Current clinical intervention criteria for ascending thoracic aneurysms (ATAAs) are based on the maximum diameter value, however rupture may occur even at smaller dilatation levels. Moreover, the presence of the bicuspid aortic valve complication (BAV)...
Ascending thoracic aorta aneurysms (aTAA) represent a severe threatening condition in the modern clinical landscape. The risk of aTAA rupture is usually higher in patients with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) with respect to tricuspid valve (TAV). It is...
In this paper, a methodology that aims at evaluating the effectiveness of different TES strategies is presented. The methodology takes into account the specific material of interest in the monitored scenario, sensor characteristics, and errors in the...
We propose in this paper novel cooperative distributed MPC algorithms for tracking of piecewise constant setpoints in linear discrete-time systems. The available literature for cooperative tracking requires that each local controller uses the...
The paper presents the first simulative results and algorithmic developments of the task-priority based control applied to a distributed sampling network in an area coverage or adaptive sampling mission scenario. The proposed approach allowing the...
Purpose: The in situ fenestration of a standard endograft is currently limited by difficulties in targeting the fenestration site under fluoroscopic control and by the lack of a safe method to perforate the graft. Evidence in the literature suggests the...
TensorFlow is an open source deep learning framework developed at Google that enables developers to conceive a wide variety of applications based on artificial intelligence principles. In this paper, we employ such software resources towards the...
Virtual Reality (VR) is promising not just for the game and entertainment industry, but also for the medical and surgical fields, to develop simulation systems and navigation tools for the intra-operative assistance. Electromagnetic (EM) tracking...
This paper presents the implementation of a state of charge (SOC) estimator for Lithium-ion battery in a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based System-in-the-Loop platform. The paper explains and provides results from alternative methods for...
This paper discusses a simulation platform for predicting the behavior of a battery system comprising two batteries, which can be parallelized in a controllable way. The model of the battery, the load and the parallelization algorithm is developed and...
Online battery parameter identification algorithms, such as the Moving Window Least Squares, allow model-based state estimators with low computational intensity to be very accurate. This paper presents a procedure for tuning the algorithm parameters by...
Thanks to the new advanced tools and the innovative methods to image deep in the brain at cell resolution, neuroanatomy is quickly redefining its protocols for quantitatively studying neurons in their own three-dimensional arrangement. The huge amount...
To date, automated or semi-automated software and algorithms for segmentation of neurons from three-dimensional imaging datasets have had limited success. The gold standard for neural segmentation is considered to be the manual isolation performed by an...
In the last few years power wheelchairs have been becoming the only device able to provide autonomy and independence to people with motor skill impairments. In particular, many power wheelchairs feature robotic arms for gesture emulation, like the...
In the field of deep learning, this paper presents the design of a wearable computer vision system for visually impaired users. The Assistive Technology solution exploits a powerful single board computer and smart glasses with a camera in order to allow...
An effective robotic wrist represents a key enabling element in robotic manipulation, especially in prosthetics. In this paper, we propose an under-actuated wrist system, which is also adaptable and allows to implement different underactuation schemes....
This paper investigates the utilization of satellite broadcast signals such as DVB-S and DVB-S2 as illuminator of opportunity for passive radar imaging techniques like SAR or ISAR. It includes an analysis of the key elements of the structure of the...
This work analyzes a mmWave single-cell network, which comprises a macro base station (BS) and an overlaid tier of small-cell BSs using a wireless backhaul for data traffic. We look for the optimal number of antennas at both BS and small-cell BSs that...
Abstract Ordered arrays of silicon nano- to microscale pillars are used to enable biomolecular trafficking into primary human cells, consistently demonstrating high transfection efficiency can be achieved with broader and taller pillars than reported to...
Advanced Functional Materials, 2017, 27, 1604310 Abstract In this work the authors report on the controlled electrochemical etching of high-aspect-ratio (from 5 to 100) structures in silicon at the highest etching rates (from 3 to 10 μm min1) at room...