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Magnetic PDMS Microparticles for Biomedical and Energy Applications
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is one of the most widely used polymers in microfluidics. Furthermore, magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs), due their superior thermal properties, are also gaining a great interest among ...
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Photogrammetry Technique for the 3D Digital Impression of Multiple Dental Implants
In the computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) dentistry, intra-oral scanners (IOS) are usually used to capture the teeth/implants position and adjacent soft tissues for fabrication of prostheses. Ho...
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Skin Disease Diagnosis from Photographs Using Deep Learning
This work aims to study performance of different deep learning based approaches to classify skin diseases automatically from colored digital photographs. We applied recent network models, which are U-Net, Ince...
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3D Printed Splint – Clinical Cases
Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) are a set of disorders related to the masticatory muscles, a temporomandibular joint and adjacent structures (articular pathology) [1–4].
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Computer Aided Effective Prediction of Complete Responders After Radiochemotherapy Based on Tumor Regression Grade Estimated by MR Imaging
The aim of this work is to implement an automatic method to predict and classify complete responders (CRs) patients, affected by rectal cancer and treated with neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy (RCT), by exploitin...
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Alzheimer’s Disease and the Volume of Hippocampal Subfields: Cluster Analysis Using Neuroimaging Data
This study analyzes the presence of volumetric changes in subfields of the hippocampus using structural MR image from a large database of volunteers, selected and screened in three distinct groups of elderly s...
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Dimensions of the Dentogingival Unit in the Anterior Maxilla – A Study with CBCT
The dentogingival unit (DGU) can be defined as the anatomical complex formed by the gingival membrane, gingival sulcus, junctional epithelium and connective tissue insertion, also known as the “biological spac...
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Choosing the Best Direction of Printing for Additive Manufacturing Process in Medical Applications Using a New Geometric Complexity Model Based on Part CAD Data
Additive manufacturing processes is now experiencing significant growth and is at the origin of intense research activity (optimization of topology, biomedical applications, etc.). One of the characteristics o...
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Influence of Mutual Rotation of Polarizing Filters on Light Intensity Measured with Collagen Fibres
The most common technique for observation of collagen fibres and evaluation of their directionality is polarized light microscopy. In the microscope, there are two polarizing filters, polarizer and analyzer, t...
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Breast Skin Temperature Evaluation in Lactating and Non-lactating Women by Thermography: An Exploratory Study
During pregnancy and lactation, woman breasts feel changes like blood flow increasement, associated with a higher breast temperature. We performed an exploratory study of the breast skin temperature of lactati...
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Numerical Characterization of a Hyperelastic Material to Shear Stress
In last years, some studies have been proved that there is an association between the wall shear stress with intracranial aneurysm rupture, however, is very difficult to understand the mechanical tissue behavi...
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The Application of Infrared Thermography as a Quantitative Sensory Measure of the DC/TMD
The most common internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint is the displacement of the articular disc. Infrared thermography can be a useful method to avoid the establishment of chronic pain of the mas...
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Comparative Study of Dermoscopic Hair Removal Methods
When analyzing dermoscopic images, the hairs and their shadows on the skin may occlude relevant information about the lesion at the time of diagnosis. As far as we know, there is no method that quantitatively ...
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Validation of Whole-Body COM Movement from 3D Anthropometric Image with Dynamic Data at Different Human Standard MVJ
This study presents and applies noninvasive subject specific validation of human whole-body (WB) center of mass (COM) kinematic from 3D anthropometric multibody model using dynamic data from ground reaction fo...
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A Tool for Building Multi-purpose and Multi-pose Synthetic Data Sets
Modern computer vision methods typically require expensive data acquisition and accurate manual labeling. In this work, we instead leverage the recent progress in computer graphics to propose a novel approach ...
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Lower Limb Joint Angle Coordination Assessment at Sagittal Plane on Human Vertical Countermovement
This study presents innovative analysis at the time, frequency and phase domain for lower limb joint angular coordination assessment at sagittal plane on human vertical countermovement (CM), comparing long CM ...
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Processing Thermographic Images for the Pre Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is a disease that begins when the cells of the breast begin to grow uncontrollably. It can not be predicted, because the factors that mainly affect the suffering of this pathology are genetic, th...
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HARM - The Human Action Recognition Module
We present HARM, a three stage human action recognition algorithm for static images. The proposed methodology incorporates pose estimation, pose classification and scene classification to develop a complete under...
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Biometric Identification Based on Forearm Vein Pattern
Forearm vein recognition is one of many available methods used for identification. However, forearm veins can be considered more secure compared to other biometric traits because the veins are inside the human...
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Cross Recurrence Quantitative Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
In this paper, a generalized synchronization-based metric is described to assess functional connectivity in human brain. The metric is a generalized synchronization measure that considers both the amplitude an...
