Ghostly - Targeting muscle strength loss due to hospitalization in older adults by blood-flow restriction combined with an EMG driven serious game
During hospitalization, older adults rapidly lose muscle mass, leading to functional decline unrelated
to their admission condition. It is well documented that immobility significantly weakens muscles,
particularly in those over 60, with effect...
Digilung: DIGItalisation of the COPD market with a LUNGshirt and a platform
1/ A sanitary challenge, an economic opportunity. COPD is considered by the World Health Organization as the third leading cause of death worldwide, causing 3.23 million deaths in 2019 (5.3% of all deaths) and this even though underdiagnosis and unde...
Augmented reality in rehabilitation: a novel deep learning markerless approach for human pose and gait parameters estimation
3D Human pose estimation (HPE) is a computer vision task that estimates the configuration of human body parts in the 3D space. HPE is the main technology behind markerless motion capture, which is usually preferred to a marker based one as it is more...
GEAR: āVenturing into Future Health Technologiesā
Venturing into future health technologies is the focused thematic of the Gear consortium Tech4Health comprises team members of two departments: departments of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO) and Industrial Engineering (INDI) of the faculty of Engi...
INSOFAR - Interactive Segmentation for Surgical Augmented Reality
Since fall 2017, a multidisciplinary team worked on an augmented reality (AR) solution for surgical navigation for orthopedic and neurosurgery in the context of the imec.icon SARA. Unique technical building blocks have been developed, which allowed f...
TBM: Ivision2 - Game Based Therapy
Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) is the most common cause of visual disability in developed countries (one to two cases per 1000 live births). A person with CVI usually has normal eye function but processing visual information in the brain is hindere...
Anticipate ā optimizing patient pathways in orthopaedics
The ambition of this project is to advance the moveUP’s platform by improving the process of patient follow-up,
according to 2 axes: 1. identification/ classification and 2. from expert driven to data driven
Platform for Trustworthy AI
imec AAA-project (B-budget)
AI-based chest CT analysis enabling rapid COVID diagnosis and prognosis
This icovid project is the continuation of the pro bono icovid initiative that developed the CE-marked and FDA permitted AIbased CT analysis software, icolung, and made it available in over 65 hospitals worldwide.
FWO SB - WALKING WITH IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY: How does āoptic flowā, āperformance feedbackā and ācompetitionā influence the gait pattern in people post-stroke?
Stroke is a brain injury that frequently affects patients walking function. Since walking disabilities can greatly influence someone's daily activities, independent community access, participation in social activities and quality of life, regainin...
Classification of tumor types - analyzing microcalcifications properties in 3D high resolution micro-CT images
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women worldwide. The main indicators of an early breast cancer are micro calcifications (MCs) which are found during a mammography screening. They are not always restricted to malignancies as they ap...
Interdisciplinary Research Program: Gerontopole Brussels, centre of expertise for Gerontology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The GerontopoleBrussels is an interdisciplinary research network of various faculties at the VUB, set up around the central theme of Active and Healthy Ageing. The general aimsof the Gerontopole Brussels are to run a comprehensive ...
ICON SARA (Surgical Augmented Reality Assistance)
SARA focuses on developing next generation computer-assisted surgery (CAS), including technology for surgical planning, guidance during surgical procedures and training for surgical procedures. CAS relies to a large extent on per-operative visualizat...
Lensfree Cell Sorting
lensfree microscopy, holography, cell classification, machine learning, leukocytes
IOF Proof Of Concept: Iris detection and authentication on a smartphone
Iris Recognition is the scientific domain dealing with the detection of the human iris in images and processing the detected iris in such a way that computed properties of the iris can be used to uniquely identify a person. Given the uniqueness of ea...
NEANDERTHAL-3D: Management and valorisation of the digital collection of Belgian human fossiles.
Human evolution is a āhotā research topic which fascinates both the media and the general public. The opening of the New gallery of Man and the Evolution of Man in RBINS in May 2015 showed the enormous interest that both scholars and families hav...
Kinematic Assessment of Real-time Motion Acquisition of the Human Musculoskeletal System by Dynamic 4D Transversal Imaging (KARMA-4Dplus)
The aim of this IRP theme is to develop a system for the non-invasive, in-vivo, intra-articular
kinematic assessment of human skeletal structures and soft tissues in real-time movement. We want to achieve this by combining dynamic 4D CT scanning w...
FWO-SB-scholarship for Evgenia Papavasileiou
Problem definition and objectives Nowadays there is a trend towards high dimensional datasets resulting from the simultaneous measurement of a high number of characteristics (features) of a small number of samples. In classification tasks this pheno...
ICON ARIA (Augmented Reality for Industrial Applications)
For years industry was the driving engine of gaining welfare in the Flemish region. It is clear that this driving force is decreasing since multiple years: employment in industry is declining and the competitiveness of our region decreases. A second ...
ICON WE-MOVE (A Serious Gaming Platform for Rehabilitation and Movement Exercises for Children)
wE-MOVE aims to deliver a proof-of-concept platform for gaming based on body movements, that allows for promotion of fine and gross motor activities in typically developing children, exercises for children rehabilitation and athletic youth training. ...
IRIS- Interoperable platform for Remote monitoring and Integrated e-Solutions
The global burden of stroke and multiple sclerosis (MS) is immense, both in medical and in economic terms. Acute stroke management is a time-critical emergency requiring specialized treatment. Likewise, long-term professional support helps ...
RehabGoesHome: Rehabilitation Guardian for Young and Elderly patients atHome
The RehabGoesHome Rehabilitation Guardian project for YOung and Elderly Patients at Home, from the LABO (Faculty of Medicine) and ETRO (VUB) will build on the technology developed during the ICT4Rehab project (funded by Innoviris until February). ICT...
Knowledge Platform Innovation Elderly Care
The pilot project aims to support innovative care initiatives that pay attention to all aspects of care for the elderly, including prevention (including combating social vulnerability, increasing the quality of the housing situation), awareness, dete...
SRP: Processing of large scale multi-dimensional, multi-spectral, multi-sensorial and distributed data (MĀ³DĀ²)
Focusses on i) the data modeling, (ii) the exploitation of sparsity, (iii) the associated data analysis and fusion, (iv) the sensor design. Signal, image and video processing, compression, data analysis, end-to-end system design.Cross-disciplinary: m...
ICT4Rehab: Advanced ICT Platform for Rehabilitiation - Including Serious Gaming and Clinical Data analysis.
The ICT4Rehab project addresses a new rehabilitation paradigm. Designing and building demonstrators in the domain of muscle spasticity rehabilitation as Proof-of-Concepts requires the integration of various data sources, the development of ...
OSCB: Open Semantic Cloud for Brussels
This project aims to cover Brussels, metaphorically speaking of course, with a cloud of structured and interlinked information elements produced by "atomizing" a collection of relevant databases and other resources. Linked Data is a global init...