Pub Date : 2015-05-07DOI: 10.1109/MeMeA.2015.7145236
K. Nesenbergs, L. Selavo
Field of wearable computing has great implications for medical applications, including early detection, treatment, compliance monitoring, care for the frail and elderly, telemedicine, physical therapy and many others. Unfortunately such wearable technology solutions are still custom made and time and resource intensive to develop. In this paper the current progress of development of a universal smart textile system is discussed which would solve this problem and accelerate the field of smart wearable electronics. Such a textile must be able to accommodate several hundreds of sensors, providing power and data transmission lines in such a way, that mass production of smart garments from such a textile is feasible. The main problems and potential solutions discussed in this article include topology, allowing the textile to be arbitrarily cut and sewn into smart clothing, data transmission architecture providing high bandwidth and low energy data transfer and support for miniaturization and elasticity, making the potential end product as unobtrusive as possible.
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Pub Date : 2015-05-07DOI: 10.1109/MeMeA.2015.7145257
C. Fuhrhop, A. Georgiadis
In the literature we found different kind of film conducting polymers, as Polyaniline (PANI) or Polypyrrole (PPY), used as sensor element integrated in a Field Effect Transistor (FET) for the detection of gas or photogenes. In this work we proposed a sensor system prototype based on the combination of a coplanar micro strip (CPμS) waveguide and polymer nanofibers met (electrospun) called, CPμS/PNW sensor system, for target element (bio element or gas) detection. The detection idea is based on the impedance change measurement in the frequency range. The first step toward to develop the sensor is to investigate and understand the low frequency (0.1 to 1 MHz) electrodynamics response properties of the CPμS waveguide with (CPμS/PNW) and without nanofibers. We develop a transmission line mathematical model to describe the CPμS/PNW sensor system, the mathematical model was simulated with Scilab and the results were compared with the CPμS/PNW experimental data to see the degree of agreement between model and experiment. The impedance curves obtained from the experimental data show a good agreement with the model, which predict CPμS/PNW (CPμS + electrospun) impedance curve lower than the CPμS impedance curve. The electronics property (impedance) of the PEO electrospun was calculated from the difference between both impedance curves, this difference represent the polymer nanofibers mat impedance. The curves exhibited approximately a sub-linear power law decrease with frequency, which is consistent with the behavior found in polymers. The polymer nanofibers mat was produced by electrospinning method, where the diameter of the nanofibers obtained are in the range of 100 nm and 900 nm.
{"title":"Coplanar micro-strips/electrospun sensor system to measure the electronics properties of the polyethylene oxide (PEO) electrospun","authors":"C. Fuhrhop, A. Georgiadis","doi":"10.1109/MeMeA.2015.7145257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MeMeA.2015.7145257","url":null,"abstract":"In the literature we found different kind of film conducting polymers, as Polyaniline (PANI) or Polypyrrole (PPY), used as sensor element integrated in a Field Effect Transistor (FET) for the detection of gas or photogenes. In this work we proposed a sensor system prototype based on the combination of a coplanar micro strip (CPμS) waveguide and polymer nanofibers met (electrospun) called, CPμS/PNW sensor system, for target element (bio element or gas) detection. The detection idea is based on the impedance change measurement in the frequency range. The first step toward to develop the sensor is to investigate and understand the low frequency (0.1 to 1 MHz) electrodynamics response properties of the CPμS waveguide with (CPμS/PNW) and without nanofibers. We develop a transmission line mathematical model to describe the CPμS/PNW sensor system, the mathematical model was simulated with Scilab and the results were compared with the CPμS/PNW experimental data to see the degree of agreement between model and experiment. The impedance curves obtained from the experimental data show a good agreement with the model, which predict CPμS/PNW (CPμS + electrospun) impedance curve lower than the CPμS impedance curve. The electronics property (impedance) of the PEO electrospun was calculated from the difference between both impedance curves, this difference represent the polymer nanofibers mat impedance. The curves exhibited approximately a sub-linear power law decrease with frequency, which is consistent with the behavior found in polymers. The polymer nanofibers mat was produced by electrospinning method, where the diameter of the nanofibers obtained are in the range of 100 nm and 900 nm.","PeriodicalId":277757,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129908406","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 : 2015-05-07DOI: 10.1109/MeMeA.2015.7145164
D. Alinovi, L. Cattani, G. Ferrari, F. Pisani, R. Raheli
In this paper, we present a wire-free, low-cost video processing-based technique for respiratory rate (RR) estimation. The proposed method blends together two recently presented techniques, with the purpose of emphasizing small movements, such as respiratory movements possibly present in a video stream, in order to detect them. Initially, the system performs a spatial decomposition of the video frames in a pyramidal representation, in which each layer contains different spatial details. The levels are then pixel-wise temporally filtered with an infinite impulse response (IIR) filter, purposely designed to extract components having a periodicity compatible with the respiratory rate. Afterwards a single motion signal is extracted from each level. Finally, the extracted signals are jointly analyzed according to the maximum likelihood (ML) criterion in order to estimate the respiratory rate. The parameters extracted by our algorithm show a good agreement with those indicated by a gold-standard polysomnographic system. Therefore, our results, although preliminary, are encouraging and show that the respiratory rate can be reliably measured and monitored by a low-cost, wire-free, video processing-based system.
