Computers in biology and medicine
Oct 5, 2022
BACKGROUND: Current spine models for analog bench models, surgical navigation and training platforms are conventionally based on 3D models from anatomical human body polygon database or from time-consuming manual-labelled data. This work proposed a w...
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Sep 30, 2022
Untethered soft magnetoresponsive actuators (SMRAs), which can realize rapid shape transformation, have attracted widespread attention for their strategic applications in exploration, transportation, and minimally invasive medicine. It remains a chal...
Electromagnetic biology and medicine
Aug 22, 2022
The primary purpose of cancer treatment with irreversible electroporation (IRE) is to maximize tumor damage and minimize surrounding healthy tissue damage. Finite element analysis is one of the popular ways to calculate electric field and cell kill p...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Jul 8, 2022
Soft robots have attracted increasing attention due to their excellent versatility and broad applications. In this article, we present a minimally designed soft crawling robot (SCR) capable of robust locomotion in unstructured pipes with various geom...
Computers in biology and medicine
Jun 9, 2022
Biomechanical simulation enables medical researchers to study complex mechano-biological conditions, although for soft tissue modeling, it may apply highly nonlinear multi-physics theories commonly implemented by expensive finite element (FE) solvers...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 24, 2022
We propose a sensor design for measurement of large strains where direct application of a fiber optic strain gauge is impossible due to the stiffness mismatch between the optical fiber and the structure under test. The sensor design is based on a rho...
International journal for numerical methods in biomedical engineering
Apr 26, 2022
This article presents an effort toward building an artificial intelligence (AI) assisted framework, coined ReconGAN, for creating a realistic digital twin of the human vertebra and predicting the risk of vertebral fracture (VF). ReconGAN consists of ...
Scientific reports
Apr 22, 2022
Shape morphing behavior has applications in many fields such as soft robotics, actuators and sensors, solar cells, tight packaging, flexible electronics, and biomedicine. The most common approach to achieve shape morphing structures is through shape ...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Apr 1, 2022
PURPOSE: Orthognathic surgery requires an accurate surgical plan of how bony segments are moved and how the face passively responds to the bony movement. Currently, finite element method (FEM) is the standard for predicting facial deformation. Deep l...
Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials
Mar 25, 2022
The Autoprogressive (AutoP) method is a data-driven inverse method that leverages finite element analysis (FEA) and machine learning (ML) techniques to build constitutive relationships from measured force and displacement data. Previous applications ...