Detection of very low-frequency oscillations of cerebral haemodynamics is influenced by data detrending.

abstract：:A method for the identification of the breast boundary in mammograms is presented. The method can be used in the preprocessing stage of a system for computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) of breast cancer and also in the reduction of image file size in picture archiving and communication system applications. The method starte...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Ferrari RJ,Rangayyan RM,Desautels JE,Borges RA,Frère AF

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring is used routinely in labor, but conventional methods have a limited capacity to detect fetal hypoxia/acidosis. An exploratory study was performed on the simultaneous assessment of maternal heart rate (MHR) and FHR variability, to evaluate their evolution during labor and their capacit...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Gonçalves H,Pinto P,Silva M,Ayres-de-Campos D,Bernardes J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most tissues are subject to some form of physiological mechanical loading which results in deformation of the cells triggering intracellular mechanotransduction pathways. This response to loading is generally essential for the health of the tissue, although more pronounced deformation may result in cell and tissue dam...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Bader DL,Knight MM

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though the World Health Organization criteria's for classifying the dengue infection have been used for long time, recent studies declare that several difficulties have been faced by the clinicians to apply these criteria. Accordingly, many studies have proposed modified criteria to identify the risk in dengue pa...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Faisal T,Taib MN,Ibrahim F

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart sounds can be considered as mechanical fingerprints of myocardial function. The third heart sound normally occurs in children but disappears with maturation. The sound can also appear in patients with heart failure. The sound is characterised by its low-amplitude and low-frequency content, which makes it difficu...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Hult P,Fjällbrant T,Hildén K,Dahlström U,Wranne B,Ask P

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper deals with the influence of mains interference on time coherent averaging using an internal trigger. The general distribution of the time jitter is derived and applied to a simplified signal. The authors prove that no amount of averaging can do away with this type of interference. Finally, the deformation th...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Strackee J,Peper A

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to develop a radiation-free method to measure gastric emptying. Such a method would be useful e.g. for patients who need repeated measurements and in pregnancy. Ferrimagnetic particles (gamma-Fe2O3), ingested within a solid test meal (pancakes), were magnetised by an applied magnetic field. A...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Forsman M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system, especially for chest radiograph or chest X-ray (CXR) screening, CXR image view information is required. Automatically separating CXR image view, frontal and lateral can ease subsequent CXR screening process, since the techniques may not equally work for both views. We presen...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Santosh KC,Wendling L

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The object of this study is to compare the performance of two new bilinear time-frequency representation techniques with the spectrogram to characterise the behaviour of heart murmurs produced by bioprosthetic heart valves implanted in the mitral or aortic position. The murmurs are those of mitral stenosis, mitral reg...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Debiais F,Durand LG,Pibarot P,Guardo R

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies concerning the internal work of human motion have used two-dimensional kinematic models to estimate kinetic energy of the segments. The generalised co-ordinate concept has been applied here to a simultaneous and bilateral gait analysis. A three-dimensional kinematic model based on quaternions has been dev...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Aissaoui R,Allard P,Junqua A,Frossard L,Duhaime M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Divided attention is defined as focusing on different tasks at once, and this is described as one of the biggest problems of today's society. Default examinations for understanding attention are questionnaires or physiological signals, like evoked potentials and electroencephalography. Physiological records were obtai...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Batbat T,Güven A,Dolu N

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanical impedance of the ankle joint during electrical stimulation of the soleus is studied by applying constant-velocity 10 degrees angular perturbations to the ankle and measuring the resultant torque. Both neurologically intact subjects and spinal cord injured subjects are tested. Lumped, piecewise linear mo...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Flaherty B,Robinson C,Agarwal G

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) are widely employed in brain-computer interface (BCI) applications, especially to control machines. However, the use of SSVEPs leads to eye fatigue and causes lower accuracy over the long term, particularly when multi-commands are required. Therefore, this paper proposes ...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Punsawad Y,Wongsawat Y

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal localization of immature precursors (ALIP) aggregating and clustering in bone marrow biopsy appears earlier than that of bone marrow smears in detection of the relapse of acute myelocytic leukemia (AML). But traditional manual ALIP recognition has many shortcomings such as prone to false alarms, neglect of di...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Cao G,Li L,Chen W,Yu Y,Shi J,Zhang G,Liu X

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer-controlled pump for use both in the study of vascular haemodynamics and in the calibration of clinical devices which measure blood flow is designed. The novel design of this pump incorporates two rack-mounted pistons, driven into opposing cylinders by a micro-stepping motor. This approach allows the product...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Holdsworth DW,Rickey DW,Drangova M,Miller DJ,Fenster A

