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Jul 1, 2018
Colorectal cancer is one of the highest causes of cancer-related death, especially in men. Polyps are one of the main causes of colorectal cancer, and early diagnosis of polyps by colonoscopy could result in successful treatment. Diagnosis of polyps ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Colorectal cancer is one of the common cancers in the United States. Polyps are one of the major causes of colonic cancer, and early detection of polyps will increase the chance of cancer treatments. In this paper, we propose a novel classification o...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Automated segmentation of the spleen in CT volumes is difficult due to variations in size, shape, and position of the spleen within the abdominal cavity as well as similarity of intensity values among organs in the abdominal cavity. In this paper we ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
An early diagnosis of prostate cancer (PC) is key for the successful treatment. Although invasive prostate biopsies can provide a definitive diagnosis, the number of biopsies should be reduced to avoid side effects and risks especially for the men wi...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Motor fluctuations between "OFF" state (with no benefit from medication) and " ON" state (with optimum benefit from medication) are a major focus of clinical managements in individuals with mid-stage and advance Parkinson's disease (PD). In this work...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Identification of the treatment-related responders for adolescent Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is urgently needed to develop effective treatments. In this paper, machine learning based classifiers are used to reveal anatomical features as responde...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
In recent years machine learning methods for human activity recognition have been found very effective. These classify discriminative features generated from raw input sequences acquired from body-worn inertial sensors. However, it involves an explic...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Escherichia coli detects and follows chemical gradients in its environment in a process known as chemotaxis. The performance of chemotaxis approaches fundamental biosensor speed and sensitivity limits, but there have been relatively few attempts to i...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Despite all the work in the Brain Computer Interface (BCI) community, one of the main issues that prevents it from becoming pervasive is the limitation on the number of commands with a satisfactory accuracy of detection. In this paper, we propose a s...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Electromyographic activities (EMG) generated during contraction of upper limb muscles can be mapped to distinct hand gestures and movements, posing them as a promising modality for prosthetic and cybernetic applications. This paper presents a compara...