Haptic input devices with intelligent signal processing ensuring process stability and quality management

Ensuring the quality of peer-review process.

I have recently noticed that the Saudi Medical Journal adopted “ask first” protocol to recruit referees. “Asking first” by query potential reviewers before sending manuscriptsis an alternative protocol to “just send” where reviewers are allowed to opt out. Actually, that motivated me to search for the studies, which have evaluated interventions that try to improve peer review. Smith1 stated tha...

Pseudo-Haptic Feedback: Can Isometric Input Devices Simulate Force Feedback?

This paper considers whether a passive isometric input device, such as a , used together with visual feedback, could provide the operator with a pseudo-haptic feedback. For this aim, two psychophysical experiments have been conducted. The first experiment consisted of a compliance discrimination, between two virtual springs hand-operated by means of the . In this experiment, the stiffness (or c...

Intelligent Signal and Image Processing in eHealth

Highly technological intelligent solutions based on the appropriate and careful interpretation of medical data, acquired by diagnostic investigations are more and more assuming a key importance in the improvement of health care quality and management. The considerable advances in diagnostic technologies and enhancement of the different modalities have made possible to obtain high-resolution ima...

Quality management for the processing of medical devices

Rules on the reprocessing of medical devices were put into place in Germany in 2001. The present article explains the background situation and the provisions that are currently in force.The implementation of these statutory requirements is described using the example of the quality management system of Germany's market leader, Vanguard AG. This quality management system was successfully certifi...

Using pressure input and thermal feedback to broaden haptic interaction with mobile devices