{"title":"Spatio-temporal video processing for respiratory rate estimation","authors":"D. Alinovi, L. Cattani, G. Ferrari, F. Pisani, R. Raheli","doi":"10.1109/MeMeA.2015.7145164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MeMeA.2015.7145164","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a wire-free, low-cost video processing-based technique for respiratory rate (RR) estimation. The proposed method blends together two recently presented techniques, with the purpose of emphasizing small movements, such as respiratory movements possibly present in a video stream, in order to detect them. Initially, the system performs a spatial decomposition of the video frames in a pyramidal representation, in which each layer contains different spatial details. The levels are then pixel-wise temporally filtered with an infinite impulse response (IIR) filter, purposely designed to extract components having a periodicity compatible with the respiratory rate. Afterwards a single motion signal is extracted from each level. Finally, the extracted signals are jointly analyzed according to the maximum likelihood (ML) criterion in order to estimate the respiratory rate. The parameters extracted by our algorithm show a good agreement with those indicated by a gold-standard polysomnographic system. Therefore, our results, although preliminary, are encouraging and show that the respiratory rate can be reliably measured and monitored by a low-cost, wire-free, video processing-based system.","PeriodicalId":277757,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) Proceedings","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130076951","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 : 2015-05-07DOI: 10.1109/MeMeA.2015.7145204
I. Ercoli, L. Scalise, A. Cenci, P. Marchionni, E. P. Tomasini, V. Carnielli
Many important vital signs need to be measured on preterm patients when they are recovered in intensive care units: cardiac rate, respiration activity, blood saturation, temperature. The later is, in particular, a key quantity to assess when the aim is to verify if the patient has fully developed the capacity to regulate his/her temperature. Presently, the procedure followed by clinicians is based on a subjective test, which sees the heating system of the curl switched off; if the central temperature of the patient will not be reduced below 35°C in the following two hours, the patient is considered able to thermoregulate himself. The aim of this paper is to propose a measurement procedure aiming to verify if the patient has the ability to autonomously thermoregulate. The procedure is based on the use of a multipoint (up to 16 sensing points), measurement system of the superficial temperature, that can assess the patient temperature (on 6 sites) and the surrounding temperature (inside and outside the crib), while the heating system is switched off. In this paper, 48 premature patients (mean gestation age 34 week and mean weight 1791 g) have been tested. Results demonstrate that from the measured data, it is possible to correctly identify patients with an adequate thermoregulation capacity (sensitivity of 0.81 and specificity of 0.89) and with a rapid procedure (<; 5 min).
{"title":"A measurement procedure for the assessment of thermoregulatory activitity in premature babies","authors":"I. Ercoli, L. Scalise, A. Cenci, P. Marchionni, E. P. Tomasini, V. Carnielli","doi":"10.1109/MeMeA.2015.7145204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MeMeA.2015.7145204","url":null,"abstract":"Many important vital signs need to be measured on preterm patients when they are recovered in intensive care units: cardiac rate, respiration activity, blood saturation, temperature. The later is, in particular, a key quantity to assess when the aim is to verify if the patient has fully developed the capacity to regulate his/her temperature. Presently, the procedure followed by clinicians is based on a subjective test, which sees the heating system of the curl switched off; if the central temperature of the patient will not be reduced below 35°C in the following two hours, the patient is considered able to thermoregulate himself. The aim of this paper is to propose a measurement procedure aiming to verify if the patient has the ability to autonomously thermoregulate. The procedure is based on the use of a multipoint (up to 16 sensing points), measurement system of the superficial temperature, that can assess the patient temperature (on 6 sites) and the surrounding temperature (inside and outside the crib), while the heating system is switched off. In this paper, 48 premature patients (mean gestation age 34 week and mean weight 1791 g) have been tested. Results demonstrate that from the measured data, it is possible to correctly identify patients with an adequate thermoregulation capacity (sensitivity of 0.81 and specificity of 0.89) and with a rapid procedure (<; 5 min).","PeriodicalId":277757,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) Proceedings","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128847851","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 : 2015-05-07DOI: 10.1109/MeMeA.2015.7145264
L. Russell, R. Goubran, F. Kwamena
Home health care and home automation increasingly allows more seniors to maintain independence, and remain longer in their own homes. Similarly, a post-surgical patient may be discharged from a medical facility to their house, which electronically facilitates their recuperation and promotes recovery. Smart environments are making the task of providing assistive technology in the home easier and more affordable. Near-field communication (NFC) has become popular in recent years. Increasing uptake of NFC-enabled smartphones has opened a new avenue to facilitate creation of a smart environment without the need for significant infrastructure. HTML5 is the latest version of the hypertext markup language, with unique code that enables access to advanced features on a smartphone. Proprietary apps can potentially be inconvenient and inconsistent and may even decrease uptake of the technology. In this paper, we propose a new methodology to enable NFC tags and NFC smartphones in conjunction with HTML5 backbone code, to be used for smart environments in home health care applications without the need for specific applications to be installed on the smartphone. Results show significant promise with just the built in phone software with use of NFC and HTML5 for various applications of smart environments. In many common tasks in a smart environment that increase patient safety, NFC tags can be not only informative, but an integral component of the system by triggering specific HTML5 code to provide appropriate responses - without the need to install specialized apps as long as the NFC is enabled in the mobile device.
