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An End-to-End Pipeline for Quantitative MRI Analysis of Ligament/Graft Healing

Description:
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) disruption is a common injury, particularly in the young and active patient. ACL reconstruction surgery is the current standard of care, …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Flannery, Sean (creator)
Beveridge, Jillian (Reader)
Crisco, Joseph (Reader)
Kimia, Benjamin (Reader)
Walsh, Edward (Reader)
Fleming, Braden (Advisor)
Brown University. Biology and Medicine: Biomedical Engineering (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Machine Learning
Magnetic resonance imaging
Anterior cruciate ligament
Orthopedics
Artificial intelligence
Deep Learning
Collection:
Biology and Medicine
Biomedical Engineering
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Artificial Intelligence for Sleep Apnea Detection and Prediction from Electrocardiograms

Description:
Sleep apnea is a common, yet underdiagnosed, sleep-related breathing disorder associated with increased risk of cardiovascular issues. This work uses a multifaceted approach integrating artificial …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Gatsonis, Achilles Nicholas (creator)
Karniadakis, George (Advisor)
Chu, Antony (Reader)
Srivastava, Vikas (Reader)
Brown University. Biology and Medicine: Biomedical Engineering (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Machine Learning
Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Artificial intelligence
Deep Learning
Electrocardiographs
Apnea
Collection:
Biology and Medicine
Biomedical Engineering
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Development of a Deep Learning Framework for Assisting in Image-Guided Thermal Ablation of Kidney Tumors

Description:
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a life-threatening form of cancer causing tens of thousands of deaths in the USA yearly. Current treatment solutions mainly rely …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Franco, Alvaro (creator)
Kimia, Benjamin B. (Advisor)
Crisco, Joseph J. (Reader)
Jiao, Zhicheng (Reader)
Brown University. Biology and Medicine: Biomedical Engineering (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Biomedical engineering
Artificial intelligence
Oncology
Deep Learning
Image Segmentation
Diagnostic imaging
Kidneys--Tumors
Collection:
Biology and Medicine
Biomedical Engineering
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Exploring Models of Cortical Columns for Biologically Constrained AI in Object Recognition

Description:
Objective: This thesis explores the viability of biologically constrained artificial-intelligence architecture based on Numenta, Inc.’s Thousand Brains Theory (TBT) for object recognition, and initial steps …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Enriquez, Santiago (creator)
Sherif, Mohamed (Advisor)
Lee, Jonghwan (Reader)
Asaad, Wael (Reader)
Brown University. Biology and Medicine: Biomedical Engineering (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Object Recognition
Neocortex
Artificial intelligence
Collection:
Biology and Medicine
Biomedical Engineering
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Novel Devices, Physical Mechanisms, and Analytical Techniques for Use in Next Generation Cellular Diagnostics

Description:
Cells are rich in a variety of diagnostic information, from morphology to nucleic acid, protein, and metabolite composition. Cells possess more data than any other …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Welch, Cel (creator)
Tripathi, Anubhav (Advisor)
Tapinos, Nikos (Reader)
Shukla, Anita (Reader)
Morgan, Jeffrey (Reader)
Rosenstein, Jacob (Reader)
Barabino, Gilda (Reader)
Brown University. Biology and Medicine: Biomedical Engineering (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Biotechnology
Biomedical engineering
diagnostic test
tissue engineering
Cancer
Engineering
Microfluidic devices
Microfluidics
Chemical engineering
Nanotechnology
Medical instruments and apparatus
Artificial intelligence
Computational science and engineering
Biomedical engineering--Research
Diagnosis
Medicine
Biosensing
Molecular diagnosis
cancer screening
diagnostics
Bioengineering
Electrokinetics
Engineering design
Deep learning (Machine learning)
Biosensors
Microelectromechanical systems
Microelectronics
Collection:
Biology and Medicine
Biomedical Engineering
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Segmentation of Glioblastoma Images Using Ensembles of Convolutional Neural Networks

Description:
Brain cancer remains a pervasive public health issue. The use of CNN’s to segment brain tumor images has gained significant traction since 2012; however, most …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Montagut, Julian (creator)
Neretti, Nicola (Reader)
Srivastava, Vikas (Reader)
Lee, Jonghwan (Advisor)
Brown University. Biology and Medicine: Biomedical Engineering (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Machine Learning
Histology, Pathological
Artificial intelligence
Glioblastoma
Deep Learning
Image Segmentation
Brain--Cancer
Collection:
Biology and Medicine
Biomedical Engineering
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Using Convolutional Neural Network for Early Breast Cancer Detection

Description:
Objective: The objective of this study was to create a convolutional neural network (CNN) capable of predicting the size, elastic modulus, and the location of …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Rusnak, Anna (creator)
Srivastava, Vikas (Advisor)
Dawson, Michelle (Reader)
Tripathi, Anubhav (Reader)
Brown University. Biology and Medicine: Biomedical Engineering (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Artificial intelligence
Diagnostic ultrasonic imaging
Abaqus (Electronic resource)
Collection:
Biology and Medicine
Biomedical Engineering
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