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Flexible monitoring system for automated detection of bacterial growth in a commercial specimen processing platform 灵活的监测系统，用于在商业标本处理平台上自动检测细菌生长

2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI) Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065950

Paolo Bellitti, Michele Bona, Michela Borghetti, E. Sardini, M. Serpelloni

{"title":"Flexible monitoring system for automated detection of bacterial growth in a commercial specimen processing platform","authors":"Paolo Bellitti, Michele Bona, Michela Borghetti, E. Sardini, M. Serpelloni","doi":"10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065950","url":null,"abstract":"Diagnosing the presence of bacteria in a biological sample is a task to accomplish as early as possible, since bacterial infections still represent a serious threat to human health. In the market, there are commercial systems carrying out pre-analytical tests on biological specimens. An example is provided by the WASPLab, by COPAN Italia S.p.A., which monitors bacterial growth on Petri dishes that contain the samples, by taking and processing images of one dish at a time in a completely automated way. In this paper, we propose a newly monitoring sensor system for all the Petri dishes at the same time for the detection of bacterial growth with the aim of integrating it directly in the WASPLab. It could permit to obtain quantitative information about bacterial activity in real time directly inside the incubator, offering a more rapid and complete diagnosis response and avoiding the movement of the samples. In addition, the user can set measurement parameters according to his/her needs. This allows the system reaching a great level of flexibility. We tested our solution in two ways. First, we analyzed the behavior of the proposed solution comparing the output signals with the data obtained using an impedance analyzer (HP4194A) as reference. We obtained an average deviation equal to 0.768 Ω in magnitude and 0.059 ° in phase angle. Second, we carried out a 24-hour test to monitor the activity of Staphylococcus Aureus AT C 6538 in a climate chamber. We found that our system succeeded in observing bacterial growth, with an early detection time of 4 hours. Research is undergoing to integrate the proposed system in the WASPLab.","PeriodicalId":173474,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125678857","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}

引用次数: 5

High sensitivity, low noise front-end for long range capacitive sensors for tagless indoor human localization 高灵敏度、低噪声前端的远距离电容式传感器，用于无标签室内人体定位

2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI) Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065966

Javed Iqbal, Mihai T. Lazarescu, Arslan Arif, Luciano Lavagno

引用次数: 2

Robust carotid pulse detection using accelerometry and electrocardiography 鲁棒颈动脉脉搏检测使用加速度计和心电图

2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI) Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065904

Bernardo Silva, J. Muehlsteff, R. Couceiro, J. Henriques, Christiane Peiker, C. Meyer, P. Carvalho

{"title":"Robust carotid pulse detection using accelerometry and electrocardiography","authors":"Bernardo Silva, J. Muehlsteff, R. Couceiro, J. Henriques, Christiane Peiker, C. Meyer, P. Carvalho","doi":"10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065904","url":null,"abstract":"Neurally mediated syncope (NMS) is a disorder of the autonomic regulation of postural tone. These patients suffer from blood-pressure regulation failure resulting in hypo-perfusion of the brain, which might lead to significant injuries due to falls. Detection of the onset of blood-pressure regulation failure enables the patient to start counter-measures and, hence, avoid hypo-perfusion of the brain. Monitoring of blood-pressure (BP) changes is key to develop an early alert solution. Several setups have been tested for this purpose using vascular unloading and pulse arrival time (PAT). The aim of this study was to do an initial investigation of using the electrocardiography (ECG) signal and accelerometry (ACC) signals acquired from the carotid to reliably infer pulse presence and pulse absence. A classifier using a correlation feature derived from the ECG and the ACC signals was conceptualized and implemented. The algorithm performance was tested with data acquired during scheduled head-up tilt table tests of 8 syncope patients. This is an essential step towards PAT inference as a BP surrogate.","PeriodicalId":173474,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122829083","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}

引用次数: 1

Integrated data analysis for the quantification of emotional responses during video observation 视频观察中情绪反应量化的综合数据分析

