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Automatic Segmentation of Retinal Capillaries in Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope Perfusion Images Using a Convolutional Neural Network.

Translational vision science & technology
PURPOSE: Adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope (AOSLO) capillary perfusion images can possess large variations in contrast, intensity, and background signal, thereby limiting the use of global or adaptive thresholding techniques for automatic...

Using a Rotating 3D LiDAR on a Mobile Robot for Estimation of Person's Body Angle and Gender.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
We studied the use of a rotating multi-layer 3D Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) sensor (specifically the Velodyne HDL-32E) mounted on a social robot for the estimation of features of people around the robot. While LiDARs are often used for robot ...

Recent Progress of Soft Electrothermal Actuators.

Soft robotics
Developing soft electrothermal actuators (ETAs) has drawn extensive concern in recent years. This article presents a comprehensive review on recent progress of soft ETAs through five sections: device design on structure and materials, property, fabri...

Method for extraction of airborne LiDAR point cloud buildings based on segmentation.

PloS one
The LiDAR technology is a means of urban 3D modeling in recent years, and the extraction of buildings is a key step in urban 3D modeling. In view of the complexity of most airborne LiDAR building point cloud extraction algorithms that need to combine...

Ultrafast optical integration and pattern classification for neuromorphic photonics based on spiking VCSEL neurons.

Scientific reports
In today's data-driven world, the ability to process large data volumes is crucial. Key tasks, such as pattern recognition and image classification, are well suited for artificial neural networks (ANNs) inspired by the brain. Neuromorphic computing a...

Highly realistic simulation for robot-assisted hypothalamic hamartoma real-time MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT).

Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery
PURPOSE: Real-time MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) is a challenging procedure due to its technical complexity, as well as the need for efficient multidisciplinary teamwork and transfer of an anesthetized patient between operating...

Laser-Profiled Continuum Robot with Integrated Tension Sensing for Simultaneous Shape and Tip Force Estimation.

Soft robotics
The development of miniaturized continuum robots has a wide range of applications in minimally invasive endoluminal interventions. To navigate inside tortuous lumens without impinging on the vessel wall and causing tissue damage or the risk of perfor...

Dilated Residual Learning With Skip Connections for Real-Time Denoising of Laser Speckle Imaging of Blood Flow in a Log-Transformed Domain.

IEEE transactions on medical imaging
Laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) is a wide-field and noncontact imaging technology for mapping blood flow. Although the denoising method based on block-matching and three-dimensional transform-domain collaborative filtering (BM3D) was proposed t...

Rapid Manufacturing of Thin Soft Pneumatic Actuators and Robots.

Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE
This protocol describes a method for rapid manufacturing of soft pneumatic actuators and robots with an ultrathin form factor using a heat press and a laser cutter machine. The method starts with the lamination of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) she...

Inexpensive robotic system for standard and fluorescent imaging of protein crystals.

Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications
Protein-crystallization imaging and classification is a labor-intensive process typically performed either by humans or by instruments that currently cost well over $100 000. This cost puts the use of crystallization-trial imaging outside the reach o...