{"title":"Smart environments using near-field communication and HTML5","authors":"L. Russell, R. Goubran, F. Kwamena","doi":"10.1109/MeMeA.2015.7145264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MeMeA.2015.7145264","url":null,"abstract":"Home health care and home automation increasingly allows more seniors to maintain independence, and remain longer in their own homes. Similarly, a post-surgical patient may be discharged from a medical facility to their house, which electronically facilitates their recuperation and promotes recovery. Smart environments are making the task of providing assistive technology in the home easier and more affordable. Near-field communication (NFC) has become popular in recent years. Increasing uptake of NFC-enabled smartphones has opened a new avenue to facilitate creation of a smart environment without the need for significant infrastructure. HTML5 is the latest version of the hypertext markup language, with unique code that enables access to advanced features on a smartphone. Proprietary apps can potentially be inconvenient and inconsistent and may even decrease uptake of the technology. In this paper, we propose a new methodology to enable NFC tags and NFC smartphones in conjunction with HTML5 backbone code, to be used for smart environments in home health care applications without the need for specific applications to be installed on the smartphone. Results show significant promise with just the built in phone software with use of NFC and HTML5 for various applications of smart environments. In many common tasks in a smart environment that increase patient safety, NFC tags can be not only informative, but an integral component of the system by triggering specific HTML5 code to provide appropriate responses - without the need to install specialized apps as long as the NFC is enabled in the mobile device.","PeriodicalId":277757,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) Proceedings","volume":"616 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114091313","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 : 2015-05-07DOI: 10.1109/MeMeA.2015.7145282
P. Daponte, L. D. Vito, Gianluca Mazzilli, S. Rapuano, C. Sementa
This paper investigates the effects of shifting computation-intensive workload for motion tracking based on sensor network from a dedicated remote server to an embedded microcontroller. The importance of battery life is exacerbated for devices designed to work in biomedical field as the prolonged operability could make a vital difference in mobile contexts. On-board processing usually drives to less communication, so the balance between the power consumed by more operations and that saved by limiting the radio transmissions has been evaluated. A measurement station has been realized to measure the energy budget needed to let more patients be monitored simultaneously and, at the same time, to increase the number of sensor nodes working together in the network. Finally, functional equivalence of the implementation has been proven.
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Pub Date : 2015-05-07DOI: 10.1109/MEMEA.2015.7145209
A. Tobola, Chris Espig, F. Streit, Oliver Korpok, Björn Schmitz, Christian Hofmann, M. Struck, C. Weigand, Heike Leutheuser, B. Eskofier, Georg Fischer
Everything in nature tries to reach the lowest possible energy level. Therefore any natural or artificial system must have the ability to adjust itself to the changing requirements of its surrounding environment. In this paper we address this issue by an ECG sensor designed to be adjustable during runtime, having the ability to reduce the power consumption at cost of the informational content. Accessible for everyone, standard ECG hardware and open source software has been used to realize an ECG processing system for wearable applications. The average power consumption has been measured for each mode of operation. Finally we take conclusion to conciser context-aware scaling as key feature to address the energy issue of wearable sensor systems.
