Pub Date : 2007-12-26DOI: 10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407379
G. Chung, B. H. Choi, K. Kim, Y. Lim, J. Choi, D. Jeong, K. Park
Polysomnagraphy, the method evaluating the sleep quality, is the reliable and standard method. However, to perform it, subject has to attach many sensors to their body. It seems intrusive, tangled and interrupting the subjects sleep. For the sake of monitoring the daily sleep pattern, simple method measuring the biosignal nonintrusively is needed. At that point, respiration is a beneficial signal, because it can be easily acquired by check the change of the thorax or abdomen. Respiration is one of the representatives of the reflection of the autonomic nervous system. According to the transition of the sleep stages, autonomic nervous system also changes and it can be shown by respiration. In this study, REM and non-REM sleep is classified by only using respiration for the 3 subjects. To enhance the performance, activity signal acquired by load-cell installed bed is added to divide the wake and REM sleep. At the results, hypnograms with polysomnagraphic data is compared with them. It can be seen that high correlation between the REM sleep and increasing pattern of the respiration rates.
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Pub Date : 2007-12-26DOI: 10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407385
M. Watanabe, S. Tsukamoto, H. Hoshino
In this paper, a handle-electrode system is proposed for obtaining heart-rate of the user during exercising of a treadmill. The system was designed to be measurable the user's heart-rate by only gripping the parallel bar. Three electrodes that made from conductive cloth were adhered to the handle. A method detecting heart-rate from obtained electrocardiogram was also proposed. To assess the applicability of the proposed system, a simple experiment was performed. Eight healthy volunteer (aged 25 plusmn 5 years) participated in this experiment. As the result, the heart rates of 7 out of 8 subjects were successfully obtained.
{"title":"Handle Electrode System for Selecting Load Level of Treadmill","authors":"M. Watanabe, S. Tsukamoto, H. Hoshino","doi":"10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407385","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a handle-electrode system is proposed for obtaining heart-rate of the user during exercising of a treadmill. The system was designed to be measurable the user's heart-rate by only gripping the parallel bar. Three electrodes that made from conductive cloth were adhered to the handle. A method detecting heart-rate from obtained electrocardiogram was also proposed. To assess the applicability of the proposed system, a simple experiment was performed. Eight healthy volunteer (aged 25 plusmn 5 years) participated in this experiment. As the result, the heart rates of 7 out of 8 subjects were successfully obtained.","PeriodicalId":129874,"journal":{"name":"2007 6th International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125008164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-12-26DOI: 10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407353
M. De Lucia, C. Michel, S. Clarke, M. Murray
We present a novel approach for analyzing single-trial electroencephalography (EEG) data, using topographic information. The method allows for visualizing event-related potentials using all the electrodes of recordings overcoming the problem of previous approaches that required electrode selection and waveforms filtering. We apply this method to EEG data from an auditory object recognition experiment that we have previously analyzed at an ERP level. Temporally structured periods were statistically identified wherein a given topography predominated without any prior information about the temporal behavior. In addition to providing novel methods for EEG analysis, the data indicate that ERPs are reliably observable at a single-trial level when examined topographically.
{"title":"Single-trial topographic analysis of human EEG: A new `image' of event-related potentials","authors":"M. De Lucia, C. Michel, S. Clarke, M. Murray","doi":"10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407353","url":null,"abstract":"We present a novel approach for analyzing single-trial electroencephalography (EEG) data, using topographic information. The method allows for visualizing event-related potentials using all the electrodes of recordings overcoming the problem of previous approaches that required electrode selection and waveforms filtering. We apply this method to EEG data from an auditory object recognition experiment that we have previously analyzed at an ERP level. Temporally structured periods were statistically identified wherein a given topography predominated without any prior information about the temporal behavior. In addition to providing novel methods for EEG analysis, the data indicate that ERPs are reliably observable at a single-trial level when examined topographically.","PeriodicalId":129874,"journal":{"name":"2007 6th International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine","volume":"184 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124434095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-12-26DOI: 10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407371
M. Masilela, E. Hughes, C. Boanca, R. Merrell, A. Rafiq
In this paper, we present the VMOTE-II health monitoring system that measures and monitors, records and reports the vital signs of a patient to health care providers and medical personnel using both with wireless and wired technologies. This system delivers real time medical data approximately 3 times per second using medical sensors integrated in a single wearable and portable unit that is self powered. This system is geared towards patients that require 24 hour monitoring and support. VMOTE-II is a non-invasive system that would allow a patient to continue normal day to day activities with minimal inconvenience whilst providing extensive medical and physiological data.
