Journal: Med. Biol. Engineering and Computing

Volume 52, Issue 9

717 -- 728Danila Potyagaylo, Elisenda Gil Cortés, Walther H. W. Schulze, Olaf Dössel. Binary optimization for source localization in the inverse problem of ECG
729 -- 740Hyosang Lee, Jung Kim. Estimation of flexible needle deflection in layered soft tissues with different elastic moduli
741 -- 747Guoyan Liu, Hongjun Liu, Abdurahman Kadir. Hiding message into DNA sequence through DNA coding and chaotic maps
749 -- 758Todd J. Freeborn, Brent Maundy, Ahmed S. Elwakil. Extracting the parameters of the double-dispersion Cole bioimpedance model from magnitude response measurements
759 -- 772Debi Prosad Dogra, Vishal Badri, Arun K. Majumdar, Shamik Sural, Jayanta Mukherjee, Suchandra Mukherjee, Arun Kumar Singh. Video analysis of Hammersmith lateral tilting examination using Kalman filter guided multi-path tracking
773 -- 779Grant L. S. Marchelli, William R. Ledoux, Vara Isvilanonda, Mark A. Ganter, Duane W. Storti. Joint-specific distance thresholds for patient-specific approximations of articular cartilage modeling in the first ray of the foot
781 -- 796Muthu Rama Krishnan Mookiah, U. Rajendra Acharya, Joel E. W. Koh, Chua Kuang Chua, Jen-Hong Tan, Vinod Chandran, Choo Min Lim, Kevin Noronha, Augustinus Laude, Louis Tong. Decision support system for age-related macular degeneration using discrete wavelet transform
797 -- 811Mohammad Sarmast, Hanieh Niroomand-Oscuii, Farzan Ghalichi, Ehsan Samiei. Evaluation of the hemodynamics in straight 6-mm and tapered 6- to 8-mm grafts as upper arm hemodialysis vascular access

Volume 52, Issue 8

629 -- 637Omar Chebil, Michel Behr, Florent Auriault, Pierre Jean Arnoux. Biomechanical analysis of the splenic avulsion mechanism
639 -- 651Kyungsik Eom, Joonsoo Jeong, Tae Hyung Lee, Jinhyung Kim, Junghoon Kim, Sung-Eun Lee, Sung June Kim. A wireless power transmission system for implantable devices in freely moving rodents
653 -- 661Parastoo Dehkordi, Kouhyar Tavakolian, Marcin Marzencki, Marta Kaminska, Bozena Kaminska. Assessment of respiratory flow and efforts using upper-body acceleration
663 -- 672Karthikeyan Ganesan, Roshan Joy Martis, U. Rajendra Acharya, Chua Kuang Chua, Lim Choo Min, E. Y. K. Ng, Augustinus Laude. Computer-aided diabetic retinopathy detection using trace transforms on digital fundus images
673 -- 684F. S. Ayachi, Sofiane Boudaoud, Catherine Marque. Evaluation of muscle force classification using shape analysis of the sEMG probability density function: a simulation study
685 -- 694Glen A. Turley, Damian R. Griffin, Mark A. Williams. Effect of femoral neck modularity upon the prosthetic range of motion in total hip arthroplasty
695 -- 706Ying Peng, Zoujun Dai, Hansen A. Mansy, Richard H. Sandler, Robert A. Balk, Thomas J. Royston. Sound transmission in the chest under surface excitation: an experimental and computational study with diagnostic applications
707 -- 716Luigi Yuri Di Marco, Costanzo Di Maria, Wing Chiu Tong, Michael J. Taggart, Stephen C. Robson, Philip Langley. Recurring patterns in stationary intervals of abdominal uterine electromyograms during gestation

