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Sensors, Volume 20, Issue 2

January-2 2020 - 251 articles

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Cover Story: The planar Hall resistance (PHR) magnetic biosensor detects the magnetically labeled biomolecules or cells, immobilized on the sensor’s surface. Magnetic nanoparticles are used as a molecular tag, converting the biomolecular concentrations into the magnetic stray field, which can be detected by PHR magnetoresistive element as a change of its output voltage signal. In this work, the concentration of magnetic nanoparticles, immobilized on the surface of the sensor, has been successfully detected by the self-field technique, excluding the external magnetic field. In addition, the antibody–antigen sandwich model structure was used to detect β-amyloid, which is a well-known biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease. The developed biosensor, based on PHR magnetoresistive element working in 2f harmonics mode, can be considered a portable and lower-cost alternative to the existing biosensors for point-of-care diagnostics devices. View this paper

Articles (251)

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  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,947 Views
17 Pages

20 January 2020

We present an eating detection algorithm for wearable sensors based on first detecting chewing cycles and subsequently estimating eating phases. We term the corresponding algorithm class as a bottom-up approach. We evaluated the algorithm using elect...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,180 Views
10 Pages

Mapping Current Fields in a Bay Using a Coast-Fitting Tomographic Inversion

  • Minmo Chen,
  • Ze-Nan Zhu,
  • Chuanzheng Zhang,
  • Xiao-Hua Zhu,
  • Min Wang,
  • Xiaopeng Fan,
  • Ruixiang Zhao,
  • Ju Lin and
  • Arata Kaneko

20 January 2020

Coast-fitting tomographic inversion that is based on function expansion using three types of normal modes (the Dirichlet, Neumann, and open boundary modes) is proposed to reconstruct current fields from the coastal acoustic tomography (CAT) data. The...

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  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,414 Views
18 Pages

Improving Depth Resolution of Ultrasonic Phased Array Imaging to Inspect Aerospace Composite Structures

  • Reza Mohammadkhani,
  • Luca Zanotti Fragonara,
  • Janardhan Padiyar M.,
  • Ivan Petrunin,
  • João Raposo,
  • Antonios Tsourdos and
  • Iain Gray

20 January 2020

In this paper, we present challenges and achievements in development and use of a compact ultrasonic Phased Array (PA) module with signal processing and imaging technology for autonomous non-destructive evaluation of composite aerospace structures. W...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,542 Views
17 Pages

20 January 2020

In rail transport, measuring the actual condition of a circular curve of a railway track is a key element of track position monitoring not only during operation but also during final works. Predicting changes in its position in the horizontal plane i...

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  • Open Access
55 Citations
10,070 Views
18 Pages

20 January 2020

With the development of multi-constellation multi-frequency Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), more and more observations are available for tightly coupled GNSS/Inertial Navigation System (INS) integration. Concerning the accuracy, robustnes...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,286 Views
9 Pages

20 January 2020

The demand for sensors in response to oxygen partial pressure in air is increasingly high in recent years and small-size sensors on a micrometer scale and even a nanometer scale are particularly desirable. In this paper, the sensing of oxygen partial...

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  • Open Access
85 Citations
10,744 Views
18 Pages

20 January 2020

The emerging integration of technology in daily lives has increased the need for more convenient methods for human–computer interaction (HCI). Given that the existing HCI approaches exhibit various limitations, hand gesture recognition-based HC...

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  • Open Access
99 Citations
9,263 Views
20 Pages

Applying Fully Convolutional Architectures for Semantic Segmentation of a Single Tree Species in Urban Environment on High Resolution UAV Optical Imagery

  • Daliana Lobo Torres,
  • Raul Queiroz Feitosa,
  • Patrick Nigri Happ,
  • Laura Elena Cué La Rosa,
  • José Marcato Junior,
  • José Martins,
  • Patrik Olã Bressan,
  • Wesley Nunes Gonçalves and
  • Veraldo Liesenberg

20 January 2020

This study proposes and evaluates five deep fully convolutional networks (FCNs) for the semantic segmentation of a single tree species: SegNet, U-Net, FC-DenseNet, and two DeepLabv3+ variants. The performance of the FCN designs is evaluated experimen...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,494 Views
17 Pages

20 January 2020

The dynamic coefficients identification of journal bearings is essential for instability analysis of rotation machinery. Aiming at the measured displacement of a single location, an improvement method associated with the Kalman filter is proposed to...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,021 Views
20 Pages

Global Motion-Aware Robust Visual Object Tracking for Electro Optical Targeting Systems

  • Byeong Hak Kim,
  • Alan Lukezic,
  • Jong Hyuk Lee,
  • Ho Min Jung and
  • Min Young Kim

20 January 2020

Although recently developed trackers have shown excellent performance even when tracking fast moving and shape changing objects with variable scale and orientation, the trackers for the electro-optical targeting systems (EOTS) still suffer from abrup...

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