{"title":"Scalable ECG hardware and algorithms for extended runtime of wearable sensors","authors":"A. Tobola, Chris Espig, F. Streit, Oliver Korpok, Björn Schmitz, Christian Hofmann, M. Struck, C. Weigand, Heike Leutheuser, B. Eskofier, Georg Fischer","doi":"10.1109/MEMEA.2015.7145209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMEA.2015.7145209","url":null,"abstract":"Everything in nature tries to reach the lowest possible energy level. Therefore any natural or artificial system must have the ability to adjust itself to the changing requirements of its surrounding environment. In this paper we address this issue by an ECG sensor designed to be adjustable during runtime, having the ability to reduce the power consumption at cost of the informational content. Accessible for everyone, standard ECG hardware and open source software has been used to realize an ECG processing system for wearable applications. The average power consumption has been measured for each mode of operation. Finally we take conclusion to conciser context-aware scaling as key feature to address the energy issue of wearable sensor systems.","PeriodicalId":277757,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) Proceedings","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122457498","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 : 2015-05-07DOI: 10.1109/MEMEA.2015.7145176
G. Marco
In the last years, printing techniques have been developed for the realization of electronic circuits using functional inks. In this field inkjet printing technology has a number of attractive features and received a lot of interest with the development of specifically designed functional inks, including conductive inks based on silver nanoparticles or organic polymers. Some works in literature investigated the use of inkjet printing technique for the development of electrophysiological sensors. The aim of this work was to explore the potentialities of low cost inkjet printing for the prototyping of high-density electrode arrays for the detection of surface electromyographic signal (sEMG). A low cost inkjet system for the printing of conductive tracks based on standard office printer has been setup and tested for the prototyping of sEMG detection systems. The setup allowed the printing of high density bi-dimensional electrode arrays. The sEMG detection systems have been tested on the abductor pollicis muscle and biceps brachii muscle during isometric and dynamic contractions. The detected signals show a good quality and a stable contact without movement artifacts. The proposed system offers the possibility to design and print electrode arrays with different electrode patterns in a few minutes. This characteristic allows developing sEMG detection systems that can be adapted to the anatomy of the muscles under investigation in a short time.
{"title":"Low cost inkjet printing for the fast prototyping of surface EMG detection systems","authors":"G. Marco","doi":"10.1109/MEMEA.2015.7145176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMEA.2015.7145176","url":null,"abstract":"In the last years, printing techniques have been developed for the realization of electronic circuits using functional inks. In this field inkjet printing technology has a number of attractive features and received a lot of interest with the development of specifically designed functional inks, including conductive inks based on silver nanoparticles or organic polymers. Some works in literature investigated the use of inkjet printing technique for the development of electrophysiological sensors. The aim of this work was to explore the potentialities of low cost inkjet printing for the prototyping of high-density electrode arrays for the detection of surface electromyographic signal (sEMG). A low cost inkjet system for the printing of conductive tracks based on standard office printer has been setup and tested for the prototyping of sEMG detection systems. The setup allowed the printing of high density bi-dimensional electrode arrays. The sEMG detection systems have been tested on the abductor pollicis muscle and biceps brachii muscle during isometric and dynamic contractions. The detected signals show a good quality and a stable contact without movement artifacts. The proposed system offers the possibility to design and print electrode arrays with different electrode patterns in a few minutes. This characteristic allows developing sEMG detection systems that can be adapted to the anatomy of the muscles under investigation in a short time.","PeriodicalId":277757,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) Proceedings","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122508717","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 : 2015-05-07DOI: 10.1109/MEMEA.2015.7145265
Vitoantonio Bevilacqua, G. Grimaldi, D. Semeraro, Sergio Simeone, M. Delussi, M. Tommaso
In this paper we introduce a new non-invasive, inexpensive and functional tool in order to support physicians and specialists during visits of patients who are affected by neurodegenerative diseases, as well as Huntington's one. The proposed framework succeeds in automatizing International Affective Picture System (IAPS) test which consists of two phases: the first allows to show a sub set of pictures stored in a database, while the second takes note of Self Assessment Manikin scale evaluations; during the session, the patient's face is captured by a webcam for extracting emotional features for each frame. This framework, therefore, saves data in a SQLite Database. The proposed framework provides a medical efficient evaluation to evaluate the emotional impairment in these patients by comparing the results given by facial expressions analyzer and those given by the leading layer themselves in a long observation period.
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Pub Date : 2015-05-07DOI: 10.1109/MeMeA.2015.7145240
G. Durando, C. Guglielmone, M. V. Actis, G. Massazza
The study describes the results obtained in ultrasound power measurements carried out on physiotherapy ultrasound equipment in Department of Orthopaedics, Traumatology and Rehabilitation, AO Città della Salute e della Scienza, CTO Hospital, Torino, Italy.
本研究描述了在意大利都灵CTO医院骨科、创伤学和康复科的物理治疗超声设备上进行超声功率测量的结果。
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