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TBE
2016
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Cutaneous Feedback of Fingertip Deformation and Vibration for Palpation in Robotic Surgery
Abstract—Despite its expected clinical benefits, current teleoperated surgical robots do not provide the surgeon with haptic feedback largely because grounded forces can destabi...
Claudio Pacchierotti, Domenico Prattichizzo, Kathe...
TBE
2016
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Navigated Breast Tumor Excision Using Electromagnetically Tracked Ultrasound and Surgical Instruments
— Objective: Lumpectomy, breast conserving tumor excision, is the standard surgical treatment in early stage breast cancer. A common problem with lumpectomy is that the tumor may...
Tamas Ungi, Gabrielle Gauvin, Andras Lasso, Caitli...
TBE
2016
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An Open-Source Toolbox for Surrogate Modeling of Joint Contact Mechanics
— Goal: Incorporation of elastic joint contact models into simulations of human movement could facilitate studying the interactions between muscles, ligaments, and bones. Unfortu...
Ilan Eskinazi, Benjamin J. Fregly
TBE
2016
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Convex-Optimization-Based Compartmental Pharmacokinetic Analysis for Prostate Tumor Characterization Using DCE-MRI
—Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) is a powerful imaging modality to study the pharmacokinetics in a suspected cancer/tumor tissue. The pharmacokinet...
Arul-Murugan Ambikapathi, Tsung-Han Chan, Chia-Hsi...
TBE
2016
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Noninvasive Estimation of Respiratory Mechanics in Spontaneously Breathing Ventilated Patients: A Constrained Optimization Appro
— This paper presents a method for breath-by-breath noninvasive estimation of respiratory resistance and elastance in mechanically ventilated patients. For passive patients, well...
Francesco Vicario, Antonio Albanese, Nikolaos Kara...
TBE
2016
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Separable Common Spatio-Spectral Patterns for Motor Imagery BCI Systems
Abstract—Objective: Feature extraction is one of the most important steps in any brain–computer interface (BCI) system. In particular, spatio-spectral feature extraction for mo...
Amirhossein S. Aghaei, Mohammad Shahin Mahanta, Ko...
TBCAS
2016
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Ultra-Low Power Dynamic Knob in Adaptive Compressed Sensing Towards Biosignal Dynamics
—Compressed sensing (CS) is an emerging sampling paradigm in data acquisition. Its integrated analog-to-information structure can perform simultaneous data sensing and compressio...
Aosen Wang, Feng Lin, Zhanpeng Jin, Wenyao Xu
TBCAS
2016
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Photovoltaic Pixels for Neural Stimulation: Circuit Models and Performance
—Photovoltaic conversion of pulsed light into pulsed electric current enables optically-activated neural stimulation with miniature wireless implants. In photovoltaic retinal pro...
David Boinagrov, Xin Lei, Georges Goetz, Theodore ...
TBCAS
2016
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Class-DE Ultrasound Transducer Driver for HIFU Therapy
—This paper presents a practical implementation of an integrated MRI-compatible CMOS amplifier capable of directly driving a piezoelectric ultrasound transducer suitable for hig...
Carlos Christoffersen, Wai Wong, Samuel Pichardo, ...
TBCAS
2016
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Multi-Path Model and Sensitivity Analysis for Galvanic Coupled Intra-Body Communication Through Layered Tissue
—New medical procedures promise continuous patient monitoring and drug delivery through implanted sensors and actuators. When over the air wireless radio frequency (OTARF) links ...
Meenupriya Swaminathan, Ferran Simon Cabrera, Joan...