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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Overdistention Accelerates Electrophysiological Changes in Uterine Muscle Towards Labour in Multiple Gestations	347
Device Attitude and Real-Time 3D Visualization: An Interface for Elderly Care	274
Simplified Muscle-Recruitment Strategy During Walking in Parkinson's Disease People: A Time-Frequency Analysis of EMG Signal	153
Enhancing P300 Detection Using a Band-Selective Filter Bank for a Visual P300 Speller	97
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	95
Ultrasound Applications in Ophthalmology: A Review	61
Current and Future Role of HIFU in Obstetric Gynaecology	60
Facial Palsy Characterization Using Dual Regression Trees	57
Contents	57
Acknowledgements to our reviewers	50
Optimized Tunable Q Wavelet Transform Based Drowsiness Detection from Electroencephalogram Signals	49
Recovery Delay with Visual Feedback to Reduce Errors in Single-Switch Scanning Keyboards	49
New Design to Provide Absolute Protection Within a Certain Period for Biodegradable Magnesium Alloys	45
Contrast-Free High Frame Rate Ultrasound Imaging for Assessment of Vascular Remodeling During Wound Healing	44
Uterine Synchronization Analysis During Pregnancy and Labor Using Graph Theory, Classification Based on Neural Network and Deep Learning	44
Arrhythmic Heartbeat Classification Using 2D Convolutional Neural Networks	41
Catheter Tracking Using a Convolutional Neural Network for Decreasing Interventional Radiology X-Ray Exposure	36
Early Detection of Pressure Ulcers: Considering the Reperfusion	35
Evaluation of a Wireless Home Sleep Monitoring System Compared to Polysomnography	35
Gaussianity Evaluation of HD-sEMG Signals with Aging and Sex During Low and Moderate Isometric Contractions of the Biceps Brachii	32
Body Water Volume Estimation Using Bio Impedance Analysis: Where Are We?	28
Stroke Treatment Prediction Using Features Selection Methods and Machine Learning Classifiers	27
Editorial Board	27
Fast Evaluation of Unhealthy and Healthy Neonates Using Hyperspectral Features on 700-850 Nm Wavelengths, ROI Extraction, and 3D-CNN	26
Effect of Botulinum Toxin on Spasticity Level Assessed by Tonic Stretch Reflex Threshold: A Feasibility Pilot Study	26

Optimal Sensor Placement in Smart Home Using Building Information Modeling: A Home Support Application	22
Exploring Radiologic Criteria for Glioma Grade Classification on the BraTS Dataset	22
A Fast and Accurate Method for Glaucoma Screening from Smartphone-Captured Fundus Images	21
Editorial Board	21
A Physician's Perspective on the Incorporation of Pictograms as a Supplement to Medical Instructions in Chile: A Pilot Study	21
Deep Learning-Based Metaheuristic Weighted K-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm for the Severity Classification of Breast Cancer	20
Optimizing Uterine Synchronization Analysis in Pregnancy and Labor Through Window Selection and Node Optimization	19
Assessment of stress distributions in a skeletal muscle affected by post-stroke spastic myopathy	17
SNOROSALAB: A Method Facilitating the Diagnosis of Sleep Breathing Disorders Before Polysomnography	15
An Image Recognition Method for Urine Sediment Based on Semi-supervised Learning	15
sEMG Signal-Based Lower Limb Movements Recognition Using Tunable Q-Factor Wavelet Transform and Kraskov Entropy	13
Combining Cultural Probes and Interviews with Caregivers to Co-Design a Social Mobile Robotic Solution	13
Detection of Social Isolation Based on Meal-Taking Activity and Mobility of Elderly People Living Alone	13
Implication of the Nature and Texturation of Silicone Surfaces on the Grafting of PolyNaSS, a Bioactive Polymer	13
Editorial Board	12
Contents	12
Editorial Board	12
Motor Imagery EEG Spectral-Spatial Feature Optimization Using Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet and Neighbourhood Component Analysis	12
Contents	12