Volume 52, Issue 7

567 -- 577Jinxiang Xi, Xiuhua Si, JongWon Kim, Guoguang Su, Haibo Dong. Modeling the pharyngeal anatomical effects on breathing resistance and aerodynamically generated sound
579 -- 588Mahsheed Sabet, Pejman Rowshanfarzad, Fred W. Menk, Peter B. Greer. Transit dosimetry in dynamic IMRT with an a-Si EPID
589 -- 599Alireza Karimi, Mahdi Navidbakhsh, Hiroshi Yamada, Reza Razaghi. A nonlinear finite element simulation of balloon expandable stent for assessment of plaque vulnerability inside a stenotic artery
601 -- 610M. Jäger, N. Gruber, René Müri, Urs P. Mosimann, Tobias Nef. Manipulations to reduce simulator-related transient adverse health effects during simulated driving
611 -- 618Mustafa A. Elattar, E. M. Wiegerinck, R. N. Planken, Ed VanBavel, Hans C. van Assen, J. Baan Jr., Henk A. Marquering. Automatic segmentation of the aortic root in CT angiography of candidate patients for transcatheter aortic valve implantation
619 -- 628Abdollah Bagheri, Dominique Persano Adorno, Piervincenzo Rizzo, Rosita Barraco, Leonardo Bellomonte. Empirical mode decomposition and neural network for the classification of electroretinographic data

Volume 52, Issue 6

511 -- 520Matthias Graf, Salomon Diether, Lazaros Vlachopoulos, Sandro Fucentese, Philipp Fürnstahl. Automatic string generation for estimating in vivo length changes of the medial patellofemoral ligament during knee flexion
521 -- 529Vipul Sharma, Sukhwinder Singh. CFS-SMO based classification of breast density using multiple texture models
531 -- 538Qiujun Huang, Hiroyuki Oya, Oliver E. Flouty, Chandan G. Reddy, Matthew A. Howard III, George T. Gillies, Marcel Utz. Comparison of spinal cord stimulation profiles from intra- and extradural electrode arrangements by finite element modelling
539 -- 556Arso M. Vukicevic, Nemanja M. Stepanovic, Gordana R. Jovicic, Svetlana R. Apostolovic, Nenad D. Filipovic. Computer methods for follow-up study of hemodynamic and disease progression in the stented coronary artery by fusing IVUS and X-ray angiography
557 -- 566Lik Chuan Lee, Liang Ge, Zhihong Zhang, Matthew Pease, Serjan D. Nikolic, Rakesh Mishra, Mark B. Ratcliffe, Julius M. Guccione. Patient-specific finite element modeling of the Cardiokinetix Parachute® device: effects on left ventricular wall stress and function

Volume 52, Issue 5

415 -- 427Maryam Mohebbi, Hassan Ghassemian. Predicting termination of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation using empirical mode decomposition of the atrial activity and statistical features of the heart rate variability
429 -- 438Elias S. G. Carotti, Vahid Shalchyan, Winnie Jensen, Dario Farina. Denoising and compression of intracortical signals with a modified MDL criterion
439 -- 447Ramiro M. Irastorza, Eugenia Blangino, Carlos M. Carlevaro, Fernando Vericat. Modeling of the dielectric properties of trabecular bone samples at microwave frequency
449 -- 457Yao-Chang Yu, Ting-Wei Hou. An efficient forward-secure group certificate digital signature scheme to enhance EMR authentication process
459 -- 465Samaneh Sarraf Shirazi, Amir Hossein Birjandi, Zahra Moussavi. Noninvasive and automatic diagnosis of patients at high risk of swallowing aspiration
467 -- 473Dingchang Zheng, Luigi Yuri Di Marco, Alan Murray. Effect of respiration on Korotkoff sounds and oscillometric cuff pressure pulses during blood pressure measurement
475 -- 489Luigi Maria Galantucci, Eliana Di Gioia, Fulvio Lavecchia, Gianluca Percoco. Is principal component analysis an effective tool to predict face attractiveness? A contribution based on real 3D faces of highly selected attractive women, scanned with stereophotogrammetry
491 -- 498Bradley J. Roth, Adam Luterek, Steffan Puwal. The movement of a nerve in a magnetic field: application to MRI Lorentz effect imaging
499 -- 508Hung-Ming Lin, Chien-Lin Liu, Yung-Ning Pan, Chang-Hung Huang, Shih-Liang Shih, Shun-Hwa Wei, Chen-Sheng Chen. Biomechanical analysis and design of a dynamic spinal fixator using topology optimization: a finite element analysis
509 -- 0Juan Fang, Aleksandra Vuckovic, Sujay Galen, Bernard A. Conway, Kenneth J. Hunt. Erratum to: Foot trajectory approximation using the pendulum model of walking

