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Physics in medicine and biology
Sep 22, 2023
. To propose lung contour deformation features (LCDFs) as a surrogate to estimate the thoracic internal target motion, and to report their performance by correlating with the changing body using a cascade ensemble model (CEM). LCDFs, correlated to th...
PloS one
Sep 22, 2023
This work presents the Multi-Bees-Tracker (MBT3D) algorithm, a Python framework implementing a deep association tracker for Tracking-By-Detection, to address the challenging task of tracking flight paths of bumblebees in a social group. While trackin...
Science advances
Sep 20, 2023
Artificial muscles are promising in soft exoskeletons, locomotion robots, and operation machines. However, their performance in contraction ratio, output force, and dynamic response is often imbalanced and limited by materials, structures, or actuati...
Science robotics
Sep 20, 2023
The use of needles to access sites within organs is fundamental to many interventional medical procedures both for diagnosis and treatment. Safely and accurately navigating a needle through living tissue to a target is currently often challenging or ...
BMC medical imaging
Sep 14, 2023
Hybrid quantum systems have shown promise in image classification by combining the strengths of both classical and quantum algorithms. These systems leverage the parallel processing power of quantum computers to perform complex computations while uti...
Medical physics
Sep 13, 2023
BACKGROUND: Real-time liver imaging is challenged by the short imaging time (within hundreds of milliseconds) to meet the temporal constraint posted by rapid patient breathing, resulting in extreme under-sampling for desired 3D imaging. Deep learning...
Scientific reports
Sep 12, 2023
Anguilliform swimmers, like eels or lampreys, are highly efficient swimmers. Key to understanding their performances is the relationship between the body's kinematics and resulting swimming speed and efficiency. But, we cannot prescribe kinematics to...
Medical physics
Sep 4, 2023
BACKGROUND: Current commercially available hybrid magnetic resonance linear accelerators (MR-Linac) use 2D+t cine MR imaging to provide intra-fractional motion monitoring. However, given the limited temporal resolution of cine MR imaging, target intr...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Sep 4, 2023
One of the most interesting characteristics of collaborative robots is their ability to be used in close cooperation scenarios. In industry, this facilitates the implementation of human-in-loop workflows. However, this feature can also be exploited i...
Soft robotics
Aug 30, 2023
To make robots more human-like and safer to use around humans, artificial muscles exhibiting compliance have gained significant attention from researchers. However, despite having excellent performance, pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) have failed...