{"title":"Subnanosecond pulsed intense electromagnetic field radiators for non-invasive cancer treatment","authors":"A. Petrishia, M. Sasikala","doi":"10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292212","url":null,"abstract":"The research of Bio-Electromagnetics has moved in to a range of subnanosecond pulsed electric field to treat cancer cells. The Impulse Radiating Antenna (IRA) is suited for radiating subnanosecond electromagnetic impulse for the treatment of skin cancer noninvasively. The feed of the reflector Impulse Radiating Antenna (IRA) is an ultra-wideband antenna. The subnanosecond electric pulse is radiated from the first focal point and is focused at the second focal point where the target (tumor) is placed. In this proposed work, two types of radiators are designed. The Prolate Spheroidal Reflector (PSR) with Elliptic Profile Horn (EPH) feed and the Prolate Spheroidal Reflector (PSR) with Slanted Wire Bicone (SWB) feed are designed. The design parameters and radiation performance are presented. The radiated electric pulse from the antenna with duration of 100ps, results in charging of membrane and the formation of nano pore which are the dominant bioelectric effects on cells. The size of the pore is increased by repetitive pulsing. Irreversible damage of cell is caused by multiple pulses.","PeriodicalId":243293,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on BioSignal Analysis, Processing and Systems (ICBAPS)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115466950","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}
Mohamed A. Milad Zaltum, M. N. Adon, Sallehuddin Hamdan, M. Dalimin, M. Mahadi Abdul Jamil
{"title":"Investigation a critical selection of pulse duration effect on growth rate of HeLa cells","authors":"Mohamed A. Milad Zaltum, M. N. Adon, Sallehuddin Hamdan, M. Dalimin, M. Mahadi Abdul Jamil","doi":"10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292213","url":null,"abstract":"Electroporation is a process of the biophysical effect on cells exposed to an external electrical field is gaining applications in medical treatments, especially to create pores through a cell membrane and allow uptake of DNA into a cell. Therefore, in the theoretical evaluation of electroporation, transmembrane potential and characteristics of the cells growth is the target of the analysis. In this study, we measured the relation between amplitude and duration, used cervical cancer cells (HeLa cells) to be sample for electroporation, because HeLa cells is one of the most well-known cell lines, and easy to researched by continuous harvesting of large numbers of HeLa cells for in-vitro experimental tests. Cells were submitted to single pulses, at constant field strength of 2kV/cm, at various pulse durations from 30μs to 600μs. As a summary, it was found pulse duration equal to100μs is associated the HeLa cell growth rate faster confluence in comparison to the cell with 30μs, 300μs and 600μs pulse duration.","PeriodicalId":243293,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on BioSignal Analysis, Processing and Systems (ICBAPS)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130082643","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}
I. H. Arka, K. Chellappan, S. Mukari, Z. Law, R. Sahathevan, Ashrani Aizzuddin Abd Rahni
{"title":"Simultaneous tilt correction and registration of CT angiography and dynamic CT brain images","authors":"I. H. Arka, K. Chellappan, S. Mukari, Z. Law, R. Sahathevan, Ashrani Aizzuddin Abd Rahni","doi":"10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292224","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a pre-processing stage for an automated volumetric CT stroke image diagnosis system. It concerns the automatic intensity-based 3D image registration of dynamic CT (used for CT perfusion imaging) to CT angiography (CTA) images. The dynamic CT images were acquired with a gantry tilt and hence the correct geometry is found. The tilt correction is performed implicitly and combined with intensity based registration to the CTA image. The accuracy of image registration is measured by the overlap of the segmented skull from both images. The results are promising with more efficient implementation in future for clinical feasibility.","PeriodicalId":243293,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on BioSignal Analysis, Processing and Systems (ICBAPS)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130739230","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. Noor, J. Than, O. M. Rijal, R. M. Kassim, A. Yunus
{"title":"Performance evaluation of automated lung segmentation for High Resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT) thorax images","authors":"N. Noor, J. Than, O. M. Rijal, R. M. Kassim, A. Yunus","doi":"10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292215","url":null,"abstract":"Segmentation is the preliminary steps in developing a computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system. Determining the quality of segmentation will be able to minimize errors in the CAD system. Ninety-six High Resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT) thorax images in DICOM format were obtained from the Department of Diag-nostic imaging of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia consisting of Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) cases, other lung related diseases (Non-ILD) cases and healthy (normal) cases. The study utilizes a framework of having five pre-determined levels of HRCT Thorax image slices based on lung anatomy selected