ZiMT Journal Club

Tuesday May 24, 2022 at 11:00 via zoom
https://fau.zoom.us/j/65681304732

Neurostimulation strategies are potentially effective and risk-, time- and cost-limited treatments for the approximately 22% of Europeans suffering from neurological disorders. Technologies such as spinal cord stimulation a...

Our research focus is on the application and development of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as deep neural network, in the field of communication disorders. We foster new image acquisition and image processing techniques, and work on TinyML neural networks. We further develop new datasets t...

There has been a growing interest to support surgical procedures with machine models that analyse and understand operations in different semantic levels. These procedures are necessary for developing context-aware intelligent systems, which can assist physicians during their operations by automatica...

We use approaches developed in particle physics to advance experimental techniques in other areas such as medical physics, non-destructive testing and laboratory astrophysics. X-ray imaging is well known to everyone, as an attenuation image is taken for medical diagnostics and non-destructive testin...

Even if something cannot be measured directly, it might still be determined and tracked accurately by combining information that is hidden in the measured data with nonrestrictive prior knowledge. Likewise, a given task might be infeasible at first but become achievable by learning from repeated att...

Research in nanomedicine spans a multitude of areas, including drug delivery, pathogen identification, diagnostic and imaging tools, high-throughput screening platforms, etc. Many of these developments are starting to be translated into viable clinical products. Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanopart...

The lives of humans and bacteria are inseparable. Bacteria predominantly grow as biofilms, which are complex communities of cells forming on almost any kind of surface. For better, biofilms protect plant roots and give taste to cheese. For worse, they cause numerous chronic infections that defy anti...

Decoding the neural processing of speech

Understanding speech in noisy backgrounds requires selective attention to a particular speaker. Humans excel at this challenging task, while current speech recognition technology still struggles when background noise is loud. The neural mechanisms by whic...

The rapid development of CAD/CAM technology is already noticeable in many areas of dentistry. It allows manufacturing processes related to dental restorations to be carried out more accurately and faster in many aspects. A prerequisite for this success is the highly precise three-dimensional transfe...

Aseptic implant loosening is one of the five most common causes of implant revision in hip and knee arthroplasty . The assessment of implant anchoring over time is carried out in orthopedics using imaging methods, which aid in assessing the movement between the implant and the bone surrounding the i...

Interfacing the intact and damaged nervous system
We move, eat, and breath through the combined activation of groups of muscles. Muscle force is controlled by coordinated sequences of motoneuronal discharge timings. The alpha-motoneurons in the ventral horn of the spinal cord represent the “final c...

How mechanics regulate biological processes in the nervous system
The development of the central nervous system (CNS) includes the formation of neuronal axons, their subsequent growth and guidance through thick layers of nervous tissue, and the folding of the brain. All these processes involve moti...

X-Ray Phase-Contrast
Early detection of cancer and angiography applications are just two examples that can directly benefit from an imaging modality with excellent soft-tissue contrast. X-ray grating interferometry is promising to achieve this while keeping radiation dose and examination costs low....

Effects of Immobilization, Microgravity, and Physical Activity on the Human Body, specifically on Cartilage and Bone Tissue
Healthy articular cartilage is a prerequisite for proper joint function, and thus for unrestricted physical activity. In synovial joints, articular cartilage provides joint c...

Translational Imaging with Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common fatal genetic muscle disease in male newborns. It leads to muscle degeneration and inflammation, resulting in loss of physical muscle function. State-of-the-art technologies and rad...