IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Oct 19, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Many recent studies suggest that brain deformation resulting from head impacts are linked to the corresponding clinical outcome, such as mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Even if several finite element (FE) head models have been develope...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Oct 19, 2021
The integration of robotics into retinal microsurgery leads to a reduction in surgeon perception of tool-to-tissue interaction forces. This blunting of human tactile sensory input, which is due to the inflexible mass and large inertia of the robotic ...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Oct 19, 2021
OBJECTIVES: Big data analytics can potentially benefit the assessment and management of complex neurological conditions by extracting information that is difficult to identify manually. In this study, we evaluated the performance of commonly used sup...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Sep 20, 2021
Adding haptic feedback has been reported to improve the outcome of minimally invasive robotic surgery. In this study, we seek to determine whether an algorithm based on simulating responses of a cutaneous afferent population can be implemented to imp...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Sep 20, 2021
Systematically mapping the mechanical properties of skin and tissue is useful for biomechanics research and disease diagnostics. For example, later stage breast cancer and lymphoma manifest themselves as hard nodes under the skin. Currently, mechanic...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Sep 20, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of global death. Endovascular interventions, in combination with advanced imaging technologies, are promising approaches for minimally invasive diagnosis and therapy. More recently, teleope...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Sep 20, 2021
OBJECTIVE: This article shows the interest in deep learning techniques to detect motor imagery (MI) from raw electroencephalographic (EEG) signals when a functional electrical stimulation is added or not. Impacts of electrode montages and bandwidth a...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Sep 20, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Soft tissue deformation and ruptures complicate needle placement. However, ruptures at tissue interfaces also contain information which helps physicians to navigate through different layers. This navigation task can be challenging, wheneve...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Sep 20, 2021
OBJECTIVES: Evaluation of hypernasality requires extensive perceptual training by clinicians and extending this training on a large scale internationally is untenable; this compounds the health disparities that already exist among children with cleft...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Aug 19, 2021
OBJECTIVE: In this paper, we introduce an autonomous robotic ultrasound (US) imaging system based on reinforcement learning (RL). The proposed system and framework are committed to controlling the US probe to perform fully autonomous imaging of a sof...