AIMC Topic: Specimen Handling

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Case study on force compliant robot arm controller for nasopharyngeal swab insertion.

Scientific reports Jul 2, 2025
The nasopharyngeal (NP) swab sample test, commonly used to detect COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses, involves moving a swab through the nasal cavity to collect samples from the nasopharynx. While typically this is done by human healthcare work...
Humans COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 Specimen Handling Nasal Cavity Nasopharynx Equipment Design COVID-19 Testing Robotics
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Efficacy and Safety of a Medical Robot for Non-Face-to-Face Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimen Collection: Nonclinical and Clinical Trial Findings for COVID-19 Testing.

American journal of rhinology & allergy Mar 2, 2025
ObjectivesTo meet the high demand for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests to diagnose COVID-19 and rapidly control the outbreak, an efficient and safe molecular diagnostic protocol is necessary. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy and safety o...
Humans Adult Specimen Handling Male Nasopharynx Robotics COVID-19 Testing Middle Aged Female SARS-CoV-2 Aged COVID-19 Prospective Studies
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Diagnostic performance of an automated robot for MALDI target preparation in microbial identification.

Journal of clinical microbiology Sep 19, 2024
The MBT Pathfinder is an automated colony-picking robot designed for efficient sample preparation in matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry. This article presents results from three key experiments ev...
Humans Automation, Laboratory Reproducibility of Results Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization Specimen Handling Bacteria Robotics
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Enabling Lipidomic Biomarker Studies for Protected Populations by Combining Noninvasive Fingerprint Sampling with MS Analysis and Machine Learning.

Journal of proteome research Jan 3, 2024
Triacylglycerols and wax esters are two lipid classes that have been linked to diseases, including autism, Alzheimer's disease, dementia, cardiovascular disease, dry eye disease, and diabetes, and thus are molecules worthy of biomarker exploration st...
Dermatoglyphics Sebum Mass Spectrometry Lipids Triglycerides Specimen Handling Lipidomics Aged Humans Male Machine Learning Child Biomarkers Female
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An effective modular approach for crowd counting in an image using convolutional neural networks.

Scientific reports Apr 6, 2022
Abrupt and continuous nature of scale variation in a crowded scene is a challenging task to enhance crowd counting accuracy in an image. Existing crowd counting techniques generally used multi-column or single-column dilated convolution to tackle sca...
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted Specimen Handling Neural Networks, Computer Gene Fusion
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Marine Robotics for Deep-Sea Specimen Collection: A Taxonomy of Underwater Manipulative Actions.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Feb 14, 2022
In order to develop a gripping system or control strategy that improves scientific sampling procedures, knowledge of the process and the consequent definition of requirements is fundamental. Nevertheless, factors influencing sampling procedures have ...
Humans Equipment Design Hand Strength Species Specificity Robotics Specimen Handling
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Efficient SARS-CoV-2 Quantitative Reverse Transcriptase PCR Saliva Diagnostic Strategy utilizing Open-Source Pipetting Robots.

Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE Feb 11, 2022
The emergence of the recent SARS-CoV-2 global health crisis introduced key challenges for epidemiological research and clinical testing. Characterized by a high rate of transmission and low mortality, the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated accurate and e...
Saliva Specimen Handling COVID-19 Nucleic Acid Testing Nasopharynx Humans Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Pandemics Robotics COVID-19 RNA, Viral SARS-CoV-2 Sensitivity and Specificity
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Marine Robotics for Deep-Sea Specimen Collection: A Systematic Review of Underwater Grippers.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Jan 14, 2022
The collection of delicate deep-sea specimens of biological interest with remotely operated vehicle (ROV) industrial grippers and tools is a long and expensive procedure. Industrial grippers were originally designed for heavy manipulation tasks, whil...
Technology Hand Strength Robotics Equipment Design Specimen Handling
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Fish Segmentation in Sonar Images by Mask R-CNN on Feature Maps of Conditional Random Fields.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Nov 17, 2021
Imaging sonar systems are widely used for monitoring fish behavior in turbid or low ambient light waters. For analyzing fish behavior in sonar images, fish segmentation is often required. In this paper, Mask R-CNN is adopted for segmenting fish in so...
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted Sound Neural Networks, Computer Supervised Machine Learning Specimen Handling
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Shotgun Proteomics Sample Processing Automated by an Open-Source Lab Robot.

Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE Oct 28, 2021
Mass spectrometry-based shotgun proteomics experiments require multiple sample preparation steps, including enzymatic protein digestion and clean-up, which can take up significant person-hours of bench labor and present a source of batch-to-batch var...
Automation Proteomics Humans Specimen Handling Reproducibility of Results Robotics Laboratories
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