{"title":"Gerontechnology","authors":"S. Micera, P. Bonato, T. Tamura","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-16028-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16028-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50391,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/978-3-030-16028-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41727335","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":"Biological Database Modeling (Chen, J. and Sidhhu, A.S.; 2008) [Book Reviews]","authors":"Zhengwu Lu","doi":"10.1109/MEMB.2010.936541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMB.2010.936541","url":null,"abstract":"This book introduces the readers to core biological data modeling techniques, biological database resources, ontology concepts, and data management challenges for high-throughput data.","PeriodicalId":50391,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/MEMB.2010.936541","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62475934","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":"Biomedical Surfaces (Ramsden, J.; 2008) [Book Review]","authors":"A. Vallés-Lluch","doi":"10.1109/MEMB.2010.936542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMB.2010.936542","url":null,"abstract":"This book is an overview of biomaterials design, specifically as it relates to the interaction of biomaterials surfaces and the biological system in which it is implanted. It is meant to provide an overview for engineers, material scientists, biologists, and others interested in problems involving biomaterials and biocompatibility.","PeriodicalId":50391,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/MEMB.2010.936542","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62475943","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":"Holographic Imaging (Benton, S.A. and Bove, V.M.; 2008) [Book Review]","authors":"S. Deutsch","doi":"10.1109/MEMB.2010.936543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMB.2010.936543","url":null,"abstract":"Every biomedical engineer should read this book, because biomedical engineers run into optics-related problems via X-rays, microscopes, bad eyesight, and so forth. This 284-page book contains the theory and design information for every conceivable type of hologram. It should become the holographic \"bible.\"","PeriodicalId":50391,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/MEMB.2010.936543","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62475954","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":"Have you Invented Anything Lately? [From the Editor]","authors":"M. Neuman","doi":"10.1109/MEMB.2010.936546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMB.2010.936546","url":null,"abstract":"Several years ago, I had to be seen as a patient by a specialist physician. In taking my medical history, he went through the usual list of questions, and then he asked me what kind of work I did. I told him I was a biomedical engineer, and he responded, “Have you invented anything lately?” Initially, I was amazed at this practitioner’s clairvoyance in discovering that my work involved the development of new medical instrumentation, but then I thought maybe he was not as perceptive as I originally thought. Maybe he just had a very narrow view of what biomedical engineers did and thought that all biomedical engineering involved was the invention of new gizmos for use in clinical medicine. Perhaps he assumed we were just gadgeteers who occasionally came up with something useful to the field of medicine but that more often our creative endeavors resulted in frivolous devices.","PeriodicalId":50391,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/MEMB.2010.936546","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62476020","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":"The Greatest Evil: The Population Explosion [Opinion]","authors":"S. Deutsch","doi":"10.1109/MEMB.2010.937115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMB.2010.937115","url":null,"abstract":"I am writing about the obvious: If, by some magic, we could cut the population in half, it would reduce the demand for oil by half, reduce carbon dioxide pollution by half, reduce the need for food and water by half, and so forth. Of course, reality would be more complicated than simply dividing by two, but the general idea remains valid.","PeriodicalId":50391,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/MEMB.2010.937115","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62476128","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":"Receiving the mentorship you need [Student's Corner]","authors":"C. Linte","doi":"10.1109/MEMB.2010.936552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMB.2010.936552","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50391,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/MEMB.2010.936552","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62476080","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":"Rehabilitation exoskeletal robotics. The promise of an emerging field.","authors":"José L Pons","doi":"10.1109/MEMB.2010.936548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMB.2010.936548","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Exoskeletons are wearable robots exhibiting a close cognitive and physical interaction with the human user. These are rigid robotic exoskeletal structures that typically operate alongside human limbs. Scientific and technological work on exoskeletons began in the early 1960s but have only recently been applied to rehabilitation and functional substitution in patients suffering from motor disorders. Key topics for further development of exoskeletons in rehabilitation scenarios include the need for robust human-robot multimodal cognitive interaction, safe and dependable physical interaction, true wearability and portability, and user aspects such as acceptance and usability. This discussion provides an overview of these aspects and draws conclusions regarding potential future research directions in robotic exoskeletons.</p>","PeriodicalId":50391,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/MEMB.2010.936548","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29146018","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}
Alexander Casson, David Yates, Shelagh Smith, John Duncan, Esther Rodriguez-Villegas
{"title":"Wearable electroencephalography. What is it, why is it needed, and what does it entail?","authors":"Alexander Casson, David Yates, Shelagh Smith, John Duncan, Esther Rodriguez-Villegas","doi":"10.1109/MEMB.2010.936545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMB.2010.936545","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The electroencephalogram (EEG) is a classic noninvasive method for measuring a person's brain waves and is used in a large number of fields: from epilepsy and sleep disorder diagnosis to brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Electrodes are placed on the scalp to detect the microvolt-sized signals that result from synchronized neuronal activity within the brain. Current long-term EEG monitoring is generally either carried out as an inpatient in combination with video recording and long cables to an amplifier and recording unit or is ambulatory. In the latter, the EEG recorder is portable but bulky, and in principle, the subject can go about their normal daily life during the recording. In practice, however, this is rarely the case. It is quite common for people undergoing ambulatory EEG monitoring to take time off work and stay at home rather than be seen in public with such a device. Wearable EEG is envisioned as the evolution of ambulatory EEG units from the bulky, limited lifetime devices available today to small devices present only on the head that can record EEG for days, weeks, or months at a time. Such miniaturized units could enable prolonged monitoring of chronic conditions such as epilepsy and greatly improve the end-user acceptance of BCI systems. In this article, we aim to provide a review and overview of wearable EEG technology, answering the questions: What is it, why is it needed, and what does it entail? We first investigate the requirements of portable EEG systems and then link these to the core applications of wearable EEG technology: epilepsy diagnosis, sleep disorder diagnosis, and BCIs. As a part of our review, we asked 21 neurologists (as a key user group) for their views on wearable EEG. This group highlighted that wearable EEG will be an essential future tool. Our descriptions here will focus mainly on epilepsy and the medical applications of wearable EEG, as this is the historical background of the EEG, our area of expertise, and a core motivating area in itself, but we will also discuss the other application areas. We continue by considering the forthcoming research challenges, principally new electrode technology and lower power electronics, and we outline our approach for dealing with the electronic power issues. We believe that the optimal approach to realizing wearable EEG technology is not to optimize any one part but to find the best set of tradeoffs at both the system and implementation level. In this article, we discuss two of these tradeoffs in detail: investigating the online compression of EEG data to reduce the system power consumption and the optimal method for providing this data compression.</p>","PeriodicalId":50391,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/MEMB.2010.936545","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29146020","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}
Giuseppe Turchetti, Enza Spadoni, Eliezer Elie Geisler
{"title":"Health technology assessment. Evaluation of biomedical innovative technologies.","authors":"Giuseppe Turchetti, Enza Spadoni, Eliezer Elie Geisler","doi":"10.1109/MEMB.2010.936553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMB.2010.936553","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article describes health technology assessment (HTA) as an evaluation tool that applies systematic methods of inquiry to the generation and use of health technologies and new products. The focus of this article is on the contributions of HTA to the management of the new product development effort in the biomedical organization. Critical success factors (CSFs) are listed, and their role in assessing success is defined and explained. One of the conclusions of this article is that HTA is a powerful tool for managers in the biomedical sector, allowing them to better manage their innovation effort in their continuing struggle for competitiveness and survival.</p>","PeriodicalId":50391,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/MEMB.2010.936553","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29146017","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}