{"title":"Finite element analysis of single cell surgery using rigid nanoneedle","authors":"M. H. Rahman, M. Ahmad","doi":"10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498163","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we proposed a novel method for single cell surgery using rigid nanoneedle. We have developed a finite element model of rigid nanoneedle. This nanoneedle is able to penetrate a cell wall and measure a cell wall's stiffness. W303 yeast cell has been selected as a cell model and a Tungsten metal has been used to model the nanoneedle. ABAQUS 6.10 CAE/CFD by Dassault Systemes, a powerful finite element (FE) tool has been used to perform the numerical analysis. Nonlinear Mooney-Rivlin hyperelastic material has been used to develop the cell model. The parameters of yeast cell have been obtained from the previous experimental on the mechanical properties of yeast cell such as: cell diameter (3-6 μm), area, Young's modulus, Poisson's ratio and membrane failure analysis. After analyzing the parameters numerically, we have obtained single yeast cell penetration force which is 397 nN. This penetration force indicates the yeast cell wall's stiffness. This method might be used for measuring any kind of cell wall stiffness.","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"3 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":"128607472","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}
K. Pirapaharan, W. Gunathillake, G. I. Lokunarangoda, M. V. Nissansani, H. C. Palihena, P. Hoole, C. Aravind, S. Hoole
{"title":"Design of a battery-less micro-scale RF energy harvester for medical devices","authors":"K. Pirapaharan, W. Gunathillake, G. I. Lokunarangoda, M. V. Nissansani, H. C. Palihena, P. Hoole, C. Aravind, S. Hoole","doi":"10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498086","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a micro-scale RF (radio frequency) energy harvesting circuit that can be used for RF signals for milliwatt to microwatt scale DC power units. Both at hospitals and homes, radio waves are always present in our daily lives in the form of signals transmitted from TV, Radio and Mobile base stations. There are many signals of different frequencies in our surroundings that can be reclaimed via a harvester. Even though these signals carry a small amount of energy, the possibility of using that to energize devices is promising. The methodology of this work is to analyze the RF energy spectrum to identify the most available RF energy sources. Based on that we design an appropriate antenna to capture that spectral power and replicate a circuit that can convert micro-scale RF energy received via the antenna into usable electrical power. Finally, the harvester circuit is used to feed power to a table clock and successfully demonstrated. The limitations are noted along with how the system may be improved through better antenna design. This harvester design is unique in not using a battery.","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"1 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":"127010167","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":"Wearable wireless ECG sensor with cross-platform real-time monitoring","authors":"C. Thanawattano, R. Pongthornseri, S. Dumnin","doi":"10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498035","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the development of a wearable wireless ECG sensor. The acquired ECG signal is sent wirelessly using Zigbee-compliant transceiver module to the Linux machine running services to obtain ECG signal from Zigbee-compliant module and store the signal into local database. The wifi-ready Linux-based machine also runs web server service along with web application software to manage ECG signal streaming. By using the web application on the Zigbee-to-wifi gateway, the ECG signal can be monitored on web browsers running on any OS based machines that connect to the local wifi access point.","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"96 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":"123396630","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}
K. Norton, S. Namazi, M. Fujibayashi, S. Ganesan, N. Barnard, G. Bhanot, T. Shinbrot, H. Iyatomi, K. Ogawa
{"title":"3D architecture of Ductal Carcinoma in situ from image reconstructions","authors":"K. Norton, S. Namazi, M. Fujibayashi, S. Ganesan, N. Barnard, G. Bhanot, T. Shinbrot, H. Iyatomi, K. Ogawa","doi":"10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498047","url":null,"abstract":"Ductal Carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a pre-invasive carcinoma of the breast that exhibits several distinct morphologies. The staging of the disease is often based on 2-dimensional (2D) slices from tissue samples stained with hematoxylin and eosin. Therefore, much of the 3-dimensional (3D) structure of the carcinoma is unknown. We develop a method for producing 3D reconstructions of DCIS specimens from serial sections. This includes an alignment, duct segmentation, cribra segmentation and 3D reconstruction method. Our results show that there are different 3D architectures of cribriform DCIS classified by 2D histological slices. We conclude that the 3D morphology of the disease is complex and may provide additional clinical information than the classical 2D approach.","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"35 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":"114372177","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}
A. Moradi, A. Dalilottojari, I. Djordjevic, B. Pingguan-Murphy