Volume 52, Issue 4

301 -- 308Ales Procházka, Saeed Vaseghi, Mohammadreza Yadollahi, Ondrej Tupa, Jan Mares, Oldrich Vysata. Remote physiological and GPS data processing in evaluation of physical activities
309 -- 319Samuel Kadoury, Jesse Shen, Stefan Parent. Global geometric torsion estimation in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
321 -- 330Christopher M. Heylman, Sharon Santoso, Melissa D. Krebs, Gerald M. Saidel, Eben Alsberg, George F. Muschler. Modeling and experimental methods to predict oxygen distribution in bone defects following cell transplantation
331 -- 341Jieqiong Wang, Wenjing Li, Wen Miao, Dai Dai, Jing Hua, Huiguang He. Age estimation using cortical surface pattern combining thickness with curvatures
343 -- 351Chia-Chi Chang, Tzu-Chien Hsiao, Hung-Yi Hsu. Frequency range extension of spectral analysis of pulse rate variability based on Hilbert-Huang transform
353 -- 362Anwesha Khasnobish, Garima Singh, Arindam Jati, Amit Konar, D. N. Tibarewala. Object-shape recognition and 3D reconstruction from tactile sensor images
363 -- 373Nicola Sancisi, Benedetta Baldisserri, Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli, Claudio Belvedere, Alberto Leardini. One-degree-of-freedom spherical model for the passive motion of the human ankle joint
375 -- 391Pedro David Arini, Fabricio Hugo Baglivo, Juan Pablo Martínez, Pablo Laguna. Evaluation of ventricular repolarization dispersion during acute myocardial ischemia: spatial and temporal ECG indices
393 -- 403Rodrigo Nava, Boris Escalante-Ramírez, Gabriel Cristóbal, Raúl San José Estépar. Extended Gabor approach applied to classification of emphysematous patterns in computed tomography
405 -- 414Robert Müller, Marian Kampschulte, Thaqif El Khassawna, Gudrun Schlewitz, Britta Hürter, Wolfgang Böcker, Manfred Bobeth, Alexander C. Langheinrich, Christian Heiss, Andreas Deutsch, Gianaurelio Cuniberti. Change of mechanical vertebrae properties due to progressive osteoporosis: combined biomechanical and finite-element analysis within a rat model