{"title":"VMOTE-II, A Biowearable Health Monitoring System","authors":"M. Masilela, E. Hughes, C. Boanca, R. Merrell, A. Rafiq","doi":"10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407371","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present the VMOTE-II health monitoring system that measures and monitors, records and reports the vital signs of a patient to health care providers and medical personnel using both with wireless and wired technologies. This system delivers real time medical data approximately 3 times per second using medical sensors integrated in a single wearable and portable unit that is self powered. This system is geared towards patients that require 24 hour monitoring and support. VMOTE-II is a non-invasive system that would allow a patient to continue normal day to day activities with minimal inconvenience whilst providing extensive medical and physiological data.","PeriodicalId":129874,"journal":{"name":"2007 6th International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine","volume":"179 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123033635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-12-26DOI: 10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407373
Jonghee Han, Hongwon Kim, Suk-Bong Choi, K. Park
Physical activity assessment is useful for determining both physical and mental health. The measurement of activity has been performed by several techniques such as direct observations, subjective reports, metabolic measurements and portable physical activity monitors. Each type of technique has certain strengths and weaknesses. Recently, studies on portable physical activity monitors have been increasing and presented good assessment results. Upon consideration of the characteristics of the portable monitors such as being unconstrained and long-term monitoring, an indoor portable monitor was designed and developed. It measures three dimensional acceleration and transfers data by Zigbee protocol wirelessly. This system could help to assess daily activity without subject's consciousness.
{"title":"Indoor Activity Monitoring System Using an Accelerometer and Zigbee","authors":"Jonghee Han, Hongwon Kim, Suk-Bong Choi, K. Park","doi":"10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407373","url":null,"abstract":"Physical activity assessment is useful for determining both physical and mental health. The measurement of activity has been performed by several techniques such as direct observations, subjective reports, metabolic measurements and portable physical activity monitors. Each type of technique has certain strengths and weaknesses. Recently, studies on portable physical activity monitors have been increasing and presented good assessment results. Upon consideration of the characteristics of the portable monitors such as being unconstrained and long-term monitoring, an indoor portable monitor was designed and developed. It measures three dimensional acceleration and transfers data by Zigbee protocol wirelessly. This system could help to assess daily activity without subject's consciousness.","PeriodicalId":129874,"journal":{"name":"2007 6th International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123167961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-12-26DOI: 10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407425
Y.T. Zhang, C. Poon
Meeting the long-term healthcare needs of the growing elderly population and escalating healthcare expenditure in China pose a grim challenge to the current healthcare system and the solvency of state budgets. Therefore, there is a great need of advanced technologies for more effective and low-cost healthcare to alleviate the burden of the current healthcare system. Based on the development of technologies for designing wearable medical devices and biosensors, the new micro-TU-COME techniques (i.e. micro-Terahertz techniques, micro-Ultrasound techniques, micro-Computer tomography, micro-Optical-mechanical-electro system, micro-Magnetic resonance imaging, and micro-Electrophysiological imaging) and general medical imaging facilities, an information system that can deliver multi-level, multi-dimensional healthcare services to urban and rural citizens is proposed to bridge individuals, homes, communities, and hospitals through a four-layer (PHCH) system structure. This four-layer structure should ensure people be monitored by the new system as closely as it can, resulting in the novel transformation of the function of healthcare systems from symptoms treatment to early risk detection and even prevention. It allows people to self-monitor their health conditions at their convenience in an attempt to lighten the workload of doctors and nurses. Moreover, more people can benefit from the new technologies and system with much lower medical insurance fees due to the reduced risk of developing severe diseases through regular, long-term and effective monitoring of citizens' health conditions.
