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Alexander Isaev, Tatiana Dobroserdova, Alexander Danilov and Sergey Simakov
This study introduces an innovative approach leveraging physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) for the efficient computation of blood flows at the boundaries of a four-vessel junction formed by a Fontan procedure. The methodology incorporates a 3D mesh...
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Emanuela Bologna, Ettore Dinoto, Francesco Di Simone, Felice Pecoraro, Sara Ragusa, Katia Siciliano and Massimiliano Zingales
Background: The treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is today commonly treated by inserting a stent-graft by the endovascular route, without resorting to open surgery. However, some clinical cases do not allow this less invasive approach, meaning...
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Jeongho Kim, Jeehoon Park, Beomjun Park, Byungdo Park and Tae-Gyu Kim
Radiation therapy for treating shallow tumors is challenging, necessitating the use of boluses. This study introduces the first application of the life-casting method to fabricate patient-specific bolus molds from gypsum sheets, comparing them with comme...
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Taki Hasan Rafi and Young-Woong Ko
Electrocardiography (ECG)-based arrhythmia classification intends to have a massive role in cardiovascular disease monitoring and early diagnosis. However, ECG datasets are mostly imbalanced and have regularization to use real-time patient data due to pr...
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Abasi-amefon Obot Affia, Hilary Finch, Woosub Jung, Issah Abubakari Samori, Lucas Potter and Xavier-Lewis Palmer
The concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) spans decades, and the same can be said for its inclusion in healthcare. The IoT is an attractive target in medicine; it offers considerable potential in expanding care. However, the application of the IoT in h...
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Saveliy Peshin, Yulia Karakulova and Alex G. Kuchumov
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common pathology among disorders of the peripheral nervous system related to median nerve compression. To our knowledge, there are limited data on the effect of tendon movement on median nerve compression. This st...
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Johane H. Bracamonte, Sarah K. Saunders, John S. Wilson, Uyen T. Truong and Joao S. Soares
Inverse modeling approaches in cardiovascular medicine are a collection of methodologies that can provide non-invasive patient-specific estimations of tissue properties, mechanical loads, and other mechanics-based risk factors using medical imaging as in...
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Abdulsalam A. Al-Tamimi
Currently, bone fractures are commonly treated with bone fixation plates that present rigid designs and stiff biometals (e.g., Ti-6Al-4V) that increase the probability of stress shielding happening during bone remodeling by shielding the required stress ...
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Manawaduge Supun De Silva, Barath Narayanan Narayanan and Russell C. Hardie
Lung segmentation plays an important role in computer-aided detection and diagnosis using chest radiographs (CRs). Currently, the U-Net and DeepLabv3+ convolutional neural network architectures are widely used to perform CR lung segmentation. To boost pe...
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Angela Brivio, David Barrett, Matthew F. Gong, Annabel Watson, Susie Naybour and Johannes F. Plate
Functional dissatisfaction following total knee replacement (TKR) is recorded as high as 20%. The majority of these patients report anterior knee pain (AKP) as the main source of dissatisfaction. Elevated patellofemoral compression forces and soft tissue...
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