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein glycosylation is one of the most important and complex post-translational modification that provides greater proteomic diversity than any other post-translational modification. Fast and reliable computational methods to identify glycosylation sites are in great demand. Two key issues, feature encoding and feat...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Chen Y,Zhou W,Wang H,Yuan Z

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disappointing results for total ankle replacement have been explained by poor knowledge of the mechanics of the intact and replaced joints. Dynamic simulation tools have the capacity to simulate dynamic conditions that occur in human joints. The Working Model 2D tool was used to simulate the mechanics of the intact an...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Leardini A,Moschella D

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From adult data, it is known that numerous factors, such as age, state of the autonomic nervous system, diurnal rhythms or mean R-R interval mRR, influence heart rate variability (HRV). The aim of this study was the examination of the influence of gestational age, mRR, gender and time of day on fetal HRV. The analysis...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Lange S,Van Leeuwen P,Geue D,Hatzmann W,Grönemeyer D

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method of stimulation of the lower extremities was devised that automatically adjusts the stimulation conditions at any angle of the knee joint. An M-wave is considered to indicate the stimulation conditions, because it is the waveform that results from direct stimulation to the axon of the alpha motor neuron. T...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Tanabe S,Muraoka Y,Tomita Y

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In daily life, a person's gait-an important marker for his/her health status-is usually assessed using inertial sensors fixed to lower limbs or trunk. Such sensor locations are not well suited for continuous and long duration measurements. A better location would be the wrist but with the drawback of the presence of p...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Fasel B,Duc C,Dadashi F,Bardyn F,Savary M,Farine PA,Aminian K

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OKAS-3D is a further development of the single floating circle target tracker. This tracker consists of a cathode ray tube display, a lens in front of the display and a circular light-sensitive photocell placed in the image field of the lens. A small circular trace generated on the screen is focused around the photoce...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Naeije M,Van der Weijden JJ,Megens CC

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is clinically well-established that minimally invasive subcutaneous continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) sensors can significantly improve diabetes treatment. However, CGM readings are still not as reliable as those provided by standard fingerprick blood glucose (BG) meters. In addition to unavoidable random measure...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Facchinetti A,Del Favero S,Sparacino G,Cobelli C

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection and classification methods have a vital and important role in identifying brain diseases. Timely detection and classification of brain diseases enable an accurate identification and effective management of brain impairment. Brain disorders are commonly most spreadable diseases and the diagnosing process is t...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Haq EU,Huang J,Kang L,Haq HU,Zhan T

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Full-night polysomnography (PSG) has been recognized as the gold standard test for sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (SAHS). However, PSG examinees are physically restrained for the full night by many contact sensors and obtrusive connecting cables, inducing mental stress. We developed a non-contact SAHS diagnostic system...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Kagawa M,Tojima H,Matsui T

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explores the analysis of a new stent geometry from two typical stents used to treat the coronary artery disease. Two different finite element methods are applied with different boundary conditions to investigate the stenosis region. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models including fluid-structure interac...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Simão M,Ferreira JM,Mora-Rodriguez J,Fragata J,Ramos HM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using images from the Image Database Consortium and Image Database Resource Initiative (LIDC-IDRI), we developed a methodology for classifying lung nodules. The proposed methodology uses image processing and pattern recognition techniques. To classify volumes of interest into nodules and non-nodules, we used shape mea...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Filho AOC,Silva AC,de Paiva AC,Nunes RA,Gattass M

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we proposed to utilize a novel spatio-spectral filter, common spatio-spectral pattern (CSSP), to improve the classification accuracy in identifying intended motions based on low-density surface electromyography (EMG). Five able-bodied subjects and a transradial amputee participated in an experiment of e...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Huang G,Zhang Z,Zhang D,Zhu X

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trabecular bone has a complicated porous microstructure and consists of interconnected plates and rods known as trabeculae. The microarchitecture of the trabeculae contributes to load distribution capacity and, particularly, the optimal bone strength. Many previous studies have shown that morphological parameters are ...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Basaruddin KS,Takano N,Yoshiwara Y,Nakano T

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional changes in the cytoskeleton and in cell proliferation of bovine pulmonary artery endothelial cells when exposed to sustained hydrostatic pressure were investigated in vitro using laser scanning confocal microscopy. Subconfluent endothelial cells on rigid substrates were exposed to 1.5, 5 and 10 c...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Salwen SA,Szarowski DH,Turner JN,Bizios R

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The energy storage capacity of the human foot as a passive structure depends on both its geometry and elastic properties. The present study examines theoretically the relationship between the energy stored in the longitudinal arch and the inclination of the calcaneus, when a vertical load is applied. A simple two-dime...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Simkin A,Leichter I

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00