AIMC Topic: Muscle Fibers, Skeletal

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Self-sensing coaxial muscle fibers with bi-lengthwise actuation.

Materials horizons
Artificial muscle fibers as a promising biomimetic actuator are needed for such applications as smart soft robots, muscle function restoration, and physical augmentation. Currently developed artificial muscle fibers have shown attractive performance ...

Tuning the reversibility of hair artificial muscles by disulfide cross-linking for sensors, switches, and soft robotics.

Materials horizons
Tensile and torsional artificial muscles from biocompatible and biodegradable materials are highly desired for soft robotics, sensors, and controllers in bio-related applications. Twisted fibers can be used to prepare tensile and torsional artificial...

A Coupled FEM-SPH Modeling Technique to Investigate the Contractility of Biohybrid Thin Films.

Advanced biosystems
Biohybrid actuators have the potential to overcome the limitations of traditional actuators employed in robotics, thanks to the unique features of living contractile muscle cells, which can be used to power artificial elements. This paper describes a...

Segmenting and tracking cell instances with cosine embeddings and recurrent hourglass networks.

Medical image analysis
Differently to semantic segmentation, instance segmentation assigns unique labels to each individual instance of the same object class. In this work, we propose a novel recurrent fully convolutional network architecture for tracking such instance seg...

A neural network approach to analyze cross-sections of muscle fibers in pathological images.

Computers in biology and medicine
Morphological characteristics of muscle fibers, such as their cross-sections, are important indicators of the health and function of the musculoskeletal system. However, manual analysis of muscle fiber morphology is a labor-intensive and time-consumi...

Regulation of C2C12 Differentiation and Control of the Beating Dynamics of Contractile Cells for a Muscle-Driven Biosyncretic Crawler by Electrical Stimulation.

Soft robotics
Biosyncretic robots have potential advantages associated with both living organisms and electromechanical systems. Skeletal muscle tissue is a candidate as bioactuators for biosyncretic robots because of its excellent contraction force and controllab...

Thin polymeric films for building biohybrid microrobots.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
This paper aims to describe the disruptive potential that polymeric thin films have in the field of biohybrid devices and to review the recent efforts in this area. Thin (thickness  <  1 mm) and ultra-thin (thickness  <  1 µm) matrices possess a seri...

Spatial Clockwork Recurrent Neural Network for Muscle Perimysium Segmentation.

Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
Accurate segmentation of perimysium plays an important role in early diagnosis of many muscle diseases because many diseases contain different perimysium inflammation. However, it remains as a challenging task due to the complex appearance of the per...

Variable recruitment in bundles of miniature pneumatic artificial muscles.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
The natural compliance and force generation properties of pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) allow them to operate like human muscles in anthropomorphic robotic manipulators. Traditionally, manipulators use a single PAM or multiple PAMs actuated in ...

Quantitative analysis of the dexamethasone side effect on human-derived young and aged skeletal muscle by myotube and nuclei segmentation using deep learning.

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
MOTIVATION: Skeletal muscle cells (skMCs) combine together to create long, multi-nucleated structures called myotubes. By studying the size, length, and number of nuclei in these myotubes, we can gain a deeper understanding of skeletal muscle develop...