R. Kumar, Eunice Esther Lovely, M. A. Kshirsagar, J. Jeeva
{"title":"Hairbrush for psoriasis scale removal","authors":"R. Kumar, Eunice Esther Lovely, M. A. Kshirsagar, J. Jeeva","doi":"10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082286","url":null,"abstract":"Skin is the largest and vital organ for the protection of internal body from the outer environment. But due to the diseases of the skin, the protectiveness and hygiene of the internal body environment is at risk. Among the prevailing skin problems, psoriasis is being a widespread infection which causes irritation. Many people worldwide are suffering from psoriasis which is a recurring problem. In this paper we have developed a technique for the management of scalp psoriasis and skin psoriasis. People with scalp psoriasis are finding it difficult to take hair washes even once in a week. When high tension is applied on the scalp of patients with psoriasis, there is itching and finally bleeding. Therefore our technique consists of sucking the flakes without any bleeding with the help of a comb like vacuum device. With the help of this device, the vacuum created removes the unattached scalp flakes thereby providing a clean scalp. It also has an added feature of providing phototherapy from an arrangement of UV light emitting diodes integrated in the device which is safe.","PeriodicalId":122243,"journal":{"name":"2017 Third International Conference on Biosignals, Images and Instrumentation (ICBSII)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127871551","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}
{"title":"Embedding pressure sensor in a footwear for checking the weight distribution during standing","authors":"Nikita Ghosh, S. Guha, S. Nageswaran","doi":"10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082288","url":null,"abstract":"Foot is the basic supporting system of the body. It will bear the weight of body structure and helps us in static and dynamic stability. In our day to day activity, the people from various professions like surgeons, lecturers or common people have a tendency to shift their whole body weight to one foot unknowingly which can cause excess wear and tear in leg. So, if we can design a footwear which can alert the users when there is a distribution of weight mismatch between two legs, it would be of a great clinical need at this hour.","PeriodicalId":122243,"journal":{"name":"2017 Third International Conference on Biosignals, Images and Instrumentation (ICBSII)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131938500","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}
{"title":"Analysis of neuromuscular control in human arm","authors":"Jan Thomas, P. Vinupritha","doi":"10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082292","url":null,"abstract":"The central nervous system directs a large number of muscles to produce complex motor behaviors. By using Artificial neural networks (ANNs) where more number of hidden layers are used for learning a specific task, we propose a method to understand the representations of neuromuscular control in the central nervous system as representations of movement plans that are eventually executed by the spinal cord and muscles in the periphery. In this report, we provide our results in attempting to build a neural network that enables muscle activation implemented in OpenSim — a biomechanical software to simulate the right upper arm of a human body. It is expected that this project will provide fundamental insights into the neuromuscular control.","PeriodicalId":122243,"journal":{"name":"2017 Third International Conference on Biosignals, Images and Instrumentation (ICBSII)","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132569163","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}
C. Priyadharshini, V. Nithysri, G. Pavithra, N. M. Raja
{"title":"Contrast enhanced brain tumor segmentation based on Shannon's entropy and active contour","authors":"C. Priyadharshini, V. Nithysri, G. Pavithra, N. M. Raja","doi":"10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082278","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel computer procedure is proposed to assist the brain tumor image examination. This approach enhances and extracts the contrast improved tumor core section from a two dimensional Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) integrating the Bat Algorithm(BA), Shannon's multi-thresholding, and Active Contour (AC) based segmentation. Firstly, BA assisted multi-thresholding is executed to improve the tumor core section of the brain MRI dataset. Later, the tumor core is extracted using the AC segmentation approach. The proposed methodology is tested on the well-known BraTS MRI dataset. The success and the clinical significance of the proposed approach are verified using image similarity values and statistical measures. The experimental results confirm that the proposed approach presents a great performance when compared with the ground truth, suggesting that it might have real world practical implications with a clinically significant impact.","PeriodicalId":122243,"journal":{"name":"2017 Third International Conference on Biosignals, Images and Instrumentation (ICBSII)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116674675","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}
{"title":"FPGA based emotions recognition from speech signals","authors":"Rajasekhar Butta, M. Kamaraju, V. Sumalatha","doi":"10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082290","url":null,"abstract":"Emotion recognition from speech signals has abundant applications in daily life. Particularly in speech-based human machine interaction it is used for improving the naturalness. Speech based emotion recognition is done in two steps namely Gender Recognition and Emotion Recognition. Gender Recognition will give the information about the gender (Male or Female) of the speaker and Emotion Recognition extracts the emotion (happy, sad, angry, and lazy etc.) of the speaker. In emotion recognition step back propagation algorithm under ANN is used as a classifier for classifying the emotions. In this paper, proposes emotion recognition from speech signal using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and implemented on FPGA device. The results using ANN are compared with the existing method and observed that ANN has lesser space utilization and improved speed than LDA.","PeriodicalId":122243,"journal":{"name":"2017 Third International Conference on Biosignals, Images and Instrumentation (ICBSII)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125632881","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}
