Micropatterning and Alignment of Skeletal Muscle Myoblasts Using Microflowed Plasma Process
ConclusionThis study corroborates the alignment of the myoblasts using surface cues facilitated by changing surface chemistry of the glass substrates. The study promotes the application of a simple micropatterning technique as a useful tool to regulate the orientation and behaviour of skeletal muscle cells. Also, the study emphasizes the role of spatial topography created by surface modification and its effect on cell adhesion and communication of alignment information across the micropatterns. The microchannel flowed plasma process could be applied to selectively pattern different adherent cell types, which could prove to...
Source: IRBM - September 10, 2019 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Flexible Analytic Wavelet Transform Based Features for Physical Action Identification Using sEMG Signals
ConclusionThis paper investigates the usage of the FAWT and ELM on sEMG signal classification. The results show that the proposed method is quite efficient in classification of the sEMG signals. It is also observed that the seventh sub-band of the FAWT provides the best discrimination property. In the future works, recent wavelet transform methods will be used for improving the classification performance.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - August 6, 2019 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Influence of Different Abutment Designs on the Biomechanical Behavior of One-Piece Zirconia Dental Implants and Their Surrounding Bone: A 3D-FEA
ConclusionThe one-piece zirconia dental implant abutment Model 01 presents a better biomechanical behavior in the peri-implant bone than others. It can efficiently distribute the applied load and present more homogeneous behavior of stress distribution and has less deformation than others, which will enhance the stability of implant/bone system and prolong its lifespan.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - August 6, 2019 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Low Frequency Impedimetric Cell Counting: Analytical Modeling and Measurements
ConclusionThe work demonstrates a rapid and deterministic approach to estimate lymphocyte count which will augment the existing prediction techniques for relevant physiological disorders.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - July 31, 2019 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
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Publication date: August 2019Source: IRBM, Volume 40, Issue 4Author(s): (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - July 20, 2019 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
A Modified DWT-SVD Algorithm for T1-w Brain MR Images Contrast Enhancement
ConclusionProposed method improved performance of contrast enhancement image without creating unwanted artifact and without destroying image edge information or affecting the specificities of brain tissues. This is due to the use of an empirically (μ) parameter adjustable according to the input MR images. Hence, the proposed approach is appropriate for enhancing contrast of huge type of low contrast images.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - July 11, 2019 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Computationally Efficient Cosine Modulated Filter Bank Design for ECG Signal Compression
Publication date: Available online 1 July 2019Source: IRBMAuthor(s): S. Chandra, A. Sharma, G.K. SinghAbstractIn this work, computationally efficient and reliable cosine modulated filter banks (CMFBs) are designed for Electrocardiogram (ECG) data compression. First of all, CMFBs (uniform and non-uniform) are designed using interpolated finite impulse response (IFIR) prototype filter to reduce the computational complexity. To reduce the reconstruction error, linear iteration technique is applied to optimize the prototype filter. Then after, non-uniform CMFB is used for ECG data compression by decomposing ECG signal into var...
Source: IRBM - July 3, 2019 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Semi-Quantitative Comparison of Infrared Thermography with Indocyanine Green Imaging in Porcine Intestinal Resection
ConclusionBased on experiments, the infrared thermography can be considered as one of complementary imaging methods suitable for use during anastomosis surgery. The sensitivity and versatility of the infrared thermography method was demonstrated. There was confirmed agreement in obtained information about the position of area with maximal blood insufficiency obtained by IRT with the information obtained by using the ICG method.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - July 3, 2019 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Proposing a Radial Basis Function and CSDM Indices to Predict the Traumatic Brain Injury Risk
ConclusionsThe results of this research demonstrated that rotational impact directions should be used to develop new head injury criteria being able to predict CSDM values. However, findings of present research proved that head motion-based brain injury criteria and RBF network can be used to predict FE head model responses with high speed and accuracy.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - June 20, 2019 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Recent Trends in Computer Assisted Diagnosis (CAD) System for Breast Cancer Diagnosis Using Histopathological Images
This study could be beneficial for: (i) Clinicians to receive second opinion from the CAD system for early diagnosis, and (ii) Researchers to analyze and enhance the existing state-of-art techniques used in CAD system, which may further reduce the gap of variability between intra and inter observer.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - June 15, 2019 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Using a Toroidal Transducer as an Adjuvant Treatment for Placenta Accreta: A Preliminary Ex Vivo Study
ConclusionsThis study demonstrates that HIFU may be an interesting option for adjuvant treatment during a cesarean of placenta accreta. These results must be validated under real clinical conditions.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - June 12, 2019 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
A New Design of Mental State Classification for Subject Independent BCI Systems
ConclusionsOur proposed design will help to make a new technology for development of real-time SI based BCI systems that can be more supportive for the motor disabled patients.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - June 12, 2019 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Microelectrode Neuronal Activity of the Internal Globus Pallidus in Dystonia Correlates with Postoperative Neuromodulation Effects and Placement of the Stimulation Electrode
ConclusionThis paper demonstrates the quantitative relationship between electrophysiological findings and the clinical effects of pallidal stimulation in dystonia and suggested objectification predictors of the effectiveness of this therapy.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - June 5, 2019 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
A Novel Technique to Design and Optimize Performances of Custom Load Cells for Sport Gesture Analysis
DiscussionThe conducted analysis enables to calculate the sensitivity of the load cell to the exerted forces, and evaluates its dependence to the positioning of strain gauges, and makes it possible to appropriately choose strain gauges positioning in areas where border effects are minimized. The strain distributions obtained by the FEM analysis in the presented load cells gives useful indications for all the situations where small strain gauges are requested to be mounted on a reduced offered area.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - June 5, 2019 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Determination of the Blood, Hormone and Obesity Value Ranges that Indicate the Breast Cancer, Using Data Mining Based Expert System
In this study, decision trees that is one of data mining method was applied to anthropometric data and blood analysis values to complete the mentioned deficiencies in breast cancer diagnosis aiming studies. The determined value ranges were also presented visually to medical experts understand them easily. The proposed diagnostic system has accuracy rate up to 90.52% and provides value ranges indicating the breast cancer as well as mathematically presents the relations between the values and cancer.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - June 2, 2019 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
