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The British journal of radiology
Dec 1, 2024
OBJECTIVES: Body composition assessment using CT images at the L3-level is increasingly applied in cancer research and has been shown to be strongly associated with long-term survival. Robust high-throughput automated segmentation is key to assess la...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2024
Studying the soft robot-tissue mechanical interaction in muscle stimulation devices poses a significant challenge due to the complex behavior of the materials involved. To advance this field, this paper models computationally three types of soft elas...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2024
Patients who suffer from stroke often experience synergistic movements that make completion of activities of daily living (ADL) difficult. Robotics is useful for therapy for these patients due to providing varying levels of assistance to complete tas...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2024
Soft and flexible robots are being developed as an alternative to traditional robotics. While they offer significant adaptability to the external environment, the integration of biological tissues as actuators presents several challenges. One of the ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2024
Soft artificial muscles possess inherent compliance and safety features, rendering them highly suitable for applications in wearable robots and unstructured environments. However, accurately modeling the nonlinearity of soft actuators proves to be a ...
Annual review of biomedical engineering
Jul 1, 2024
The impact of tissue engineering has extended beyond a traditional focus in medicine to the rapidly growing realm of biohybrid robotics. Leveraging living actuators as functional components in machines has been a central focus of this field, generati...
Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B
Jan 15, 2024
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignancies and is a major cause of cancer-related mortalities worldwide (Forner et al., 2018; He et al., 2023). Sarcopenia is a syndrome characterized by an accelerated loss of skeletal muscl...
Current medical imaging
Jan 1, 2024
BACKGROUND: A prosthetic device is designed based on the quantitative analysis of muscle MRI which will improve the muscle control achieved with functional electrical stimulation/ guided robotic exoskeletons. Electromyography (EMG) provides muscle fu...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Sep 1, 2023
Therapy content, consisting of device parameter settings and therapy instructions, is crucial for an effective robot-assisted gait therapy program. Settings and instructions depend on the therapy goals of the individual patient. While device paramete...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2023
For the practical application of bio-actuators, it is desired to develop a precise control method for skeletal muscles. In this study, a novel model-based control method has been proposed. The control method enables skeletal muscles to exert an arbit...