{"title":"11nW Signal Acquisition Platform for Remote Biosensing","authors":"Albert Gancedo, Omer Can Akgun, W. Serdijn","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8919128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8919128","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design of an extremely lowenergy biosensing platform that utilizes voltage to time conversion and time-mode signal processing to sense and accommodate electrophysiological biosignals that will be later sent remotely using a simple and low power communication scheme. The electrode input is fed to a chain of monostable multivibrators used as analog-to-time converters, which create time pulses whose widths are proportional to the input signal. These pulses are transmitted to an external receiver by means of single-pulse harmonic modulation as the communication scheme, at a carrier frequency of 10MHz. The platform is designed to be implemented in a standard 0.18µm IC process with an energy dissipation per sample per channel of 42.72pJ, including communication, operating from a supply voltage of 0.6V with an input referred noise of 12.3µVrms. The resulting SNR for OSR=256 is 35.19dB, and the system’s power consumption at a sampling and communication rate of 256Hz is 10.94nW.","PeriodicalId":222264,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123621219","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}
Miguel Cacho-Soblechero, Š. Karolčík, Dorian Haci, Chiara Cicatiello, Charalampos Maxoutis, P. Georgiou
{"title":"Live Demonstration: A Portable ISFET Platform for PoC Diagnosis Powered by Solar Energy","authors":"Miguel Cacho-Soblechero, Š. Karolčík, Dorian Haci, Chiara Cicatiello, Charalampos Maxoutis, P. Georgiou","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8919227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8919227","url":null,"abstract":"This demonstration presents a portable and low-power ISFET platform, powered by a solar panel battery system. A 32x32 ISFET array is connected to the portable platform using a custom cartridge, which interface with a Raspberry Pi that controls biasing, configuration and data acquisition, while displaying the results on a touchscreen. Inspired by classic videogame consoles, we present a GUI for screening and diagnosis which provides an intuitive experience for non-expert users, ultimately offering an end-to-end system for ISFET-based Point-of-Care diagnosis.","PeriodicalId":222264,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121969925","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}
Jin Zhou, C. Welling, S. Kawadiya, M. Deshusses, S. Grego, K. Chakrabarty
{"title":"Sensor-Array Optimization Based on Mutual Information for Sanitation-Related Malodor Alerts","authors":"Jin Zhou, C. Welling, S. Kawadiya, M. Deshusses, S. Grego, K. Chakrabarty","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8919132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8919132","url":null,"abstract":"There is an unmet need for a low-cost instrumented technology for detecting malodor around toilets and emerging sanitation technologies for onsite waste treatment. Our approach to an electronic nose for sanitation-related malodor is based on the use of electrochemical gas sensors, and machine learning techniques are utilized to optimize the sensor array and for odor classification. We screened 12 sensors for different vendors and target gases and recorded response to odorants from fecal specimen and from confounding good odors such as popcorn. The analysis by two feature selection methods based on mutual information indicates that the feature dimensionality can be reduced to five features extracted from only three sensors. A logistic regression classifier with five features achieved 74.8% accuracy and 84.2% F1 score in odor classification. These early results are promising, and they can potentially enable the optimized design of an integrated e-nose system for alerting malodor, and which can be utilized in public toilets and onsite waste treatment systems.","PeriodicalId":222264,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"167 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125452026","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}
Federico Corradi, J. Buil, H. D. Cannière, W. Groenendaal, P. Vandervoort
{"title":"Real Time Electrocardiogram Annotation with a Long Short Term Memory Neural Network","authors":"Federico Corradi, J. Buil, H. D. Cannière, W. Groenendaal, P. Vandervoort","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8918723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8918723","url":null,"abstract":"Continuous monitoring of electrocardiogram from wearable devices can enable early detection of heart diseases. Ubiquitous monitoring on wearable electronics requires a novel class of algorithms that are low-power and have low-memory requirements. This work proposes a wearable compatible, and automatic solution for annotating Electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings while maintaining high accuracy of detection when users are carrying daily activities such as sitting, walking, and resting. We validate our solution with two Physionet datasets: the MITDB [1] (Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital