{"title":"The effects of implanting different stents on the blood hemodynamic in coronary arteries","authors":"K. Hassani, K. Bajelani, M. Navidbakhsh","doi":"10.4015/S1016237213500567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4015/S1016237213500567","url":null,"abstract":"Stent implantation alters coronary artery hemodynamic and wall shear stress during cardiac cycles. In this study, three dimensional models were used to analyze the effects of different stent designs and strut thicknesses on the hemodynamic of the artery. The flow was assumed to be pulsatile and stent models were expanded in the artery the same as angioplasty procedure that uses balloon. The data was applied to Fluent-ANSYS package as a UDF MATLAB code. A non-slip condition was applied to the artery walls. The pressure variation in different stents and the wall shear stress distribution were studied. Furthermore, the hemodynamic effects on the flow were investigated for two different thickness values of the same stent design. These results showed that stent implanting is one of the main parameters of pressure drop in the artery. Moreover, the surface of the stent is the location of maximum wall shear stress and the thicker stent strut did not vary this stress much. Our study implies that some design parameters such as thickness affect the hemodynamic factors of blood after stent implantation. Even, stent implanting cause re stenosis in the coronary artery. Using new real models is suggested to investigate the new aspects of stent design and related effects on the hemodynamic of coronary arteries.","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114838922","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}
F. Hashim, L. Petropoulakis, J. Soraghan, S. Safie
{"title":"Wavelet based motion artifact removal for ECG signals","authors":"F. Hashim, L. Petropoulakis, J. Soraghan, S. Safie","doi":"10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498019","url":null,"abstract":"Motion artifact noise in ECG processing is difficult to remove since its spectrum is known to overlap the ECG signal spectrum. The combination of wavelet based denoising and high-pass/low-pass filtering is presented and shown to provide good motion artifact noise removal capabilities. The relative performance of the new technique is demonstrated using ECGs from the MIT-BIH ECG database.","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114873312","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}
U. Qidwai, J. Chaudhry, M. Shakir, Robert G. Rittenhouse
{"title":"Ubiquitous monitoring system for critical cardiac abnormalities","authors":"U. Qidwai, J. Chaudhry, M. Shakir, Robert G. Rittenhouse","doi":"10.1007/978-3-642-35521-9_16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35521-9_16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131080778","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":"Titanium dioxide nanowires-based interdigitated electrodes for biomedical application","authors":"S. N. S. A. Ayob, U. Hashim","doi":"10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498059","url":null,"abstract":"It has been tremendous attention to use titanium dioxide (TiO2) as a material for biosensing application. TiO2 is one of the n-type semiconductor materials with the energy gaps are between 1.8 and 4.1 eV. Nanowires TiO2 will be growth via sol-gel method and combination of TiO2 nanowires with fabricated interdigitated electrodes (IDEs) can form a sensor. The sensor is believed has a great detection capability towards biomolecules.","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115118996","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}
J. Ara, S. Hwang, G. Khang, T. Song, T. Bae, Sang-Hyug Park
{"title":"Effects of the polarity and waveform of the stimulus pulse train on the electrically-elicited pressure sensation","authors":"J. Ara, S. Hwang, G. Khang, T. Song, T. Bae, Sang-Hyug Park","doi":"10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498085","url":null,"abstract":"This study was designed to investigate effects of the polarity and waveform of the electrical stimulus pulse train on the electrically-elicited tactile sensation in terms of the sensory activation threshold. The experiments were conducted on 49 healthy subjects for 1) different polarities (anodic and cathodic), and 2) different waveforms (monophasic and biphasic). The findings included that 1) the tactile sensation became adapted to the constant stimulation, 2) the polarity of the pulse train did not make a significant difference in the activation threshold, 3) the required stimulation intensity for the biphasic waveform was almost twice higher than the monophasic waveform, 4) the activation threshold values showed a poor inter-individual consistency, but a strong intra-individual consistency, and 5) our stimulation protocol could be used for eliciting a pressure sensation.","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121807827","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":"Asthma attack monitoring and diagnosis: A proposed system","authors":"M. Al-khassaweneh, S. Mustafa, F. Abu-Ekteish","doi":"10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498153","url":null,"abstract":"In recent decades, childhood asthma has become more widespread and thus become a worldwide concern. The diagnosis of childhood asthma depends highly on the physician experience and the collaboration from the child part, which sometimes hard to achieve. In many cases, the symptoms might mislead in the diagnosis of asthma. In this paper, we propose a method to diagnose and classify asthma in children. The proposed method is based on using cough sound to extract features that help in asthma diagnosis. Moreover, we propose a hardware system for asthma attack monitoring. The proposed system was implemented and performed by a self-developed computer program written