Webinars

Webinar Series

OJEMB special issue guest-edited by Prof Eskofier (Invisible Sensing: Radar-Based Biomonitoring).

Overview of Radar-Based Gait Parameter Estimation Techniques for Fall Risk Assessment 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Overview of Radar-Based Gait Parameter Estimation Techniques for Fall Risk Assessment

EmRad: Ubiquitous Vital Sign Sensing Using Compact Continuous-Wave Radars 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

EmRad: Ubiquitous Vital Sign Sensing Using Compact Continuous-Wave Radars

A Review on Recent Advancements of Biomedical Radar for Clinical Applications 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

A Review on Recent Advancements of Biomedical Radar for Clinical Applications

Passive Radar Sensing for Human Activity Recognition: A Survey 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Passive Radar Sensing for Human Activity Recognition: A Survey

A Review and Tutorial on Machine Learning-Enabled Radar-Based Biomedical Monitoring 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

A Review and Tutorial on Machine Learning-Enabled Radar-Based Biomedical Monitoring

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on Invisible Sensing: Radar-Based Biomonitoring 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on Invisible Sensing: Radar-Based Biomonitoring

Webinar Series

Computational Modeling and Digital Twin Technology

Continuous Patient-Independent Estimation of Respiratory Rate and Blood Pressure Using Robust Spectro-Temporal Features Derived From Photoplethysmogram Only 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Continuous Patient-Independent Estimation of Respiratory Rate and Blood Pressure Using Robust Spectro-Temporal Features Derived From Photoplethysmogram Only

Continuous, robust, and non-invasive monitoring of vitals with only one wearable sensor having applications in remote, fitness, and mobile health-care devices where both RR and BP are desired.

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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)

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

There is no dynamic approach to decode the arousal from the arousal-performance link. Our algorithm decodes the arousal using skin conductance as well as cognitive performance.

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Fractional-Order Modeling of Arterial Compliance in Vascular Aging: A Computational Biomechanical Approach for Investigating Cardiovascular Dynamics 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Fractional-Order Modeling of Arterial Compliance in Vascular Aging: A Computational Biomechanical Approach for Investigating Cardiovascular Dynamics

Fractional-order calculus improves arterial compliance modeling for human vascular aging. Our model accurately estimates blood pressure distribution and stiffness, advancing the understanding of cardiovascular disease.

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Multiscale Model Development for Electrical Properties of Thyroid and Parathyroid Tissues 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Multiscale Model Development for Electrical Properties of Thyroid and Parathyroid Tissues

The presented computational study investigated the electrical impedance spectroscopy as a potential method to discriminate thyroid and parathyroid tissue during thyroidectomy.

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An Emotion-Driven Vocal Biomarker-Based PTSD Screening Tool 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

An Emotion-Driven Vocal Biomarker-Based PTSD Screening Tool

Vocal biomarkers based on temporal regions of low-arousal and positive-valence achieve an area under the curve of 0.80 in detecting PTSD Check List Civilian (PCL-C) ratings.

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Computational Simulation of Virtual Patients Reduces Dataset Bias and Improves Machine Learning-Based Detection of ARDS from Noisy Heterogeneous ICU Datasets 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Computational Simulation of Virtual Patients Reduces Dataset Bias and Improves Machine Learning-Based Detection of ARDS from Noisy Heterogeneous ICU Datasets

Mechanistic virtual patient modeling can be used to infer individualized parameters approximating disease states of patients, significantly reducing biases introduced by learning from heterogeneous datasets and allowing improved discovery of patient cohorts driven exclusively by medical conditions.

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Digital Twins of Biological Systems: A Narrative Review 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Digital Twins of Biological Systems: A Narrative Review

The concept of Digital Twins (DTs), software models that mimic the behavior and interactions of physical or conceptual objects within their environments, has gained traction in recent years, particularly in…

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Weakly-Supervised Deep Learning and Its Medical Application

UKSSL: Underlying Knowledge Based Semi-Supervised Learning for Medical Image Classification 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

UKSSL: Underlying Knowledge Based Semi-Supervised Learning for Medical Image Classification

We represent a novel semi-supervised framework for medical image classification, which only needs limited labeled data to achieve excellent performance.

