IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
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Stomach 3D Reconstruction Using Virtual Chromoendoscopic Images
Objective. Gastric endoscopy is a golden standard in the clinical process that enables medical practitioners to diagnose various lesions inside a patient’s stomach. If a lesion is found, a success in identifying the location of the found lesion relative to...
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Posted on 1 MAR 2021
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Standardization of Neurotechnology for Brain-Machine Interfacing: State of the Art and Recommendations
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Posted on 24 FEB 2021
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Preliminary Minimum Reporting Requirements for In-Vivo Neural Interface Research: I. Implantable Neural Interfaces
Calvin Elber, Jean Delbeke, Jorge Cardoso, Martijn De Neeling, Sam E John, Jerry Skefos, Dimiter Prodanov, Chang Won Lee, Argus Sun, Zach Mckinney
The pace of research and development in neuroscience, neurotechnology, and neurorehabilitation is rapidly accelerating, with the number of publications doubling every 4.2 years. Maintaining this progress requires technological standards and scientific reporting guidelines to provide frameworks for communication and interoperability....
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Posted on 23 FEB 2021
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Rapid Screening of Physiological Changes Associated with COVID-19 Using Soft-Wearables and Structured Activities: A Pilot Study
Luca Lonini, Nicholas Shawen, Olivia Botonis, Michael Fanton, Chadrasekaran Jayaraman, Chaithanya Krishna Mummidisetty, Sung Yul Shin, Claire Rushin, Sophia Jenz, Shuai Xu, John A. Rogers, Arun Jayaraman
Objective: Controlling the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic largely depends on scaling up the testing infrastructure for identifying infected individuals. Consumer-grade wearables may present a solution to detect the presence of infections in the population, but the current paradigm requires...
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Posted on 12 FEB 2021
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A Roadmap towards Standards for Neurally Controlled End Effectors
Andrew Paek, Justin Brantley, Akshay Sujatha Ravindran, Kevin Nathan, Yongtian He, David Eguren, Jesus Cruz-Garza, Sho Nakagome, Dilranjan Wickramasuriya, Jiajun Chang, Md. Rashed-Al-Mahfuz, Md. Rafiul Amin, Nikunj Arunkumar Bhagat, Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal
The control and manipulation of various types of end effectors such as powered exoskeletons, prostheses, and neural cursors by brain-machine interface (BMI) systems has been the target of many research projects. A seamless plug and play interface between any BMI...
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Posted on 12 FEB 2021
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Semi-automated control system for reaching movements in EMG shoulder disarticulation prosthesis based on mixed reality device
Goal: The development of a control system for an electromyographic shoulder disarticulation (EMG-SD) prosthesis to rapidly achieve a task with a reduction in the operational failure of the user. Methods: The motion planning of an EMG-SD prosthesis was automated using...
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Posted on 10 FEB 2021
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A Functional Model for Unifying Brain Computer Interface Terminology
Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technology is a critical area both for researchers and clinical practitioners. The IEEE P2731 working group is developing a comprehensive BCI lexicography and a functional model of BCI. The glossary and the functional model are inextricably...
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Posted on 8 FEB 2021
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Intraductal Tissue Sampling Device Designed for the Biliary Tract
Clinical sampling of tissue that is read by a pathologist is currently the gold standard for making a disease diagnosis, but the few minimally invasive techniques available for small duct biopsies have low sensitivity, increasing the likelihood of false negative...
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Posted on 5 FEB 2021
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Massage Therapy’s Effectiveness on the decoding EEG rhythms of Left/Right Motor Imagery and Motion Execution in Patients with Skeletal Muscle Pain
Objective: Most of effectiveness assessments of the widely-used Massage therapy were based on subjective routine clinical assessment tools, such as Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) score. However, few studies demonstrated the impact of massage on the Electroencephalograph (EEG) rhythm decoding of...
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Posted on 4 FEB 2021
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Autonomous Robot for Removing Superficial Traumatic Blood
Baiquan Su, Yu Shi, Xintong Li, Yi Gong, Han Li, Zifeng Ren, Yijing Xia, He Wang, Yucheng Zhang, Wei Yao, Junchen Wang, Jie Tang
Objective: To remove blood from an incision and find the incision spot is a key task during surgery, or else over discharge of blood will endanger a patient’s life. However, the repetitive manual blood removal involves plenty of workload contributing...
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Posted on 3 FEB 2021