{"title":"Innovative Biomedical Information Technologies for Low-cost Healthcare","authors":"Y.T. Zhang, C. Poon","doi":"10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407425","url":null,"abstract":"Meeting the long-term healthcare needs of the growing elderly population and escalating healthcare expenditure in China pose a grim challenge to the current healthcare system and the solvency of state budgets. Therefore, there is a great need of advanced technologies for more effective and low-cost healthcare to alleviate the burden of the current healthcare system. Based on the development of technologies for designing wearable medical devices and biosensors, the new micro-TU-COME techniques (i.e. micro-Terahertz techniques, micro-Ultrasound techniques, micro-Computer tomography, micro-Optical-mechanical-electro system, micro-Magnetic resonance imaging, and micro-Electrophysiological imaging) and general medical imaging facilities, an information system that can deliver multi-level, multi-dimensional healthcare services to urban and rural citizens is proposed to bridge individuals, homes, communities, and hospitals through a four-layer (PHCH) system structure. This four-layer structure should ensure people be monitored by the new system as closely as it can, resulting in the novel transformation of the function of healthcare systems from symptoms treatment to early risk detection and even prevention. It allows people to self-monitor their health conditions at their convenience in an attempt to lighten the workload of doctors and nurses. Moreover, more people can benefit from the new technologies and system with much lower medical insurance fees due to the reduced risk of developing severe diseases through regular, long-term and effective monitoring of citizens' health conditions.","PeriodicalId":129874,"journal":{"name":"2007 6th International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114679195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-12-26DOI: 10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407384
Shing-Hong Liu, Chu-Chang Tyan, Jian-Jung Chen, Jia-Jung Wang
Previous research on the non-invasive measurement of radial pulse waveform had no standardized quantitative and qualitative procedures. The aim of this study was to propose a new non-invasive measuring apparatus that had a three-axis sphygmography and a standard positioning procedure for detecting the optimal measure site and measuring an accurate pulse waveform. The artery vessel can be viewed as a cylinder, so, during measurement, if the sensor was not placed right at the centre but at an angle, the measured waveform would be distorted. Also, the blood vessel is made of elastic material. Its compliance changes with transmural pressure. When transmural pressure is equal to zero, compliance is at its maximum. The strain gauge and pizeoresistor was used to measure the radial arterial diameter change and pulse waveform, respectively.
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Pub Date : 2007-12-26DOI: 10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407350
V. Kremen, L. Lhotská
Complex fractionated atrial electrograms (CFAEs) represent the electrophysiologic substrate for atrial fibrillation (AF). Progress in signal processing algorithms to identify CFAEs sites is crucial for the development of AF ablation strategies. Individual signal complexes in CFAEs reflect electrical activity of electrophysiologic substrate at given time. We developed a novel algorithm for automated search of individual signal complexes in CFAEs. This algorithm based on wavelet transform enables to describe CFAEs in a novel way and helps to classify CFAEs level of complexity (degree of fractionation). The method was tested using a representative set of 1.5s A-EGMs (n = 113) ranked by an expert into 4 categories: 1 -organized atrial activity; 2 -mild; 3 -intermediate; 4 -high degree of fractionation. Individual signal complexes were marked by an expert in every A-EGM in the dataset. This ranking was used as gold standard for comparison with the novel automatic search method. Following hit rates were achieved by performed automatic search on representative set of data: category 1: 100%, category 2: 98.2%, category 3: 92.06%, category 4: 63.89%. These results indicate that wavelet signal decomposition could carry high level of predictive information about the state of electrophysiologic substrate for AF.