Analysis of Wrist Pulse Signal: Emotions and Physical Pain	11
Biomechanical Effects of Osteoporosis on the Sacroiliac Joint After Lumbosacral Fusion Surgery	11
Electrocardiogram Data Compression Techniques for Cardiac Healthcare Systems: A Methodological Review	11
Comparison of Different Sensor Locations on Freezing-of-Gait Ratio Results	11
Complete 3D Kinematics Parameters of the Temporo-Mandibular Joints Using in Vivo Data Fusion	11
Dynamic Diet Planner: A Personal Diet Recommender System Based on Daily Activity and Physical Condition	11
A Control Strategy for Pneumatically Powered Below-Hip Orthosis	10
A Review on Convolutional Neural Networks for Brain Tumor Segmentation: Methods, Datasets, Libraries, and Future Directions	10
A Nonlinear Analysis of Nociceptive Flexion Reflex Changes Before and After Acute Inflammation	9
Influence of Image Factors on the Performance of Ophthalmic Ultrasound Deep Learning Model	9
Review of Phantoms for Mimicking the Electrical Properties and Mechanical Strength of Living Tissue	9
Editorial Board	9
Biomechanical Response of Four Roussouly's Sagittal Alignment Lumbar to Degeneration of Different Parts of Intervertebral Disc: Finite Element Model Analysis	9
Brain-Computer Interface Speller System for Alternative Communication: A Review	9
Contents	9
IMU Calibration Effect on Lower Limbs Kinematics Against Optical Motion Capture in Post-Stroke Gait	9
Time Domain Analysis of Heart Rate Variability Signals in Valence Recognition for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)	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
Acknowledging our reviewers	8
Development of Direct Grafting on Cyclic Olefin Copolymers to Improve Hydrophilicity by Using Bioactive Polymers	8
Distributed Biomedical Scheme for Controlled Recovery of Medical Encrypted Images	7
A Multi-Branch Convolutional Neural Network for Screening and Staging of Diabetic Retinopathy Based on Wide-Field Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography	7
Prediction of Atrial Fibrillation from Sinus-Rhythm Electrocardiograms Based on Deep Neural Networks: Analysis of Time Intervals and Longitudinal Study	7
Fatigue Loading Effect in Custom-Made All-on-4 Implants System: A 3D Finite Elements Analysis	7
Ankle Exoskeletons in Walking and Load-Carrying Tasks: Insights into Biomechanics and Human-Robot Interaction	7
Editorial Board	7
On the Utility of Parents' Historical Data to Investigate the Causes of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Data Mining-Based Framework	7
Electrocardiogram Signal Compression Using Deep Convolutional Autoencoder with Constant Error and Flexible Compression Rate	7
MISA-Net: A Multi-Scale Feature Interaction Network for Brain Tumor Segmentation	6
Age-Related Changes in Longitudinal and Transversal Elastic Properties of Murine Skeletal Muscle Fibers	6

Editorial Board	6
Automatic Detection of Severely and Mildly Infected COVID-19 Patients with Supervised Machine Learning Models	6
Editorial Board	6
Corrigendum to “Transition Network-Based Analysis of Electrodermal Activity Signals for Emotion Recognition” [IRBM 45 (2024) 100849]	6
Acknowledging our reviewers	6
High-Order Temporal Convolutional Network for Improving Classification Performance of SSVEP-EEG	6
Comparing Two Bootstrapped Regions in Images: The D-Test	6
Potential of Near-Infrared Optical Techniques for Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Measurement: A Pilot Study	6
Classification of Motor Imagery EEG Based on Time-Domain and Frequency-Domain Dual-Stream Convolutional Neural Network	6
Patchwise Trabecular Bone Reconstruction of a 2D Proximal Femur Using Deep Learning and Seamless Quilting Algorithm	5
Corrigendum to “Automatic Detection of Severely and Mildly Infected COVID-19 Patients with Supervised Machine Learning Models” [IRBM 44 (2023) 100725]	5
Gaussian Dropout Based Stacked Ensemble CNN for Classification of Breast Tumor in Ultrasound Images	5
