Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 24, 2023
The burgeoning complexity of space missions has amplified the research focus on robots that are capable of assisting astronauts in accomplishing tasks within space stations. Nevertheless, these robots grapple with substantial mobility challenges in a...
Biomedical engineering online
May 24, 2023
Tracking points in ultrasound (US) videos can be especially useful to characterize tissues in motion. Tracking algorithms that analyze successive video frames, such as variations of Optical Flow and Lucas-Kanade (LK), exploit frame-to-frame temporal ...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
May 24, 2023
With the rapid development of origami technology, worm-inspired origami robots have attracted tremendous interest owing to their colourful locomotion behaviours, such as creeping, rolling, climbing and obstacle crossing. In the present study, we aim ...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
May 16, 2023
Kangaroo rats are well known as representative hoppers in small-scale animals. Especially kangaroo rats show rapid movement when a predator approaches. If this amazing motion can be applied to small-scale robots, they will be able to traverse lands a...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 6, 2023
Increasing violence in workplaces such as hospitals seriously challenges public safety. However, it is time- and labor-consuming to visually monitor masses of video data in real time. Therefore, automatic and timely violent activity detection from vi...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 5, 2023
Surgical skill assessment can quantify the quality of the surgical operation via the motion state of the surgical instrument tip (SIT), which is considered one of the effective primary means by which to improve the accuracy of surgical operation. Tra...
Physics in medicine and biology
May 3, 2023
. Sliding motion may occur between organs in anatomical regions due to respiratory motion and heart beating. This issue is often neglected in previous studies, resulting in poor image registration performance. A new approach is proposed to handle dis...
Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
May 2, 2023
BACKGROUND: Markerless motion capture (MMC) technology has been developed to avoid the need for body marker placement during motion tracking and analysis of human movement. Although researchers have long proposed the use of MMC technology in clinical...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Apr 24, 2023
PURPOSE: FAST is a point of care ultrasound study that evaluates for the presence of free fluid, typically hemoperitoneum in trauma patients. FAST is an essential skill for Emergency Physicians. Thus, it requires objective evaluation tools that can r...
ISA transactions
Apr 24, 2023
As an essential research task in artificial intelligence (AI), the estimation of 3D human poses has important application value in virtual reality, medical diagnosis, athlete training and other fields. However, human pose recovery and retargeting req...