{"title":"A Wireless Telemedicine System with Extended Reporting Range and Priority Messaging","authors":"T. Polk, W. Walker, D. Bhatia","doi":"10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454193","url":null,"abstract":"Extensions and enhancements are proposed for a previously developed system to remotely monitor patient vital signs. This previously developed network utilizes Crossbow MICAz motes to create a wireless network to gather data, which is sent to a central monitoring station. It includes a graphical user interface to store and display incoming measurements for all patients being monitored. Here the range of the network is extended by interfacing a GSM modem to the wireless sensor base station, allowing critical data to be forwarded anywhere in the world and providing a remote query mechanism via the existing cellular infrastructure. Text messaging using short message service is used as the communication interface. A priority message handling layer is added to the current protocol to insure delivery of critical data to the monitoring station and from there to medical personnel via the existing cellular infrastructure.","PeriodicalId":333843,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Dallas Engineering in Medicine and Biology Workshop","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130532689","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. Zuzak, T. J. Perumanoor, S. C. Naik, M. Mandhale, E. Livingston
{"title":"A Multimodal Reflectance Hyperspectral Imaging System for Monitoring Wound Healing in Below Knee Amputations","authors":"K. Zuzak, T. J. Perumanoor, S. C. Naik, M. Mandhale, E. Livingston","doi":"10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454162","url":null,"abstract":"The multimodal reflectance hyperspectral imaging system presented here was developed in the Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging, at the University of Texas at Arlington, UTA. This system is an extension of the visible hyperspectral imaging prototype developed at the National Institutes of Health, NIH. It uses visible and near-infrared, NIR, light and electro-optical components to obtain spectroscopic images, thereby rendering the name multimodal. The goal of this research plan is to fabricate and utilize this system for monitoring wound healing in below the knee amputations. The system illuminates the amputation area with a cold broadband light source, collects a series of spectroscopic images spanning the visible and NIR, in parallel, deconvolutes the acquisitioned hyperspectral data using chemometric methods for imaging the spatial distribution of inherent chromophores. This technique is non-invasive, eliminates the use of contrast dye injection. The images produced visualize changes in the deeper larger blood vessels, provided by the NIR component and the superficial microvascular capillaries, provided by the visible component.","PeriodicalId":333843,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Dallas Engineering in Medicine and Biology Workshop","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122354630","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":"Remote Cardiac Activity Monitoring Using Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"J. Shah, P. Aroul, A. Hande, D. Bhatia","doi":"10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454194","url":null,"abstract":"Pervasive human monitoring of various biological parameters is a growing field of interest. The focus of this research is to provide a step forward towards pervasive health monitoring. We describe a system to remotely monitor data from a patient's electrocardiogram (ECG). The data is transferred to a central monitoring station via a wireless sensor network for display. Crossbow MICAz motes are used as the network nodes. One of the nodes is interfaced with a commercial 3-lead ECG module and others are used to route the data through the network. A graphical user interface is designed for monitoring the cardiac rhythm. The primary objective of this experiment is to wirelessly transmit streaming ECG data in real-time with high reliability and minimal packet loss. Test results indicate a high reception ratio while transmitting ECG data over multiple hops.","PeriodicalId":333843,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Dallas Engineering in Medicine and Biology Workshop","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126460423","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. Milani, G. Kannan, I. Panahi, R. Briggs, K. Gopinath
{"title":"Weight Stacking Analysis of Delayless Subband Adaptive Algorithms for fMRI Active Noise Cancellation","authors":"A. Milani, G. Kannan, I. Panahi, R. Briggs, K. Gopinath","doi":"10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454192","url":null,"abstract":"High level acoustic noise in fMRI scanners is a source of concern to patients and health care providers. Active noise control systems employing delayless subband adaptive filters have been shown effective in fMRI acoustic noise reduction [3] [4]. In this method [5], adaptive filtering is done in subbands and the subband weights are stacked together to construct the fullband filter weights. There are two types of stacking methods called FFT and FFT-2. These stacking methods introduce distortion which limit the noise reduction level. In this paper, we model the distortion and analyze the effect of distortion when different adaptive schemes (nLMS, APA, RLS) are used. This analysis helps in selecting the appropriate adaptive scheme and determining the optimum number of subbands.","PeriodicalId":333843,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Dallas Engineering in Medicine and Biology Workshop","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121378273","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":"Interactions of Prostate Cancer Cells to Human Microvascular Endothelial Cells Under Shear Stress Conditions","authors":"Hao Xu, N. Kalu, P. Raghavan, M.H. Kim, K. Nguyen","doi":"10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454190","url":null,"abstract":"The interactions between prostate cancer cells with endothelial cells in the microvessels play an important role in prostate tumor metastasis. However, not