{"title":"Target Localization for FDA-MIMO Radar with Random Frequency Increment via Atomic Norm Minimization","authors":"Wei Wu, Feng Xi","doi":"10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777927","url":null,"abstract":"The frequency diverse array (FDA) can offer a range-dependent beampattern capability that is attractive in various radar applications. However, due to the coupling between the range and angle, the joint range and angle estimation for the FDA inevitably increases the complexity. In this paper, we focus on the frequency diverse array with random frequency increment to avoid the range and angle coupling, and combine it with the MIMO radar to achieve high-resolution range and angle estimation. An atomic norm-based method is proposed to localize the targets, in which the range and angle estimation problem is formulated as a structured low-rank matrix recovery problem. Numerical simulations demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve better performance than the sparse recovery-based method.","PeriodicalId":171472,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"290 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116176153","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":"Signal Processing for Monitoring of Static Persons Using UWB Sensors: A Survey","authors":"D. Kocur, M. Švecová","doi":"10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777846","url":null,"abstract":"Monitoring of static persons using ultra-wideband (UWB) sensors has become very popular in recent years. Analysis of this issue has shown that a key challenge to be addressed in this area is processing of raw radar signals to detect and locate people, and then, if it is requested, to monitor basic parameters of their vital signs. Motivated by attractive application potential of UWB sensors in this field, we survey our own and some related research results on monitoring of static persons in this paper. Moreover, some research perspectives in the aforementioned topics are suggested, too.","PeriodicalId":171472,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125037784","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}
Pengfei Wang, M. Liu, Huijie Zhu, Fulai Liang, H. Lv, Zhao Li, Jianqi Wang
{"title":"Respiration and Heartbeat Rates Measurement Based on Convolutional Sparse Coding","authors":"Pengfei Wang, M. Liu, Huijie Zhu, Fulai Liang, H. Lv, Zhao Li, Jianqi Wang","doi":"10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777785","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate access to respiration rate (RR) and heartbeat rate (HR) through radar is of great importance in many applications. In this paper, a novel method based on convolutional sparse coding (CSC) is proposed for respiration and heartbeat rates measurement. To solve the problem of algorithm performance degradation caused by insufficient samples, a number of samples are generated by mixing random noise with original signal. Then radar signals are processed by CSC directly in the time domain. The method is tested by a vital sign data generated by finite differences time domain (FDTD) simulation. The results demonstrate that the proposed processing approach can accurately extract the respiration and heartbeat components with the generated data of 5 seconds.","PeriodicalId":171472,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129512522","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}
Xiaohui Yang, Biao Xue, Li Zhang, Xin Liu, Hong Hong
{"title":"Noncontact multi-modal sensor fusion for sleep stage detection","authors":"Xiaohui Yang, Biao Xue, Li Zhang, Xin Liu, Hong Hong","doi":"10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777863","url":null,"abstract":"Non-contact monitoring of sleep quality and early diagnosis of sleep disorders have become hot topics in recent years. We propose a new method to extract sleep related vital signals through low-cost and non-contact multi-modal sensor fusion method with Doppler radar and microphone. Based on the PSG data of patients with sleep disorders, this work has been recognized and certified by professionals in Nanjing Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital with unique design. By comparing the sleep stage classification performance of single sensor and sensor fusion algorithm, the effectiveness of the algorithm is validated.","PeriodicalId":171472,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"189 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126794204","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":"Miniaturized Substrate Integrated Waveguide Bandpass Filters Based on Novel Complementary Split Ring Resonators","authors":"Jingjing Pu, F. Xu, Yuying Li","doi":"10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777795","url":null,"abstract":"In this letter, a miniaturized substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) bandpass filter is proposed. A novel complementary split ring resonator is etched on the top surface of the SIW, which provides a pass band below the initial cut-off frequency of the waveguide TE10 mode. The band width of the filter can be tuned by changing the coupling of the novel structure. A pair of transmission zeros outside the pass band can be produced. The results of simulation and measurement are in good agreement.","PeriodicalId":171472,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"24 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120923436","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 VR Combined with MI-BCI Application for Upper Limb Rehabilitation of Stroke","authors":"Wei Wang, Banghua Yang, Cuntai Guan, Bo Li","doi":"10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777805","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual Reality (VR) is expected to significantly improve the motor function for stroke as a rehabilitation intervention technique. VR can provide a simulated world comparable to the real world that allows clients to interact with the virtual environment (VE), and provides real-time