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Ensemble Deep Learning Object Detection Fusion for Cell Tracking, Mitosis, and Lineage 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Ensemble Deep Learning Object Detection Fusion for Cell Tracking, Mitosis, and Lineage

Cell tracking and motility analysis are essential for understanding multicellular processes, automated quantification in biomedical experiments, and medical diagnosis and treatment.

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Gastric Section Correlation Network for Gastric Precancerous Lesion Diagnosis 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Gastric Section Correlation Network for Gastric Precancerous Lesion Diagnosis

Effectively identify high gastric cancer risk patients with CGI from endoscopic images by a novel deep learning network without invasive biopsies.

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Uncertainty Estimation in Unsupervised MR-CT Synthesis of Scoliotic Spines 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Uncertainty Estimation in Unsupervised MR-CT Synthesis of Scoliotic Spines

A novel method for quantifying aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties in the unsupervised and unpaired MR-CT synthesis of scoliotic spines, thus improving model performance and providing interpretable outputs through confidence maps.

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Multimodal Emotion Recognition Based on Facial Expressions, Speech, and EEG 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Multimodal Emotion Recognition Based on Facial Expressions, Speech, and EEG

This study is the first attempt to combine the multiple modalities of facial expressions, speech, and EEG for emotion recognition. The accuracy and robustness of the emotion recognition method are improved using three improved deep learning models for each modality and an optimal weight distribution-based decision-level fusion method.

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Chronic Wound Image Augmentation and Assessment Using Semi-Supervised Progressive Multi-Granularity EfficientNet 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Chronic Wound Image Augmentation and Assessment Using Semi-Supervised Progressive Multi-Granularity EfficientNet

Our envisioned smartphone wound assessment system can reduce the significant burden that manual wound grading imposes on wound care nurses.

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Deep Learning-Based Glucose Prediction Models: A Guide for Practitioners and a Curated Dataset for Improved Diabetes Management 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Deep Learning-Based Glucose Prediction Models: A Guide for Practitioners and a Curated Dataset for Improved Diabetes Management

Accurate short- and mid-term blood glucose predictions are crucial for patients with diabetes struggling to maintain healthy glucose levels, as well as for individuals at risk of developing the disease.…

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NF-GAT: A Node Feature-Based Graph Attention Network for ASD Classification 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

NF-GAT: A Node Feature-Based Graph Attention Network for ASD Classification

Goal: The purpose of this paper is to recognize autism spectrum disorders (ASD) using graph attention network. Methods: we propose a node features graph attention network (NF-GAT) for learning functional…

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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)

Grand Challenges at the Interface of Engineering and Medicine

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…

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Special Issues

BioMedical Diffuse Optics for the Brain
Guest Editor: Prof Sergio Fantini

Single Source-Detector Separation Approach to Calculate Tissue Oxygen Saturation Using Continuous Wave Near-Infrared Spectroscopy 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Single Source-Detector Separation Approach to Calculate Tissue Oxygen Saturation Using Continuous Wave Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

novel avenue to measure tissue oxygen saturation noninvasively with high accuracy using a multiwavelength LED and a photodetector was developed and verified with an optical simulation and in-vivo experiment.

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System Derived Spatial-Temporal CNN for High-Density fNIRS BCI 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

System Derived Spatial-Temporal CNN for High-Density fNIRS BCI

The unique and often overlooked interdependence between fNIRS probe design and neural network architecture is demonstrated. A novel and effective BCI model is presented, which can be generalised to multi-wavelength, broadband, and hybrid fNIRS data.

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Cerebrovascular Impedance as a Function of Cerebral Perfusion Pressure 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Cerebrovascular Impedance as a Function of Cerebral Perfusion Pressure

Non-invasive, diffuse optics-based impedance measurements were performed on three non-human primates undergoing cerebral perfusion pressure-based autoregulation challenges. The results show impedance can be used as a non-invasive biomarker of cerebral health.

