Medical physics
Jul 31, 2023
BACKGROUND: Respiratory motion induces artifacts in reconstructed cardiac perfusion SPECT images. Correction for respiratory motion often relies on a respiratory signal describing the heart displacements during breathing. However, using external trac...
Nature communications
Jul 18, 2023
We investigate how reliable movement can emerge in aggregates of highly error-prone individuals. The individuals-robotic modules-move stochastically using vibration motors. By coupling them via elastic links, soft-bodied aggregates can be created. We...
Applied ergonomics
Jul 17, 2023
The production of electronic waste, also known as e-waste, has risen with the growing reliance on electronic products. To reduce negative environmental impact and achieve sustainable industrial processes, recovering and reusing products is crucial. A...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 13, 2023
Due to its capacity to gather vast, high-level data about human activity from wearable or stationary sensors, human activity recognition substantially impacts people's day-to-day lives. Multiple people and things may be seen acting in the video, disp...
Physics in medicine and biology
Jul 10, 2023
. Respiration introduces a constant source of irregular motion that poses a significant challenge for the precise irradiation of thoracic and abdominal cancers. Current real-time motion management strategies require dedicated systems that are not ava...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 7, 2023
In this paper, we design a technologically intelligent wheelchair with eye-movement control for patients with ALS in a natural environment. The system consists of an electric wheelchair, a vision system, a two-dimensional robotic arm, and a main cont...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 7, 2023
Distinguishing pathological gait is challenging in neurology because of the difficulty of capturing total body movement and its analysis. We aimed to obtain a convenient recording with an iPhone and establish an algorithm based on deep learning. From...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 6, 2023
This paper proposes a method for accurate 3D posture sensing of the soft actuators, which could be applied to the closed-loop control of soft robots. To achieve this, the method employs an array of miniaturized sponge resistive materials along the so...
Journal of neural engineering
Jul 6, 2023
The evaluation of animals' motion behavior has played a vital role in neuromuscular biomedical research and clinical diagnostics, which reflects the changes caused by neuromodulation or neurodamage. Currently, the existing animal pose estimation meth...
IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Jun 30, 2023
Modern medical imaging techniques, such as ultrasound (US) and cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, have enabled the evaluation of myocardial deformation directly from an image sequence. While many traditional cardiac motion tracking methods have...