OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of IRBM is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Device Attitude and Real-Time 3D Visualization: An Interface for Elderly Care	359
Simplified Muscle-Recruitment Strategy During Walking in Parkinson's Disease People: A Time-Frequency Analysis of EMG Signal	275
Biomechanical Comparison of the Influence of Osteoporosis on the Lumbar Spine After Lumbar Interbody Fusion Surgery or Non-fusion Dynamic Stabilization Surgery Under Whole Body Vibration	157
Current and Future Role of HIFU in Obstetric Gynaecology	106
Enhancing P300 Detection Using a Band-Selective Filter Bank for a Visual P300 Speller	97
Overdistention Accelerates Electrophysiological Changes in Uterine Muscle Towards Labour in Multiple Gestations	65
Ultrasound Applications in Ophthalmology: A Review	64
Contents	60
Facial Palsy Characterization Using Dual Regression Trees	58
Acknowledgements to our reviewers	57
Recovery Delay with Visual Feedback to Reduce Errors in Single-Switch Scanning Keyboards	54
New Design to Provide Absolute Protection Within a Certain Period for Biodegradable Magnesium Alloys	52
Contrast-Free High Frame Rate Ultrasound Imaging for Assessment of Vascular Remodeling During Wound Healing	47
Catheter Tracking Using a Convolutional Neural Network for Decreasing Interventional Radiology X-Ray Exposure	47
Early Detection of Pressure Ulcers: Considering the Reperfusion	46
Evaluation of a Wireless Home Sleep Monitoring System Compared to Polysomnography	45
Optimized Tunable Q Wavelet Transform Based Drowsiness Detection from Electroencephalogram Signals	36
Uterine Synchronization Analysis During Pregnancy and Labor Using Graph Theory, Classification Based on Neural Network and Deep Learning	35
Arrhythmic Heartbeat Classification Using 2D Convolutional Neural Networks	34
A Fast and Accurate Method for Glaucoma Screening from Smartphone-Captured Fundus Images	30
Editorial Board	27
Optimal Sensor Placement in Smart Home Using Building Information Modeling: A Home Support Application	27
A Physician's Perspective on the Incorporation of Pictograms as a Supplement to Medical Instructions in Chile: A Pilot Study	26
Effect of Botulinum Toxin on Spasticity Level Assessed by Tonic Stretch Reflex Threshold: A Feasibility Pilot Study	26
Gaussianity Evaluation of HD-sEMG Signals with Aging and Sex During Low and Moderate Isometric Contractions of the Biceps Brachii	22

Editorial Board	22
Fast Evaluation of Unhealthy and Healthy Neonates Using Hyperspectral Features on 700-850 Nm Wavelengths, ROI Extraction, and 3D-CNN	22
Deep Learning-Based Metaheuristic Weighted K-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm for the Severity Classification of Breast Cancer	22
Stroke Treatment Prediction Using Features Selection Methods and Machine Learning Classifiers	21
Body Water Volume Estimation Using Bio Impedance Analysis: Where Are We?	20
Implication of the Nature and Texturation of Silicone Surfaces on the Grafting of PolyNaSS, a Bioactive Polymer	19
SNOROSALAB: A Method Facilitating the Diagnosis of Sleep Breathing Disorders Before Polysomnography	19
Detection of Social Isolation Based on Meal-Taking Activity and Mobility of Elderly People Living Alone	17
Contents	16
sEMG Signal-Based Lower Limb Movements Recognition Using Tunable Q-Factor Wavelet Transform and Kraskov Entropy	15
Assessment of Stress Distributions in a Skeletal Muscle Affected by Post-Stroke Spastic Myopathy	14
Combining Cultural Probes and Interviews with Caregivers to Co-Design a Social Mobile Robotic Solution	14
An Image Recognition Method for Urine Sediment Based on Semi-supervised Learning	14
Comparison of Different Sensor Locations on Freezing-of-Gait Ratio Results	13
Editorial Board	13
Biomechanical Effects of Osteoporosis on the Sacroiliac Joint After Lumbosacral Fusion Surgery	13
Optimizing Uterine Synchronization Analysis in Pregnancy and Labor Through Window Selection and Node Optimization	13
Contents	13
