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Fetal-BET: Brain Extraction Tool for Fetal MRI

Fetal-BET: Brain Extraction Tool for Fetal MRI 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
Goal: In this study, we address the critical challenge of fetal brain extraction from MRI sequences. Fetal MRI has played a crucial role in prenatal neurodevelopmental studies and in advancing… read more

Effect of Preadolescents’ Obesity on Inhibitory Control During Stop-Signal Task: A Functional EEG Network Study

Effect of Preadolescents’ Obesity on Inhibitory Control During Stop-Signal Task: A Functional EEG Network Study 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
Objectives. Until now, limited knowledge remains regarding the association among childhood obesity, cognitive behavior, and brain networks. Utilizing a publicly available dataset, we aimed to investigate the relationships between childhood… read more

EEG Microstate as a Marker of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

EEG Microstate as a Marker of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
The pathophysiology of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS) is not yet fully understood, but multifactorial hypotheses have been proposed that include defective central nervous system (CNS) control of posture, biomechanics, and… read more

BucketAugment: Reinforced Domain Generalisation in Abdominal CT Segmentation

BucketAugment: Reinforced Domain Generalisation in Abdominal CT Segmentation 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
Goal: In recent years, deep neural networks have consistently outperformed previously proposed methods in the domain of medical segmentation. However, due to their nature, these networks often struggle to delineate… read more

An Investigation of Manifold-Based Direct Control for a Brain-to-Body Neural Bypass

An Investigation of Manifold-Based Direct Control for a Brain-to-Body Neural Bypass 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
Objective: Brain-body interfaces (BBIs) have emerged as a very promising solution for restoring voluntary hand control in people with upper-limb paralysis. The BBI module decoding motor commands from brain signals… read more

Bayesian Inference of Hidden Cognitive Performance and Arousal States in Presence of Music

Bayesian Inference of Hidden Cognitive Performance and Arousal States in Presence of Music 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
Goal: Poor arousal management may lead to reduced cognitive performance. Specifying a model and decoder to infer the cognitive arousal and performance contributes to arousal regulation via non-invasive actuators such… read more

Masked Modeling-Based Ultrasound Image Classification via Self-Supervised Learning

Masked Modeling-Based Ultrasound Image Classification via Self-Supervised Learning 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
Recently, deep learning-based methods have emerged as the preferred approach for ultrasound data analysis. However, these methods often require large-scale annotated datasets for training deep models, which are not readily… read more

EEG Information Transfer Changes in Different Daily Fatigue Levels During Drowsy Driving

EEG Information Transfer Changes in Different Daily Fatigue Levels During Drowsy Driving 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)
A significant issue for traffic safety has been drowsy driving for decades. A number of studies have investigated the effects of acute fatigue on spectral power; and recent research has… read more

Privacy-Preserving Deep Speaker Separation for Smartphone-Based Passive Speech Assessment

Author(s)3: Apiwat Ditthapron, Emmanuel O Agu, Adam C Lammert
Privacy-Preserving Deep Speaker Separation for Smartphone-Based Passive Speech Assessment 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Goal: Smartphones can be used to passively assess and monitor patients’ speech impairments caused by ailments such as Parkinson’s disease, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and neurodegenerative…

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