IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Nov 21, 2024
OBJECTIVE: Computed Tomography (CT) quantification is affected by the variability in image acquisition and rendition. This paper aimed to reduce this variability by harmonizing the images utilizing physics-based deep neural networks (DNNs).
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Nov 21, 2024
A major challenge in image-guided laparoscopic surgery is that structures of interest often deform and go, even if only momentarily, out of view. Methods which rely on having an up-to-date impression of those structures, such as registration or local...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Nov 21, 2024
OBJECTIVE: Recent years have seen an increase in machine learning (ML)-based blood glucose (BG) forecasting models, with a growing emphasis on potential application to hybrid or closed-loop predictive glucose controllers. However, current approaches ...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Nov 21, 2024
OBJECTIVE: Brain dynamic effective connectivity (dEC), characterizes the information transmission patterns between brain regions that change over time, which provides insight into the biological mechanism underlying brain development. However, most e...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Nov 21, 2024
The severity of mobility deficits is one of the most critical parameters in the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) and rehabilitation. The current approach for severity evaluation is clinical scaling that relies on a clinician's subjective observa...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Oct 25, 2024
OBJECTIVE: Paraspinal muscle segmentation and reconstruction from MR images are critical to implement quantitative assessment of chronic and recurrent low back pains. Due to unclear muscle boundaries and shape variations, current segmentation methods...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Oct 25, 2024
OBJECTIVE: Loss of resistance (LOR) is a widely accepted method for performing epidural punctures in clinical settings. However, the risk of failure associated with LOR is still high. Solutions based either on Fiber Bragg grating sensors (FBG) or on ...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Oct 25, 2024
OBJECTIVE: To remove signal contamination in electroencephalogram (EEG) traces coming from ocular, motion, and muscular artifacts which degrade signal quality. To do this in real-time, with low computational overhead, on a mobile platform in a channe...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Sep 19, 2024
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) has gained remarkable prominence in biomedical community. While BCI holds vast potential across diverse domains, the implantation of neural electrodes poses multifaceted challenges to fully explore the power of BCI. Con...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Sep 19, 2024
OBJECTIVE: This study addresses challenges in surgical education, particularly in neuroendoscopy, where the demand for optimized workflow conflicts with the need for trainees' active participation in surgeries. To overcome these challenges, we propos...