Electrohydrodynamic Printing Process Monitoring for Diverse Microstructure Bioscaffold Fabrication

Jie Sun, Linzhi Jing, Ningpin Zhan, Dejian Huang, Yung C. Liang

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Abstract

Electrohydrodynamic printing (EHDP) is able to precisely manipulate the position, size, and morphology of micro/nanofibers, and fabricate high resolution scaffolds using viscous biopolymer solutions. In order to ensure the reliable printing, it is very necessary to identify EHDP cone status during fabrication. In this work, we used a digital microscopic imaging technique to monitor EHDP cones during printing, with subsequent image processing. A convolutional neural network (CNN) is then developed to classify these EHDP cones. With the help of this monitoring and identification system, scaffolds with diverse triangular, hexagonal and coil-wall microstructures can be fabricated for tissue engineering applications.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2020 10th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Technology, ICBET 2020
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages305-310
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450377249
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Sept 2020
Event10th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Technology, ICBET 2020 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: 15 Sept 202018 Sept 2020

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Technology, ICBET 2020
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo
Period15/09/2018/09/20

Keywords

  • Convolutional neural network
  • Electrohydrodynamic jetting
  • Image processing
  • Scaffold fabrication

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