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Wearable Sensors Quantify Mobility in People With Lower Limb Amputation During Daily Life
Author(s)3: Jay Kim, Natalie Colabianchi, Jeffrey P. Wensman, Deanna H. Gates
Wearable Sensors Quantify Mobility in People With Lower Limb Amputation During Daily Life 784 423 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)

It is necessary to effectively assess functional mobility for appropriate prosthetic prescription and post-amputation rehabilitation. As part of this process, patients’ ability for variable cadence and community ambulation are assessed…

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Social Human-Robot Interaction for Gait Rehabilitation
Author(s)3: Nathalia Céspedes, Marcela Múnera, Catalina Gómez, Carlos A. Cifuentes
Social Human-Robot Interaction for Gait Rehabilitation 842 452 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)

Robot-assisted therapy for gait rehabilitation of patients with neurological disorders usually combines a body weight support system with a treadmill system. Lokomat is one of the most used devices for…

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Manifold Embedded Knowledge Transfer for Brain-Computer Interfaces
Author(s)3: Wen Zhang, Dongrui Wu
Manifold Embedded Knowledge Transfer for Brain-Computer Interfaces 1281 545 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)

Transfer learning makes use of data or knowledge in one problem to help solve a different, yet related, problem. It is particularly useful in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), for coping with…

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Estimation of muscle co-activations in wrist rehabilitation after stroke is sensitive to motor unit distribution and action potential shapes
Author(s)3: Božidar Potočnik, Matjaž Divjak, Filip Urh, Aljaž Frančič, Jernej Kranjec, Martin Šavc, Imre Cikajlo, Zlatko Matjačić, Matjaž Zadravec, Ales Holobar
Estimation of muscle co-activations in wrist rehabilitation after stroke is sensitive to motor unit distribution and action potential shapes 602 657 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)

We evaluated different muscle excitation estimation techniques, and their sensitivity to Motor Unit (MU) distribution in muscle tissue. For this purpose, the Convolution Kernel Compensation (CKC) method was used to…

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Neuromuscular Controller Embedded in a Powered Ankle Exoskeleton: Effects on Gait, Clinical Features and Subjective Perspective of Incomplete Spinal Cord Injured Subjects
Author(s)3: F. Tamburella, N. L. Tagliamonte, I. Pisotta, M. Masciullo, M. Arquilla, E.H.F. van Asseldonk, H. Van Der Kooij, A.R. Wu, F. Dzeladini, A. J. Ijspeert, M. Molinari
Neuromuscular Controller Embedded in a Powered Ankle Exoskeleton: Effects on Gait, Clinical Features and Subjective Perspective of Incomplete Spinal Cord Injured Subjects 1164 673 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)

Powered exoskeletons are among the emerging technologies claiming to assist functional ambulation. The potential to adapt robotic assistance based on specific motor abilities of incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) subjects,…

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A Novel Soft Robotic Supernumerary Hand for Severely Affected Stroke Patients
Author(s)3: Andrea S. Ciullo, Janne M. Veerbeek, Eveline Temperli, Andreas R. Luft, Frederik J. Tonis, Claudia J.W. Haarman, Arash Ajoudani, Manuel G. Catalano, Jeremia P.O. Held, Antonio Bicchi
A Novel Soft Robotic Supernumerary Hand for Severely Affected Stroke Patients 666 674 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)

Upper limb functions are severely affected in 23% of the chronic stroke patients, compromising their life quality. To re-enable hand use, providing a degree of functionality and motivating against learned…

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Estimating Fugl-Meyer Upper Extremity Motor Score From Functional-Connectivity Measures
Author(s)3: Nader Riahi, Vasily A. Vakorin, Carlo Menon
Estimating Fugl-Meyer Upper Extremity Motor Score From Functional-Connectivity Measures 804 581 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)

Fugl-Meyer assessment is an accepted method of evaluating motor function for people with stroke. A challenge associated with this assessment is the availability of trained examiners to carry out the…

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In-Vivo Study of Passive Musculotendon Mechanics in Chronic Hemispheric Stroke Survivors
Author(s)3: Matthieu K. Chardon, Nina L. Suresh, Yasin Y. Dhaher, W. Zev Rymer
In-Vivo Study of Passive Musculotendon Mechanics in Chronic Hemispheric Stroke Survivors 574 613 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)

We characterized the passive mechanical properties of the affected and contralateral musculotendon units in 9 chronic stroke survivors as well as in 6 neurologically-intact controls. Using a position-controlled motor, we…

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Simultaneous Prediction of Wrist/Hand Motion via Wearable Ultrasound Sensing
Author(s)3: Xingchen Yang, Jipeng Yan, Yinfeng Fang, Dalin Zhou, Honghai Liu
Simultaneous Prediction of Wrist/Hand Motion via Wearable Ultrasound Sensing 878 383 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)

The ability to predict wrist and hand motions simultaneously is essential for natural controls of hand protheses. In this paper, we propose a novel method that includes subclass discriminant analysis…

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Associations Among Emotional State, Sleep Quality, and Resting-State EEG Spectra: A Longitudinal Study in Graduate Students
Author(s)3: Oleksii Komarov, Li-Wei Ko, Tzyy-Ping Jung
Associations Among Emotional State, Sleep Quality, and Resting-State EEG Spectra: A Longitudinal Study in Graduate Students 651 619 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)

University students are routinely influenced by a variety of natural stressors and experience irregular sleep-wake cycles caused by the necessity to trade sleep for studying while dealing with academic assignments.…

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