Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Early detection and discrimination of cardiac arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation (AF) in particular, is essential for timely intervention to improve patient outcomes. In this work, an algorithm was developed to classify ECG records as normal, AF, other ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Segmentation of retinal anatomical features such as optic nerve head (ONH) and optic cup, the brightest area in the center of ONH which is devoid of neural elements, is a prerequisite for computer-aided diagnosis and follow-up of glaucoma. The ONH se...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Convolutional neural networks have been widely used for identifying diabetic retinopathy on color fundus images. For such application, we proposed a novel framework for the convolutional neural network architecture by embedding a preprocessing layer ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Delineation of lung tumor from adjacent tissue from a series of magnetic resonance images (MRI) poses many difficulties due to the image similarities of the region of interest and surrounding area as well as the influence of respiration. However, acc...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
The capacity to identify the contamination in surface electromyography (sEMG) signals is necessary for applying the sEMG controlled prosthesis over time. In this paper, the method for the automatic identification of commonly occurring contaminant typ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Motion classification based on pattern recognition of surface EMG (sEMG) signals is a promising approach for prosthetic control. We present a pattern recognition model that combines long short-term memory (LSTM) network with multiplayer perceptron (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, 2018
Heart rate variability (HRV) analysis is widely used to assess the sympathetic and parasympathetic tones. However, the quality of the derived HRV features is heavily dependent on the accuracy of QRS detection. Noisy electrocardiography (ECG) signals,...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Pan-cancer analysis is a significant research topic in the past few years. Due to many advancing sequencing technologies, researchers possess more resources and knowledge to identify the key factors that could trigger cancer. Furthermore, since The C...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Spinal cord injury (SCI), stroke and other nervous system conditions can result in partial or total paralysis of individual's limbs. Numerous technologies have been proposed to assist neurorehabilitation or movement restoration, e.g. robotics or neur...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Calcium spiking can be used for drug screening studies in pharmaceutical industries. However, performing experiments for multiple drugs and doses are highly expensive. The oscillatory behavior of calcium spiking data demonstrates extreme nonlinearity...