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Showing 1 to 20 of 963 for “"Minimally"”.
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MUSCLE FATIGUE ANALYSIS IN MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY
… as limited work volume and degree of freedom, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is ergonomically challenging to surgeons than traditional open surgery. Specifically, MIS can expose performing surgeons to excessive ergonomic risks including muscle fatigue that may lead to critical errors in …
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Controllable magnetic systems for minimally invasive surgery
This thesis covers the design and development of a controllable electromagnetic compression medical device that addresses the need for control of magnetic attraction in the clinical setting. This work outlines the design of a magnetic medical device to be used for anchoring or compression, namely …
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InterNAV2.0: Minimally Invasive Robot-Assisted Tumour Ablative Therapies
… developed for tumour ablative therapies using minimally invasive robotic sys tems. As a proof-of-concept for the platform, a system has been built for Brachytherapy as a treatment for lung cancer. This system uses a navigational software, InterNAVl.0, to consolidate ultrasound imaging and …
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Tethered Magnetic Serial Robots for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery
… to the centimeter scale, enabling a new suite of minimally-invasive techniques for a wide variety of medical procedures. There is a significant demand for smaller, more manoeuvrable, surgical robot tools to reduce the invasiveness of neurosurgical procedures. A magnetic approach to surgical robots …
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Minimally-supervised Methods for Arabic Named Entity Recognition
… in Arabic text. Specifically, we investigate two minimally-supervised methods: semi-supervised learning and distant learning. Our semi-supervised algorithm for identifying NEs does not require annotated training data or gazetteers. It only requires, for each NE type, a seed list of a few instances …
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Scalable Autonomous Network Control using Minimally Informed Agents
This thesis contributes to solving the combined problem of dynamic scalable failure risk management in complex network infrastructures while returning tractable results. It does so by proposing methods of decentralised and distributed emergent risk identification and proactive mitigation, where …
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Biomechanical Comparison of Traditional Laminectomy and Minimally‑Invasive Facetectomies
… that affects a great portion of the population. Minimally‑invasive (MI) procedures have been becoming more popular in the surgical decompression of the spine because they offer shorter recovery time and involve removal of smaller amounts of important structures. With these features, it is …
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Optical fibre-based minimally-invasive blood glucose monitoring system.
Obesity and changing lifestyles have made diabetes mellitus one of the world’s foremost metabolic syndromes, affecting the lives of around 380 million people worldwide. Although considered incurable, adverse effects of diabetes can be controlled by tightly monitoring blood glucose levels. Several …
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Detection and minimally invasive treatment of small breast cancers
Contains fulltext : 236661.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Minimally Invasive Solutions to Challenges Posed by Mobility Changes
Today, things have changed radically. As network technologies have proliferated and evolved, the components of, and participants in, computerized systems have become increasingly decoupled. Users travel and commute while connecting to their office computer or home media server. Hardware devices may …
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Vision-based context-aware assistance for minimally invasive surgery.
… augment the performance and lowers the risk of minimally invasive surgery (MIS). It allows various applications through the whole patient care pathway, such as medical resources scheduling and report generation. Automatic surgical activities understanding is an essential component for building …
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Designing Contiguous and Minimally Fragmented Nature Conservation Reserve Networks
This dissertation is built upon some recent studies which dealt with two important spatial criteria, namely reserve contiguity and minimal fragmentation, using graph theoretic approaches and linear integer programming. The optimization methods presented in those studies are modified to improve …
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Imaging systems for minimally invasive molecular guided cancer surgeries
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Minimally invasive CT-guiding excision of benign bone tumours
… CT guided intralesional curettage is a safe and minimally invasive technique. This is especially useful in less accessible regions of the skeleton as it provides a means of accurately locating the lesion with minimal risk of complications and morbidity to the patient. We consider this to be the …
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Minimally intrusive strategies for fault detection and energy monitoring
… for automated monitoring systems that rely on minimally intrusive sensor arrays. The monitoring techniques employed in this thesis require fewer sensors because they take a different approach to the measurement problem. Specifically, these techniques use the power distribution network in the …
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The development of a minimally invasive glucose sensing system
The overall goal of this research is to develop a minimally invasive glucose sensing system for diabetic patients. The device will consist of an array of micro-needles that penetrates only the stratum corneum layer of the skin and tests glucose levels in the interstitial fluid (IF). This device …
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Design of teleoperated surgical instruments for minimally invasive surgery
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1998.
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Minimally invasive capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers array For biomedical applications
… work is to develop miniature CMUT devices for minimally invasive biomedical diagnosis and treatment. A two-layer poly-silicon surface micromachining process mixed with bulk micromachining process was developed. Based on this process, three prototypes of application were developed in this …
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Learning from minimally labeled data with accelerated convolutional neural networks
<p>The main objective of an Artificial Vision Algorithm is to design a mapping function that takes an image as an input and correctly classifies it into one of the user-determined categories. There are several important properties to be satisfied by the mapping function for visual understanding. …
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