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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Data Mining the Effects of Storage Conditions, Testing Conditions, and Specimen Properties on Brain Biomechanics

Crawford, Folly Martha Dzan 10 August 2018 (has links)
Traumatic brain injury is highly prevalent in the United States yet there is little understanding of how the brain responds during injurious loading. A confounding problem is that because testing conditions vary between assessment methods, brain biomechanics cannot be fully understood. Data mining techniques were applied to discover how changes in testing conditions affect the mechanical response of the brain. Data were gathered from literature sources and self-organizing maps were used to conduct a sensitivity analysis to rank considered parameters by importance. Fuzzy C-means clustering was applied to find any data patterns. The rankings and clustering for each data set varied, indicating that the strain rate and type of deformation influence the role of these parameters. Multivariate linear regression was applied to develop a model which can predict the mechanical response from different experimental conditions. Prediction of response depended primarily on strain rate, frequency, brain matter composition, and anatomical region.

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