Search Results - "Alban, Andres"

Efficient Monte Carlo methods for estimating failure probabilities by Alban, Andres, Darji, Hardik A., Imamura, Atsuki, Nakayama, Marvin K.

“…We develop efficient Monte Carlo methods for estimating the failure probability of a system. An example of the problem comes from an approach for probabilistic…”
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ICU capacity management during the COVID-19 pandemic using a process simulation by Alban, Andres, Chick, Stephen E., Dongelmans, Dave A., Vlaar, Alexander P. J., Sent, Danielle

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Cost-effective clinical trial design: Application of a Bayesian sequential model to the ProFHER pragmatic trial by Forster, Martin, Brealey, Stephen, Chick, Stephen, Keding, Ada, Corbacho, Belen, Alban, Andres, Pertile, Paolo, Rangan, Amar

“…Background/Aims: There is growing interest in the use of adaptive designs to improve the efficiency of clinical trials. We apply a Bayesian decision-theoretic…”
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A quality improvement study on how a simulation model can help decision making on organization of ICU wards by Sent, Danielle, van der Meulen, Delanie M, Alban, Andres, Chick, Stephen E, Wissink, Ilse J A, Vlaar, Alexander P J, Dongelmans, Dave A

“…Intensive Care Unit (ICU) capacity management is essential to provide high-quality healthcare for critically ill patients. Yet, consensus on the most favorable…”
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Value-Based Clinical Trials: Selecting Recruitment Rates and Trial Lengths in Different Regulatory Contexts by Alban, Andres, Chick, Stephen E., Forster, Martin

“…Health systems are placing increasing emphasis on improving the design and operation of clinical trials with the aim of making the health technology adoption…”
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Essays on Healthcare Operations in Clinical Trials and Intensive Care by Alban, Andres

“…This dissertation presents four interrelated essays in healthcare operations focusing on clinical trial design and intensive care units, motivated by the…”
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Virtual markers in virtual laparoscopy surgery by Larrarte, Eliana Aguilar, Vivas Alban, Andres

“…Augmented Reality or AR is a technology characterized by virtual content adding on the perception of reality using the existing environment and overlaying…”
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The Impact of Model Assumptions on Personalized Lung Cancer Screening Recommendations by ten Haaf, Kevin, de Nijs, Koen, Simoni, Giulia, Alban, Andres, Cao, Pianpian, Sun, Zhuolu, Yong, Jean, Jeon, Jihyoun, Toumazis, Iakovos, Han, Summer S., Gazelle, G. Scott, Kong, Chung Ying, Plevritis, Sylvia K., Meza, Rafael, de Koning, Harry J.

“…Background Recommendations regarding personalized lung cancer screening are being informed by natural-history modeling. Therefore, understanding how…”
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EXTENDING A BAYESIAN DECISION-THEORETIC APPROACH TO VALUE-BASED SEQUENTIAL CLINICAL TRIAL DESIGN by Alban, Andres, Chick, Stephen E., Forster, Martin

“…Recent work has illustrated how Bayesian approaches to discrete simulation optimization can be applied to clinical trial design. These approaches balance the…”
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Unspoken Truths: Mental Health Among Academic Surgeons by Collins, Reagan A, Herman, Tianna, Snyder, Rebecca A, Haines, Krista L, Stey, Anne, Arora, Tania K, Geevarghese, Sunil K, Phillips, Joseph D, Vicente, Diego, Griggs, Cornelia L, McElroy, Imani E, Wall, Anji E, Hughes, Tasha M, Sen, Srijan, Valinejad, Jaber, Alban, Andres, Swan, J Shannon, Mercaldo, Nathaniel, Jalali, Mohammad S, Chhatwal, Jagpreet, Gazelle, G Scott, Rangel, Erika, Yang, Chi-Fu Jeffrey, Donelan, Karen, Gold, Jessica A, West, Colin P, Cunningham, Carrie

“…To characterize the current state of mental health within the surgical workforce in the United States. Mental illness and suicide is a growing concern in the…”
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Expected Value of Information Methods for Contextual Ranking and Selection: Clinical Trials and Simulation Optimization by Alban, Andres, Chick, Stephen E., Zoumpoulis, Spyros I.

“…We consider the contextual ranking and selection problem that aims to learn the best treatment as a function of covariates when expected outcomes are unknown…”
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A Simulation Model to Evaluate the Patient Flow in an Intensive Care Unit under Different Levels of Specialization by Alban, Andres, Chick, Stephen E., Lvova, Oleksandra, Sent, Danielle

“…Intensive care units are complicated hospital departments in that they have both urgent and elective patients with a variety of specialty needs that cannot be…”
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Variance reduction for estimating a failure probability with multiple criteria by Alban, Andres, Darji, Hardik A., Imamura, Atsuki, Nakayama, Marvin K.

“…We consider a system subjected to multiple loads with corresponding capacities to withstand the loads, where both loads and capacities are random. The system…”
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Study and validation of human gait in a virtual environment for a biped robot by Cardona, Diego Alfonso Aguilar, Alban, Andres Vivas

“…The new technology advances have allowed us the design and construction of sophisticated artificial legs, which give a very close to normal human gait to…”
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Evaluation of the Mechanical Properties and Metallograpical Characterization of ASTM A36 Steel Welded Joints, with GMAW Process by Andrés Albán Naranjo, David, Oswaldo, Carlos, Aguiar, Serrano, Guillermo Novillo Andrade, Geovanny

“…This study aims to evaluate the mechanical properties and carry out the metallographic characterization of the butt-welded joints of ASTM A36 steel, with…”
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Operational Space Control for a Puma Robot by Salinas, S.A., Larrarte, E.A., Alban, A.V.

“…This article shows a simple methodology to implement an operational space control on a 6-DOF arm robot. First, the model is linearized and decoupled by…”
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Design and Construction of a Snake-Like Robot Implementing Rectilinear and Sidewinding Gait Motions by Marín Arciniegas, Jairo José, Vivas Albán, Oscar Andrés

“…Bio-inspired robots offer locomotion versatility in a wide variety of terrains that conventional robots cannot access.  One such bio-inspired platform is…”
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Generador 3D de trayectorias libres de colisiones para un manipulador UR3e con pinza blanda by Montenegro-Bravo, Juan Sebastián, Ruiz-Flórez, Juan David, Romero-Ante, Juan David, Manrique-Córdoba, Juliana, Vivas Albán, Oscar Andrés, Sabater-Navarro, José María

“…Las operaciones pick-and-place son las más frecuentes en aplicaciones robóticas, y muchas veces su diseño incluye la presencia de obstáculos. En este trabajo…”
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Diseño, simulación y primera prueba de un dispositivo de sutura automática acoplado a un robot by Tapias Diaz, Omaira Luz, Consuegra Gonzalez, Jose Luis, Vivas Alban, Oscar Andres, Fraile Marinero, Juan Carlos

“…Objetivo: Los asistentes robóticos se están convirtiendo en una herramienta degran ayuda para los cirujanos. En cuanto al procedimiento de sutura, aunque…”
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OpenSurg: An Ibero-american Project for the Teaching in Medical Robotics by Sabater, J.M., Alban, O.A.V.

“…This article presents the Ibero-American Open-Surg project, that attempts to develop several medical robotic applications, based on open source software. This…”
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