复杂分割心房电图(CFAEs)代表心房颤动(AF)的电生理底物。识别CFAEs位点的信号处理算法的进展对于AF消融策略的发展至关重要。cfae中单个信号复合物反映了特定时间电生理底物的电活动。我们开发了一种新的算法来自动搜索cfae中的单个信号复合物。该算法基于小波变换，能够以一种新颖的方式描述cfae，并有助于对cfae的复杂程度(分块程度)进行分类。该方法采用一组代表性的1.5s a - egm (n = 113)进行测试，由专家将其分为4类:1 -有组织的心房活动;2温和;3中间;4 -分馏度高。单个信号复合体由数据集中每个A-EGM中的专家标记。这个排名被用作与新的自动搜索方法进行比较的金标准。通过对代表性数据集进行自动搜索，获得了以下命中率:类别1:100%，类别2:98.2%，类别3:92.06%，类别4:63.89%。这些结果表明，小波信号分解可以对AF的电生理底物状态进行高水平的预测。
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Pub Date : 2007-12-26DOI: 10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407346
H. Baek, Jung Soo Kim, Y. S. Kim, Haet Bit Lee, K. Park
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the major causes of death. Therefore recurrent monitoring of arterial condition is important. The photoplethysmography (PPG) is simple and cost effective technique to measure blood volume change. As an application of PPG technique, the second derivative of photoplethysmography(SDPTG) was introduced for monitoring arterial condition. SDPTG consists of an a, b, c and d wave in systole and an e wave in diastole. The SDPTG wave pattern is determined by the proportions of the b, c, d, and e waves to the a wave. In the present study, it is confirmed that the b/a ratio and SDPTG-AI increased with age, and the c/a, d/a, and e/a ratios decreased with age. The informal method which substitutes formal SDPTG-AI was suggested.
{"title":"Second Derivative of Photoplethysmography for Estimating Vascular Aging","authors":"H. Baek, Jung Soo Kim, Y. S. Kim, Haet Bit Lee, K. Park","doi":"10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407346","url":null,"abstract":"Coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the major causes of death. Therefore recurrent monitoring of arterial condition is important. The photoplethysmography (PPG) is simple and cost effective technique to measure blood volume change. As an application of PPG technique, the second derivative of photoplethysmography(SDPTG) was introduced for monitoring arterial condition. SDPTG consists of an a, b, c and d wave in systole and an e wave in diastole. The SDPTG wave pattern is determined by the proportions of the b, c, d, and e waves to the a wave. In the present study, it is confirmed that the b/a ratio and SDPTG-AI increased with age, and the c/a, d/a, and e/a ratios decreased with age. The informal method which substitutes formal SDPTG-AI was suggested.","PeriodicalId":129874,"journal":{"name":"2007 6th International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132099670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-12-26DOI: 10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407349
S. Jin, I.B. Lee, J.M. Han, K.S. Park
To overcome the resolution limitation in the visual prosthesis, various image processing methods have been proposed. These methods are limited for close-up images of faces or objects. However, images in real environment contain not only the predefined objects such as faces and letters but also unexpected visually-salient objects which give important information on the images. In this paper, we propose the region-of-interest detection method which is appropriate for real situations using a context-based model, and demonstrate that the detected region can guide attention. The gazes are estimated while subjects are watching two kinds of pixelized images obtained by a conventional method and the proposed method, and are compared with experimentally detected conspicuous region. The results show that the context-based model detecting visually-attractive region is useful to solve the resolution limitation.
{"title":"Visually-Salient Region Detection in the Pixelized Image using Context-Based Model","authors":"S. Jin, I.B. Lee, J.M. Han, K.S. Park","doi":"10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407349","url":null,"abstract":"To overcome the resolution limitation in the visual prosthesis, various image processing methods have been proposed. These methods are limited for close-up images of faces or objects. However, images in real environment contain not only the predefined objects such as faces and letters but also unexpected visually-salient objects which give important information on the images. In this paper, we propose the region-of-interest detection method which is appropriate for real situations using a context-based model, and demonstrate that the detected region can guide attention. The gazes are estimated while subjects are watching two kinds of pixelized images obtained by a conventional method and the proposed method, and are compared with experimentally detected conspicuous region. The results show that the context-based model detecting visually-attractive region is useful to solve the resolution limitation.","PeriodicalId":129874,"journal":{"name":"2007 6th International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130733533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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