A half-day forum to address a wide range of issues related to translational neural engineering was conducted at the annual meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society. Successful practitioners of translational neural engineering from academics, clinical medicine and industry were invited to share a diversity of perspectives and experiences on the translational process. The forum was targeted ...

There are many reasons for reverse engineering or reengineering legacy systems. To date, many approaches concerning re-engineering of legacy systems have been made. The majority of these approaches are dealing with systems in the field of business applications. This paper describes the work performed for the E-CARES project so far. This project is concerned with understanding and re-structuring...

This paper describes our ongoing project about a new wheelchair-based rehabilitation robotic system for the disabled, called KARES 11 (KAIST Rehabilitation Engineering Service System Io. We shall concentrate on the issues of design and visual servoing of the robotic arm with three human-robot interaction subsystems: an eyemouse, an EMG interface, and a haptic suit interface. First, the specific...

H-H. Peng, T-Y. Huang, H-W. Chung, S-Y. Ju, Y-H. Yang, P-C. Chen, Y-H. Ding, W-S. Chen, and W-Y. I. Tseng Department of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taip...

Abstract Rehabilitation medicine has developed rapidly in recent years. Brain computer interface and functional electrical stimulation are very cutting-edge technologies this field. Because brain provides a real-time operation platform for patients to operate their limbs according intention stimulation, the research on BCI based FES gradually increased This paper discusses current development s...

Interactive bio-feedback (iBF) was initially developed for the rehabilitation of motor function in patients with neurological disorders, and subsequently yielded the development of the hybrid assistive limb (HAL). Here, we provide a review of the theory underlying HAL treatment as well as our clinical experience and recommendations for future clinical studies using HAL in acute stroke patients....

tissue-engineered biomaterials have existed approximately 40 years as simple biomimetic structures. replacement of human tissue with new tissue can be accomplished by generating replacements outside of the body or in situ in the body. in each case, the key elements are described as the tissue engineering triad of scaffolds, cells, and signals. scaffolds can be produced synthetically or derived ...

tissue-engineered biomaterials have existed approximately 40 years as simple biomimetic structures. replacement of human tissue with new tissue can be accomplished by generating replacements outside of the body or in situ in the body. in each case, the key elements are described as the tissue engineering triad of scaffolds, cells, and signals. scaffolds can be produced synthetically or derived ...

the identification of multipotential mesenchymal stem cells (mscs) derived from adult human tissues such as bone marrow and connective tissues has provided exciting prospects for cell-based tissue engineering and regeneration. this review article focuses on the biology of mscs, their differentiation potentials in vitro and in vivo, and their application in tissue engineering. our current unders...