OBJECTIVE: Prophylactic central lymph node dissection(CLND) is a controversial issue in papillary thyroid microcarcinoma( PTMC) patients without lymphatic metastasis. Artificial neural network(ANN) has been proposed as an alternative statistical tech...
Restorative neurology and neuroscience
Jan 1, 2018
BACKGROUND: Robotic rehabilitation is a highly promising approach to recover lost functions after stroke or other neurological disorders. Unfortunately, robotic rehabilitation currently suffers from "motor slacking", a phenomenon in which the human m...
Biomedical instrumentation & technology
Jan 1, 2018
The reliability of normal gel-based electrode electroencephalogram (EEG) for measuring pain has been validated. To date, however, few documented trials have used dry EEG for pain quantification. The primary goal of this study was to objectively quant...
Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
Jan 1, 2018
BACKGROUND: Many robots can induce passive movements and passive resistance movements to facilitate recovery of upper-extremity function, but it is rare to find robots that can also enable active resistance movements.
Critical reviews in biomedical engineering
Jan 1, 2018
Fever is one of the major clinical symptoms of undifferentiated fever cases. Early diagnosis of undifferentiated fever is a challenging task for the physician. The aim of this study was to classify infectious and noninfectious diseases from 24-hour c...
BACKGROUND: Stroke recovery studies have shown the efficacy of bimanual training on upper limb functional recovery and others have shown the efficacy of feedback technology that augments error.
Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
Jan 1, 2018
BACKGROUND: Prosthetists conventionally evaluate alignment based on visual interpretation of patients' gait, which is convenient, but largely subjective and depends on prosthetists' experience.
Journal of orthopaedic surgery (Hong Kong)
Jan 1, 2018
This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of using the upper limb single-joint Hybrid Assistive Limb (upper limb HAL-SJ) during elbow flexion training following elbow flexor reconstruction for brachial plexus injury (BPI). We present ...
Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
Jan 1, 2018
Hand gesture recognition is getting more and more important in the area of rehabilitation and human machine interface (HMI). However, most current approaches are difficult to achieve practical application because of an excess of sensors. In this work...
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