Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2023
Leg length measurement is relevant for the early diagnostic and treatment of discrepancies as they are related with orthopedic and biomechanical changes. Simple radiology constitutes the gold standard on which radiologists perform manual lower limb m...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2023
Supernumerary robot limbs (SL) can expand the ability of users by increasing the number of degrees of freedom that they control. While several SLs have been designed and tested on human participants, the effect of the limb's appearance on the user'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, 2023
The increasing use of smart technical devices in our everyday lives has necessitated the use of muscle-machine interfaces (MuMI) that are intuitive and that can facilitate immersive interactions with these devices. The most common method to develop M...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2023
This paper proposes a multitask deformable residual neural network, for full spatial muscle fiber orientation (MFO) estimation from ultrasound (US) images. It is developed based on the state-of-the-art model of residual UNet (ResUNet), which combines...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2023
Counting the number of times a patient coughs per day is an essential biomarker in determining treatment efficacy for novel antitussive therapies and personalizing patient care. Automatic cough counting tools must provide accurate information, while ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2023
The success rate of bovine in vitro embryo reproduction is low and highly dependent on the oocyte quality. The selection of the oocyte to be fertilized is done by the embryologists' visual examination of oocytes. It is time-consuming, subjective, and...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2023
Assessment of patient eligibility is an essential process in the clinical trial but there are a lot of manual processes involved. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a promising technique to automate analysing of the massive volume of Electronic Med...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2023
Drug-target affinity (DTA) prediction is crucial to speed up drug development. The advance in deep learning allows accurate DTA prediction. However, most deep learning methods treat protein as a 1D string which is not informative to models compared t...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2023
This paper presents a study on the use of impedance-based control of a 6-degree-of-freedom robot for upper-limb rehabilitation of patients with neuromotor deficits. The control strategy is based on impedance and does not require external force sensor...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2023
Brain development is characterized by changes in connections and information processing complexity. These changes inspire the training process of artificial neural network (ANN), which requires adjusting the neuron weights and biases to enhance effic...