IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Oct 19, 2023
Spinal fixation with rigid pedicle screws have shown to be an effective treatment for many patients. However, this surgical option has been proved to be insufficient and will eventually fail for patients experiencing osteoporosis. This failure is mai...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Sep 27, 2023
OBJECTIVE: Transseptal puncture (TP) is the technique used to access the left atrium of the heart from the right atrium during cardiac catheterization procedures. Through repetition, electrophysiologists and interventional cardiologists experienced i...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Sep 27, 2023
OBJECTIVE: An accurate and timely diagnosis of burn severity is critical to ensure a positive outcome. Laser Doppler imaging (LDI) has become a very useful tool for this task. It measures the perfusion of the burn and estimates its potential healing ...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Aug 30, 2023
Electromyography (EMG) pattern recognition is an important technology for prosthesis control and human-computer interaction etc. However, the practical application of EMG pattern recognition is hampered by poor accuracy and robustness due to electrod...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Aug 30, 2023
Comprehensive semantic segmentation on renal pathological images is challenging due to the heterogeneous scales of the objects. For example, on a whole slide image (WSI), the cross-sectional areas of glomeruli can be 64 times larger than that of the ...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Aug 30, 2023
Motion compensation in radiation therapy is a challenging scenario that requires estimating and forecasting motion of tissue structures to deliver the target dose. Ultrasound offers direct imaging of tissue in real-time and is considered for image gu...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Aug 30, 2023
OBJECTIVE: Breast cancer treatment often causes the removal of or damage to lymph nodes of the patient's lymphatic drainage system. This side effect is the origin of Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema (BCRL), referring to a noticeable increase in exces...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Aug 30, 2023
OBJECTIVE: The scarcity of high-quality annotated data is omnipresent in machine learning. Especially in biomedical segmentation applications, experts need to spend a lot of their time into annotating due to the complexity. Hence, methods to reduce s...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Aug 30, 2023
OBJECTIVE: In this paper, we focus on the carrying out and validation of minimally invasive three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound (US) imaging of the auditory system, which is based on a new miniaturized endoscopic 2D US transducer.