[PDF] Top 20 Res. Biomed. Eng. vol.33 número1

... In this work, we created a numerical phantom (Figure 2d), that simulates the physical elasticity QA phantom Model 049A from CIRS (Norfolk, VA, US), which is a physical phantom box tha[r] ... See full document

... Methods: 72 mechanical aneroid sphygmomanometers were calibrated using a standard manometer and the indication error, hysteresis, air leakage and rapid exhaust were determined; readin[r] ... See full document

... Results: Our results showed that the hierarchical cluster presented the best performance to remove the false positives in fMRI, being 2.3 times more accurate than k-means, and 1.9 time[r] ... See full document

... The mean and standard deviation of the output power were determined for the ive different experimental conditions, which were categorized as follows: A: deionized water without the pr[r] ... See full document

... the researcher’s hand measurements (following the anthropometry of a median hand), considering the degree of joint movement, inger diameter, palm wrist and forearm circumferences, as [r] ... See full document

... In this paper, we evaluate the effects of ozone sterilization in the most common disposable medical device packagings, namely crepe paper, nonwoven fabric sheet, medical grade paper-p[r] ... See full document

... In screen-ilm mammography used years ago, the four categories of breast density could be identiied by analyzing the gray levels (histogram), in which category ‘a’ (fatty breast) had a[r] ... See full document

... is constructed for classiier evaluation, with 12,200 images of Libras and 200 gestures of each hand coniguration. Results: The best accuracy obtained was 96.31%. Conclusion: The best g[r] ... See full document

... For that reason, the present paper focused on developing a method that segments the area contained by stent struts from FD-IOCT of coronary arteries (Figure 1), positioned either inte[r] ... See full document

... In general, biomedical research is conducted with complex geometric structures Three-dimensional geometric model of the middle segment of the thoracic spine based on graphical images [r] ... See full document

... For instance, some of these DTI iltering methods are based on MRI noise regularization ( Aja-Fernandez et al., 2008 ; Martin-Fernandez et al., 2009 ; Maximov et al., 2012; Tristán-V[r] ... See full document

... The analysis of human movements and postural balance abilities is measured through three-dimensional components: two coordinates related to the individual’s orientation on the top [r] ... See full document

... In addition, in order to understand disease patterns (e.g., the lesion frequency in a speciic white matter location) or to Populational brain models of diffusion tensor imagin[r] ... See full document

... In the article “A maximum margin-based kernel width estimator and its application to the response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy”, DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.4322/rbeb.2014.007, published in[r] ... See full document

... Methods: Correlations between Bone Quality Index (BQI), determined by calcaneal ultrasonometry of thirty (30) individuals classiied as normal, osteopenic and osteoporotic, and elastic[r] ... See full document

... Thus, using ANN, it is possible to automatically classify scoliosis degrees according to force distribution on the plantar region of each volunteer.. The mean classiication sensitivity[r] ... See full document

... The average diameter of the droplets generated by the screened nebulizers using the CMAD parameter associated with Direct Laminar Incidence (DLI) (Table 1) reaches values very close t[r] ... See full document

... by Eng and Chu (2002) for the same type of population; their study focused on determining the test-retest reliability of the weight-bearing of each limb during ive standing ...by Eng and Chu (2002), a ... See full document

... developed a system based on artiicial neural networks (ANNs), capable of predicting gait from a cyclogram (Kutilek and Farkasova, 2011 ; Kutilek and Viteckova, 2012), using inform[r] ... See full document

... After registering the edge proile, different decisions can be made for the determination of the exact edge position, as this is not deined by the relevant standards: i) The irst measu[r] ... See full document