{"title":"SEP controlling parameter in design of above knee prosthesis with moving ankle","authors":"Ghasem Karimi, M. Tahani","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704997","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper after reviewing some previous studies, in order to improve our previous modeling of above knee prosthesis comprises SEP controlling parameter, moving ankle assumption is considered. SEP controlling parameter makes the prosthesis able to act as a multi behavior system when the amputee is opposing to different environments. This active prosthesis with the new controlling parameter can simplify the control of prosthesis and reduce the rate of energy consumption in comparison to recently presented similar prosthesis “Agonist-antagonist active knee prosthesis”. In this paper three models are generated; a simple passive, an active, and an optimized active prosthesis. The optimization procedure is genetic algorithm. The SEP controlling prosthesis model with moving ankle during the swing phase represents acceptable results in comparison to natural behavior of shank and the fixed ankle model. Reported results in this paper represent 3.2 degrees as the maximum deviation of optimized model shank angle from the natural pattern. The natural gait pattern belongs to walking at the speed of 81 m/min.","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130297455","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":"Self-tuning dynamic impedance control for human arm motion","authors":"S. Dehghani, H. Taghirad, Mohammad Darainy","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704975","url":null,"abstract":"It is understood that human motion control system uses the motion memory in accomplishment of an appropriate movement. It uses the past experience, learns and creates a precise or incident knowledge of the physical properties of the body and the external environment. In this paper, since the interaction with the environment is one of the main characteristics of the human motion controller design, a dynamic impedance control model is proposed. This model consists of two feedback loops, the internal force loop and the external position loop in the Cartesian space. By exploiting the dynamic impedance control scheme, the controller identifies the mechanical impedance of the environment while interacting and adapting its required impedance coefficients. A neural network self tuning PID controller is proposed to determine the controller coefficients. By this means and through the adaptation properties of neural networks, the proportional, integral and differential coefficients of the dynamic impedance controller is obtained during the interaction with the environment. Finally, the results of proposed controller structure are verified by experiments.","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115703874","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":"Preparing nanocomposite fibrous scaffolds of P3HB/nHA for bone tissue engineering","authors":"A. Tehrani, A. Zadhoush, Saeed Karbasi","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5705012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5705012","url":null,"abstract":"Nanocomposites are recently known to be among the most successful materials in biomedical applications. In this work we sought to fabricate fibrous scaffolds which can mimic the extra cellular matrix of cartilaginous connective tissue not only to a structural extent but with a mechanical and biological analogy. Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (P3HB) matrices were reinforced with 5, 10 and 15 %wt hydroxyapatite (HA) nanoparticles and electrospun into nanocomposite fibrous scaffolds. Mechanical properties of each case were compared with that of a P3HB scaffold produced in the same processing condition. Spectroscopic and morphological observations were used for detecting the interaction quality between the constituents. Nanoparticles rested deep within the fibers of 1 µm in diameter. Chemical interactions of hydrogen bonds linked the constituents through the interface. Maximum elastic modulus and mechanical strength was obtained with the presence of 5%wt hydroxyapatite nanoparticles. Above 10%wt, nanoparticles tended to agglomerate and caused the entity to lose its mechanical performance; however, viscoelasticity interfered at this concentration and lead to a delayed failure. In other words, higher elongation at break and a massive work of rupture was observed at 10%wt.","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117203361","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":"A mathematical approach for describing the time-dependent Poisson's ratio of viscoelastic ligaments mechanical characteristics of biological tissues","authors":"H. Ashrafi, M. Shariyat","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5705018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5705018","url":null,"abstract":"In biological engineering, the majority of soft tissues exhibit as viscoelastic materials with a time-dependent response. Therefore, the Poisson's ratios for viscoelastic materials are time dependent (in time domain) or complex frequency dependent (in frequency domain) quantities. In particular, three-dimensional stress fields depend on the Poisson's ratios. In a viscoelastic material, a time-dependent Poisson's ratio will be associated with time-dependent stress and deformation, thus stress concentration factors and interfacial stresses will depend on time and frequency. The main aim of this work is to develop a mathematical model capable of determining the time-dependent Poisson's ratios based on the stress relaxation and the creep tests for viscoelastic ligaments. The Poisson's ratios of periodontal ligaments have been obtained as increasing functions of time, because their shear modulus relaxes much more than their bulk modulus.","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127108841","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":"Robust speech recognition by improvement missing features using Bidirectional Neural Network","authors":"Hojat Mohammadnejad, Mansoor Vali","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704935","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a new method for nonlinear compensation of mismatches, e.g. additive noise, on clean and noisy speech recognition. We were inspired by the human recognition system in development and implementation of a new Bidirectional Neural Network (BNN). This procedure, results in improvement of input features and consequently increasing the overall recognition accuracy. The feedforward weights of this network are trained using both clean and noisy speech features. The results demonstrate significant improvements in clean and especially noisy speech recognition accuracy compared to reference model trained on unimproved features.","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124711947","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. Zeraatkar, S. Kermani, A. Mehridehnavi, A. Aminzadeh