2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI) Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065945

Pierluigi Reali, S. Cerutti, A. Bianchi, Debora Bettiga, L. Lamberti, Alessandra Mazzola, M. Pillan

{"title":"Integrated data analysis for the quantification of emotional responses during video observation","authors":"Pierluigi Reali, S. Cerutti, A. Bianchi, Debora Bettiga, L. Lamberti, Alessandra Mazzola, M. Pillan","doi":"10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065945","url":null,"abstract":"The use of questionnaires at the end of a specific task only evaluates what is expressed by the conscious mind and, therefore, cannot give a complete representation of the individual's emotional state. By adding data from physiological measures, such as cerebral activity, skin conductance, heart rate and gaze position, more accurate information about cognitive engagement and emotional responses to a given task could be provided. This study aims to evaluate participants' emotional (arousal, valence) and cognitive (memorization effort, attention, pleasantness) responses toward two videos, through the integration of above cited measures. Our findings show that the two tested videos produce two different unconscious reactions (one video causes a significantly higher increase in heart rate and the other one requires higher memorization effort), while producing similar conscious responses (no statistically significant differences were found by analyzing questionnaires' answers). Further, eye tracking device provided a way to investigate reasons behind these differences. The results show that the integration of self-reported and biological measures with eye tracking data could effectively help to understand emotional and cognitive responses during video observation.","PeriodicalId":173474,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132799300","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}

引用次数: 2

Dynamic hysteresis modelling of soft magnetic materials for automotive applications 汽车用软磁材料的动态迟滞建模

2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI) Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065937

S. Q. Antonio, M. Pompei

引用次数: 2

Is WiFi suitable for energy efficient IoT deployments? A performance study WiFi是否适合节能的物联网部署?绩效研究

2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI) Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065943

Federico Montori, Riccardo Contigiani, L. Bedogni

{"title":"Is WiFi suitable for energy efficient IoT deployments? A performance study","authors":"Federico Montori, Riccardo Contigiani, L. Bedogni","doi":"10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065943","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays billions of connected objects are publishing sensed data everyday and this number is expected to grow exponentially. In many cases IoT objects are battery powered and need to be energy efficient as the most important requirement in order to reduce battery replacement costs. Conversely, WiFi is still the predominant wireless technology, deployed in almost all everyday life environments and thus the easiest network type on top of which build an IoT ecosystem. In this paper we analyze the energy efficiency of constrained devices using WiFi, which is certainly a widely accepted technology, although not specifically designed for constrained devices. To perform our test, we use the ESP-12 SoC, which gained interest recently due to its low cost and capabilities. We test its performance by studying the battery duration of such device under different connectivity conditions, varying its authentication policy, its battery type and its duty cycle. We report results from laboratory tests and show that such devices can be an efficient compromise for low-cost low-energy scenarios using WiFi.","PeriodicalId":173474,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115244449","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}

引用次数: 11

A wearable device for blind people to restore color perception 一种用于盲人恢复色觉的可穿戴设备

2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI) Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065974

Riccardo Cavadini, Luca Cerina, M. I. Bracco, M. Santambrogio

引用次数: 3

A fog-computing architecture for preventive healthcare and assisted living in smart ambients 用于预防性医疗保健和智能环境辅助生活的雾计算架构

2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI) Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065939