Motor Imagery EEG Spectral-Spatial Feature Optimization Using Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet and Neighbourhood Component Analysis	12
IMU Calibration Effect on Lower Limbs Kinematics Against Optical Motion Capture in Post-Stroke Gait	11
Biomechanical Response of Four Roussouly's Sagittal Alignment Lumbar to Degeneration of Different Parts of Intervertebral Disc: Finite Element Model Analysis	11
A Control Strategy for Pneumatically Powered Below-Hip Orthosis	11
Electrocardiogram Data Compression Techniques for Cardiac Healthcare Systems: A Methodological Review	11
Review of Phantoms for Mimicking the Electrical Properties and Mechanical Strength of Living Tissue	11
Editorial Board	11
Analysis of Wrist Pulse Signal: Emotions and Physical Pain	10
A Review on Convolutional Neural Networks for Brain Tumor Segmentation: Methods, Datasets, Libraries, and Future Directions	10
Electrocardiogram Signal Compression Using Deep Convolutional Autoencoder with Constant Error and Flexible Compression Rate	9
Influence of Image Factors on the Performance of Ophthalmic Ultrasound Deep Learning Model	9
Editorial Board	9
Complete 3D Kinematics Parameters of the Temporo-Mandibular Joints Using in Vivo Data Fusion	9
Contents	9
Development of Direct Grafting on Cyclic Olefin Copolymers to Improve Hydrophilicity by Using Bioactive Polymers	8
BCDNet: An Optimized Deep Network for Ultrasound Breast Cancer Detection	8
Normative Data of the External Work of Individual Limbs and of the Distribution of Joint Work During Stair Crossing	8
A Nonlinear Analysis of Nociceptive Flexion Reflex Changes Before and After Acute Inflammation	8
Acknowledging our reviewers	8
On the Utility of Parents' Historical Data to Investigate the Causes of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Data Mining-Based Framework	7
Editorial Board	7
Time Domain Analysis of Heart Rate Variability Signals in Valence Recognition for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)	7
Prediction of Atrial Fibrillation from Sinus-Rhythm Electrocardiograms Based on Deep Neural Networks: Analysis of Time Intervals and Longitudinal Study	7
Distributed Biomedical Scheme for Controlled Recovery of Medical Encrypted Images	7
Brain-Computer Interface Speller System for Alternative Communication: A Review	7
Fatigue Loading Effect in Custom-Made All-on-4 Implants System: A 3D Finite Elements Analysis	7
A Multi-Branch Convolutional Neural Network for Screening and Staging of Diabetic Retinopathy Based on Wide-Field Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography	7
Ankle Exoskeletons in Walking and Load-Carrying Tasks: Insights into Biomechanics and Human-Robot Interaction	7
Corrigendum to “Transition Network-Based Analysis of Electrodermal Activity Signals for Emotion Recognition” [IRBM 45 (2024) 100849]	6
Classification of Motor Imagery EEG Based on Time-Domain and Frequency-Domain Dual-Stream Convolutional Neural Network	6
Editorial Board	6
High-Order Temporal Convolutional Network for Improving Classification Performance of SSVEP-EEG	6

Acknowledging our reviewers	6
Age-Related Changes in Longitudinal and Transversal Elastic Properties of Murine Skeletal Muscle Fibers	6
Potential of Near-Infrared Optical Techniques for Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Measurement: A Pilot Study	6
Automatic Detection of Severely and Mildly Infected COVID-19 Patients with Supervised Machine Learning Models	5
MISA-Net: A Multi-Scale Feature Interaction Network for Brain Tumor Segmentation	5
Editorial Board	5
Case-Based Simulation to Support Complex Active Catheterization: Preliminary Results	5
Contents	5
Comparing Two Bootstrapped Regions in Images: The D-Test	5
Contents	5
The Effect of Mesh Orientation, Defect Location and Size on the Biomechanical Compatibility of Hernia Mesh	5
Corrigendum to “Automatic Detection of Severely and Mildly Infected COVID-19 Patients with Supervised Machine Learning Models” [IRBM 44 (2023) 100725]	5
Leveraging Action Unit Derivatives for Early-Stage Parkinson's Disease Detection	5
Editorial Board	5
