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IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering

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Human Joint Angle Estimation with Inertial Sensors and Validation with A Robot Arm.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Traditionally, human movement has been captured primarily by motion capture systems. These systems are costly, require fixed cameras in a controlled environment, and suffer from occlusion. Recently, the availability of low-cost wearable inertial sens...

Semisupervised ECG Ventricular Beat Classification With Novelty Detection Based on Switching Kalman Filters.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Automatic processing and accurate diagnosis of pathological electrocardiogram (ECG) signals remains a challenge. As long-term ECG recordings continue to increase in prevalence, driven partly by the ease of remote monitoring technology usage, the need...

Autonomous unobtrusive detection of mild cognitive impairment in older adults.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
The current diagnosis process of dementia is resulting in a high percentage of cases with delayed detection. To address this problem, in this paper, we explore the feasibility of autonomously detecting mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in the older adu...

Human experts' and a fuzzy model's predictions of outcomes of scoliosis treatment: a comparative analysis.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Brace treatment is the most commonly used nonsurgical treatment for adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis. However, brace treatment is not always successful and the factors influencing its success are not completely clear. This makes treatment outcom...

Sparse representation of electrodermal activity with knowledge-driven dictionaries.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Biometric sensors and portable devices are being increasingly embedded into our everyday life, creating the need for robust physiological models that efficiently represent, analyze, and interpret the acquired signals. We propose a knowledge-driven me...

A novel EOG/EEG hybrid human-machine interface adopting eye movements and ERPs: application to robot control.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
This study presents a novel human-machine interface (HMI) based on both electrooculography (EOG) and electroencephalography (EEG). This hybrid interface works in two modes: an EOG mode recognizes eye movements such as blinks, and an EEG mode detects ...

Computer-aided diagnosis of mammographic masses using scalable image retrieval.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Computer-aided diagnosis of masses in mammograms is important to the prevention of breast cancer. Many approaches tackle this problem through content-based image retrieval techniques. However, most of them fall short of scalability in the retrieval s...

A novel robotic platform for laser-assisted transurethral surgery of the prostate.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is the most common pathology afflicting ageing men. The gold standard for the surgical treatment of BPH is transurethral resection of the prostate. The laser-assisted transurethral surgical treatment of BPH is recen...

Four-class classification of skin lesions with task decomposition strategy.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
This paper proposes a new computer-aided method for the skin lesion classification applicable to both melanocytic skin lesions (MSLs) and nonmelanocytic skin lesions (NoMSLs). The computer-aided skin lesion classification has drawn attention as an ai...

Extrinsic finger and thumb muscles command a virtual hand to allow individual finger and grasp control.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Fine-wire intramuscular electrodes were used to obtain electromyogram (EMG) signals from six extrinsic hand muscles associated with the thumb, index, and middle fingers. Subjects' EMG activity was used to control a virtual three-degree-of-freedom (DO...