{"title":"Elastomeric tissue engineering scaffolds from citric acid-based synthetic polyesters","authors":"A. Moradi, A. Dalilottojari, I. Djordjevic, B. Pingguan-Murphy","doi":"10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498105","url":null,"abstract":"Here we describe an effective technical route for the production of elastic porous tissue engineering scaffolds from citric acid-based polyester elastomers. We demonstrate that the chemical composition, scaffold morphology, mechanical integrity and porosity of the produced scaffolds are strongly affected by variation of the initial molar ratio of monomers in synthesis reaction. This scaffold exhibits versatility in terms of important parameters for tissue engineering applications in a highly controllable manner.","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"943 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":"113995157","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":"Modelling, design and development of tissue mimicking phantoms for Ultrasound Elastography","authors":"M. Kavitha, M. Reddy, S. Suresh","doi":"10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498136","url":null,"abstract":"Modelling of tissue mimicking phantoms play a crucial role in the development of Ultrasound Elastography. This paper deals with both computer modelling and physical design of agar based tissue mimicking phantoms with embedded inclusions of varying stiffness in uniform homogeneous background. The elastic properties of agar based phantom are imaged using Ultrasound Elastography. The computer modelling and linear strain analysis of the phantom are done using finite element method. The visual display of strain results are compared with the experimental results and they are in good agreement. This allows us to model many hypothetical structures of real life and will be useful while validating signal processing algorithms for new imaging modalities.","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"16 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":"133929708","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":"Brain activation during cognitive tasks: An overview of EEG and fMRI studies","authors":"H. Amin, A. Malik, N. Badruddin, Weng-Tink Chooi","doi":"10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498189","url":null,"abstract":"Brain controls all body functions that enable us to perform daily life events dynamically. Memory is an important part of brain that controls and processes our present and past information and interconnects with future plans to assist corresponding dynamic activities of whole body. In cognitive psychology, human memory processes are functionally divided into three categories namely encoding, retention, and recalling. This paper provides an overview of memory processes and brain regions that are activated during these processes using electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We discussed issues related to cognitive tasks design that may be helpful in future memory research to conduct experiment with EEG and fMRI in a better way.","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"34 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":"131420428","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}
Jie Li, Jinwen Ma, T. Tillo, Bailing Zhang, E. Lim
{"title":"A training based Support Vector Machine technique for blood detection in wireless capsule endoscopy images","authors":"Jie Li, Jinwen Ma, T. Tillo, Bailing Zhang, E. Lim","doi":"10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498194","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is a non-invasive technique which could detect variety of abnormalities in the small bowel. However, in many cases it is difficult for doctors to distinguish obscure gastrointestinal bleeding of patients; moreover, the diagnosis process of the obtained video could take long time due to the huge number of generated frames. This project provides a method to automatically detect bleeding areas in the WCE images by using Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier as the main engine with learning based mechanism in order to increase the accuracy. The experiment results show that this could not only advance the accuracy of WCE diagnosis, but also reduce the diagnosis time effectively. To further improve the performance of the proposed approach the length of the learning-based database was also tuned.","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"55 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":"115655588","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":"Finite element analysis on phase shift effect of multi-antenna array alignment for microwave liver ablation","authors":"P. Phasukkit, S. Tungjitkusolmun, A. Sanpanich","doi":"10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498099","url":null,"abstract":"Microwave ablation for liver cancer treatment has been widely performed due to its minimal invasive technique both single and multi probe. Even though, multi antenna ablation system provide a larger destroy area, however effect of phase shift difference between each antenna is still challenge to be investigate for total ablation result. In this research, we propose a preliminary investigate of phase shift effect to a multi antenna system. Two probes array and three probes array was configured as a multi antenna liver ablation system based on each coaxial opened-slot antenna. By using FEM analyze, we present a full 3D simulation results of those multiple antenna system as phase shift between each probe was varied. Total destroy volume is effected significantly when phase shift was differed from 90°, 180° and 270°.","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"65 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":"124203123","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":"Iris localization using colour segmentation and circular Hough transform","authors":"N. A. Jalil, R. Sahak, A. Saparon","doi":"10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498174","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the enhancement technique of iris localization using circular Hough transform and colour segmentation. Circular Hough transform localized the inner and outer boundaries of the iris using images from each colour channels namely; R, G and B and H, S and V. Combination of the colour channels was also experimented. The experiments were conducted on the iris images obtained from healthy women free from Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). The result from the enhancement technique shows that when images of gray scale and combination of S and V channels are used, both outer and inner boundaries of the irises able to achieve 100% correct localization.","PeriodicalId":177199,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences","volume":"18 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":"114498328","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}