Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2022
Natural control of assistive devices requires continuous positional encoding and decoding of the user's volition. Human movement is encoded by recruitment and rate coding of spinal motor units. Surface electromyography provides some information on th...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2022
Trimanual operation using a robotic supernumerary limb is a new and challenging mechanism for human operators that could enable a single user to perform tasks requiring more than two hands. Foot-controlled interfaces have previously proven able to be...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2022
Running gait assessment is critical in performance optimization and injury prevention. Traditional approaches to running gait assessment are inhibited by unnatural running environments (e.g., indoor lab), varied assessor (i.e., subjective experience)...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2022
Automatic lesion segmentation in mammography images assists in the diagnosis of breast cancer, which is the most common type of cancer especially among women. The robust segmentation of mammography images has been considered a backbreaking task due 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, 2022
Good quality (annotated) data is one of the most important aspects of supervised deep learning. Tasks such as semantic segmentation have a huge data requirement in exchange for only satisfactory performance. Large-scale annotations spread across mult...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2022
The APOE-ε4 allele is a known genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Thus, it can be reasoned that the APOE-ε4 allele would also impact neurodegeneration-associated structural brain changes. Here we probe if the APOE-ε4 genotype directly modulate...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2022
Precise segmentation of organs at risk (OARs) in computed tomography (CT) images is an essential step for lung cancer radiotherapy. However, the manual delineation of OARs is time-consuming and subject to inter-observer variation. Although U-like arc...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2022
A computed tomography (CT)-guided robotic assistance system is useful for needle insertion into metastatic carcinoma of vertebrae, which has limited pathways. However, the use of conventional needles in this procedure can result in bone fracture in 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, 2022
Automated Electrocardiogram (ECG) classification using deep neural networks requires large datasets annotated by medical professionals, which is time-consuming and expensive. This work examines ECG augmentation as a method for enriching existing data...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2022
This paper evaluates a range of deep learning frameworks for detecting respiratory anomalies from input audio. Audio recordings of respiratory cycles collected from patients are transformed into time-frequency spectrograms to serve as front-end two-d...