Volume 52, Issue 3

205 -- 210Andrea Giovanni Cutti, Edward K. Chadwick. Shoulder biomechanics and the success of translational research
211 -- 219Jonathan P. Braman, Kristin D. Zhao, Rebekah L. Lawrence, Alicia K. Harrison, Paula M. Ludewig. Shoulder impingement revisited: evolution of diagnostic understanding in orthopedic surgery and physical therapy
221 -- 231Pieter Bas de Witte, Jurriaan H. De Groot, Erik W. van Zwet, Paula M. Ludewig, Jochem Nagels, Rob G. H. H. Nelissen, Jonathan P. Braman. Communication breakdown: clinicians disagree on subacromial impingement
233 -- 240J. F. Henseler, P. B. de Witte, Jurriaan H. De Groot, Erik W. van Zwet, Rob G. H. H. Nelissen, Jochem Nagels. Cranial translation of the humeral head on radiographs in rotator cuff tear patients: the modified active abduction view
241 -- 249P. B. de Witte, P. van der Zwaal, E. R. A. van Arkel, Rob G. H. H. Nelissen, Jurriaan H. De Groot. Pathologic deltoid activation in rotator cuff tear patients: normalization after cuff repair?
251 -- 256James Marchi, Dimitra Blana, Edward K. Chadwick. Glenohumeral stability during a hand-positioning task in previously injured shoulders
257 -- 264Rebecca L. Brookham, Clark R. Dickerson. Empirical quantification of internal and external rotation muscular co-activation ratios in healthy shoulders
265 -- 270Gretchen D. Oliver. Relationship between gluteal muscle activation and upper extremity kinematics and kinetics in softball position players
271 -- 282I. Parel, A. G. Cutti, A. Kraszewski, G. Verni, H. Hillstrom, A. Kontaxis. Intra-protocol repeatability and inter-protocol agreement for the analysis of scapulo-humeral coordination
283 -- 291Bart Bolsterlee, H. E. J. Veeger, Frans C. T. van der Helm. Modelling clavicular and scapular kinematics: from measurement to simulation
293 -- 299Daniel Baumgartner, Daniel Tomas, Lukas Gossweiler, Walter Siegl, Georg Osterhoff, Bernd Heinlein. Towards the development of a novel experimental shoulder simulator with rotating scapula and individually controlled muscle forces simulating the rotator cuff

Volume 52, Issue 2

95 -- 107Javier Rodríguez-Falces, Nicolas Place. Effects of muscle fibre shortening on the characteristics of surface motor unit potentials
109 -- 119Michal Kania, Hervé Rix, Malgorzata Fereniec, Heriberto Zavala-Fernandez, Dariusz Janusek, Tomasz Mroczka, Günter Stix, Roman Maniewski. The effect of precordial lead displacement on ECG morphology
121 -- 129Hai-Qing Huang, Xiang Zhong Fang, Jun Shi, Jie Hu. Abnormal localization of immature precursors (ALIP) detection for early prediction of acute myelocytic leukemia (AML) relapse
131 -- 139Saugat Bhattacharyya, Abhronil Sengupta, Tathagata Chakraborti, Amit Konar, D. N. Tibarewala. Automatic feature selection of motor imagery EEG signals using differential evolution and learning automata
141 -- 147F. Fahmi, A. Riordan, L. F. M. Beenen, Geert J. Streekstra, N. Y. Janssen, H. W. de Jong, Charles B. L. M. Majoie, E. van Bavel, Henk A. Marquering. The effect of head movement on CT perfusion summary maps: simulations with CT hybrid phantom data
149 -- 158Antonio R. Hidalgo-Muñoz, M. M. López, A. Galvao-Carmona, A. T. Pereira, Isabel M. Santos, M. Vázquez-Marrufo, A. M. Tomé. EEG study on affective valence elicited by novel and familiar pictures using ERD/ERS and SVM-RFE
159 -- 168J. Tarjuelo-Gutierrez, Borja Rodríguez-Vila, David M. Pierce, T. E. Fastl, P. Verbrugghe, I. Fourneau, G. Maleux, P. Herijgers, Gerhard Holzapfel, Enrique J. Gómez. High-quality conforming hexahedral meshes of patient-specific abdominal aortic aneurysms including their intraluminal thrombi
169 -- 181Rosa-María Menchón-Lara, María Consuelo Bastida Jumilla, Juan Morales-Sánchez, José-Luis Sancho-Gómez. Automatic detection of the intima-media thickness in ultrasound images of the common carotid artery using neural networks
183 -- 191Shiying Dong, Boualem Boashash, Ghasem Azemi, Barbara Lingwood, Paul B. Colditz. Automated detection of perinatal hypoxia using time-frequency-based heart rate variability features
193 -- 203Nehemiah T. Liu, John B. Holcomb, Charles E. Wade, Andriy I. Batchinsky, Leopoldo C. Cancio, Mark I. Darrah, José Salinas. Development and validation of a machine learning algorithm and hybrid system to predict the need for life-saving interventions in trauma patients

