BACKGROUND: Patient-ventilator asynchronies are usually detected by visual inspection of ventilator waveforms but with low sensitivity, even when performed by experts in the field. Recently, estimation of the inspiratory muscle pressure (P) waveforms...
In recent years, the advent of soft robotics has changed the landscape of wearable technologies. Soft robots are highly compliant and malleable, thus ensuring safe human-machine interactions. To date, a wide variety of actuation mechanisms have been ...
Anchoring components are added to wearable robots to ensure a stable interaction between the suits and the human body and to minimize the displacement of the suits. However, these components can apply pressure to the body and can cause user dissatisf...
Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI
37025028
BACKGROUND: Deep learning methods have been shown to be useful for segmentation of lower limb muscle MRIs of healthy subjects but, have not been sufficiently evaluated on neuromuscular disease (NDM) patients.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
36965152
Helical plants have the ability of tropisms to respond to natural stimuli, and biomimicry of such helical shapes into artificial muscles has been vastly popular. However, the shape-mimicked actuators only respond to artificially provided stimulus, th...
BACKGROUND: The underlying motivation of this work is to demonstrate that artificial muscle activity of known and unknown motion can be generated based on motion parameters, such as angular position, acceleration, and velocity of each joint (or the e...
International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics
37451472
PURPOSE: The manual segmentation of organ structures in radiation oncology treatment planning is a time-consuming and highly skilled task, particularly when treating rare tumors like sacral chordomas. This study evaluates the performance of automated...
Owing to their compliance, soft robots demonstrate enhanced compatibility with humans and the environment compared with traditional rigid robots. However, ensuring the working effectiveness of artificial muscles that actuate soft robots in confined s...
Currently, in the field of interdisciplinary work in biology, there has been a significant push by the soft robotic community to understand the motion and maneuverability of hydrostats. This Review seeks to expand the muscular hydrostat hypothesis to...