Journal of X-ray science and technology
Jan 1, 2020
BACKGROUND: Although rheumatoid arthritis (RA) causes destruction of articular cartilage, early treatment significantly improves symptoms and delays progression. It is important to detect subtle damage for an early diagnosis. Recent software programs...
Journal of digital imaging
Aug 1, 2019
Despite the well-established impact of sex and sex hormones on bone structure and density, there has been limited description of sexual dimorphism in the hand and wrist in the literature. We developed a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model t...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jul 4, 2019
This paper presents an improved solution for detecting gestures with a better precision using the Leap Motion sensor and Machine Learning support. A neural network is trained to recognize a hand rotation gesture expressing the grade of recovery, with...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Existing robotic hands mostly consist of rigid finger mechanism with constant joint stiffness, leading to poor handling performance and even unexpected safety issues. This paper proposed a novel underactuated robotic finger with variable stiffness jo...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
For many applications, hand gesture recognition systems that rely on biosignal data exclusively are mandatory. Usually, theses systems have to be affordable, reliable as well as mobile. The hand is moved due to muscle contractions that cause motions ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Arthritis is one of the most common health problems affecting people around the world. The goal of the work presented work is to classify and categorizing hand arthritis stages for patients, who may be developing or have developed hand arthritis, usi...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
This study aims at estimating a virtual surface Electromyography (sEMG) channel through a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) by using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) nodes. The virtual channel is used to classify hand postures from the publicly NinaPro dat...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Brain-computer interface (BCI) is an important tool for rehabilitation and control of an external device (e.g., robot arm or home appliances). Fully reconstruction of upper limb movement from brain signals is one of the critical issues for intuitive ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Semantic segmentation is an important step for hand and object tracking as subsequent tracking algorithms depend heavily on the accuracy of the segmented hand and object. However, current methods for hand and object segmentation are limited in the nu...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
We have developed a finger-tapping device with magnetic sensors, UB2, for the early detection of dementia. The goal of the present study is to develop a method for detecting abnormal segments in the finger tapping waveform in an objective way using m...