Head impact research using inertial sensors in sport: a systematic review of methods, demographics, and factors contributing to exposure

E Le Flao, GP Siegmund, R Borotkanics - Sports Medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background The number and magnitude of head impacts have been assessed in-vivo using
inertial sensors to characterise the exposure in various sports and to help understand their …

Prevalence and mechanisms of injuries in water polo: a systematic review

F Croteau, H Brown, D Pearsall… - BMJ Open Sport & …, 2021 - bmjopensem.bmj.com
Objective To summarise the information available in the literature on the prevalence of
injuries in water polo and injury risk factors. Methods Protocol was registered on Open …

Translational models of mild traumatic brain injury tissue biomechanics

X Zhan, A Oeur, Y Liu, MM Zeineh, GA Grant… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a global health concern. Mild TBI (mTBI) which accounts for
the majority of TBI cases, is hard to detect since often the imaging is normal but can still …

Brain deformation estimation with transfer learning for head impact datasets across impact types

X Zhan, Y Liu, NJ Cecchi, O Gevaert… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: The machine-learning head model (MLHM) to accelerate the calculation of brain
strain and strain rate, which are the predictors for traumatic brain injury (TBI), but the model …

Salivary S100 calcium-binding protein beta (S100B) and neurofilament light (NfL) after acute exposure to repeated head impacts in collegiate water polo players

DC Monroe, EA Thomas, NJ Cecchi, DA Granger… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Blood-based biomarkers of brain injury may be useful for monitoring brain health in athletes
at risk for concussions. Two putative biomarkers of sport-related concussion, neurofilament …

Adaptive machine learning head model across different head impact types using unsupervised domain adaptation and generative adversarial networks

X Zhan, J Sun, Y Liu, NJ Cecchi, E Le Flao… - IEEE Sensors …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning head models (MLHMs) are developed to estimate brain deformation from
sensor-based kinematics for early detection of traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, the …

Finding the spatial co-variation of brain deformation with principal component analysis

X Zhan, Y Liu, NJ Cecchi, O Gevaert… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Strain and strain rate are effective traumatic brain injury metrics. In finite element
(FE) head model, thousands of elements were used to represent the spatial distribution of …

Injuries affecting intercollegiate water polo athletes: a descriptive epidemiologic study

GG Schroeder, DJ McClintick… - … journal of sports …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: There are few data on injuries suffered by collegiate water polo athletes.
Purpose: To describe the epidemiology of injuries suffered by National College Athletic …

[HTML][HTML] One season of head-to-ball impact exposure alters functional connectivity in a central autonomic network

DC Monroe, RS Blumenfeld, DB Keator, A Solodkin… - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
Repetitive head impacts represent a risk factor for neurological impairment in team-sport
athletes. In the absence of symptoms, a physiological basis for acute injury has not been …

Piecewise multivariate linearity between kinematic features and cumulative strain damage measure (csdm) across different types of head impacts

X Zhan, Y Li, Y Liu, NJ Cecchi, O Gevaert… - Annals of biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
In a previous study, we found that the relationship between brain strain and kinematic
features cannot be described by a generalized linear model across different types of head …