{"title":"Hand kinematics estimation using non-invasive surface sensors: a linear system identification approach","authors":"S. Karimimehr, Parviz Ghaderi, M. E. Andani","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404149","url":null,"abstract":"Hand kinematics or joints angle estimation using sensors to control prosthetic devices is one of the growing research areas in today's biomedical engineering. The need for continuous and proportional control of movements makes the regression methods more suitable than classification approaches. In system identification like regression it is possible to find a model which tracks the behavior of an input-output relation without knowing much information about the details of the inside model (black box models). In this paper we have a comprehensive study on some well-known linear models and introduce the best one for joints angle estimation in prosthetic control. The Output Error (OE) model is introduced as the best one and RMS feature as the best feature to transform sensor signals into feature domain. For the input of the model we used both surface Electromyographic (sEMG) signals and accelerometers attached on them. As these sensors are non-invasive, there is huge interest in using them for commercial purposes. We showed that this combination results in a better performance than using each of them alone. Finally, we proposed a combinational model using different pre-processing steps to estimate all joints with good estimation and low cost with less than 10 degrees of average error. This result is comparable with state of the art methods in the literature.","PeriodicalId":127657,"journal":{"name":"2015 22nd Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"47 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114035252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Momtahan, Hr Farhang, S. Dehghani, F. Bahrami, H. Moradi, F. Najafi
{"title":"Design of a planar parallel robot to investigate human arm point to point reaching movement","authors":"M. Momtahan, Hr Farhang, S. Dehghani, F. Bahrami, H. Moradi, F. Najafi","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404147","url":null,"abstract":"To study human motor control and learning in upper extremities, scientists widely use robotic arms to apply external forces to subject's hand interactively. In this work, we describe the design procedure of a planar parallel manipulandum with five links and 2-DoF in a vertical plane (e.g. sagittal or frontal plane). The manipulandum works in two active and passive modes. In the passive mode, the robotic arm follows the movements of the human arm; while in the active mode, the robotic endeffector guides subject's hand in any desired direction. In both active and passive conditions, the robot arm can be programmed to apply unexpected disturbances to the subjects hand. To control the movement of the manipulandum, we used two PID controllers with local shaft angle feedback to control the manipulandum. For the active mode, we used also a global feedback from endeffector position. As the first step for proof of concept, the whole system was simulated in MATLAB.","PeriodicalId":127657,"journal":{"name":"2015 22nd Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114056838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis and evaluation of somatotopic mapping and rs-fMRI parcellation for healthy aging and alzheimer’s disease","authors":"Mahsa Alizadeh Shalchy, D. Asemani","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404159","url":null,"abstract":"Task-based functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has exhibited a thriving potential in the extraction of somatotopic maps of the human sensorimotor cortex representing the correspondence of cortex regions with the sensorimotor functions. Several studies have explored the correspondence of cortex divisions in the absence of motor functions utilizing resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) with the somatotopic maps using successive task and rest sessions. In this paper, it is shown that the mentioned similarity between the somatotopic divisions (task fMRI) and the clusters due to rsfMRI parcellation holds for the independent task and rest experimentations as well. Also, it is found that the motor cortices of BA3 and BA4 exhibit no significant change in the somatotopic divisions for both healthy aging and Alzheimer Disease (AD) cases, though AD has been shown to affect the voxel activities in BA3 and BA4. Then, the clusters of sensorimotor cortices are shown to remain unchanged in the AD compared with the healthy aging. There exist a close association with the somatotopic maps of the young for both the AD and healthy aging as well.","PeriodicalId":127657,"journal":{"name":"2015 22nd Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125247429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In silico design of synthetic gene network for control of gene expression","authors":"S. Mohamadabadi, M. B. Yazdi","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404125","url":null,"abstract":"We consider the problem of controlling gene expression. A synthetic gene network, namely genetic controller, is designed to maintain the concentration of a target protein to a reference level, marked by the concentration of another protein. This genetic controller is implemented using a genetic comparator and a genetic toggle switch. The introduced genetic controller is a bang-bang controller that switches between two states (low or high). The notion of input-to-state stability with respect to compact sets, is used to analyze the stability of the genetic controller. Also genetic algorithm is employed to optimize the genetic controller parameters.","PeriodicalId":127657,"journal":{"name":"2015 22nd Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131750957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retinal blood vessel classification based on color and directional features in fundus images","authors":"Golnoush Hamednejad, H. Pourghassem","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404152","url":null,"abstract":"The symptoms of some diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetic retinopathy affect on the retinal vessels can be helpful to control the progress of these diseases. In this paper, our aim is to detect and classify the retinal vessels to arteries and veins. This algorithm achieves the vascular tree structure using a local entropy-based thresholding segmentation method. Next, several color and novel directional structural features are extracted. The structural features are based on wavelet, projection and profile of vessels. Then, Principal Components Analysis (PCA) algorithm is used for optimizing the extracted features. Finally, the vessels are classified by a neural network classifier. By using the results of our optimization algorithm in the feature selection, we achieved high sensitivity and specificity and generally, the accuracy rate of 92.9% was obtained on the test dataset.","PeriodicalId":127657,"journal":{"name":"2015 22nd Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"44 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133616249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EEG