Sakamoto, Takuya Imasaka, Ryohei Taki, Hirofumi Sato, Toru Yoshioka, Mototaka Inoue, Kenichi Fukuda, Takeshi Sakai, Hiroyuki
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The objectives of this paper are to propose a method that can accurately estimate the human heart rate (HR) using an ultrawideband (UWB) radar system, and to determine the performance of the proposed method through measurements. The proposed method uses the feature points of a radar signal to estimate the HR efficiently and accurately. Fourier- and...
Liu, Yan Ma, Chao Clifford, Bryan A Lam, Fan Johnson, Curtis L Liang, Zhi-Pei
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To improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) data. A low-rank filtering method recently proposed for denoising MRSI data is extended by: 1) incorporating tissue boundary constraints to enable local low-rank filtering, and 2) integrating B0 field inhomogeneity correction by rank-minimization to make t...
Ali, Awaz Plettenburg, Dick H Breedveld, Paul
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This review aims to provide a structured classification of the underlying steering mechanisms in steerable catheters and to assess their future challenges. Existing, patented, and experimental designs of steerable catheters are classified with respect to their steerability. Subsequently, the classification is used as a tool for defining future requ...
Son, Reuben S Gowrishankar, Thiruvallur R Smith, Kyle C Weaver, James C
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Pulse trains are widely used in electroporation (EP) for both general biomedical research and clinical applications such as nonthermal tumor ablation. Here we use a computational method based on a meshed transport network to investigate a cell system model's response to a train of identical, evenly spaced electric field pulses. We obtain an unexpec...
Pani, Danilo Dessi, Alessia Saenz-Cogollo, Jose F Barabino, Gianluca Fraboni, Beatrice Bonfiglio, Annalisa
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To evaluate a novel kind of textile electrodes based on woven fabrics treated with PSS, through an easy fabrication process, testing these electrodes for biopotential recordings. Fabrication is based on raw fabric soaking in PSS using a second dopant, squeezing and annealing. The electrodes have been tested on human volunteers, in terms of both ski...
Huang, Chun-Rong Chen, Yan-Ting Chen, Wei-Ying Cheng, Hsiu-Chi Sheu, Bor-Shyang
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A new computer-aided diagnosis method is proposed to diagnose the gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) from endoscopic images of the esophageal-gastric junction. To avoid the interferences of different endoscope devices and automatic camera white balance adjustment, heterogeneous descriptors computed from heterogeneous color models are used to re...
Lee, Sanghoon Yen, Shih-Cheng Sheshadri, Swathi Delgado-Martinez, Ignacio Xue, Ning Xiang, Zhuolin Thakor, Nitish V Lee, Chengkuo
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This paper demonstrates flexible epineural strip electrodes (FLESE) for recording from small nerves. Small strip-shaped FLESE enables us to easily and closely stick on various sized nerves for less damage in a nerve and optimal recording quality. In addition, in order to enhance the neural interface, the gold electrode contacts were coated with car...
Mohammed, Goran Abdulrahman Hou, Ming
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The objective of this paper is to propose an asymmetric Gaussian function as an alternative to the existing active force-length models, and to optimize this model along with several other existing models by using the least squares curve fitting method. The minimal set of coefficients is identified for each of these models to facilitate the least sq...
Duan, Junbo Wan, Mingxi Deng, Hong-Wen Wang, Yu-Ping
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Whole-exome sequencing provides a more cost-effective way than whole-genome sequencing for detecting genetic variants, such as copy number variations (CNVs). Although a number of approaches have been proposed to detect CNVs from whole-genome sequencing, a direct adoption of these approaches to whole-exome sequencing will often fail because exons ar...
Porter, Emily Coates, Mark Popović, Milica
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This study reports on monthly scans of healthy patient volunteers with the clinical prototype of a microwave imaging system. The system uses time-domain measurements, and incorporates a multistatic radar approach to imaging. It operates in the 2-4 GHz range and contains 16 wideband sensors embedded in a hemispherical dielectric radome. The system h...