Volume 52, Issue 12

997 -- 1006Marko Topalovic, Vasileios Exadaktylos, Marc Decramer, Thierry Troosters, Daniel Berckmans, Wim Janssens. Modelling the dynamics of expiratory airflow to describe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
1007 -- 1017Saugat Bhattacharyya, Amit Konar, D. N. Tibarewala. Motor imagery, P300 and error-related EEG-based robot arm movement control for rehabilitation purpose
1019 -- 1030Zhengbo Zhang, Ikaro Silva, Dalei Wu, Jiewen Zheng, Hao Wu, Weidong Wang. Adaptive motion artefact reduction in respiration and ECG signals for wearable healthcare monitoring systems
1031 -- 1040Choon-Sik Jhun, Kay Sun, Joshua P. Cysyk. Continuous flow left ventricular pump support and its effect on regional left ventricular wall stress: finite element analysis study
1041 -- 1052Mukesh Saraswat, K. V. Arya. Feature selection and classification of leukocytes using random forest
1053 -- 1060Rebeca Goya-Esteban, Frida Sandberg, Óscar Barquero-Pérez, Arcadio García-Alberola, Leif Sörnmo, José Luis Rojo-Álvarez. Long-term characterization of persistent atrial fibrillation: wave morphology, frequency, and irregularity analysis
1061 -- 1071Chi-Pin Hsu, Shang-Chih Lin, Kao-Shang Shih, Chang-Hung Huang, Chian-Her Lee. Predicting 3D pose in partially overlapped X-ray images of knee prostheses using model-based Roentgen stereophotogrammetric analysis (RSA)
1073 -- 1093Christos P. Loizou. A review of ultrasound common carotid artery image and video segmentation techniques

Volume 52, Issue 11

905 -- 920Stefania Scarsoglio, Andrea Guala, Carlo Camporeale, Luca Ridolfi. Impact of atrial fibrillation on the cardiovascular system through a lumped-parameter approach
921 -- 931Josien C. van den Noort, Suzanne H. Wiertsema, Karin M. C. Hekman, Casper P. Schönhuth, Joost Dekker, Jaap Harlaar. Reliability and precision of 3D wireless measurement of scapular kinematics
933 -- 943Takaumi Kato, Kenichi Funamoto, Toshiyuki Hayase, Shusaku Sone, Hiroko Kadowaki, Tadashi Shimazaki, Takao Jibiki, Koji Miyama, Lei Liu. Development and feasibility study of a two-dimensional ultrasonic-measurement-integrated blood flow analysis system for hemodynamics in carotid arteries
945 -- 961Ibbad Hafeez, Asifullah Khan, Abdul Qadir. DNA-LCEB: a high-capacity and mutation-resistant DNA data-hiding approach by employing encryption, error correcting codes, and hybrid twofold and fourfold codon-based strategy for synonymous substitution in amino acids
963 -- 969Melvyn Roerdink, Andrea Giovanni Cutti, Aurora Summa, Davide Monari, Davide Veronesi, Mariëlle W. van Ooijen, Peter J. Beek. Gaitography applied to prosthetic walking
971 -- 983Luísa Sousa, Catarina F. Castro, Carlos Conceição António, André Miguel F. Santos, Rosa Maria dos Santos, Pedro Miguel A. C. Castro, Elsa Azevedo, João Manuel R. S. Tavares. Toward hemodynamic diagnosis of carotid artery stenosis based on ultrasound image data and computational modeling
985 -- 995Daniel G. Norman, Alan Getgood, John Thornby, Jonathan Bird, Glen A. Turley, Tim Spalding, Mark A. Williams. Quantitative topographic anatomy of the femoral ACL footprint: a micro-CT analysis

