Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Ultrasound imaging is a standard examination during pregnancy that can be used for measuring specific biometric parameters towards prenatal diagnosis and estimating gestational age. Fetal head circumference (HC) is one of the significant factors to d...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Recent breakthroughs in computer vision offer an exciting avenue to develop new remote, and non-intrusive patient monitoring techniques. A very challenging topic to address is the automated recognition of breathing disorders during sleep. Due to its ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Missing data is a frequent occurrence in medical and health datasets. The analysis of datasets with missing data can lead to loss in statistical power or biased results. We address this issue with a novel deep learning technique to impute missing val...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging noninvasive imaging modality combining the advantages of ultrasound imaging and optical imaging. Image reconstruction is an essential topic in photoacoustic imaging, which is unfortunately an ill-posed probl...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Stimulus proximity has been shown to have an influence on the classification performance of a steady-state visual evoked potential based brain-computer interface (SSVEP-BCI). Multiple visual stimuli placed close to each other compete for neural repre...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Neural systems are complicated networks connected by a large number of neurons through gap junctions and synapse. At present, for electron microscopy connectomics research, neuron structure recognition algorithms mostly focus on synapses, dendrites, ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Lung cancer is one of the most fatal cancers in the world. If the lung cancer can be diagnosed at an early stage, the survival rate of patients post treatment increases dramatically. Computed Tomography (CT) diagram is an effective tool to detect lun...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Low-dose CT imaging is a valid approach to reduce patients' exposure to X-ray radiation. However, reducing X-ray current increases noise and artifacts in the reconstructed CT images. Deep neural networks have been successfully employed to remove nois...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Known for its high morbidity and mortality rates, lung cancer poses a significant threat to human health and well-being. However, the same population is also at high risk for other deadly diseases, such as cardiovascular disease. Since Low-Dose CT (L...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Herein we present the development of a novel Ankle Foot Orthosis for gait support of people with foot-drop symptoms. The developed AFO uses an elastic link mechanism to brake the ankle joint during initial contact, thus mitigating foot-slap, and an i...