{"title":"Improving QRS detection for artifacts reduction","authors":"E. Zeraatkar, S. Kermani, A. Mehridehnavi, A. Aminzadeh","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704922","url":null,"abstract":"Since the QRS complex in electrocardiogram signals is one of the most important tasks to describe the operation of heart, high accuracy detection for this complex should be considered. In this study one of the newest methods of QRS complex detection combined with several artifact sources reduction methods has been performed. QRS detection algorithm includes baseline drift removal, Butterworth filtering, notch filtering and extracting five special features from ECG to identify QRS complex. In order to validate the robustness of this method, four important artifact sources such as power line interference, electrode contact noise, motion artifact and muscle contraction (EMG) have been produced and combined with ECG signal. The performance of this approach against these noises based on three MIT-BIH recording classes (Normal, LQT and TWA) has been discussed with ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristics). With proposed QRS detection algorithm 100% and 94.88% accuracy has been achieved in best and worst case respectively. Thus this method has the ability to cancel respiration modulation and reduce EMG noise, motion and power line artifacts effectively.","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124764570","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. A. M. Abadi, H. Danyali, Mazaher Nosoohi Dehnavi
{"title":"Medical image authentication based on fragile watermarking using hamming code","authors":"M. A. M. Abadi, H. Danyali, Mazaher Nosoohi Dehnavi","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704947","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we propose a novel fragile watermarking scheme that uses very little bit budget to detect tamper in medical images, based on hamming codes. Unlike other papers that used hamming codes in a robust watermarking context, we use this code to detect errors in received watermarked image. The host image is decomposed into blocks and verification is performed block-wise in a way that we can easily localize tampers. A pair of keys is used for security reasons and watermark bits are placed into the blocks in accordance with these keys. Experimental results show that this method can reach near perfect verification while having very high PSNR and thus making very little changes to the host image that is of crucial importance in medical images.","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126876191","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}
A. S. Noodeh, H. Rabbani, A. M. Dehnavi, H. Ahmadi Noubari
{"title":"Detection of cancerous zones in mammograms using fractal modeling and classification by probabilistic neural network","authors":"A. S. Noodeh, H. Rabbani, A. M. Dehnavi, H. Ahmadi Noubari","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704962","url":null,"abstract":"Recent studies on the geometry of fractals indicate that tumors with irregular shapes can be utilized for the study of the morphology and diagnosis of cancerous cases. In this paper, we deal with the fractal modeling of the mammographic images and their background morphology. It is shown that the use of fractal modeling as applied to a given image can clearly discern cancerous zones from noncancerous areas. Our results show that fractal modeling of images can be used as an effective tool for identification of cancerous cells. For fractal modeling, the original image is first segmented into appropriate fractal boxes followed by identifying the fractal dimension of each windowed section. We have used two dimensional box counting algorithm after which based on the order of the computations, they are placed in an appropriate matrix to facilitate the required computations. Finally using eight features identified as characteristic features of tumors extracted from mammogram images, the results obtained from the preliminary analysis stages, were utilized in a neural network for classification of cells into malignant and benign with the accuracy of 89.21 % classification results.","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"219 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115013626","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}
John R. Harder, Perez Campos, U. Merkel, V. Nuzzo, H. Masalehdan, Sussane Ebert
{"title":"New clinical methods of using femtosecond laser pulses in refractive surgery","authors":"John R. Harder, Perez Campos, U. Merkel, V. Nuzzo, H. Masalehdan, Sussane Ebert","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5705021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5705021","url":null,"abstract":"From the physical point of view, all known parameters for fs-laser induced optical breakdown to cut corneal tissue are beneficial for the low pulse energy high frequency femtosecond surgical laser like Ziemer's Femto LDV. The used fs-laser oscillator makes the Femto LDV compact and robust, delivers low pulse energy at high frequencies and has an unreached preciseness due to the high focussing optics very close to the treated area. The special feature of the low energy pulses can reduce bubble formation during the cutting process. The smaller the bubbles, the more precise the cut can be positioned, especially with respect to Sub Bowman Keratomileusis (SBK).","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"172 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116218324","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. Ghasemi, A. Mahloojifar, M. Zarei, Amin Ferdosi-makan
{"title":"Changes of functional connectivity and amplitude of fluctuations in Resting State fMRI data of Parkinson Disease","authors":"M. Ghasemi, A. Mahloojifar, M. Zarei, Amin Ferdosi-makan","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704963","url":null,"abstract":"Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by tremor, rigidity, and slowness of movements. Determining changes of spontaneous activity and connectivity of the brain is a critical step towards treatment of PD patients. Resting State functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (RS-fMRI) is a non-invasive method that we use in this work to investigate intra- and inter-regional features of the brain. To this end, we apply three methods, Spontaneous Low Frequency Fluctuation (SLFF), Regional Homogeneity (ReHo) and Seed Correlation Analysis (SCA). The results of advanced statistical image analysis on SLFF maps show hypoactivation in the basal ganglia and hyperactivation in the motor cortex and the cerebellum. We found that the seed correlation value between Left cerebellum and left putamen is the most discriminating parameter between Parkinson patients and healthy group. Moreover, SCA features are more significant compared to the intra-regional features (SLFF or ReHo). The result of clustering by 16 selected features is 85%.","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114545761","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}