Volume 52, Issue 10

813 -- 826Christian Vergara, Simone Palamara, Domenico Catanzariti, Fabio Nobile, Elena Faggiano, Cesarino Pangrazzi, Maurizio Centonze, Massimiliano Maines, Alfio Quarteroni, Giuseppe Vergara. Patient-specific generation of the Purkinje network driven by clinical measurements of a normal propagation
827 -- 839Marcelo Adrián Castro, María C. Ahumada Olivares, Christopher M. Putman, Juan R. Cebral. Unsteady wall shear stress analysis from image-based computational fluid dynamic aneurysm models under Newtonian and Casson rheological models
841 -- 849Gustavo A. Orozco, Joshua H. Smith, José J. García. Backflow length predictions during flow-controlled infusions using a nonlinear biphasic finite element model
851 -- 860Mohammad Hasan Imam, Chandan K. Karmakar, Ahsan H. Khandoker, Marimuthu Palaniswami. Effect of ECG-derived respiration (EDR) on modeling ventricular repolarization dynamics in different physiological and psychological conditions
861 -- 872Rebeca Corralejo, Luis F. Nicolás-Alonso, Daniel Álvarez, Roberto Hornero. A P300-based brain-computer interface aimed at operating electronic devices at home for severely disabled people
873 -- 883Arno M. Janssen, Thom F. Oostendorp, Dick F. Stegeman. The effect of local anatomy on the electric field induced by TMS: evaluation at 14 different target sites
885 -- 894Murat Tümer, Baykal Sarioglu, Senol Mutlu, Yekta Ulgen, Arda D. Yalcinkaya, Cengizhan Ozturk. Using a low-amplitude RF pulse at echo time (LARFET) for device localization in MRI
895 -- 904Nima Fazeli, Chang-Sei Kim, Mohammad Rashedi, Alyssa Chappell, Shaohua Wang, Roderick MacArthur, M. Sean McMurtry, Barry Finegan, Jin-Oh Hahn. Subject-specific estimation of central aortic blood pressure via system identification: preliminary in-human experimental study

Volume 52, Issue 1

1 -- 8Hoda Maleki, Shahrokh Shahriari, Louis-Gilles Durand, Michel R. Labrosse, Lyes Kadem. A metric for the stiffness of calcified aortic valves using a combined computational and experimental approach
9 -- 15Katherine R. Evans, Edmond Lou, Chris Woloschuk, Doug L. Hill, Meng Li, Man-Sang Wong. Quantitative measurement of hip protector use and compliance
17 -- 28Hongbin Liu, Kiattisak Sangpradit, Min Li, Prokar Dasgupta, Kaspar Althoefer, Lakmal D. Seneviratne. Inverse finite-element modeling for tissue parameter identification using a rolling indentation probe
29 -- 43Gorkem Serbes, Nizamettin Aydin. Denoising performance of modified dual-tree complex wavelet transform for processing quadrature embolic Doppler signals
45 -- 52Juan Fang, Kenneth J. Hunt. Foot trajectory approximation using the pendulum model of walking
53 -- 64Martin Wieser, Stefan Gisler, Amirehsan Sarabadani, Rafael M. Ruest, Lilith Bütler, Heike Vallery, Verena Klamroth-Marganska, Margret Hund-Georgiadis, Morena Felder, Josef L. Schoenberger, Clemens Gutknecht, Robert Riener. Cardiovascular control and stabilization via inclination and mobilization during bed rest
65 -- 73Anke J. Borgers, Bert-Jan H. van den Born, Anneke Alkemade, Daan W. Eeftinck Schattenkerk, Johannes J. van Lieshout, Karel H. Wesseling, Peter H. Bisschop, Berend E. Westerhof. Determinants of vascular and cardiac baroreflex sensitivity values in a random population sample
75 -- 85Sara Qvarlander, Jan Malm, Anders Eklund. CSF dynamic analysis of a predictive pulsatility-based infusion test for normal pressure hydrocephalus
87 -- 94Léo Fradet, Yvan Petit, Eric Wagnac, Carl-Eric Aubin, Pierre Jean Arnoux. Biomechanics of thoracolumbar junction vertebral fractures from various kinematic conditions