IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jul 16, 2021
Individuals with tetraplegia have a challenging life due to a lack of independence and autonomy. Assistive robots have the potential to assist with the activities of daily living and thus improve the quality of life. However, an efficient and reliabl...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jul 16, 2021
OBJECTIVE: For the revascularization in small vessels such as coronary arteries, we present a guide-wired helical microrobot mimicking the corkscrew motion for mechanical atherectomy that enables autonomous therapeutics and minimizing the radiation e...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jul 16, 2021
Chronic diseases evolve slowly throughout a patient's lifetime creating heterogeneous progression patterns that make clinical outcomes remarkably varied across individual patients. A tool capable of identifying temporal phenotypes based on the patien...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jun 17, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. Glaucomatous progression can be easily monitored by analyzing the degeneration of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Many researchers have screened glaucoma by measuring cup-to-disc ...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
May 21, 2021
OBJECTIVE: When training machine learning models, we often assume that the training data and evaluation data are sampled from the same distribution. However, this assumption is violated when the model is evaluated on another unseen but similar databa...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
May 21, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Robotic endoscopes have the potential to dramatically improve endoscopy procedures, however current attempts remain limited due to mobility and sensing challenges and have yet to offer the full capabilities of traditional tools. Endoscopic...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
May 21, 2021
BACKGROUND: Despite recent significant progress in the development of automatic sleep staging methods, building a good model still remains a big challenge for sleep studies with a small cohort due to the data-variability and data-inefficiency issues....
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
May 21, 2021
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this work is to investigate the feasibility of using deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to improve the image quality of a grating-based X-ray differential phase contrast imaging (XPCI) system.
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Apr 22, 2021
Several studies have reported that stroke survivors displayed improved voluntary planar movements when forces supporting the upper limb increased, and when impeding forces decreased. Earlier haptic devices interacting with the human upper limb were p...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Apr 21, 2021
OBJECTIVE: This article presents the development and validation of a new robotic system for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), characterized by a new control approach, and an ad-hoc calibration methodology, specifically devised for the TMS appl...