{"title":"Common-path fourier-domain optical coherence tomography in ophthalmology applications","authors":"Jae‐Ho Han, Xuan Liu, Kang Zhang, Jin U. Kang","doi":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906735","url":null,"abstract":"We have demonstrated in vivo three-dimensional imaging and estimated localized and quantitative hemoglobin oxygen saturation (SO2) of blood vessel by using a simple, easy to operate common-path Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) system. The common-path OCT system can be easily integrated with various surgical tools and we demonstrated its usefulness by imaging outer and inner intraocular tissues such as cornea and neurosensory retinal layers as well as detecting SO2 level from a chicken embryo. The system uses 800nm near infrared broadband light sources and has axial resolution as low as 3μm in air. Self-adaptive scanning mechanism with real-time surface recognition and feedback control was also applied to the probe where the scanning probe tracks the sample surface variance and effective imaging depth was largely extended to the probe's free-moving range.","PeriodicalId":285171,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126155718","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}
Jiefeng Xi, Yicong Wu, Tae Hee Kim, Yongping Chen, Desheng Zheng, Li Huo, M. Cobb, S. Pun, J. Hwang, Xingde Li
{"title":"Endomicroscopy and biocompatible fluorescent nanocomplexes for clinical translation of high-resolution optical molecular imaging","authors":"Jiefeng Xi, Yicong Wu, Tae Hee Kim, Yongping Chen, Desheng Zheng, Li Huo, M. Cobb, S. Pun, J. Hwang, Xingde Li","doi":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906706","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on our recent development of two-types of all-fiber-optic scanning endomicroscopy technologies for high-resolution optical imaging of internal organs. The first one is an OCT balloon catheter technology that permits systematic imaging of fine architectural morphologies of internal luminal organs over a large area. The second is a two-photon fluorescence endomicroscopy technology that enables assessment of tissue biochemical/metabolic information with a superb spatial resolution. Both endomicroscopes have a small diameter (1.2–2.4 mm) and can be readily integrated with a standard clinical gastroscope, providing complementary information about tissue structure and function and helping improve diagnostic yield. We will discuss the basic design principles, major engineering challenges, solutions, and some preliminary results. In addition, we will also present our approach in developing near infrared (NIR) fluorescent nanocomplexes (ICG-micelles), which can be functionalized for active molecular targeting to improve molecular specificity and imaging contrast. These nanocomplexes, made of FDA approved building blocks, are biocompatible and very promising for clinical translation. Ultimately the NIR nanocomplexes can be used in conjunction with endomicroscopy technologies for performing high-resolution optical molecular imaging in vivo and in real time.","PeriodicalId":285171,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124673004","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 polyps in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy videos using Log Gabor filters","authors":"A. Karargyris, N. Bourbakis","doi":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906730","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) is a very useful technology that enables gastroenterologists to examine the human digestive tract and more particularly, the small bowel, searching for various abnormalities like blood-based abnormalities, ulcers and polyps. Each WCE video consists of approximately 50,000 frames making its examination a very tedious task. In this paper a methodology is proposed for the automatic detection of polyps. It utilizes the very promising Log Gabor filters as a segmentation scheme, in conjunction with the powerful SUSAN edge detector. After segmentation process, geometric information of the resulted segments is extracted to identify polyp candidates. Furthermore, certain rules apply to limit the number of false positive detections. Illustrative and statistical results of the methodology are also given in this paper.","PeriodicalId":285171,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116857835","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":"Bioimaging: A new frontier area for signal processing research","authors":"J. Olivo-Marin","doi":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906701","url":null,"abstract":"It is now a common consensus that in-depth understanding of biological systems requires robust and systematic quantification of their spatiotemporal characteristics. This endeavour has been significantly enlightened over the past decades thanks to the numerous advances in fluorescent probes, labeling techniques and microscopy systems. It is likewise a consensus that more powerful and specific signal/image processing methods are henceforth required to process the large amounts and variety of signals in biology and biomedicine. Here we give a panorama of some state-of-the-art image processing methods and also point at signal processing challenges and outline topics for future research.","PeriodicalId":285171,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop","volume":"227 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131996061","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":"Wireless power and data transmission with ASK demodulator and power regulator for a biomedical implantable SOC","authors":"Chen-Hua Kao, K. Tang","doi":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906740","url":null,"abstract":"Bio-medical implantable devices have appeared for more than fifty years. With more understandings of neuroscience, some diseases caused by neural abnormal discharge or disable may be cured or improved by neural stimulation techniques. Most of the wireless implantable devices transmit power and data into the no-battery implantable device by magnetic coupling. This paper presents an efficient power and data transmission, including LDO power regulator and ASK demodulator for biomedical implantable devices. The modulation index and rate are relative to power transmission efficiency. Results show that with a 2MHz carrier, the proposed ASK demodulator structure has a maximum modulation index up to 2.86% and a 50 % maximum modulation rate. The modulation index is also tunable for different applications. The power regulator provides a stable 1.8V for the ASK demodulation. This design uses TSMC 0.18um 1P6M CMOS technology.","PeriodicalId":285171,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115266590","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}
T. Saito, O. Suekane, T. Akagi, A. Taguchi, T. Ichiki