Patchwise Trabecular Bone Reconstruction of a 2D Proximal Femur Using Deep Learning and Seamless Quilting Algorithm	5
A Novel Biopsy Needle with Double Concave-Curved Cutting Edges	5
Preparation Strategies for Mg-Alloys for Biodegradable Orthopaedic Implants and Other Biomedical Applications: A Review	4
IDEALI: Intuitively Localising Connected Devices in Order to Support Autonomy	4
Cardiovascular Disorder Severity Detection Using Myocardial Anatomic Features Based Optimized Extreme Learning Machine Approach	4
Gaussian Dropout Based Stacked Ensemble CNN for Classification of Breast Tumor in Ultrasound Images	4
Adapting Mechanical Characterization of a Biodegradable Polymer to Physiological Approach of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Functions	4
User Centered Design May Apply to Public Health Issues: A Case Study on Arrhythmia Detection Service in Rural General Practice	4
Automated Detection of B Cell and T Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia Using Deep Learning	4
Editorial Board	3
Contents	3
Development of a Sensory Integration Test for Locomotion: A Study Protocol	3
Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Kernel Density Estimation Based Texture Analysis of the Corpus Callosum in Brain MR Images	3
Editorial Board	3
A Comparative Approach for MI-Based EEG Signals Classification Using Energy, Power and Entropy	3
An EHR Data Quality Evaluation Approach Based on Medical Knowledge and Text Matching	3
WITHDRAWN: IRBM: Goals and Trends in Biomedical Engineering	3
Attention-Based DenseNet for Pneumonia Classification	3
ECG Data Compression Using Modified Run Length Encoding of Wavelet Coefficients for Holter Monitoring	3
CRISPR-OTE: Prediction of CRISPR On-Target Efficiency Based on Multi-Dimensional Feature Fusion	2
Editorial Board	2
Towards an Explainable Model for Sepsis Detection Based on Sensitivity Analysis	2
Contents	2
Evaluation of Biomechanical and Stress Distribution of Different Dental Implant Designs: Primary Stability and Photoelastic Analysis	2
Application of the Coupling Angle to Investigate Upper Limb Interjoint Coordination After Stroke	2
Objective Assessment of Pull Test Scores in Parkinson's Disease Under Dynamic Conditions	2
Virtual Surgical Planning/3D Printing for the Management of Severely Comminuted Mandibular Fractures	2
Classification of Different Tympanic Membrane Conditions Using Fused Deep Hypercolumn Features and Bidirectional LSTM	2
ADNP-15: An Open-Source Histopathological Dataset for Neuritic Plaque Segmentation in Human Brain Whole Slide Images with Frequency Domain Image Enhancement for Stain Normalization	2
Attention-Based Neural Network for Cardiac MRI Segmentation: Application to Strain and Volume Computation	2
Editorial Board	2
Acknowledging our reviewers	2
Enhanced Laparoscopic Vision Improves Detection of Intraoperative Adverse Events During Laparoscopy	2
A Decision-Making System with Reject Option for Atrial Fibrillation Prediction Without ECG Signals	2
Evaluation of Diagnostic Value of Mediastinum for Differentiation of Drug Sensitive, Multi and Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Using Chest X-Rays	2
The Impact of Missing Data on Heart Rate Variability Features: A Comparative Study of Interpolation Methods for Ambulatory Health Monitoring	2
The Impact of Scalp's Temperature on the Choice of the Best Layout for TTFields Treatment	2
Contents	2
Biomechanical Evaluation of an Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation of Individuals with Parkinson's Disease	2
The R-Vessel-X Project	2
Development of a Wearable Framework for the Assessment of a Mechanical-Based Indicator of Falling Risk in the Field	2
Editorial Board	2
Stylohyoid and Posterior Digastric Recruitment Pattern Evaluation in Swallowing and Non-swallowing Tasks	2
Evaluation of Chemotherapy Response in Osteosarcoma Using Quantitative Ultrasound: A Pilot Study Relating Ultrasound Parameters to Molecular Response	2
Evaluation of a Multimodal Confocal Therapeutic Focused Ultrasound Apparatus: Bridging Cavitation, Thermal Ablation, and Histotripsy in Preclinical Treatments	2