Inventi Impact - Biomedical Engineering
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Journal Scope:
Quarterly published in print and online ‘Inventi Rapid/Impact: Biomedical Engineering’ publishes high quality unpublished as well as high impact pre-published research and reviews catering to the needs of researchers and professionals. This multidisciplinary journal covers all recent advances in the field of biomedical technology, instrumentation, and administration. Papers are invited focusing on theoretical and practical problems associated with development of medical technology; introduction of new engineering methods into public health, hospitals and patient care, improvement of diagnosis and therapy, biomedical information storage and retrieval etc.
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A SURVEY ON THE AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION OF RETINAL DISEASES CAUSED BY DIABETES
Recently, due to rapidly increase in the diabetic patients, diabetes is one of the biggest health challenges in the age group of 22-79 years. Due to the diabetes, patient suffers cataracts, glaucoma and blood vessels inside the eye may damage sight of the patient. This condition is known as “diabetic retinopathy”. Diabetic retinopathy may cause blindness. As Ophthalmology is a significant bran...
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ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY: FROM THE DRAWING BOARD INTO MEDICAL PRACTICE
Electrochemotherapy is a local treatment of cancer employing electric pulses to improve transmembrane transfer of cytotoxic drugs. In this paper we discuss electrochemotherapy from the perspective of biomedical engineering and review the steps needed to move such a treatment from initial prototypes into clinical practice. In the paper also basic theory of electrochemotherapy and preclinical studie...
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PEAK HIP AND KNEE JOINT MOMENTS DURING A SIT-TO-STAND MOVEMENT ARE INVARIANT TO THE CHANGE OF SEAT HEIGHT WITHIN THE RANGE OF LOW TO NORMAL SEAT HEIGHT
Background: Previous studies have consistently reported that decreasing seat height increases the peak hip and knee joint moments; however, these findings may not apply to biomechanical changes at very low seat heights. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to examine the effect of a large range of seat heights on peak joint moments of the lower limb during a sit-to-stand (STS) movement. Metho...
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OBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF FATIGUE BY EEG SPECTRAL ANALYSIS IN STEADY-STATE VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIALBASED BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES
Background: The fatigue that users suffer when using steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can cause a number of serious problems such as signal quality degradation and system performance deterioration, users’ discomfort and even risk of photosensitive epileptic seizures, posing heavy restrictions on the applications of SSVEP-based BCIs. Towards alle...
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EFFECT OF LEAFLET-TO-CHORDAE CONTACT INTERACTION ON COMPUTATIONAL MITRAL VALVE EVALUATION
Background: Computational simulation using numerical analysis methods can help to assess the complex biomechanical and functional characteristics of the mitral valve (MV) apparatus. It is important to correctly determine physical contact interaction between the MV apparatus components during computational MV evaluation. We hypothesize that leaflet-to-chordae contact interaction plays an important ...
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HUMAN CORONARY PLAQUE WALL THICKNESS CORRELATED POSITIVELY WITH FLOW SHEAR STRESS AND NEGATIVELY WITH PLAQUE WALL STRESS: AN IVUS-BASED FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION MULTI-PATIENT STUDY
Background: Atherosclerotic plaque progression and rupture are believed to be associated with mechanical stress conditions. In this paper, patient-specific in vivo intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) coronary plaque image data were used to construct computational models with fluid-structure interaction (FSI) and cyclic bending to investigate correlations between plaque wall thickness and both flow she...
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