in MATLAB using many cough sound samples of asthmatic and non-asthmatic children.","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126642500","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":"Identification of Cardiac Ischemia using bispectral analysis of ECG","authors":"R. Valupadasu, B. R. Chunduri, V. Chanagoni","doi":"10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498112","url":null,"abstract":"Cardiac Ischemia (CI) is the most common type of cardiac arrhythmia. CI is caused by narrowing of arteries which makes less oxygenated blood to reach the heart muscle. This condition may lead to heart attack with no prior warning. This paper introduces the work that has been done to distinguish the Electrocardiogram (ECG) of a normal healthy person from that of CI patient. Normal spectral analysis of ECG provides only the power within frequency components but doesn't give any phase relations. Bispectral analysis - Bispectrum, Bicoherence and Quadratic Phase Coupling techniques are used to detect and characterize phase coupled harmonics in ECG. Normal Sinus Rhythm Data is obtained from MIT-BIH Database. CI data is obtained from European ST-T Database. The algorithm was tested on MIT-BIH database and European ST-T Database. This concept can be utilized to identify other heart diseases also.","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115553350","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 computational study of single cells trapping inside a microfluidic channel","authors":"A. A. Khalili, M. Ahmad","doi":"10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498171","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to present the simulation results from a computational model of cell-like object flow in a microfluidic device. This work is important because computational models are needed to design miniaturized biomedical devices which leverage microfluidics technology. Microfluidic devices are important for the single cell analysis such as cell adhesion and single cell electrical properties studies which could lead to many significant applications including early disease diagnosis. The aims of this study are to trap a single cell-like object in the micro-well and to obtain the optimized micro-channel water flow rate and micro-well suction rate using finite element analysis. This study presents numerical solutions from the finite element analysis simulation using ABAQUS-FEA software to analyze the effects of suction rate and depth of the micro-well for a single cell trapping in a microfluidic device. According to the simulation results, a single cell-like object able to be trap into the micro-well with the optimized well's depth and suitable micro-channel's flow rate and micro-well's holes suction rate.","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"57 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114035956","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}
N. S. Damanhuri, Y. Chiew, P. Docherty, P. Geoghegan, G. Chase
{"title":"Respiratory airway resistance monitoring in mechanically ventilated patients","authors":"N. S. Damanhuri, Y. Chiew, P. Docherty, P. Geoghegan, G. Chase","doi":"10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498135","url":null,"abstract":"Physiological models of respiratory mechanics can be used to optimise mechanical ventilator settings to improve critically ill patient outcomes. Models are generally generated via either physical measurements or analogous behaviours that can model experimental outcomes. However, models derived solely from physical measurements are infrequently applied to clinical data. This investigation assesses the efficacy of a physically derived airway branching model (ABM) to capture clinical data. The ABM is derived via classical pressure-flow equations and branching based on known anatomy. It is compared to two well accepted lumped parameter models of the respiratory system: the linear lung model (LLM) and the Dynostatic Model (DSM). The ABM significantly underestimates the total pressure drop from the trachea to the alveoli. While the LLM and DSM both recorded peak pressure drops of 17.8 cmH2O and 10.2 cmH2O, respectively, the maximum ABM modelled pressure drop was 0.66 cmH2O. This result indicates that the anatomically accurate ABM model does not incorporate all of the airway resistances that are clinically observed in critically ill patients. In particular, it is hypothesised that the primary discrepancy is in the endotracheal tube. In contrast to the lumped parameter models, the ABM was capable of defining the pressure drop in the deep bronchial paths and thus may allow further investigation of alveoli recruitment and gas exchange at that level given realistic initial pressures at the upper airways.","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128414749","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}
F. Lehocki, S. Balogh, E. Zakovicová, M. Kovac, B. De Witte
{"title":"Innovative telemedicine solutions for diabetic patients","authors":"F. Lehocki, S. Balogh, E. Zakovicová, M. Kovac, B. De Witte","doi":"10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498185","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to highlight the best practices in development of telemedicine services for self-management of patients with diabetes. Target group consisted of type 1 patients of age 27-38. These practices are derived from authors experience, patients and physicians involvement, literature and existing solutions review. Developed mHealth telemedicine system is introduced. Results on usability and acceptability of the proposed solution are described from field testing and patients' feedback. Discussion on elements influencing the adoption of telemedicine solutions is introduced.","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128251451","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}