Opportunities for the cellular approach in biomedical engineering.

abstract：:The complexity of the monitored data available in modern intensive care units suggests that they may be best processed, for presentation to medical staff, by expert system techniques. However, standard expert system shells are ill-fitted to either the basic sequential monitoring tasks of data acquisition and storage, ...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Taboada JA,Arcay B,Arias JE

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was the analysis of the mechanical behaviour of a partially porous lumbar custom-made cage by means of a subject-specific finite element analysis (FEA). The cage, made of Ti6Al4V ELI alloy, was produced via electron beam melting (EBM) process and surgically implanted in a female subject, 50 years...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Epasto G,Distefano F,Mineo R,Guglielmino E

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main constituent of an ultrasound contrast agent (UCA) is gas-filled microbubbles. An average UCA contains billions per ml. These microbubbles are excellent ultrasound scatterers due to their high compressibility. In an ultrasound field they act as resonant systems, resulting in harmonic energy in the backscattere...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： de Jong N,Emmer M,van Wamel A,Versluis M

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the rib cage and abdomen are compressed during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), the effect on intrathoracic pressure, and therefore on haemodynamics, cannot be quantitatively predicted without a physiologically based mathematical model of chest wall dynamics. Using such a model, we compared model simulations ...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Ben-Haim SA,Shofti R,Dinnar U,Saidel GM

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic nanoparticles for therapy and diagnosis are at the leading edge of the rapidly developing field of bionanotechnology. In this study, we have theoretically studied motion of magnetic nano- as well as micro-particles in the field of cylindrical Halbach array of permanent magnets. Magnetic flux density was model...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Babinec P,Krafcík A,Babincová M,Rosenecker J

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：:Results of self-consistent analyses of cells show the possibility of temperature increases at membranes in response to a single nanosecond, high-voltage pulse, at least over small sections of the membrane. Molecular Dynamics simulations indicate that such a temperature increase could facilitate poration, which is one ...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Song J,Joshi RP,Schoenbach KH

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A building block-based software framework was developed to simulate electrophysiological networks. The synaptic potentials generated during neurotransmission were simulated in an existing discrete bidomain model of smooth muscle, using cubic, three-dimensional grids of varying sizes. The model is automatically derived...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Turale N,Devulapalli A,Manchanda R,Moudgalya K,Sivakumar G

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computational model of the fluid dynamics of intraventricular flow was used to investigate the importance of the effects of flow disturbances existing within the left ventricle (LV) at the onset of diastole on a diastolic flow field. The simulation started with a quiescent flow state; it continued for a number of ca...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Nakamura M,Wada S,Mikami T,Kitabatake A,Karino T,Yamaguchi T

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of brain contusion has been investigated using a series of three-dimensional (3D) finite element analyses. A head injury model was used to simulate forward and backward rotation around the upper cervical vertebra. Intracranial pressure and shear stress responses were calculated and compared. The results ...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Huang HM,Lee MC,Lee SY,Chiu WT,Pan LC,Chen CT

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue surface temperature distribution on the treatment site can serve as an indicator for the effectiveness of a photothermal therapy. In this study, both infrared thermography and theoretical simulation were used to determine the surface temperature distribution during laser irradiation of both gel phantom and anim...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Gnyawali SC,Chen Y,Wu F,Bartels KE,Wicksted JP,Liu H,Sen CK,Chen WR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) usually relies on the analysis of complex polysomnographic measurements performed in specialized sleep centers. Automatic signal analysis is a promising approach to reduce the diagnostic effort. This paper addresses SDB and sleep assessment solely based on the analysis...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Kesper K,Canisius S,Penzel T,Ploch T,Cassel W

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:Conventional methods of electrobioimpedance imaging are not suited for adequate visualization of the skin electrical impedance landscape (SEL) because they do not provide high spatial resolution at large enough area of view. The skin electrodynamics introscopy (SEI) enabled dynamic spectral imaging of the SEL at 32 × ...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Babich Y,Nuzhdina M,Syniuta S

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Axial head rotation prior to low speed automotive rear impacts has been clinically identified to increase morbidity and symptom duration. The present study was conducted to determine the effect of axial head rotation on facet joint capsule strains during simulated rear impacts. The study was conducted using a validate...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Storvik SG,Stemper BD