{"title":"Evaluation of symmetry plane using genetic algorithm","authors":"D. Chitradevi, S. Prabha","doi":"10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082280","url":null,"abstract":"Normal human brain is not perfectly symmetrical even it has a high degree of bilateral symmetry. Identification of plane of symmetry is a critical step in brain image analysis. Brain symmetry gives two hemispheres. This paper proposes a new method for evaluating best symmetry plane of brain images using Genetic Algorithm (GA) from Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI). MRI scan is the best modality for brain images, which helps to look for tumors and other diseases in the brain. Symmetry can be reflected in MR image representing axial/horizontal and coronal slices of the brain. Genetic algorithm is an optimization technique which helps to find the optimized solutions/feasible solutions. GA adopted to achieve better results, faster processing times and it is used in more applications. The GA optimization is performed using the selection, mutation and crossover. Major operations are preprocessing, random selection of coordinates and genetic algorithm. Morphological operators help to extract the region of interest from brain image and unwanted portions of MRI images are removed. This proposed method provides better symmetry value with an accuracy of 90%. This performance leads to good approximation of brain tumor segmentation.","PeriodicalId":122243,"journal":{"name":"2017 Third International Conference on Biosignals, Images and Instrumentation (ICBSII)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129677168","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}
{"title":"A study to differentiate normal and hypertensive subjects based on dynamic thermogram features","authors":"Jayashree Ramesh, Jayanthi Thiruvengadam","doi":"10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082291","url":null,"abstract":"Hypertension also familiarized as high or raised blood pressure. It is a condition where the blood vessels have continuously raised pressure. It is a condition where the systolic pressure is 140 mm/Hg or above and the diastolic pressure is 90 mm/Hg or above. According to the statistics of Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, the overall prevalence of hypertension in India by 2020 willbe159.46/1000 population. This paper aims to study the potential of Dynamic thermogram in differentiating normal and hypertensive subjects. In this technique the dynamic Infra-red (IR) thermogram of selected body regions like hand (left and right) and neck (left and right) are obtained for about 60secs using IR thermal camera from 50 subjects (normal =3D 25 and age and sex matched hypertensive =3D 25). The average temperature for each and every millisecond in these selected body regions is measured using ResearchIR software. The T-Test value shows a significant difference in almost all the parameters between normal and hypertensive subjects. The percentage difference is high for the rate of temperature change in the neck left region (92.5%).","PeriodicalId":122243,"journal":{"name":"2017 Third International Conference on Biosignals, Images and Instrumentation (ICBSII)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121616531","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}
{"title":"Experimental investigations on capacitive imaging of biological materials","authors":"A. Sahana, A. Paramasivam, K. Kamalanand","doi":"10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082289","url":null,"abstract":"Soft tissues found all over our body are highly deformable structures having varied structural arrangements, constituents and composition. Since soft tissues are not easy to handle, tissue mimicking phantoms have been developed that mimics the properties of biological tissues. In this work, an attempt has been made to design a capacitance sensor array for capacitive imaging of biological materials. Further, tissue mimicking Agar-Agar phantoms was developed for testing the developed sensor. In this paper, the objectives, methodology and the observations are presented.","PeriodicalId":122243,"journal":{"name":"2017 Third International Conference on Biosignals, Images and Instrumentation (ICBSII)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122260169","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}
{"title":"Preliminary big data analytics of hepatitis disease by random forest and SVM using r-tool","authors":"P. Lakshmi, G. Shwetha, N. M. Raja","doi":"10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082293","url":null,"abstract":"In the growing era of technology, concentration is on the analysis of large amount of structured and unstructured data. The processing applications are inadequate to deal with these data are termed as BigData since in large amounts. In this work, an initial stage for analysing medical informatics using R-studio by R programming is attempted by two algorithms. The biomedical data is used because they are concerned with the real time usage and is an open access journal aiming to facilitate the presentation, validation, use, and re-use of datasets, and can be modifiable with focus on publishing biomedical datasets that can serve as a source for simulation and computational modelling of diseases and biological processes. Random forest technique and support vector machine (SVM) techniques are used to derive features from the database and are able to differentiate various disease supports. The aim of this paper is to provide a comparison between the various techniques that are involved in the field of sorting the data and analysing them in large numbers. For this the process of data mining is used. Data mining is the process of extracting valuable information from a large set of databases. The latter technique produces more appropriate results that has less deviation from the reference taken from the hepatitis profile. By this method one can get the lead vision of the results that are produced by medical science. Therefore the SVM technique can be implemented practically in the medical field.","PeriodicalId":122243,"journal":{"name":"2017 Third International Conference on Biosignals, Images and Instrumentation (ICBSII)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123902909","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}
{"title":"A priliminary study on the control of nano acrylamide polymerization reaction","authors":"N. Priyadharshini, K. Kamalanand","doi":"10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBSII.2017.8082295","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, an attempt has been made to develop a control system for controlling the nano acrylamide polymerization reaction for mimicking the optical properties of soft tissues in ultraviolet spectrum. The nano acrylamide polymerization reaction process was modeled using an ARX model. Further, a proportional-Integral (PI) controller was designed to control the reaction. It is observed that the developed control scheme is suitable for control of the nano acrylamide polymerization reaction since the absorbance can be controlled to different levels in order to mimic various human soft tissues. This work appears to be clinically significant since the development of optical phantoms is highly useful for medical diagnostic applications.","PeriodicalId":122243,"journal":{"name":"2017 Third International Conference on Biosignals, Images and Instrumentation (ICBSII)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123389385","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}