Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
Dec 31, 2013
PURPOSE: An electromyography-driven robot system integrated with neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) was developed to investigate its effectiveness on post-stroke rehabilitation.
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Nov 1, 2025
OBJECTIVE: Robotic gloves show promise in hand assistance due to their wearability and home-based potential, yet empirical research remains limited. This pilot study presents a fabric-based pneumatic soft glove, aiming to identify its potential and c...
International journal of legal medicine
Sep 1, 2025
The epiphyses of the hand and wrist serve as crucial indicators for assessing skeletal maturity in adolescents. This study aimed to develop a deep learning (DL) model for bone age (BA) assessment using hand and wrist X-ray images, addressing the chal...
Work-related injuries from overexertion, particularly lifting, are a major concern in occupational safety. Traditional assessment tools, such as the Revised NIOSH Lifting Equation (RNLE), require significant training and practice for deployment. This...
OBJECTIVE: This systematic literature review provides a comprehensive overview of the use of machine learning (ML) in hand imaging of rheumatic musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs). The review evaluates ML algorithms, imaging modalities, patient populatio...
Dexterous robotic hands have been a central focus in robotics research, aiming to replicate the versatility and functionality of the human hand. This review provides a comprehensive analysis of the latest advancements in the literature on dexterous r...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Jul 1, 2025
Hand pose estimation approaches commonly rely on shared hand feature maps to regress the 3D locations of all hand joints. Subsequently, they struggle to enhance finger-level features which are invaluable in capturing joint-to-finger associations and ...
A human-shaped robotic hand offers unparalleled versatility and fine motor skills, enabling it to perform a broad spectrum of tasks with precision, power, and robustness. Across the paleontological record and animal kingdom, we see a wide range of al...
Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi
Feb 25, 2025
In order to realize the quantitative assessment of muscle strength in hand function rehabilitation and then formulate scientific and effective rehabilitation training strategies, this paper constructs a multi-scale convolutional neural network (MSCNN...
Journal of surgical orthopaedic advances
Jan 1, 2025
The increasing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is largely attributed to the fact that, with continual medical advances and digitization, clinical decision-making has become more and more reliant on data. As the volume and complexit...
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