by the radiologist. For the purpose of this study only Level 1 is used. The images were automatically segmented and compared with ground truth which the manual tracings done by a radiologist. Polyline distance metric and Euclidean distance were used to determine the quality of segmentation. The quality of the segmentation deteriorates when the polyline and Euclidean distance increases. Generally values above five pixels would yield poor segmentation quality. Using the Bland-Altman method and plot, it can be seen the level of agreement between polyline and Euclidean distance metrics as well as the quality of segmentation.","PeriodicalId":243293,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on BioSignal Analysis, Processing and Systems (ICBAPS)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114586384","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. Mustafa, Sia Kee Huong, N. Sulaiman, R. Samad, N. Abdullah, Nasrul Salim Pakheri, M. Taib
{"title":"Initial result of body earthing on student stress performance","authors":"M. Mustafa, Sia Kee Huong, N. Sulaiman, R. Samad, N. Abdullah, Nasrul Salim Pakheri, M. Taib","doi":"10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292232","url":null,"abstract":"The body earthing technique is a kind of method that can neutralize our positive charge and negative charge in our body by connecting to the earth. It is believed that body earthing gives a positive effect on human body. There is a possibility that EEG signals can verify the positive effect of body earthing. The experiment of body earthing is done by attaching the patched kit to the hand of the subjects. Then, low voltage of multimeter was used to measure the body voltage of the subjects and EEG signals were collected. After that, the collected EEG data were processed by Band-pass filter in MATLAB to filter out the Alpha and Beta frequency bands separately. The threshold of signal amplitude was set to -100 μV to 100 μV in order to remove the noise of the signals. Next, the Power Spectral Density (PSD) graphs of each EEG signals were plotted and the maximum points of each signal were recorded. Then the peak points were plotted in a histogram to see the changes of the Alpha and Beta band signals. Lastly, the results of before the body earthed and after body earthed were compared through the histogram plotted. It is observed that, before the body earthed, the Alpha-band is low, while the Beta-band is high. Then after body earthed, the Alpha band increased, while the Beta band are decreased.","PeriodicalId":243293,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on BioSignal Analysis, Processing and Systems (ICBAPS)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115052048","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. H. Mohd Sani, W. Mansor, K. Y. Lee, N. Ahmad Zainudin, S. A. Mahrim
{"title":"Determination of heart rate from photoplethysmogram using Fast Fourier Transform","authors":"N. H. Mohd Sani, W. Mansor, K. Y. Lee, N. Ahmad Zainudin, S. A. Mahrim","doi":"10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292239","url":null,"abstract":"Critical incidents can be occurred during anesthesia which may lead to death. These events can be detected using pulse oximeter; an instrument that produces photoplethysmogram, a signal represents volumetric measurement of an organ. During anesthesia, heart rate is commonly measured using photoplethysmogram. In this study, two different methods of measuring heart rate from photoplethysmogram were investigated; heart rate measurement using frequency obtained from Fast Fourier Transform analysis and peak of the time-domain signal. Results from this study shows that the heart rate measurement from Fast Fourier Transform analysis is slightly lower than that of using the second approach. Thus, the Fast Fourier Transform analysis is reliable for heart rate measurement and the algorithm proposed in this study can be embedded in pulse oximeter to provide heart rate of anesthetic patients.","PeriodicalId":243293,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on BioSignal Analysis, Processing and Systems (ICBAPS)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122217453","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":"Bipolar Pulse Active features for ECG biometric application","authors":"S. Safie, M. I. Yusof, K. Kadir, H. Nasir","doi":"10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292207","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduce a new Bipolar Pulse Active (BPA) feature extraction technique implemented to electrocardiograms (ECG) for biometric authentication.. The BPA extracts information from ECG signals and decomposes them, using a series of harmonically related periodic triangular waveforms, into a finite set of Pulse Domain features. In this work, BPA is used to compare the performance of ECG when the information taken from 3 different locations, namely peaks P to T, peaks P to R and peaks R to T. The authentication performance is analysed with and without the use of classifier. In this work, Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is used a classifier to evaluate the BPA ECG based features for biometric authentication.","PeriodicalId":243293,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on BioSignal Analysis, Processing and Systems (ICBAPS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128497522","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":"Decrease alpha waves in depression: An