Assessment of heart rate variability by application of central tendency measure.

abstract：:Stroke survivors are more prone to developing cognitive impairment and dementia. Dementia detection is a challenge for supporting personalized healthcare. This study analyzes the electroencephalogram (EEG) background activity of 5 vascular dementia (VaD) patients, 15 stroke-related patients with mild cognitive impairm...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Al-Qazzaz NK,Ali SHBM,Ahmad SA,Islam MS,Escudero J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone mass and microarchitecture are the main determinants of bone strength. Three-dimensional micro-computed tomography has the potential to examine complete bones of small laboratory animals with very high resolution in a non-invasive way. In the presented work, the proximal part of the tibiae of hindlimb unloaded an...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Laib A,Barou O,Vico L,Lafage-Proust MH,Alexandre C,Rügsegger P

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To make picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) a practical reality for small-scale structures, it appears necessary to build a network that integrates and optimises production management, analysis and storage of images, and to include the ability to communicate with other similar remote structures. To solv...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Duchêne J,Lerallut JF,Gong N,Kanz R

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past decades witnessed the expansion of linear signal processing methods in numerous biomedical applications. However, the nonlinear behavior of biomedical signals revived the interest in nonlinear signal processing methods such as higher-order statistics, in particular higher-order cumulants (HOC). In this paper, HOC...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Safara F

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents a stimulation control method using a uniaxial gyroscope measuring angular velocity of the shank in the sagittal plane, to control functional electrical stimulation of the triceps surae to improve push-off of stroke subjects during gait. The algorithm is triggered during each swing phase of gait w...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Monaghan CC,van Riel WJ,Veltink PH

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One challenge in the current research of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) is how to classify time-varying electroencephalographic (EEG) signals as accurately as possible. In this paper, we address this problem from the aspect of updating feature extractors and propose an adaptive feature extractor, namely adaptive com...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Sun S,Zhang C

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fraction of repolarization variability independent of RR interval variability is of clinical interest. It has been linked to direct autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulation of the ventricles in healthy subjects and seems to reflect the instability of the ventricular repolarization process in heart disease. In thi...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： El-Hamad F,Javorka M,Czippelova B,Krohova J,Turianikova Z,Porta A,Baumert M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) allows the assessment of stroke patients' cortical excitability and corticospinal tract integrity, which provide information regarding motor function recovery. However, the extraction of features from motor-evoked potentials (MEP) elicited by TMS, such as amplitude and latency, ...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Tecuapetla-Trejo JE,Cantillo-Negrete J,Carrillo-Mora P,Valdés-Cristerna R,Ortega-Robles E,Arias-Carrion O,Carino-Escobar RI

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Transurethral resection of the prostate is the most common method of relieving urinary outflow obstruction secondary to prostatic enlargement. However, this procedure can be responsible for various complications, including irrigant-fluid absorption and blood loss, both of which are strongly dependent on operation dura...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Mestas JL,Cathignol D,Chavrier F,Devonec M

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) emerges as an effective clinical device providing life-saving support to heart patients. The design of blood pump of an LVAD involves incredible accuracy and thorough understanding of hemodynamics to mimic the functionality of a healthy ventricle. This work studies hemodynamics a...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Kannojiya V,Das AK,Das PK

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the advent of biomedical imaging technology, the number of captured and stored biomedical images is rapidly increasing day by day in hospitals, imaging laboratories and biomedical institutions. Therefore, more robust biomedical image analysis technology is needed to meet the requirement of the diagnosis and class...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Pang S,Du A,Orgun MA,Yu Z

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:In total hip arthroplasty, determining the impingement free range of motion requirement is a complex task. This is because in the native hip, motion is restricted by both impingement as well as soft tissue restraint. The aim of this study is to determine a range of motion benchmark which can identify motions which are...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Turley GA,Williams MA,Wellings RM,Griffin DR

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：:Conduct disorder (CD) is an important mental health problem in childhood and adolescence. There is presently a trend of revealing neural mechanisms using measures of brain networks. This study goes further by presenting a classification scheme to distinguish subjects with CD from typically developing healthy subjects ...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Zhang J,Liu Y,Luo R,Du Z,Lu F,Yuan Z,Zhou J,Li S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A generic framework for the automated classification of human movements using an accelerometry monitoring system is introduced. The framework was structured around a binary decision tree in which movements were divided into classes and subclasses at different hierarchical levels. General distinctions between movements...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Mathie MJ,Celler BG,Lovell NH,Coster AC

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remote patient monitoring should reduce mortality rates, improve care, and reduce costs. We present an overview of the available technologies for the remote monitoring of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients, together with the most important medical information regarding COPD in a language that is ada...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Tomasic I,Tomasic N,Trobec R,Krpan M,Kelava T

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tooth mobility examination is important in planning dental treatment, as it may give an indication of alveolar bone loss and the condition of the periodontal ligament. In clinical dental diagnosis a manual tooth mobility examination is useful. However, its determination of tooth mobility is subjective and depends on t...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Oka H,Yamamoto T,Saratani K,Kawazoe T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological parameters of blood such as extracellular Na(+), K(+), Cl(-), pH, 2,3-DPG and ATP and the complex electrical impedance were measured using whole blood samples from 31 male donors (21 donors form the training set and ten donors were used for testing), on the 0th, 10th and 21st day of blood bank storag...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Ulgen Y,Sezdi M

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:Magnetoenterography (MENG) is a new, non-invasive technique that measures gastrointestinal magnetic signals near the body surface. This study was undertaken to evaluate the temporal and spatial characteristics of the magnetic signals generated by gastric and duodenal slow wave activity. The gastrointestinal magnetic f...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Turnbull GK,Ritcey SP,Stroink G,Brandts B,van Leeuwen P

更新日期：1999-09-01 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：:Therapeutic hypothermia is a treatment method to reduce brain injuries after stroke, especially for cerebral ischemia. This study investigates in the temperature distribution of the head within selective brain cooling (SBC). Anatomically accurate geometries based on CT images of head and neck regions are used to devel...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Yin L,Jiang H,Zhao W,Li H

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical confidentiality is an essential duty in the medical profession. In this paper, we introduce a novel robust blind watermarking method for securing the medical report in a DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) imaging. The insertion of each bit is done in the subtraction of adjacent DC coefficie...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Boussif M,Aloui N,Cherif A

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：:Architectural distortion is a subtle abnormality in mammograms, and a source of overlooking errors by radiologists. Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) techniques can improve the performance of radiologists in detecting masses and calcifications; however, most CAD systems have not been designed to detect architectural dist...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Rangayyan RM,Ayres FJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new algorithm to resolve superimposed motor unit action potentials (MUAPs) is described, which uses a reduced search space and is based on the peel off approach. Knowledge specific to the problem domain, such as temporal relationships between and within motor unit action potential trains and MUAP energy information,...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Etawil H,Stashuk D

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:We present a new, automatic, correlation-based method for measuring the duration of motor unit action potentials (MUAPs). The method seeks to replicate the way an expert elctromyographer uses his or her eyes, calculating the start and end of the MUAP waveform on the basis of the degree of similarity of non-excluded di...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Rodríguez Carreño I,Malanda A,Gila Useros L,Gurtubay IG,Navallas J,Rodríguez-Falces J

更新日期：2020-03-01 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