IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Apr 21, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Three-dimensional (3D) blood vessel structure information is important for diagnosis and treatment in various clinical scenarios. We present a fully automatic method for the extraction and differentiation of the arterial and venous vessel ...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Mar 18, 2021
Evaluating progress throughout a patient's rehabilitation episode is critical for determining the effectiveness of the selected treatments and is an essential ingredient in personalised and evidence-based rehabilitation practice. The evaluation proce...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Mar 18, 2021
Patients after stroke may have different rehabilitation needs due to various levels of disability. To satisfy such needs, a performance-based hybrid control is proposed for a cable-driven upper-limb rehabilitation robot (CDULRR). The controller inclu...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Mar 18, 2021
OBJECTIVE: The utilization of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) in real-time tumor segmentation during a surgery have recently received much attention, but it remains a very challenging task.
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Mar 18, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Aortic valve disease is the most common heart disease in the elderly calling for replacement with an artificial valve. The presented surgical robot aims to provide a highly controllable instrument for efficient delivery of an artificial va...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Mar 18, 2021
OBJECTIVE: The application of bubble-based ablation with the focus ultrasound therapy histotripsy is gaining traction for the treatment of venous thrombosis, among other pathologies. For extensive clot burden, the histotripsy source must be translate...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Feb 18, 2021
UNLABELLED: Recent developments in the field of cellular therapeutics have indicated the potential of stem cell injections directly to the spinal cord. Injections require either open surgery or a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) guided injection. Nee...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Feb 18, 2021
Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgical (MIS) techniques offer improved instrument precision and dexterity, reduced patient trauma and risk, and promise to lessen the skill gap among surgeons. These approaches are common in general surgery, urolog...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Feb 18, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Medical electrical impedance tomography is a non-ionizing imaging modality in which low-amplitude, low-frequency currents are applied on electrodes on the body, the resulting voltages are measured, and an inverse problem is solved to deter...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jan 20, 2021
Probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE) is a promising imaging tool that provides in situ and in vivo optical imaging to perform real-time pathological assessments. However, due to limited field of view, it is difficult for clinicians to get...