Intro
Preface
Contents
Imaging
Background Noise Reduction of OCT Images Based on Region Filling
1 Introduction
2 Methods and Materials
2.1 Biological Tissue Preparation and OCT Imaging
2.2 Preprocessing and Background Noise Reduction Based on Region Filling
2.3 Validation of Background Noise Reduction
3 Results
3.1 Image Preprocessing and Background Noise Reduction
3.2 Validation of Background Noise Reduction Method
4 Discussions and Conclusion
References

Monte-Carlo Simulation and Clinical Image Validation for Vessel Size Imaging with Twice and Single Refocus Spin-Echo Diffusion Sequence
1 Introduction
2 Methods
2.1 Monte-Carlo Simulation
2.2 Clinical MRI Image Evaluation
3 Results
3.1 Monte-Carlo Simulation
3.2 Clinical Image
4 Discussion
5 Conclusion
References
Medical Devices
Surgical-Tools Tracking Based on Convolutional Neural Network and Long Short-Term Memory
1 Introduction
2 Methods
2.1 Convolutional Neural Network
2.2 Long Short-Term Memory
3 Results
4 Conclusion
References

Development of a Novel Laparoscopic Palpation System Using a Wearable Motion-Sensing Armband
1 Introduction
1.1 Laparoscopic Palpation
2 Methodology
3 Results
4 Discussion
5 Conclusion
References
Surface-Based Electromyography Gesture Profiling of Laparoscopic Tools Using a Wearable Sensor
1 Introduction
2 Methodology
3 Results
4 Discussion
5 Conclusion
References
Development of Rehabilitation System with Bilateral Upper Extremity Training Robot and Virtual Reality for Stroke Patient
1 Introduction
2 Materials and Methods

2.1 Gyro-Roller Rehabilitation Device
2.2 Experiment Design
3 Results
4 Discussion
5 Conclusion
References
Therapeutic Medical Engineering
Numerical Analysis of Aortic Valve Stress for Phantom Experiments
1 Introduction
2 Material and Method
2.1 Aortic Valve Phantom Model
2.2 Digital Image Correlation
2.3 Experiment
2.4 Numerical Analysis
3 Result and Discussion
3.1 Numerical Analysis
References
Development of an Ultrastructural Model of Cardiomyocytes Based on Electron Microscopy
1 Introduction
2 Methods
2.1 3-D Modeling

2.2 Validation
3 Results and Discussion
3.1 Pixel-Based Result
3.2 Model-Based Result
4 Conclusion
References
Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis of 3D Human Aortic Valve Model Constructed from CT Images
1 Introduction
2 Methods
2.1 Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis
2.2 Personalized Mesh Construction
2.3 Analysis Conditions
3 Results and Discussion
3.1 Comparison of Analysis Results by Patient
3.2 Evaluating Mesh Sizes
References
Experiment on Flow Estimation of Simulated Urination in a Western Style Toilet with Built-in Image Sensor