Identifying Factors Associated with Head Impact Kinematics and Brain Strain in High School American Football via Instrumented Mouthguards

NJ Cecchi, AG Domel, Y Liu, E Rice, R Lu… - Annals of biomedical …, 2021 - Springer
Repeated head impact exposure and concussions are common in American football.
Identifying the factors associated with high magnitude impacts aids in informing sport policy …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Using in-mouth sensors to measure head kinematics in rugby

EE Kieffer, C Vaillancourt, PG Brolinson, S Rowson - IRCOBI conference, 2020 - ircobi.org
Sports-related concussions were once thought to present only transient symptoms, but
recent research has shown the potential for long-term neurological impairments. Previous …

Effects of soccer ball inflation pressure and velocity on peak linear and rotational accelerations of ball-to-head impacts

NJ Cecchi, DC Monroe, WX Moscoso, JW Hicks… - Sports Engineering, 2020 - Springer
Exposure to head impacts is common in soccer and, in some cases, has been associated
with neurocognitive and physiological consequences in soccer players. Ball-to-head …

A dose relationship between brain functional connectivity and cumulative head impact exposure in collegiate water polo players

DC Monroe, NJ Cecchi, P Gerges, J Phreaner… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
A growing body of evidence suggests that chronic, sport-related head impact exposure can
impair brain functional integration and brain structure and function. Evidence of a robust …

Patterns of head impact exposure in men's and women's collegiate club water polo

NJ Cecchi, DC Monroe, JJ Phreaner, SL Small… - Journal of science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives Recent reports have demonstrated a risk of concussion and subconcussive head
impacts in collegiate varsity and international elite water polo. We sought to characterize …

AI-based denoising of head impact kinematics measurements with convolutional neural network for traumatic brain injury prediction

X Zhan, Y Liu, NJ Cecchi, AA Callan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Wearable devices are developed to measure head impact kinematics but are
intrinsically noisy because of the imperfect interface with human bodies. This study aimed to …

Effect of impact kinematic filters on brain strain responses in contact sports

N Lin, G Tierney, S Ji - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Impact kinematics are widely employed to investigate mechanisms of traumatic
brain injury (TBI). However, they are susceptible to noise and artefacts; thus, require data …

Evaluating head impact intensities and accelerations using flexible wearable sensors for traumatic brain injury assessment

W Du, S Wang, H Chi, X Chen, W Li, H Wan… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2024 - Elsevier
In response to the significant health threat posed by Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) resulting
from sudden collisions on the head, there is an urgent need for timely assessment and …