Semi-global Parameterization of Online Handwriting Features for Characterizing Early-Stage Alzheimer and Mild Cognitive Impairment
ConclusionA semi-global parametrization of handwriting spatiotemporal parameters allows for a better discrimination between the HC, MCI and ES-AD profiles, than a global one does. Unlike the latter, the former encodes the distribution of the dynamics of each parameter, which offers a larger parameter space in which discrimination is easier.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - October 18, 2018 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Swallowing Sound Recognition at Home Using GMM
ConclusionThe proposal method has great potential to assist in the clinical evaluation using only swallowing sounds, which is a non-invasive technic for swallowing studies.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - October 18, 2018 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
AidAdom: Supporting Inter-Organizational Coordination for Home Help and Healthcare Services Through a Web Platform
ConclusionThe AidAdom platform provides a lightweight system which enables organizations to share a minimal set of coordination information. Our future work is oriented toward opening the system to new help and healthcare service professionals and organizations.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - October 18, 2018 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Precise Cobb Angle Measurement System Based on Spinal Images Merging Function
ConclusionThe developed measurement system demonstrated its measurement performance accurately and practically.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - October 14, 2018 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Computerised Decision Support System for Remote Health Monitoring: A Systematic Review
ConclusionThe proposed system includes the model that provides the correlations of several biosignals like electrocardiogram (ECG), peripheral capillary oxygen saturation (SPO2), body temperature and heartbeat, thereby identifying the critical situations and making the decisions using CDSS that helps in taking the necessary clinical interventions.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - October 12, 2018 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Early Stage Chronic Kidney Disease Diagnosis by Applying Data Mining Methods to Urinalysis, Blood Analysis and Disease History
ConclusionA new automatic early stage CKD diagnosis method was proposed to help the medical doctors. Attributes that would provide the highest diagnosis success rate were the use of specific gravity, albumin, sugar and red blood cells together. Also, the relation between the success rate of automatic diagnosis method and age was identified.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - October 11, 2018 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Eight Weeks of Local Vibration Training Do Not Increase Tibialis Anterior Muscle Stiffness Evaluated by Supersonic Shear Imaging
ConclusionOur results suggest that adaptations in elastic muscle properties do not explain the increased muscle strength reported after LV training.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - October 5, 2018 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
An Optimized Cascaded Stochastic Resonance for the Enhancement of Brain MRI
ConclusionThe cascaded DSR based on MOPSO has shown promising results and may be highly beneficial to the diagnosis of different brain pathology.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - September 19, 2018 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Analysis of User Control Attainment in SMR-based Brain Computer Interfaces
ConclusionsThe study concludes that the slow control attainment in SMR-based BCIs is due to its reliance on user training (neural adaptation) which is adaptive but too slow in the context of SMR modulations and due to the weak decoding of the neuronal phenomenon utilised by the user. As a recommendation, the optimality of the feature selection algorithm could be looked at to guarantee the use of the most relevant features. However and most importantly the predictive power of the translation model should be significantly improved in order to quicken control attainment as thereafter the control attainment effort could be shi...
Source: IRBM - September 18, 2018 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: August 2018Source: IRBM, Volume 39, Issue 4Author(s): (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - August 1, 2018 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Notch Pathway: Bioinformatic Analysis of Related Transcription Factors within Bladder Cancer Types and Subtypes
ConclusionNotch signaling pathway regulators do not have the same activity within the different subtypes of bladder cancer and they can be divided into two groups that behave inversely. We showed for the first time that NOTCH3 does not have the same activity within bladder cancer categories and subtypes.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - July 21, 2018 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
A Simple Method to Functionalize PCL Surface by Grafting Bioactive Polymers Using UV Irradiation
ConclusionWe developed a new approach of radical grafting which allows us to successfully graft bioactive polymer polyNaSS covalently to PCL surfaces using UV irradiation.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - July 21, 2018 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Therapeutic Ultrasound for the Heart: State of the Art
Publication date: Available online 2 December 2017Source: IRBMAuthor(s): P. Greillier, C. Bawiec, F. Bessière, C. LafonAbstractThis work describes the use of therapeutic ultrasound as a treatment of cardiovascular disease including recent, state of the art approaches. Therapeutic ultrasound researchers have made recent advances in the highly dynamic and changing world of interventional cardiology where they are confronted with several challenges, such as of the complexity of ultrasound propagation in the highly heterogeneous environment of the thorax or the complexity of the heart (in term of motion and physiology). It is...
Source: IRBM - July 10, 2018 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Shear-Wave Sources for Soft Tissues in Ultrasound Elastography
Publication date: Available online 1 February 2018Source: IRBMAuthor(s): B. Giammarinaro, A. Zorgani, S. CathelineAbstractElastography is an imaging tool for soft-tissue characterization in the human body, and it is based on the propagation of shear waves. Since its first use in the ultrasound landscape, the generation of shear waves has had practical and theoretical issues. In this review, the use of four methods of shear-wave generation are considered: an external vibrating source; a radiation pressure source; a natural source; and an electromagnetic source. The pros and cons of these methods are detailed and discussed. (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - July 10, 2018 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
EEG Based Brain Computer Interface for Controlling a Robot Arm Movement Through Thought
ConclusionThe results obtained would encourage, with further developments, the use of the proposed BCI to perform more complex tasks such as execution of successive movements or stopping the execution once a searched object is detected. This would provide a useful assistance means for people with motor impairment.Graphical abstract (Source: IRBM)
Source: IRBM - July 10, 2018 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
