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The recent years have been marked by a surge of interdisciplinary collaborations among scientists, engineers, researchers, and medical practitioners focused on solving complex problems in medicine and related fields. These activities have resulted in the development of bio-inspired silicon, neural prosthetics, image processing systems, sensors and intravenous drug delivery devices that support diagnosis,...
Liver segmentation on computed tomography (CT) images is a challenging task due to the anatomic complexity and the imaging system noise. In this paper, we develop an improved level set segmentation method. Our region-based level-set approach has many advantages over the conventional active contour models. First, the improved model can get much smoother contour by adding a signed distance preserving...
A new optical platform for the interrogation of a polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) multichannel array for chemical and biochemical parameters is described. It consists of a plastic chip formed by two pieces of PMMA properly shaped in order to obtain different microchannels, 500 mum in width and 400 mum in height. A fluorescent sensing layer is immobilized on the internal wall of the microchannel. The...
Meeting the long-term healthcare needs of the growing elderly population and escalating healthcare expenditure in China pose a grim challenge to the current healthcare system and the solvency of state budgets. Therefore, there is a great need of advanced technologies for more effective and low-cost healthcare to alleviate the burden of the current healthcare system. Based on the development of technologies...
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