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Coherent Spontaneous Hemodynamics in the Human Brain 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Coherent Spontaneous Hemodynamics in the Human Brain

Spontaneous cerebral hemodynamics measured with near-infrared spectroscopy feature a significant coherence with systemic arterial blood pressure for about 10%–30% of the time at a relevant autoregulation frequency of 0.1 Hz.

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Healthcare for Space, Space for Healthcare
Guest Editor: Ilaria Cinelli

Building a One Country One Licensure Framework: Applications for the Future of Canadian Space Physicians 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Building a One Country One Licensure Framework: Applications for the Future of Canadian Space Physicians

This paper examines the current medicolegal deficiencies of physicians providing healthcare to spaceflight participants during spaceflight. As spaceflight becomes increasingly common, new Canadian legislation is required to address these gaps.

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EuniceScope: Low-Cost Imaging Platform for Studying Microgravity Cell Biology 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

EuniceScope: Low-Cost Imaging Platform for Studying Microgravity Cell Biology

We demonstrate a lightweight, compact, and highly reconfigurable microgravity simulating toolbox built on a 3D-printed microscope integrated with a 2D clinostat system for democratizing astrobiology research and education.

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Balance Perturbations in Simulated Low-Gravity Modulate Human Premotor and Frontoparietal Electrocortical Theta, Alpha, and Beta Band Spectral Power 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Balance Perturbations in Simulated Low-Gravity Modulate Human Premotor and Frontoparietal Electrocortical Theta, Alpha, and Beta Band Spectral Power

Identifying changes in human electrical brain and muscle activation dynamics in simulated low-gravity provides opportunities to intervene and mitigate gait and balance deficits following spaceflight.

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Adding Sound Transparency to a Spacesuit: Effect on Cognitive Performance in Females 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Adding Sound Transparency to a Spacesuit: Effect on Cognitive Performance in Females

Koh Block cognitive test indicates that adding sound transparency to an IVA space suit is correlated with higher cognitive performance in a simulated astronaut environment.

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Processes for Designing Innovative Biomedical Hardware to Use in Space and on Earth 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Processes for Designing Innovative Biomedical Hardware to Use in Space and on Earth

Space exploration constraints create an innovative opportunity to improve healthcare equity and health outcomes with comprehensive solutions under the guidance of best practices from both terrestrial and spaceflight alike.

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Novel 3-D Printable Aspiration Device “SPUTA VACUUMER” Designed to Minimize Invasion 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Novel 3-D Printable Aspiration Device “SPUTA VACUUMER” Designed to Minimize Invasion

The SPUTA VACCUMER is a 3D printable device that can remove sputum and foreign matters without inserting a suction catheter into the trachea.

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The Enjoyability of Physical Exercise: Exergames and Virtual Reality as New Ways to Boost Psychological and Psychosocial Health in Astronauts. A Prospective and Perspective View 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

The Enjoyability of Physical Exercise: Exergames and Virtual Reality as New Ways to Boost Psychological and Psychosocial Health in Astronauts. A Prospective and Perspective View

Exergames are an interactive video gaming system that requires bodily movement to play and function, thereby stimulating a form of physical activity.

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Development of a Digital Platform: A Perspective to Advance Space Telepharmacy 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Development of a Digital Platform: A Perspective to Advance Space Telepharmacy

Advances in space medicine and life sciences can boost the technological development in digital health for ground and space applications, including the area of telepharmacy.

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Enabling Human Space Exploration Missions Through Progressively Earth Independent Medical Operations (EIMO) 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

Enabling Human Space Exploration Missions Through Progressively Earth Independent Medical Operations (EIMO)

This paper proposes a definition for Earth Independent Medical Operations, describes the key components, and outlines directions for future work.

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How Space Operations Drive Innovation In Human Healthcare 150 150 IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB)

How Space Operations Drive Innovation In Human Healthcare

Medical capabilities for use in space require regulations.

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