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To describe upper airway obstruction in patients with sleep apnea syndrome, the steady state solutions of a simple model of local pharyngeal obstruction were studied. Importantly, the present model embodies a series of two individualised elements, each having its own compliance, which enables the consideration, from a...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Fodil R,Ribreau C,Louis B,Lofaso F,Isabey D

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study is to analyze the prognostic factors of acute leukemia and to construct a decision model based on a causal relationship between the factors of this disease to assist medical specialists. In medical decisions, to reach effective, quick, and reliable results, there is a need for a simple...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Jahangoshai Rezaee M,Sadatpour M,Ghanbari-Ghoushchi N,Fathi E,Alizadeh A

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：:The effect of flow direction on the morphology of cultured bovine aortic endothelial cells is studied. Fully confluent endothelial cells cultured on glass were subjected to a fluid-imposed shear stress of 2 Pa for 20 min and 24 h using a parallel plate flow chamber. Experiments on shear flow exposure were performed fo...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Kataoka N,Ujita S,Sato M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroencephalography (EEG) has been widely utilized to measure the depth of anaesthesia (DOA) during operation. However, the EEG signals are usually contaminated by artifacts which have a consequence on the measured DOA accuracy. In this study, an effective and useful filtering algorithm based on multivariate empiri...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Liu Q,Chen YF,Fan SZ,Abbod MF,Shieh JS

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously proposed finite element model that considers geometric and material nonlinearities and the free boundary problems that occur at the catheter tip and in the annular zone around the lateral surface of the catheter was revised and was used to fit a power-law formula to predict backflow length during infusion...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Orozco GA,Smith JH,García JJ

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The passive and active properties of the cochlear outer hair cell are studied. The outer hair cell is currently considered the major candidate for the active component of mammalian hearing. Understanding of its properties may explain the amplification and sharp frequency selectivity of the ear. To analyse the cell beh...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Spector AA,Brownell WE,Popel AS

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Delft Shoulder and Elbow Model (DSEM), a musculoskeletal model of the shoulder and elbow has been extensively developed since its introduction in 1994. Extensions cover both model structures and anatomical data focusing on the addition of an elbow part and muscle architecture parameters. The model was also extende...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Nikooyan AA,Veeger HE,Chadwick EK,Praagman M,Helm FC

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vagus nerves convey both afferent and efferent information about autonomic activity related to cardiovascular functions. Those functions have been shown to change due to epileptic seizures, which suggests that ictal events might be detected via the vagus electroneurogram (VENG). In this study, we characterize the ...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Harreby KR,Sevcencu C,Struijk JJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is acknowledged that the first heart sound S1 consists of two major, high-frequency components M1 and T1, corresponding, respectively, to the vibrations of the mitral and tricuspid valves and their surrounding tissues following valve closure in early systole. In this study, the matching pursuit (MP) method was used...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Wang W,Guo Z,Yang J,Zhang Y,Durand LG,Loew M

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer-assisted human peripheral blood leukocyte image classification method based on Siamese network is proposed. Firstly, a Siamese network with two identical convolutional neural network (CNN) sub-networks and a logistic regression for leukocyte five classification is designed, which can learn not only distingu...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Wang Y,Cao Y

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents a novel approach of edged and edgeless object-shape recognition and 3D reconstruction from gradient-based analysis of tactile images. We recognize an object's shape by visualizing a surface topology in our mind while grasping the object in our palm and also taking help from our past experience of...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Khasnobish A,Singh G,Jati A,Konar A,Tibarewala DN

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several 3D reconstruction techniques deriving from stereoradiographic DLT have been presented during the last 15 years, but these techniques have usually been limited in accuracy because of the small number of corresponding anatomical landmarks identified on both radiographs. A new technique has recently been proposed...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Mitulescu A,Semaan I,De Guise JA,Leborgne P,Adamsbaum C,Skalli W

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to design a new approach for the acquisition of regional radial strain from the middle portion of the interventricular septum. We designed and wrote a program in Matlab (computer-assisted method) for use on a personal computer so that the septum thickness throughout the cardiac cycle could be...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Moladoust H,Mokhtari-Dizaji M,Ojaghi-Haghighi Z,D'hooge J,Noohi F,Khaledifar A,Khajavi A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique to obtain the spacing distribution of macro- and microstructures of hypercholestrolemic liver, lymphoidlucosed liver, rhinosporidium of man and ethmoidal tumour of bovine is presented. The method uses signal processing of spatially averaged spectra of ultrasonic backscattering from tissues in the frequency...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Swarnamani S,Singh M

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00