IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jul 18, 2023
OBJECTIVE: Hemorrhagic stroke is a leading threat to human's health. The fast-developing microwave-induced thermoacoustic tomography (MITAT) technique holds potential to do brain imaging. However, transcranial brain imaging based on MITAT is still ch...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jul 18, 2023
OBJECTIVE: Heart failure, respiratory failure and kidney failure are three severe organ failures (OF) that have high mortalities and are most prevalent in intensive care units. The objective of this work is to offer insights into OF clustering from t...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jun 19, 2023
OBJECTIVE: Over the past few years, deep learning (DL) has been used extensively in research for 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis. However, it is unclear whether the explicit or implicit claims made on DL superiority to the more classical fea...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jun 19, 2023
OBJECTIVE: Body machine interfaces (BoMIs) enable individuals with paralysis to achieve a greater measure of independence in daily activities by assisting the control of devices such as robotic manipulators. The first BoMIs relied on Principal Compon...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
May 19, 2023
OBJECTIVE: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated promise in automated cardiac magnetic resonance image segmentation. However, when using CNNs in a large real-world dataset, it is important to quantify segmentation uncertainty and ide...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
May 19, 2023
OBJECTIVE: In-vivo validation on animal setting of a pneumatically propelled robot for endovascular intervention, to determine safety and clinical advantage of robotic cannulations compared to manual operation.
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
May 19, 2023
OBJECTIVE: Although existing assist-as-needed (AAN) controllers have been designed to adapt the robotic assistance to patients' movement performance, they ignore patient's active participation. This study proposed a voluntary AAN (VAAN) controller co...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
May 19, 2023
Compliance control is crucial for physical human-robot interaction, which can enhance the safety and comfort of robot-assisted rehabilitation. In this study, we designed a spatiotemporal compliance control strategy for a new self-designed wearable lo...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
May 19, 2023
Automatic sleep stage classification is vital for evaluating the quality of sleep. Conventionally, sleep is monitored using multiple physiological sensors that are uncomfortable for long-term monitoring and require expert intervention. In this study,...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Apr 20, 2023
OBJECTIVE: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is diagnosed using the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), which is the average number of respiratory events per hour of sleep. Recently, machine learning algorithms for automatic AHI assessment have been developed, b...