patients' self-reports, which are easy to be dampened by false memory or malingering. Machine learning (ML) is a data-driven procedure that learns algorithms from training data and makes predictions. It...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2017
Emotion recognition plays an important role in several applications, such as human computer interaction and understanding affective state of users in certain tasks, e.g., within a learning process, monitoring of elderly, interactive entertainment etc...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2017
Today, the advanced technology is a part of the everyday's life. As a result, most of the applications used require a more complex system in order to achieve a better performance. These systems have a mathematic background indicating the need of a be...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2017
Motor impairments are very common in multiple sclerosis (MS), leading to a reduced Quality of Life and active participation. In the past decades, new insights into the functional reorganization processes that occur after a brain injury have been intr...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2016
Movement facilitation has a fundamental role in the rehabilitation treatment of stroke survivors. However, its action mechanisms are still poorly understood. An open question is to identify the effect of the level of assistance on the recovery proces...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2016
Here we propose a model of a peripheral axon with a great deal of autonomy from its cell body-the autonomous axon-but with a substantial dependence on its ensheathing Schwann cell (SC), the axon-SC unit. We review evidence in several fields and show ...