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ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Motivated by the increase in shoulder-related surgeries and the subsequent shortage in post-operative rehabilitation, an innovative pneumatic shoulder rehabilitation device was designed to m…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer-related mortality in women worldwide. This high mortality rate is largely due to late-stage diagnosis, which is a significant challenge gi…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
The post-amputation experience involves several physical and psychological changes. Despite technological advances, current prosthetic sockets present limitations by not accurately adapting…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
The project presents a groundbreaking approach to enhance human health through the eye with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technology through a smartphone attachment. By lev…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial infectious disease, is one of the top 10 causes of mortality worldwide in low-income countries, resulting in approximately 10 million new infections and 1.4 mi…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
My work proposes a state-of-the-art vision system to support mobility and navigation for the VI community using both acoustic and haptic signals that shall cost <$300. My work uses a novel i…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Pulse Transit Time (PTT) has been proven in many studies to correlate with blood pressure. When PTT goes down, blood pressure goes up, and vice versa. As a result, PTT can be used to monitor…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Parkinson's patients often encounter challenges like irregular finger tremors and stiffness. Recent research has underscored the potential benefits of rehabilitation training, crucial for re…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Alzheimer's disease (AD), a progressive neurological illness defined by the death of brain nerve cells, frequently leads to dementia as well as impairments in judgment, memory, and communica…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
An estimated 100,000 deaths are caused by blood clots in the United States annually, higher than those by breast cancer and motor crashes combined. One common treatment option involves physi…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Overhead work, performing work with the hands and arms above shoulder level, is common in various professions. However, overhead work is strongly linked to musculoskeletal disorders, impaire…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Drowning is the third leading cause of unintentional injury-related death worldwide. In the United States, drowning remains a significant public health concern, leading to preventable deaths…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Amblyopia, a vision development disorder, causes more vision loss in children than all other reasons combined. Amblyopia can be treated before 10 years of age when visual pathways of the bra…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Rehabilitation needs for stroke patients with motor impairment have garnered great attention worldwide. Addressing the limitations observed in existing hand rehabilitation devices, particula…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
This project is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for individuals afflicted with sickle cell disease, a hereditary condition characterized by abnormal red blood cell morphology and…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
In the US, over 65,000 heat-related deaths occur annually. Athletes/workers exposed to hot temperatures face the risk of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. There are watches/straps that monito…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
A bionic eye, also known as a visual prosthetic or artificial eye, is a device designed to restore or enhance vision in individuals with visual impairments or blindness. It combines biologic…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
With an estimated 60,000,000+ individuals worldwide suffering from disabilities such as mutism and over 850,000 coma patients in the United States each year, enhancing communication capaciti…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Nanotechnology emerges as a potentially effective remedy for the field of bone regenerative medicine. Innovative solutions are needed to overcome regenerative strategy challenges, such as sc…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Annually, brain tumors affect 90,000 people nationwide, and have 5-year survival rates as low as 5%. Surgery, the most popular treatment, hinges on accurate pre-operative planning & detectio…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Many intracranial aneurysms can be treated using flow diversion, in which a finely meshed stent is used to reduce blood flow into an aneurysm. Over time, this leads to endothelial tissue reg…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Hearing loss is the fourth most prevalent disability worldwide, affecting one in five people, and is correlated with depression, isolation, and decreased life expectancy. Innovation in heari…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
According to the WHO, respiratory diseases are among the leading causes of mortality, and collectively, over one billion people suffer from acute or chronic respiratory conditions worldwide.…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Thoracentesis is a surgical procedure where a needle is inserted into the pleural cavity around the lungs to extract pleural fluid. Measuring the pleural pressure during thoracentesis is a g…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is pivotal in understanding brain activity, but its efficacy is often hampered by slice-timing correction artifacts known as 'zebra-artifacts'. T…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
The world's leading cause of irreversible blindness, glaucoma is an aggressive collection of progressive optic neuropathies degrading the retina-brain connection. The primary challenge of gl…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Dengue (break-bone fever) is an endemic viral infection in more than 100 countries. Each year, approximately 3.9 billion people are at risk. Dengue fever infects 100-400 million of them. It…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Background: Developing functional prostheses for the upper limb has historically posed challenges. Amputation of the hand due to military combat injury, disease, or other trauma carries sign…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Hypertension and diabetes often co-occur, causing over a third of Vietnamese's annual deaths. However, only 43% of people with hypertension and 31% with diabetes have been diagnosed, which r…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
The conventional method for treating fractures with plaster or fiberglass casts often faces issues, such as discomfort, and skin problems (Lin et al., 2016). These conventional casts have lo…