Luca Cerina, Sara Notargiacomo, Matteo GrecoLuca Paccanit, M. Santambrogio

{"title":"A fog-computing architecture for preventive healthcare and assisted living in smart ambients","authors":"Luca Cerina, Sara Notargiacomo, Matteo GrecoLuca Paccanit, M. Santambrogio","doi":"10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065939","url":null,"abstract":"In the last years, the emergence of pervasive connected devices and the development of the cloud computing paradigms brought a revolution in health-care and industrial applications. Cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) exploit large scale service providers to vastly reduce costs and gather Big Data. However, cloud-based services still face various issues related to: high bandwidth requirements, unpredictable delays, and security and safety concerns. These issues are critical to health-care and Active and Assisted Living (AAL) where a correct and timely reaction can result in saving a life or drastically reducing a disability (e.g. after a stroke). In this scenario, we present a flexible multi-level architecture using the fog approach, a computing paradigm in which heterogeneous devices at the edge of the network collect data, compute a task with minimal latency, and produce physical actions meaningful for the user, leveraging upon context and location awareness. In this paper, we envision also an edge node built upon Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology. The hardware of a FPGA node can be reconfigured to produce maximum performance in tasks, to guarantee a minimal delay, or the capacity to scale on the number of devices connected, with a minimal power consumption. We present two case studies for assistive smart ambients and health applications designed on our Fog architecture.","PeriodicalId":173474,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128929505","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}

引用次数: 58

The Italian FSHD registry: An enhanced data integration and analytics framework for smart health care 意大利FSHD注册:智能医疗保健的增强数据集成和分析框架

2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI) Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065918

Mirko Orsini, Enrico Calanchi, L. Magnotta, Luca Gagliardelli, M. Govi, F. Mele, Rossella Tuplert

{"title":"The Italian FSHD registry: An enhanced data integration and analytics framework for smart health care","authors":"Mirko Orsini, Enrico Calanchi, L. Magnotta, Luca Gagliardelli, M. Govi, F. Mele, Rossella Tuplert","doi":"10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065918","url":null,"abstract":"Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) is a rare genetic disease that has been described more than a hundred years ago. The Miogen Lab has been able to collect a large amount of data on patients affected by FSHD and their relatives over the years, also extending the research to their ancestors. Collected data include molecular analysis, clinical information on health status, family pedigree and geographic origin. The challenge of FSHD Registry is to investigate these large amount of information, discover additional elements related to disease onset and better understand the clinical progression and genetic inheritance of the disease, exploiting data integration capabilities and Big Data techniques. In this paper we describe the tools we used to collect, integrate and display these data in a framework that allows users to search among clinical records to elaborate brief reports and discover new relations on collected data. The solution provides charts, maps and search tools customized on the specific needs that came to light during the collaboration between DataRiver and Miogen Lab, joining the clinical knowledge of the latter with the information technology expertise of the former. The framework offers a single entry point for all genomic and therapeutic studies.","PeriodicalId":173474,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126433481","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}

引用次数: 3

Testing an RFID receiving gate for improving process accuracy in fashion and apparel retail 测试RFID接收门，以提高时尚和服装零售的流程准确性

2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI) Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065916

Bertolini Massimo, Rizzi Antonio, Romagnoli Giovanni, Volpi Andrea

{"title":"Testing an RFID receiving gate for improving process accuracy in fashion and apparel retail","authors":"Bertolini Massimo, Rizzi Antonio, Romagnoli Giovanni, Volpi Andrea","doi":"10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065916","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents activities conducted with the aim to design and test an RFID receiving gate for the fashion and apparel retail industry. To ensure high receiving performance, specific lab tests were designed and conducted to identify and set the basic RFID gate design parameters. During the test, we designed and built a specific receiving infrastructure made up of a metal frame and an RFID gate with four antennas and one reader, positioned in the middle of the tunnel itself. The tests were conducted by changing (i) the type of antennas, (ii) shielding / non-shielding with RF absorbing material the exit of the tunnel, and (iii) changing the RFID reading power. The performance of the RFID receiving tunnel are evaluated in terms of (i) number of tag reads, with respect to the total number of expected tags; (ii) number of false reads (e.g. tags read outside the tunnel) and (iii) read count for each tag. The performance analysis allowed us to define the optimal settings for the RFID receiving tunnel, to ensure the maximum value of receiving process accuracy with the minimum reading power, and thus minimum number of false reads.","PeriodicalId":173474,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128555288","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}

引用次数: 3