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    An Effective Approach of Secured Medical Image Transmission Using Encryption Method

    Ranu Gupta1,3,*, Rahul Pachauri2,3, Ashutosh Kumar Singh1,4
    Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.15, No.2, pp. 63-83, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/mcb.2018.00114
    Abstract Various chaos-based image encryption schemes have been proposed in last few years. The proposed image encryption method uses chaotic map. The encryption is done by using 256 bit long external secret key. The initial condition for the chaotic mapping is evaluated by the use of external secret key along with the mapping function. Besides that, the proposed method is made more robust by applying multiple operations to the pixels of the image depending on the outcome of the calculation of the logistic map. Moreover, block shuffling of the image and modifying the secret key after encryption of each row is… More >

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    Theoretical Prediction and Experimental Testing of Mechanical Properties for 3D Printed Silk Fibroin-Type II Collagen Scaffolds for Cartilage Regeneration

    Lilan Gao1,2,*, Qingxian Yuan1,2, Ruixin Li3,*, Lei Chen1,2, Chunqiu Zhang1,2, Xizheng Zhang1,2
    Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.15, No.2, pp. 85-98, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/mcb.2018.00329
    Abstract Silk fibroin-typeⅡcollagen scaffold was made by 3D printing technique and freeze-drying method, and its mechanical properties were studied by experiments and theoretical prediction. The results show that the three-dimensional silk fibroin-typeⅡ collagen scaffold has good porosity and water absorption, which is (89.3%+3.26%) and (824.09%+93.05%), respectively. With the given strain value, the stress of scaffold decreases rapidly firstly and then tends to be stable during the stress relaxation. Both initial and instantaneous stresses increase with increase of applied strain value. The creep strains of scaffold with different stress levels show the two stages: the rapidly increasing stage and the second stable… More >

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    Combining Smaller Patch, RV Remodeling and Tissue Regeneration in Pulmonary Valve Replacement Surgery Design May Lead to Better Post-Surgery RV Cardiac Function for Patients with Tetralogy of Fallot

    Zhedian Zhou1, Tal Geva2, Rahul H. Rathod2, Alexander Tang2, Chun Yang3, Kristen L. Billiar4, Dalin Tang1,*,3, Pedro del Nido5
    Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.15, No.2, pp. 99-115, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/mcb.2018.00558
    Abstract Patients with repaired Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF), a congenital heart defect which includes a ventricular septal defect and severe right ventricular outflow obstruction, account for the majority of cases with late onset right ventricle (RV) failure. The current surgical approach, which includes pulmonary valve replacement/insertion (PVR), has yielded mixed results. A computational parametric study using 7 patient-specific RV/LV models based on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) data as "virtual surgery" was performed to investigate the impact of patch size, RV remodeling and tissue regeneration in PVR surgery design on RV cardiac functions. Two patch sizes, three degrees of scar trimming (RV… More >

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    Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography Image Segmentation Based on Support Vector Machine Algorithm

    Yuxiang Huang1, Chuliu He1, Jiaqiu Wang2, Yuehong Miao1, Tongjin Zhu1, Ping Zhou1, Zhiyong Li1,2,*
    Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.15, No.2, pp. 117-125, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/mcb.2018.02478
    Abstract Intravascular optical coherence tomography (IVOCT) is becoming more and more popular in clinical diagnosis of coronary atherosclerotic. However, reading IVOCT images is of large amount of work. This article describes a method based on image feature extraction and support vector machine (SVM) to achieve semi-automatic segmentation of IVOCT images. The image features utilized in this work including light attenuation coefficients and image textures based on gray level co-occurrence matrix. Different sets of hyper-parameters and image features were tested. This method achieved an accuracy of 83% on the test images. Single class accuracy of 89% for fibrous, 79.3% for calcification and… More >

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