Designing implants for large and complex cranial defects is a challenging task, even for professional designers. Current efforts on automating the design process focused mainly on convolutional neural networks (CNN), which have produced state-of-the-...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
May 6, 2024
Myoelectric prostheses are generally unable to accurately control the position and force simultaneously, prohibiting natural and intuitive human-machine interaction. This issue is attributed to the limitations of myoelectric interfaces in effectively...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Cervical disk arthroplasty (CDA) offers the advantage of motion preservation in the treatment of focal cervical pathology. At present, implant sizing is performed using subjective tactile feedback and imaging of trial cages...
Journal of the American Heart Association
Feb 23, 2024
BACKGROUND: Implantable loop recorders (ILRs) are increasingly placed for arrhythmia detection. However, historically, ≈75% of ILR alerts are false positives, requiring significant time and effort for adjudication. The LINQII and LUX-Dx are remotely ...
Medical & biological engineering & computing
Feb 7, 2024
The use of mechanoregulatory schemes based on finite element (FE) analysis for the evaluation of bone ingrowth around porous surfaces is a viable approach but requires significant computational time and effort. The aim of this study is to develop a c...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jan 19, 2024
BACKGROUND: Closed-loop functional electrical stimulation can use recorded nerve signals to create implantable systems that make decisions regarding nerve stimulation in real-time. Previous work demonstrated convolutional neural network (CNN) discrim...
OBJECTIVE: Standard MRI protocols lack a quantitative sequence that can be used to evaluate shunt-treated patients with a history of hydrocephalus. The objective of this study was to investigate the use of phase-contrast MRI (PC-MRI), a quantitative ...
Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials
May 27, 2023
3D printing, also known as Additive manufacturing (AM), has emerged as a transformative technology with applications across various industries, including the medical sector. This review paper provides an overview of the current status of AM technolog...
The Monte Carlo (MC) method provides a complete solution to the tissue heterogeneity effects in low-energy low-dose rate (LDR) brachytherapy. However, long computation times limit the clinical implementation of MC-based treatment planning solutions. ...
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