Medical & biological engineering & computing
Jan 27, 2023
At present, most vascular intervention robots cannot cope with the more common coronary complex lesions in the clinic. Moreover, the lack of effective force feedback increases the risk of surgery. In this paper, a vascular interventional robot that c...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Jan 25, 2023
This paper presents a linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) controller for controlling the gait of a miniature, foldable quadruped robot with individually actuated and controlled legs (MinIAQ-III). The controller is implemented on a palm-size robot made by...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Jan 24, 2023
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) with event-based computation are promising brain-inspired models for energy-efficient applications on neuromorphic hardware. However, most supervised SNN training methods, such as conversion from artificial neural netwo...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Jan 23, 2023
PURPOSE: There is a growing interest in minimally invasive surgery as interventional radiology (IVR), which decreases the burden on a patient. However, occupational exposure is a problem because the treatment is performed using X-ray fluoroscopic ima...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jan 20, 2023
In recent years, there have been many approaches to using robots to teach computer programming. In intelligent tutoring systems and computer-aided learning, there is also some research to show that affective feedback to the student increases learning...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jan 12, 2023
Advances in machine learning have widened the range of its applications in many fields. In particular, deep learning has attracted much interest for its ability to provide solutions where the derivation of a rigorous mathematical model of the problem...
Nature communications
Jan 10, 2023
During perceptual decision-making, the firing rates of cortical neurons reflect upcoming choices. Recent work showed that excitatory and inhibitory neurons are equally selective for choice. However, the functional consequences of inhibitory choice se...
Scientific reports
Jan 5, 2023
Neuroscientific analyses balance between capturing the brain's complexity and expressing that complexity in meaningful and understandable ways. Here we present a novel approach that fully characterizes neural network activity and does so by uniquely ...
IEEE reviews in biomedical engineering
Jan 5, 2023
Tissue examination by hand remains an essential technique in clinical practice. The effective application depends on skills in sensorimotor coordination, mainly involving haptic, visual, and auditory feedback. The skills clinicians have to learn can ...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Dec 29, 2022
Vision is the main component of current robotics systems that is used for manipulating objects. However, solely relying on vision for hand-object pose tracking faces challenges such as occlusions and objects moving out of view during robotic manipula...