and MIT Arrhythmia Database), and the EDB [2] (European ST-T Database). In addition, we validate our method on a newly recorded dataset in collaboration with the ’Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg’ Hospital1 that has been collected using a prototype wearable device [3]. Our solution exploits a recurrent neural network that achieves an average F1 score of 94.8% over all three datasets. Our solution achieves better generalization performance than the gold standard method Pan Tompkins which achieves an average F1 score of 93%. In addition, our method can be extended to full ECG annotation. We used the QTDB dataset [4] and we report an accuracy of 91.6% while annotating all 5 waves (P-Q-R-S-T) of the ECG complex.","PeriodicalId":222264,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122576209","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":"SAW Based Passively Bioimpedance Sensing for Zero-Power Wearable Applications of Biosensors","authors":"Xicai Yue, J. Kiely, C. McLeod, P. Wraith","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8919051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8919051","url":null,"abstract":"A novel passive bio-sensing method, which electrically connects a conventional biosensor to a surface acoustic wave (SAW) device, is proposed for passively sensing bio-impedance for zero-power wearable applications. The biosensor attached to the SAW as the load of the tag (the SAW acting as the loadable reflector), makes the measuring of the biosensor fully passive without power supplied to sensor side, being suitable for power restricted applications. Simulations showed that the paramagnetic particle enhanced biosensor has a better measurement accuracy than that of an ordinary biosensor. The feasibility of this new biosensor has been demonstrated by the preliminary experiment of using a 50ns pulse train containing RF signal to excite the new device, which is implemented by a 3.5 mm diameter coil-shaped electrode of a biosensor connected to a 433MHz single port SAW resonator, and then to collect and analyze the reflected signal. This passive solution of getting bio-impedance information using a SAW connected conventional biosensor, enables massive production of the impedance loaded SAW biosensors.","PeriodicalId":222264,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122586314","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}
M. Saleh, Guido Di Patrizio Stanchieri, Mirco Sciulli, A. Marcellis, Yahya Abbass, A. Ibrahim, M. Valle, M. Faccio, E. Palange
{"title":"Live Demonstration: Tactile Sensory Feedback System based on UWB Optical Link for Prosthetics","authors":"M. Saleh, Guido Di Patrizio Stanchieri, Mirco Sciulli, A. Marcellis, Yahya Abbass, A. Ibrahim, M. Valle, M. Faccio, E. Palange","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8919060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8919060","url":null,"abstract":"The proposed live demonstration presents the development of a tactile sensory feedback system based on an optical communication link for prosthetic applications. The system is composed by a tactile sensor array of 32 sensing elements (taxels), an electronic interface circuit combined with the data acquisition and digitalization, a digital coding unit, an optical fiber communication link, a digital decoding unit and an electrotactile stimulator connected to flexible electrodes. The data acquired from the tactile sensors are coded by using a UWB-based optical modulation and transmitted by an optical fiber to the user through electrotactile stimulations. The use of the optical communication link highly improves the system robustness to electromagnetic disturbances, the transmission data rate as well as the power consumption.","PeriodicalId":222264,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122624355","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}
D. Querlioz, J. Grollier, T. Hirtzlin, Jacques-Olivier Klein, E. Nowak, E. Vianello, M. Bocquet, J. Portal, M. Romera, P. Talatchian
{"title":"Memory-Centric Neuromorphic Computing With Nanodevices","authors":"D. Querlioz, J. Grollier, T. Hirtzlin, Jacques-Olivier Klein, E. Nowak, E. Vianello, M. Bocquet, J. Portal, M. Romera, P. Talatchian","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8919010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8919010","url":null,"abstract":"When performing artificial intelligence, CPUs and GPUs consume considerably more energy for moving data between logic and memory units than for doing arithmetic. Brains, by contrast, achieve superior energy efficiency by fusing logic and memory entirely. Currently, emerging memory nanodevices give us an opportunity to reproduce this concept. In this overview paper, we look at neuroscience inspiration to extract lessons on the design of memory-centric neuromorphic systems. We study the reliance of brains on approximate memory strategies, which can be translated to AI. We give the example of a hardware binarized neural network with resistive memory. Based on measurements on a hybrid CMOS/resistive memory chip, we see that such systems can exploit the properties of emerging memories without error correction, and achieve extremely high energy efficiency. Second, we see that