electroencephalogram(EEG) study","authors":"D. Kan, P. F. Lee","doi":"10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292237","url":null,"abstract":"There was no affirm study that differentiates the brainwaves between depression subjects and healthy subjects until today. Hyperactivity and low activity of the brain activities in various parts and regions could be evaluated and studied though the brainwaves measured from the electroencephalogram (EEG). The losing ability of the brain to transmit signals and information that caused a person to be depressed makes a person influences their normal daily activities. Depression is a mood disorder which may affect our daily work, sleep, eating habits and general health. Therefore, it is a general term and commonly infected by anyone. The aim of this study was to determine the differences of alpha waves between normal and depression groups. Throughout the research, depression screening measurements of Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) were taken into accounts in order to identify the normal and depression groups. A total of 4 normal subjects and 4 depressed subjects participated in this study. A 32 channels EEG was used to detect the difference of alpha waves in depression and normal groups. The alpha waves in depression group were found out to be lower compared to the normal group in both close eyes and open eyes conditions. The T-Test statistical analysis shown that there were significant differences in the alpha-1 waves in close eyes condition and alpha 1 and alpha-2 waves in the open eyes condition for depression group. In addition, the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe and temporal lobe had found out to have much lower alpha waves in the depression group compared to the normal group. In short, by measuring the alpha waves of a person using EEG may be a biomarker in differentiating a healthy or depressed person in the future.","PeriodicalId":243293,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on BioSignal Analysis, Processing and Systems (ICBAPS)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114321076","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}
Belinda Chong Chiew Meng, U. K. Ngah, B. Khoo, I. Shuaib, M. Aziz
{"title":"A framework of MRI fat suppress imaging fusion system: MRI inhomogeneity correction for femur abnormality analysis","authors":"Belinda Chong Chiew Meng, U. K. Ngah, B. Khoo, I. Shuaib, M. Aziz","doi":"10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292216","url":null,"abstract":"Short Inversion Time Inversion Recovery (STIR) is one of the fat suppression imaging techniques which involves inversion recovery pulse sequences. STIR uses time delay TI to nullify longitudinal magnetisation. This is to suppress the fat signals from tissues and increase the echo time (TE) so that another sequence called T2 will increase the contrast between tissues. STIR sequence has greater advantage of display signal based on water information about a patient. However, intensity inhomogeneity is a common artifact occurs in MRI machines due to radio-frequency non-uniformity and static field-inhomogeneity. The purpose of this study is to propose a method uses image fusion system, imitating the MRI machine to produce STIR or any other fat suppressed images. The image fusion system could completely remove the fat signals and correct inhomogeneity which occurs in the MRI machine. Image quality measurement on Mean Square Error (MSE) is low (0.055069) and Similarity Index (SSIM) is high (0.995606) for 4 clusters. This show that the resultant fused `STIR' like image has high similarity with the original MRI STIR.","PeriodicalId":243293,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on BioSignal Analysis, Processing and Systems (ICBAPS)","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117200172","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. L. Jaafar, K. Sidek, Siti Nurfarah Ain Mohd Azam
{"title":"Acceleration plethysmogram based biometric identification","authors":"N. L. Jaafar, K. Sidek, Siti Nurfarah Ain Mohd Azam","doi":"10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292210","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the feasibility study of Acceleration Plethysmogram (APG) based biometric identification system. APG signals are obtained from the second derivative of the Photoplethysmogram (PPG) signal. It has been reported from previous literature that APG signals contain more information as compared to the PPG signal. Thus, in this paper, the robustness and reliability of APG signal as a biometric recognition mechanism will be proven. APG signals of 10 subjects were acquired from the Multiparameter Intelligent Monitoring in Intensive Care II Waveform Database (MIMIC2WDB) which contains PPG signals with a sampling frequency of 125 Hz. The signals were later converted into an APG waveform. Then, discriminating features are extracted from the APG morphology. Finally, these APG samples were classified using commonly known classification techniques to identify individuals. Based on the experimentation results, APG signal when using Bayes Network gives an identification rate of 97.5 percentage as compared to PPG signal of 55 percentage for the same waveform. This outcome suggests the feasibility and robustness of APG signals as a biometric modality as compared to PPG signals.","PeriodicalId":243293,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on BioSignal Analysis, Processing and Systems (ICBAPS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121260674","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}