{"title":"Large-scale high-performance cell membrane perforation, with nanoimprinted mass producible perforator","authors":"T. Saito, O. Suekane, T. Akagi, A. Taguchi, T. Ichiki","doi":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906695","url":null,"abstract":"The importance of developing methods in which certain materials can be introduced into a group of cells has been gaining considerable attention. However, owing to safety concerns accompanying the use of conventional viral-vector-based transfection and the low efficiency of plasmid-vector-based transfection, the development of a high performance nonbiological method has been expected. Currently available nonbiological methods such as electroporation generally have a low success rate and limited to low-molecular-weight molecules. For other methods that employ cellar uptake like phagocytosis, such as the cationic liposome method, these efficiencies largely depend on the nature of the target cells. In contrast, we found that submicron level cell membrane perforations could be made by inducing the local oxidations in the cell membrane while most of the treated cells were viable. We applied the perforation to the microinjection method and found that the injection of a functional dye, an antibody, and mRNA to the cells resulted in almost 100% survival as well as the successful manifestation of individual functions of these injected molecules. In the recent study, we extended the perforation process in a large number of cells. A nanobrush- shaped soft-polymer sheets formed by the nanoimprinting, which contained a photosensitizer, are used as the cell membrane perforator. We could automate the process by the robotics technology for the high-throughput operation. In future studies, we will extend the cell processing system for multi-purpose practical instruments for e.g. novel cell therapy, systematic cell differentiation.","PeriodicalId":285171,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115398406","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. Joshi, Chih-Chieh Hsu, A. C. Parker, Pankaj Deshmukh
{"title":"A carbon nanotube cortical neuron with excitatory and inhibitory dendritic computations","authors":"J. Joshi, Chih-Chieh Hsu, A. C. Parker, Pankaj Deshmukh","doi":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906727","url":null,"abstract":"A cortical neuron with carbon nanotube circuit elements that performs nonlinear dendritic computations with excitatory and inhibitory post-synaptic potentials is presented. An inhibitory synapse with controllable parameters that implement plasticity is described. The circuit design was simulated using carbon nanotube spice models, showing that the neuron fires as long as the inhibitory post-synaptic potential is weak or absent. Strong inhibitory potentials prevent the neuron from firing.","PeriodicalId":285171,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133656754","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":"He-Ne laser enhanced cellular hydrogen peroxide production and induced modulations in metabolic activity in malignant human brain cancer: Evidence for a “by-stander” effect","authors":"D. Tata, R. Waynant","doi":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906729","url":null,"abstract":"Continuous-wave He-Ne laser exposures (Intensity=35 mW/cm2, λ=632.8nm, Fluence range: 1J/cm2 to 50 J/cm2) on non-confluent and actively dividing human malignant glioblastoma cells was found to increase the cellular production levels of H2O2. Modulations in the cellular metabolic activity were detected (through the MTS assay) three days after laser irradiation. The metabolic activity was found to be dependent on the laser dose of exposure (i.e., fluence). In addition, three days after the laser exposure, the potential laser induced “bystander” effect was tested through the transfer of growth media from laser irradiated cells onto non-irradiated cells. After two additional days of incubation (5 days post exposure), the non-laser irradiated cells were found to have a significant increase in their metabolic activities. Modulations in the metabolic activities in the non-irradiated cells were found to be fluence dependent from the initial laser exposed cells treatment conditions. The results herein support the hypothesis of an important functional role for light enhanced cellular H2O2 generation to yield bio-modulatory effects locally and at a distance. The classical “bi-phasic” modulation response of cells to light irradiation is hypothesized to depend upon the quantity of light-enhanced H2O2 molecules generated from the mitochondria and the number of cells which interact with the H2O2 molecules.","PeriodicalId":285171,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115890136","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}
Shao-Yen Tseng, Chung-Han Tsai, Yu-Sheng Lai, W. Fang
{"title":"A wireless biomedical sensor network using IEEE802.15.4","authors":"Shao-Yen Tseng, Chung-Han Tsai, Yu-Sheng Lai, W. Fang","doi":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906741","url":null,"abstract":"The advancements of wireless body area networks (WBAN) and wireless personal area networks (WPAN) has led to a recent increase of viable applications in wireless medical and healthcare devices. Developing biomedical sensors such as electroencephalograph (EEG) and electrocardiogram (ECG) sensors often require numerous connecting wires which may introduce noise and increase patient discomfort. In this paper we propose a system design and realization of a wireless EEG and ECG sensor network focusing on issues such as time synchronization, bandwidth, and power constraints constituent of WBANs. Our WSN comprises three transmitting nodes for a total of four EEG channels and an ECG channel. We solve problems such as data throughput requirements for EEG and ECG signal processing as well as time synchronization of received data at the base station. This paper keeps in consideration the possible implementation of our proposed system onto a system-on-chip (SOC) by putting focus on the chip size and low power consumption of the analog-front-end system.","PeriodicalId":285171,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134528130","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":"Microscale technologies for tissue engineering","authors":"A. Khademhosseini, B. Chung","doi":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906708","url":null,"abstract":"Microscale technologies are emerging as enabling tools for tissue engineering and biology. Here, we present our experience in developing microscale technologies to regulate cell-microenvironment interactions and generate engineered tissues. Specifically, we will describe the use of microengineered shape-controlled hydrogels to generate biomimetic 3D tissue architectures, the utility of surface patterning approaches for controlling cell-cell interactions and engineered microchannels for controlling cell-soluble factor interactions.","PeriodicalId":285171,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116457628","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}