feedback. The principle of rehabilitation method based on motor imagery (MI) brain-computer interface (BCI) is to train the motor nerves directly through MI to promote the plasticity of the central nervous system. To rehabilitate the upper limb function of stroke patients, a rehabilitation system based on VR and MI-BCI is developed in this paper, which integrates the real-life scenario into the monotonous rehabilitation training. The rehabilitation system provides 6 training scenarios and 9 training movements. The system will provide real-time visual, auditory and haptic multisensory-feedback, which makes training more interesting, promotes motor learning, and enhances participation in a rehabilitation process. An experiment was conducted with healthy people by selecting 4 groups of training scenes with different characteristics from the rehabilitation system, and preliminarily verified the system can give positive guidance to people as to motion imagination. Therefore, the system combining MI-BCI and VR is expected to help stroke patients produce more recognizable EEG signals, and achieved self-initiative rehabilitation.","PeriodicalId":171472,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121110079","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}
Chun-Lin Lu, Yichao Yuan, C. Tseng, Chung-Tse Michael Wu
{"title":"Multi-Target Continuous-Wave Vital Sign Radar using 24 GHz Metamaterial Leaky Wave Antennas","authors":"Chun-Lin Lu, Yichao Yuan, C. Tseng, Chung-Tse Michael Wu","doi":"10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777736","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a multi-target continuous wave vital sign radar sensor module using metamaterial (MTM) leaky wave antennas (LWAs). By utilizing continuous-wave Doppler radar and performing frequency-space mapping over the azimuth angle, we can obtain both respiration and heartbeat rates from multiple people by simply analyzing the baseband signals of the different carrier frequencies at 24 GHz band.","PeriodicalId":171472,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131285308","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 Reconfigurable Active Beamforming Array for Biomedical Radar Applications","authors":"Qiangli Xi, He Wang, S. Dong, L. Ran","doi":"10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777818","url":null,"abstract":"Low-power biomedical radars designed for human vital signs detection suffer from unwanted interferences and strong scattering due to stationary clutters in indoor environments. In this work, a reconfigurable beamforming array is used to replace the receiving antenna of a conventional biomedical radar, so that the beamforming technology can be used to increase the gain of the beam pointing to the object and suppress the interfering signal from a different direction. Simulations and experiments verify the effectiveness of the proposed beamforming array. The proposed approach can be widely used in various biomedical radar-based applications.","PeriodicalId":171472,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"2001 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114129564","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}
Tai Le, Le-Lan Tran, Thai-Hoc Hoang, Huy-Dung Han, N. T. Phan, Vu Cong Nguyen, Tuan Nguyen, N. T. Pham, H. Cao, C. Nguyen
{"title":"MD-Link: A portable ECG monitoring device with active dry electrodes and its validation","authors":"Tai Le, Le-Lan Tran, Thai-Hoc Hoang, Huy-Dung Han, N. T. Phan, Vu Cong Nguyen, Tuan Nguyen, N. T. Pham, H. Cao, C. Nguyen","doi":"10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777773","url":null,"abstract":"Recent advances in technologies have been profoundly enhancing the quality and efficacy of medical care. In the attempt to reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), the use of wearable and portable electrocardiogram (ECG) system provides possibilities to efficiently and promptly preclude patients from severe situations, reducing the fatality rate of CVDs. In this paper, we present a portable battery-less ECG monitoring device, namely MD-Link, utilizing active dry electrodes. A comprehensive software system was developed with two mobile applications for patients and doctors correspondingly, and a web server for data logging and computing. We also conducted several empirical experiments for device's usability assessment and validation. The results showed a high consistency of usability and reliability assessment with low standard error of measurements (SEMs), 4.96% and 4.14% for the difference between trial 1 & 2 and trial 2 & 3, respectively. Moreover, high correlation was achieved in the comparison of standard outputs produced by MD-Link and benchmark (Nihon-1250K).","PeriodicalId":171472,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114714809","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":"Impact of a chemical stimulus on two different cell lines through microwave dielectric spectroscopy at the single cell level","authors":"A. Tamra, M. Rols, D. Dubuc, Katia Grenier","doi":"10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMBIOC.2019.8777745","url":null,"abstract":"Cellular analysis with microwave dielectric spectroscopy is gaining interest, as it presents attractive characteristics, such as being non-invasive, non-destructive, label-free, while cells may be analyzed directly into their culture medium. Most importantly, the microwave range enables intracellular investigations. This paper confirms such a capability through the evaluation of the different chemo-induced cell responses of two cell lines, HCT 166 and THP1. Moreover, this analyzing method does not only present different capacitive contrasts depending on cell lines. It also allows to extract distinct dielectric variations due to a chemical agent, which are attributed to different cell line-dependent internal modifications of the cells.","PeriodicalId":171472,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116143286","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}