Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Neural systems are complicated networks connected by a large number of neurons through gap junctions and synapse. At present, for electron microscopy connectomics research, neuron structure recognition algorithms mostly focus on synapses, dendrites, ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Low-dose CT imaging is a valid approach to reduce patients' exposure to X-ray radiation. However, reducing X-ray current increases noise and artifacts in the reconstructed CT images. Deep neural networks have been successfully employed to remove nois...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
In this work, we present FREGEX a method for automatically extracting features from biomedical texts based on regular expressions. Using Smith-Waterman and Needleman-Wunsch sequence alignment algorithms, tokens were extracted from biomedical texts an...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Motor Imagery (MI) is a typical paradigm for Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) system. In this paper, we propose a new framework by introducing a tensor-based feature representation of the data and also utilizing a convolutional neural network (CNN) 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, 2019
Existing wheelchair control interfaces, such as sip & puff or screen based gaze-controlled cursors, are challenging for the severely disabled to navigate safely and independently as users continuously need to interact with an interface during navigat...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
This paper presents an accurate and robust tracking vision algorithm for Fetoscopic Laser Photo-coagulation (FLP) surgery for Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS). The aim of the proposed method is to assist surgeons during anastomosis localization,...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Ultrasound (US) imaging is one of the most cost-effective imaging modality that utilizes sound waves for generating medical images of anatomical structure. However, the presence of speckle noise and low contrast in the US images makes it difficult to...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Regular nutrient intake monitoring in hospitalised patients plays a critical role in reducing the risk of disease-related malnutrition (DRM). Although several methods to estimate nutrient intake have been developed, there is still a clear demand for ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Automatic classification of abnormal beats in ECG signals is crucial for monitoring cardiac conditions and the performance of the classification will improve the success rate of the treatment. However, under certain circumstances, traditional classif...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Respiratory ailments afflict a wide range of people and manifests itself through conditions like asthma and sleep apnea. Continuous monitoring of chronic respiratory ailments is seldom used outside the intensive care ward due to the large size and co...