brains use the physics of their memory devices in a way much richer than only storage. This can inspire radical electronic designs, where memory devices become a core part of computing. We have for example fabricated neural networks where magnetic memories are used as nonlinear oscillators to implement neurons, and their electrical couplings implement synapses. Such designs can harness the rich physics of nanodevices, without suffering from their drawbacks.","PeriodicalId":222264,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124053828","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 cyclic ADC for biomedical applications","authors":"Amandeep Kaur, Deepak Mishra","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8919110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8919110","url":null,"abstract":"Bio-signals such as electroencephalogram (EEG) contain low activity regions often called B-noise and high activity regions called active potentials. The high activity regions are more important as compared to their counterpart. In addition, the signals are considerably sparse in the low activity regions. Thus a full n-bit conversion of low activity samples into digital domain increases readout power and reduces data acquisition rate of analog to digital converter (ADC). To alleviate these problems, a reconfigurable cyclic ADC is presented in this paper. Input range and conversion cycles of the proposed ADC are varied according to the samples of the neural signal. The high activity region samples are resolved using conventional n-bits, however, the low activity region is resolved using less number of bits. This saves readout power and also reduces the digital data content. The proposed ADC is designed and fabricated in UMC 180 nm CMOS technology. The ADC operates at a sampling rate of 200 kS/s and consumes 61.8 µW of power. The chip occupies an area of 0.031 mm2. Using reconfiguration, the power saving of 28.6% is achieved compared to the conventional n-bit full conversion.","PeriodicalId":222264,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115953049","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}
H. Takehara, H. Sumi, Wang Ze, T. Kondo, M. Haruta, K. Sasagawa, J. Ohta
{"title":"Multispectral Near-infrared Imaging Technologies for Nonmydriatic Fundus Camera","authors":"H. Takehara, H. Sumi, Wang Ze, T. Kondo, M. Haruta, K. Sasagawa, J. Ohta","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8918695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8918695","url":null,"abstract":"A strong flash of light is required to obtain a clear ocular fundus image by conventional fundus camera. Patients undergo a dazzling experience, and the pupils of their eyes constrict, making it difficult to obtain continuous images or videos without a mydriatic agent. To avoid a lack of comfort experienced by the patient, we have developed a fundus camera that can be used to acquire colorized images from the combination of multispectral near-infrared (NIR) images. In this study, the optical system of a fundus camera, an on-chip NIR bandpass filter design, a fabrication process for a low-cost and compact multispectral NIR camera, and a prototype of a selfie fundus camera are discussed. We also describe a tracking technology of fixational eye movements and denoising by averaging the stabilized images.","PeriodicalId":222264,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131684070","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}
M. Imani, Justin Morris, Samuel Bosch, Helen Shu, G. Micheli, T. Simunic
{"title":"AdaptHD: Adaptive Efficient Training for Brain-Inspired Hyperdimensional Computing","authors":"M. Imani, Justin Morris, Samuel Bosch, Helen Shu, G. Micheli, T. Simunic","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8918974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2019.8918974","url":null,"abstract":"Brain-inspired Hyperdimensional (HD) computing is a promising solution for energy-efficient classification. HD emulates cognition tasks by exploiting long-size vectors instead of working with numeric values used in contemporary processors. However, the existing HD computing algorithms have lack of controllability on the training iterations which often results in slow training or divergence. In this work, we propose AdaptHD, an adaptive learning approach based on HD computing to address the HD training issues. AdaptHD introduces the definition of learning rate in HD computing and proposes two approaches for adaptive training: iteration-dependent and data-dependent. In the iteration-dependent approach, AdaptHD uses a large learning rate to speedup the training procedure in the first iterations, and then adaptively reduces the learning rate depending on the slope of the error rate. In the data-dependent approach, AdaptHD changes the learning rate for each data point depending on how far off the data was misclassified. Our evaluations on a wide range of classification applications show that AdaptHD achieves 6.9× speedup and 6.3× energy efficiency improvement during training as compared to the state-of-the-art HD computing algorithm.","PeriodicalId":222264,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130944835","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}