signal classification based on sparse representation in brain computer interface applications","authors":"R. Ameri, A. Pouyan, V. Abolghasemi","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404109","url":null,"abstract":"Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) is a very essential and useful communication tool between the human brain and external devices. Effective and accurate classification of Electroencephalography (EEG) signals is important in performance of BCI systems. In this paper, a mental task classification approach based on sparse representation is proposed. A dictionary is used for classification, which is the combination of power spectral density calculated from EEG signal and common spatial pattern (CSP) algorithm. L1 minimization was used to classify EEG signals. Experimental results show that the proposed method provides higher classification performance compared to SVM and KNN classifiers. Based on the results average accuracy rates are as follows: 91.50%, 82.83%, 77.50% and 74%, for two, three, four and five classes, respectively.","PeriodicalId":127657,"journal":{"name":"2015 22nd Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115452623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Boundary estimation of soft tissue tumor by using feed forward neural network with application of artificial tactile sensing - Boundary estimation of soft tissue tumor","authors":"M. Keshavarz, S. Mehrdad, A. Mojra","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404174","url":null,"abstract":"Geometrical feature assessment of a cancerous tumor embedded in biological soft tissue is a necessity in follow-up procedure and making suitable therapeutic decisions. Evidently by having such features in hand, tumor resections will be more curative and beneficial. In this paper a procedure of examining boundaries of a sphere-shaped tumor embedded in the liver tissue was investigated. At first, the main essential was to generate finite element model of the soft tissue including a tumor in ABAQUS. By considering viscoelastic properties, mechanical behavior of the tissue under a specified pattern of loading was studied. In the following, tumor boundary was estimated by using a feed forward neural network (FFNN). Genetic Algorithm (GA) was used for extracting input datasets of the network by extracting mechanical parameters from the tissue surface stress-strain diagrams. Data used for training the FFNN was result of implementing the ABAQUS-based model of the cancerous soft tissue which was tested 120 times with different tumor diameters. Throughout the process, 90 datasets were used for training and the other 30 were used for testing the network. The results affirmed that the produced intelligent procedure of estimating tumor boundaries can be relied on as a trustworthy method.","PeriodicalId":127657,"journal":{"name":"2015 22nd Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130493308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Vafaei, Mohammad Saleh Khajeh Hosseini, S. M. Shushtarian
{"title":"Developing a fuzzy theta alpha neurofeedback for treatment of pre-sleep disorders","authors":"E. Vafaei, Mohammad Saleh Khajeh Hosseini, S. M. Shushtarian","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404111","url":null,"abstract":"Disturbance in transition from being awake to pre-sleep can cause sleep disorders. This situation may occur every day before falling asleep. We developed a theta/alpha neurofeedback to investigate successful and fast transition into pre-sleep. Successful transition into pre-sleep was verified by the corresponding decrease in the consciousness derived by decrease in pressure between thumb and index finger. Neurofeedback trials were categorized as successful or unsuccessful, based on success threshold which was obtained from prior trial for utilize in next trial. We developed a supervised fuzzy classifier based on data distribution pattern of transition from being awake to pre-sleep. A relaxing audio music was fed back by fuzzy classifier proportional to signature of T/A Power ratio over sessions. The results show neurofeedback has a significant effect on the pre-sleep onset and increase in T/A power ratio which means NF can be applied as useful treatment for sleep disorders.","PeriodicalId":127657,"journal":{"name":"2015 22nd Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125451483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Classification of ADLs using muscle activation waveform versus thirteen EMG features","authors":"Payman Azaripasand, A. Maleki, A. Fallah","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404140","url":null,"abstract":"Movement classification has been a challenging problem in neuroprosthesis control. Many studies have taken into account the classification of movement using time and frequency domain features extracted from the electromyogram signals while calculating these features are usually time consuming. In this paper, we compared the capability of muscle activation waveform in the classification of five arm movements during activities of daily living, also known as ADLs, versus 13 different prevalent electromyogram features. We tested our technique on the electromyogram signal recorded from six healthy male right handed subjects. We, also, selected the muscles that are supposed to be the intact muscles in a tetraplegic spinal cord injury patient. Our results indicated that there exists significant higher accuracy with recruiting muscle activation waveform in classification, while the complexity of calculating features is eliminated.","PeriodicalId":127657,"journal":{"name":"2015 22nd Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124091290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of visual differences between real and HMD-based virtual objects on brain activity: an EEG study","authors":"Aydin Rajabzadeh, E. Arbabi","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2015.7404177","url":null,"abstract":"Head mounted displays (HMDs) have become popular since they can improve the quality of experience by enhancing immersion compared to ordinary 3D displays. It is important to understand the functionality of the brain while interacting with virtual and real objects, in order to design and optimize superior HMD multimedia processing techniques. EEG signals were exploited in this study to achieve two goals. Our first goal was to compare brain activity of subjects while watching objects through HMD and while observing the same objects in real world. This was carried out using topographic brain maps, based on TRPD/TRPI measure. The results suggested that parietal areas were more active (higher TRPD) for HMD session, whereas in real object session, occipital and frontal areas were so. Our second goal was to investigate the possibility of classifying these two classes, using relevance vector machines (RVM) and also finding the most significant features in this task. Wavelet features being the most significant, overall classification accuracy (ACC) of 96.6% was achieved.","PeriodicalId":127657,"journal":{"name":"2015 22nd Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127618400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}