A Novel Biopsy Needle with Double Concave-Curved Cutting Edges	5
Editorial Board	5
Leveraging Action Unit Derivatives for Early-Stage Parkinson's Disease Detection	5
Case-Based Simulation to Support Complex Active Catheterization: Preliminary Results	5
User centered design may apply to public health issues: a case study on arrhythmia detection service in rural general practice	5
The Effect of Mesh Orientation, Defect Location and Size on the Biomechanical Compatibility of Hernia Mesh	5
Contents	5
Cardiovascular Disorder Severity Detection Using Myocardial Anatomic Features Based Optimized Extreme Learning Machine Approach	5
Preparation Strategies for Mg-Alloys for Biodegradable Orthopaedic Implants and Other Biomedical Applications: A Review	5
ECG Data Compression Using Modified Run Length Encoding of Wavelet Coefficients for Holter Monitoring	4
Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Kernel Density Estimation Based Texture Analysis of the Corpus Callosum in Brain MR Images	4
Editorial Board	4
IDEALI: Intuitively Localising Connected Devices in Order to Support Autonomy	4
An EHR Data Quality Evaluation Approach Based on Medical Knowledge and Text Matching	4
Adapting Mechanical Characterization of a Biodegradable Polymer to Physiological Approach of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Functions	4
Automated Detection of B Cell and T Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia Using Deep Learning	3
A Comparative Approach for MI-Based EEG Signals Classification Using Energy, Power and Entropy	3
Contents	3
WITHDRAWN: IRBM: Goals and Trends in Biomedical Engineering	3
Contents	3
The R-Vessel-X Project	3
Editorial Board	3
Acknowledging our reviewers	3
Attention-Based DenseNet for Pneumonia Classification	3
Editorial Board	2
CRISPR-OTE: Prediction of CRISPR On-Target Efficiency Based on Multi-Dimensional Feature Fusion	2
Evaluation of a Multimodal Confocal Therapeutic Focused Ultrasound Apparatus: Bridging Cavitation, Thermal Ablation, and Histotripsy in Preclinical Treatments	2
Study of an Optimization Tool Avoided Bias for Brain-Computer Interfaces Using a Hybrid Deep Learning Model	2
Virtual Surgical Planning/3D Printing for the Management of Severely Comminuted Mandibular Fractures	2
Enhanced Laparoscopic Vision Improves Detection of Intraoperative Adverse Events During Laparoscopy	2
Stylohyoid and Posterior Digastric Recruitment Pattern Evaluation in Swallowing and Non-swallowing Tasks	2
Evaluation of Biomechanical and Stress Distribution of Different Dental Implant Designs: Primary Stability and Photoelastic Analysis	2
Towards an Explainable Model for Sepsis Detection Based on Sensitivity Analysis	2
Development of a Wearable Framework for the Assessment of a Mechanical-Based Indicator of Falling Risk in the Field	2
Biomechanical Evaluation of an Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation of Individuals with Parkinson's Disease	2
The Impact of Missing Data on Heart Rate Variability Features: A Comparative Study of Interpolation Methods for Ambulatory Health Monitoring	2
Objective Assessment of Pull Test Scores in Parkinson's Disease Under Dynamic Conditions	2
AI-Enabled Clinical Decision Support System Modeling for the Prediction of Cirrhosis Complications	2
A Decision-Making System with Reject Option for Atrial Fibrillation Prediction Without ECG Signals	2
Contents	2
Attention-Based Neural Network for Cardiac MRI Segmentation: Application to Strain and Volume Computation	2
Editorial Board	2
Evaluation of Diagnostic Value of Mediastinum for Differentiation of Drug Sensitive, Multi and Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Using Chest X-Rays	2
Classification of Different Tympanic Membrane Conditions Using Fused Deep Hypercolumn Features and Bidirectional LSTM	2
The Impact of Scalp's Temperature on the Choice of the Best Layout for TTFields Treatment	2
Editorial Board	2