Showing papers in "Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering in 2013"

TL;DR: The research conducted and commercially available devices are presented, and their actuation, hardware, and movements they make possible are described and possible challenges and improvements are outlined.

TL;DR: This review examined specific lung sounds/disorders, the number of subjects, the signal processing and classification methods and the outcome of the analyses of lung sounds using machine learning methods that have been performed by previous researchers.

TL;DR: Analysis of the fetal heart rate (FHR) signal is aimed at detection of clinically important patterns like bradycardia or tachycardia, accelerations and decelerations, as well as quantification of instantaneous FHR variability, and the new method proposed is based on the weighted myriad filtering.

TL;DR: The clinical interpretation guidelines provided by FIGO were used to develop the weighted fuzzy scoring system for qualitative assessment of the fetal state, and agreement of the fuzzy classification system with the neonatal outcome assessment was analyzed.

TL;DR: In this study, a home-made four channel sEMG amplifier circuit was designed for measu-ring of s EMG signals and classification rates of ANN and GMM classifiers were compared as regards features.

TL;DR: An optimal control model based on arm dynamics enabling also incorporation of muscle functioning constraints (i.e. simulation of muscle tightness) to find the optimal trajectories for planar arm reaching movements is used.

TL;DR: A technique for time-efficient power-line interference suppression from EMG signals using digital IIR (Infinite Impulse Response) notch filters with reduced transient response is presented.

TL;DR: The aim of this paper is to design a pattern recognition based system to detect the P300 component in the EEG trials and this system has two main blocks, feature extraction and clas-sification.

TL;DR: Analysis of the gait trials of an amputee showed the timing of artificial muscles was similar to EMG of biological knee muscles, an initial step forward to implement the concept of biomimetic approach in prosthetic knee technology.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of different aryl residues on the efficiency of the catalytic reduction of dioxygen in the presence of laccase was systematically studied using voltammetry and measuring the power output of a biofuel cell.

TL;DR: A method of image equalisation that reduces non-uniformity of light distribution caused by optical devices and dust on camera sensors is presented and turns out to be more similar to the reference method results, than the results of the original images segmentation.

TL;DR: Applications of cerebrospinal fluid NMR-based metabolic fingerprinting to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis as possible early diagnostic tool showed that it was possible to distinguish the ALS patients from the control ones on the basis of the CSF metabolic profile.

TL;DR: The information contained in this review will greatly assist and guide the progress of studies that use surface electromyography to measure triceps brachii muscle activity in the context of rehabilitation, physiological exercise, sports, and prosthesis control.

TL;DR: This paper proposes an application of the UTA method for estimation of the multicriteria rule interestingness measure reflecting expert's subjective rule evaluation and allows obtaining the rule ranking that is better correlated with expert ranking than the ranking obtained in the standard way.

TL;DR: A structural classification by the aid of support vector machine (SVM) classifier of Amino acid composition and pseudo amino acid composition features was applied with different variants to avoid the redundancy and to ensure a maximal amount of available data.

TL;DR: Recursive feature elimination method (RFE), cross validation coefficient (CV) and accuracy of classification of test data are applied as a criterion of feature selection in order to find relevant features and to analyze their influence on classifier accuracy.

TL;DR: The described system calculates all factors required for semen quality assessment and recognizes sperm cells by its shape, structure and size.

TL;DR: The study compares the elapsed time necessary to update/enter the information about the patient's dental status using the paper dental card, a lifetime dental EHR controlled by keyboard and a lifetime oral health record controlled by voice.

TL;DR: The study aim was to test initially a method that could differentiate their influence to aid spirometry interpretation during screening examinations and made the RP estimation independent from the Rad value and the CP.

TL;DR: Using a simulation study, it is shown that the results provided by the Andrews curves approach are markedly superior to the estimates distance test (the best proposed method for detecting outliers revealed in the literature) for the crossover bioequivalence design.

TL;DR: A convenient method for superimposing SPECT images and EEG maps by approximating the coordinates of the remaining electrodes used in EEG recording and computing a sequence of 3D EEG maps spanning on all the electrodes is developed.

TL;DR: In this article, the pH gradient field distribution in solution is mainly related to the electrode shape, while the input voltage value has no effect on the distribution of the field, and the simulation results are consistent with the experiment results, which indicate that the bacteria movement can be controlled by the electrodes' shape and input voltage.

TL;DR: In this article, ocular saccades were recorded using a saccadometer in twelve participants aged 64-91 years before and after 2.5-month training in fall prevention.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of misalignment between the electronic and the mechanical axis of rotations of a SPECT system equipped with low-energy high-resolution and lowenergy general-purpose collimators through the field of view has been studied.