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(2013-12-02)Department: Biomedical EngineeringOptical metabolic imaging measures fluorescence intensity and lifetimes from metabolic cofactors nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD). These molecular level measurements provide ...
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(2018-03-23)Pseudarthrosis following spinal fusion remains problematic despite modern surgical and grafting techniques. In surgical spinal fusion, new bone forms via intramembranous and endochondral ossification, with endochondral ...
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(Scientific Reports, 2019-07-15)To characterize cell types, cellular functions and intracellular processes, an understanding of the differences between individual cells is required. Although microscopy approaches have made tremendous progress in imaging ...
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(2018-02-13)Department: Computer ScienceTraditional methods for collecting data in support of clinical research include prospectively collected surveys, retrospective analyses of existing medical records, and a combination of the two. Yet these approaches tend ...
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(2018-07-16)Department: Biomedical InformaticsStandards, such as the Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC®) are critical for interoperability and integrating data into common data models, but are inconsistently used. Without consistent mapping to ...
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(2019-05-20)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceIn principle, the properties of materials are determined by the behavior of electrons. Therefore quantum mechanical electronic structure calculations play a critical role in materials modeling. These calculations owe much ...
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(2005-07-29)Department: Biomedical InformaticsThe success of treatment of patients with cancer depends on establishing an accurate diagnosis. To this end, we have built a system called GEMS (Gene Expression Model Selector) for the automated development and evaluation ...
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(2015-11-12)Department: Biomedical InformaticsPeople with questions about their health have been seeking answers from online resources. Patient portals, electronic applications that allow patients to interact with their healthcare providers, have had increasing adoption ...
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(2009-01-08)Department: Electrical EngineeringCochlear implantation is a surgical procedure in which an electrode array is permanently implanted in the cochlea to stimulate the auditory nerve and allow deaf people to hear. Traditional techniques require wide excavation ...
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(2010-04-16)Department: Biomedical EngineeringModality-independent elastography (MIE) is a method of elastography that reconstructs the elastic properties of tissue using images acquired under different loading conditions and a biomechanical model. Boundary conditions ...
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(2011-04-18)Department: Electrical EngineeringThis dissertation presents studies on, and from, the development of algorithms for the automatic segmentation of the structures of the ear. Many otological procedures would benefit from a system that automatically identifies ...
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(2006-06-29)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe procedure currently used for cochlear implantation can be improved with the aid of techniques developed in medical imaging. A suitable path accessing the cochlea can be determined before the operation by locating a ...
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(2005-04-21)Department: Electrical EngineeringIn the past few decades unprecedented advances have been made in the field of medical imaging. Various imaging technologies such as Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, etc. have emerged to assist the visualization ...
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(2014-03-27)Department: Electrical EngineeringA cochlear implant (CI) is a neural prosthetic device that restores hearing by directly stimulating the auditory nerve using an electrode array surgically placed in the cochlea. Conventional CI implantation techniques ...
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(2012-08-06)Department: Electrical EngineeringCancers in the head and neck region account for approximately 3 percent of all cancers in the United States, as it is reported by the American Cancer Society. Depending on the location and stage of the cancers, surgery, ...
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(2016-01-26)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe human abdomen is an essential, yet complex body space clinically. Computational tomography (CT) scans are routinely taken for the diagnosis and prognosis of abdomen-related diseases, such as the pathological injuries ...
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(2018-04-23)Department: Electrical EngineeringCochlear Implants (CIs) are neural prosthetic devices that provide a sense of sound to people who experience severe to profound hearing loss. Recent studies have demonstrated a correlation between hearing outcomes and the ...
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(2015-03-20)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesDue to the climate effects and aviation threats of volcanic eruptions, it is important to accurately locate ash in the atmosphere. This study aims to explore the accuracy and reliability of training a neural network to ...
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(2010-04-26)Department: PsychologyWhat is the consequence of calling objects by their names? Lupyan (2008) suggests that overtly naming objects at the basic-level impairs subsequent recognition memory because naming shifts the memory representation towards ...
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(2007-04-17)Department: Computer ScienceDistributed computing infrastructures, such as middleware and virtual machines, are designed to be highly flexible and feature-rich to support a wide range of applications and product lines in multiple domains. Applications ...