Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Nov 1, 2021
Human Activity Recognition (HAR), using machine learning to identify times spent (for example) walking, sitting, and standing, is widely used in health and wellness wearable devices, in ambient assistant living devices, and in rehabilitation. In this...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Nov 1, 2021
With the increasing awareness of high-quality life, there is a growing need for health monitoring devices running robust algorithms in home environment. Health monitoring technologies enable real-time analysis of users' health status, offering long-t...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Nov 1, 2021
Proprioceptive deficits are common after a stroke and are thought to negatively impact motor learning. Despite this, there is a lack of practical robotic devices for assessing proprioception, as well as few robotic rehabilitation techniques that inte...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Nov 1, 2021
In this paper, using an adversarial variational encoder model, we propose a two-step data-driven approach to extract cross-subject feature representations from neural activity in order to decode subjects' behavior choices. First, various characterist...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Nov 1, 2021
As our ability to record neural activity from a larger number of brain areas increases, we need to develop tools to understand how this activity is related to ongoing behavior. Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been shown to perform successful cl...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Nov 1, 2021
Hand gesture recognition using high-density surface electromyography (HD-sEMG) has gained increasing attention recently due its advantages of high spatio-temporal resolution. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have also recently been implemented to ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Nov 1, 2021
This work takes a step towards a better biosignal based hand gesture recognition by investigating the strategies for a reliable prediction of hand joint angles. Those strategies are especially important for medical applications in order to achieve e....
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Nov 1, 2021
In this paper, a non-parametric model of the neuromusculoskeletal system for the biceps brachii is presented. The model serves to generate angular paths for the control of a virtual active orthosis. The path generator uses a differential neural netwo...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Nov 1, 2021
Robotic systems and Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) are common technologies exploited in motor rehabilitation. However, they present some limits. To overcome the weaknesses of both approaches, hybrid cooperative devices have been developed, w...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Nov 1, 2021
This paper proposes an interactive analysis and visualization tool for the accuracy improvement of electrode placement during neurostimulation therapy surgery. During the procedure, the presented system assists the surgeon in the crucial tissue type ...