IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jan 20, 2022
OBJECTIVE: Stroke survivors are usually unable to perform activities of daily living (ADL) independently due to loss of hand functions. Soft pneumatic gloves provide a promising assistance approach for stroke survivors to conduct ADL tasks. However, ...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jan 20, 2022
OBJECTIVE: In aerobiological monitoring and agriculture there is a pressing need for accurate, label-free and automated analysis of pollen grains, in order to reduce the cost, workload and possible errors associated to traditional approaches.
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jan 20, 2022
OBJECTIVE: The morphology of the carpal arch implicates the available space for the median nerve within the carpal tunnel. The purposes of this study were to 1) reconstruct the three-dimensional (3D) carpal arch by robot-assisted ultrasonography with...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jan 20, 2022
OBJECTIVE: Noise and disturbances hinder effective interpretation of recorded ECG. To identify the clean parts of a recording, free from such disturbances, various quality indicators have been developed. Previous instances of these indicators focus o...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jan 20, 2022
OBJECTIVE: Current surgical robots face challenges to understand preoperative images like human surgeons, which hindering robots from making full use of preoperative information to operate stably and efficiently. We offer a method to estimate drillin...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Dec 23, 2021
Pain assessment in children continues to challenge clinicians and researchers, as subjective experiences of pain require inference through observable behaviors, both involuntary and deliberate. The presented approach supplements the subjective self-r...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Dec 23, 2021
In Robot Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery, discriminating critical subsurface structures is essential to make the surgical procedure safer and more efficient. In this paper, a novel robot assisted electrical bio-impedance scanning (RAEIS) system i...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Dec 23, 2021
In this article, assistance to bone cement injection is studied, with a focus on vertebroplasty, a procedure dedicated to the treatment of vertebral compression fractures. A robotic system that can remotely be operated at pressures up to 140 bar is p...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Nov 19, 2021
OBJECTIVE: The speed of sound (SoS) has great potential as a quantitative imaging biomarker since it is sensitive to pathological changes in tissues. In this paper, a target-aware deep neural (TAD) network reconstructing an SoS image quantitatively f...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Nov 19, 2021
OBJECTIVE: In a few patients with mild COVID-19, there is a possibility of the infection becoming severe or critical in the future. This work aims to identify high-risk patients who have a high probability of changing from mild to critical COVID-19 (...