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
We present a new surgical robot hardware-in-the-loop simulator, with 3D surgical field reconstruction in RGB-D sensor range, which allows tool-tissue interactions to be presented as haptic feedback and thus provides the situation awareness of unwante...
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
Supervised machine learning algorithms, such as Artificial Neural Network (ANN), have been applied to surface electromyograph (sEMG) to classify user's muscular states. This paper introduces a novel framework to design a binary sEMG classifier to dis...
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
Clinical Balance Assessments Often Rely On Functional Tasks As A Proxy For Balance (E.G., Timed Up And Go). In Contrast, Analyses Of Balance In Research Settings Incorporate Quantitative Biomechanical Measurements (E.G., Whole-Body Angular Momentum, ...
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
Human activity recognition (HAR) is an important component in health-care systems. For example, it can enable context-aware applications such as elderly care and patient monitoring. Relying on a set of training data, supervised machine learning algor...
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
Recent advancements in mobile devices, data analysis, and wearable sensors render the capability of in-place health monitoring. Supervised machine learning algorithms, the core intelligence of these systems, learn from labeled training data. However,...
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
Advances in neurotechnology are expected to provide access to thousands of neural channel recordings including neuronal spiking, multiunit activity and local field potentials. In addition, recent studies have shown that deep learning, in particular r...
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
Magnetic resonance navigation (MRN) is an emerging research technique in recent years. The micro/nano robots existing in vessels can be driven by magnetic gradients given by MR scanner. As a non-invasive vascular imaging technique, Magnetic resonance...
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
Osteosarcoma is the most common type of bone cancer. The primary means of osteosarcoma diagnosis is through evaluating plain x-rays. Using image analysis techniques, features that clinicians use to diagnose osteosarcoma can be quantified and studied ...
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
Lung cancer is one of the four major cancers in the world. Accurate diagnosing of lung cancer in the early stage plays an important role to increase the survival rate. Computed Tomography (CT)is an effective method to help the doctor to detect the lu...
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
Diabetic Macular Edema (DME) is a severe eye disease that can lead to irreversible blindness if it is left untreated. DME diagnosis still relies on manual evaluation from opthalmologists, thus the process is time consuming and diagnosis may be subjec...