biomedical engineering

Grand Challenges at the Interface of Engineering and Medicine

Grand Challenges at the Interface of Engineering and Medicine 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
Over the past two decades Biomedical Engineering has emerged as a major discipline that bridges societal needs of human health care with the development of novel technologies. Every medical institution… read more

MFEM-CIN: A Lightweight Architecture Combining CNN and Transformer for the Classification of Pre-cancerous Lesions of the Cervix

MFEM-CIN: A Lightweight Architecture Combining CNN and Transformer for the Classification of Pre-cancerous Lesions of the Cervix 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
Goal: Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers in women worldwide, ranking among the top four. Unfortunately, it is also the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths among… read more

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on Image-Guided Therapies

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on Image-Guided Therapies 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
Numerous medical imaging modalities are clinically available and widely used in disease diagnosis and monitoring therapy response. Imaging data are also increasingly being used for constructing patient-specific computational models to… read more

Optimized Clinical Feature Analysis for Improved Cardiovascular Disease Risk Screening

Optimized Clinical Feature Analysis for Improved Cardiovascular Disease Risk Screening 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
Objective: To develop a clinical decision support tool that can predict cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk with high accuracy while requiring minimal clinical feature input, thus reducing the time and effort… read more

Pairwise Heuristic Sequence Alignment Algorithm Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

Author(s)3: Yong-Joon Song, Dong Jin Ji, Hyein Seo, Gyu-Bum Han, Dong-Ho Cho
Pairwise Heuristic Sequence Alignment Algorithm Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Goal: Various methods have been developed to analyze the association between organisms and their genomic sequences. Among them, sequence alignment is the most frequently used method for comparative analysis of biological…

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A Pervasive Respiratory Monitoring Sensor for COVID-19 Pandemic

Author(s)3: Xiaoshuai Chen, Shuo Jiang, Zeyu Li, Benny P.L. Lo
A Pervasive Respiratory Monitoring Sensor for COVID-19 Pandemic 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Goal: The SARS-CoV-2 viral infection could cause severe acute respiratory syndrome disturbing the regular breathing and leading to continuous coughing. Automatic respiration monitoring systems could provide the necessary metrics and…

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Detecting Regions At Risk for Spreading COVID-19 Using Existing Cellular Wireless Network Functionalities

Author(s)3: Edwin K. P. Chong, Alaa A. R. Alsaeedy
Detecting Regions At Risk for Spreading COVID-19 Using Existing Cellular Wireless Network Functionalities 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Goal: The purpose of this article is to introduce a new strategy to identify areas with high human density and mobility, which are at risk for spreading COVID-19. Crowded regions…

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