many studies have been conducted to investigate the adhesion of prostate cancer cells on vascular endothelium and related mechanisms and modulators. In this study, human microvascular endothelial cells (HMEC) grown on glass slides were exposed to two different circulating prostate cancer cells, PC-3 and PC-3ML (highly metastasis prostate cancer cells) using an in vitro parallel flow system. The gene profiles of HMEC, after exposure to prostate cancer cells, were also investigated using cDNA microarrays. It was found that PC-3ML cells had significantly higher adhesion than PC-3 cells on HMEC monolayer. In addition, PC-3ML cells triggered more gene changes of HMEC than PC-3 cells did. These results suggested that prostate cancer cells might increase their adhesion to vascular endothelial cells by affecting the endothelial cell on the gene expression level.","PeriodicalId":333843,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Dallas Engineering in Medicine and Biology Workshop","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121662726","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. Marshall, C. Cleavelin, W. Xiong, C. Pacha, C. Russ, K. von Arnim, T. Schulz, K. Schruefer, G. Knoblinger, P. Patruno
{"title":"Silicon on Insulator - The Perfect Material for Implantable Electronics?","authors":"A. Marshall, C. Cleavelin, W. Xiong, C. Pacha, C. Russ, K. von Arnim, T. Schulz, K. Schruefer, G. Knoblinger, P. Patruno","doi":"10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454188","url":null,"abstract":"The availability of SOI from silicon foundries is making SOI a viable option for implantable electronics devices. The field has some specific needs that are different to many conventional electronics applications. Low power operation is essential but with intermittent high power requirements and the need for long term reliability. Conversely, circuit operating speed requirements are often extremely low; including monitoring at only a few KHz. Data storage (memory) requirements may also be relatively low. Furthermore, the operating temperature range of implanted devices is low compared to many non-implantable applications. These requirements together are assessed against the unique attributes of silicon on insulator (SOI) as a semiconductor material of choice for this environment, compared to that of conventional 'bulk' silicon.","PeriodicalId":333843,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Dallas Engineering in Medicine and Biology Workshop","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125510013","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. A. Mathew, V. Kache, Chao Liu, Liping Tang, Jian Yang
{"title":"Nano-featured highly interconnective macroporous elastic scaffolds for cardiovascular tissue engineering","authors":"J. A. Mathew, V. Kache, Chao Liu, Liping Tang, Jian Yang","doi":"10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454169","url":null,"abstract":"The lack of suitable scaffolding materials and viable scaffold design is challenging the success of tissue engineering. In the present study, we developed a new scaffolding strategy using a secondary porogen, poly(ethylene glycol) dimethyl ether along with sieved salts based on traditional salt-leaching method. This new scaffolding technology could allow us to fabricate nano- featured highly interconnective macroporous biodegradable elastic scaffolds based on a newly developed crosslinked poly(l,8-octanediol citrate) (POC) for cardiovascular tissue engineering.","PeriodicalId":333843,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Dallas Engineering in Medicine and Biology Workshop","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124567388","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}
E. Guenterberg, Hassan Ghasemzadeh, Roozbeh Jafari, R. Bajcsy
{"title":"A Segmentation Technique Based on Standard Deviation in Body Sensor Networks","authors":"E. Guenterberg, Hassan Ghasemzadeh, Roozbeh Jafari, R. Bajcsy","doi":"10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454174","url":null,"abstract":"Pervasive health monitoring utilizing wearable wireless sensor nodes can greatly enhance the quality of care individuals receive. Such systems, while in terms of signal processing mostly depend on pattern recognition schemes, must operate independently of human interaction for extended periods. The lack of a general-purpose computationally inexpensive algorithm capable of segmenting sensor readings into discrete actions and nonactions has hindered the development of these systems. We examine a segmentation scheme based on standard deviation metric. We provide experimental verification of the method.","PeriodicalId":333843,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Dallas Engineering in Medicine and Biology Workshop","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117065826","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":"Performance Theory Based Formation of Composite Scores: Application to Steadiness/Tremor Measurement","authors":"J. Armstrong, G. Kondraske, R. M. Stewart","doi":"10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454172","url":null,"abstract":"Tremor is a rhythmic, involuntary, oscillatory movement of a body part (e.g., head, hand, etc.) The first objective tremor measurement was performed in 1889 and historically, measurement has been primarily one dimensional. Recent advances in inertial sensing technology have spawned interest in capturing motion information from multiple degrees of freedom (DOF). Our current interest is in the formation of a valid, single number composite score that answers the basic question: \"How steady is the body segment under test?\" Two approaches to steadiness composite score formation are investigated: 1) the traditional method that relies on addition, and 2) a new performance theory-based approach. Conceptual and experimental investigations were performed. The latter involved previously published 4 DOF data from 20 healthy subjects. It is shown that the multiplicative, performance-theory based composite score has better intrinsic validity and is more sensitive.","PeriodicalId":333843,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Dallas Engineering in Medicine and Biology Workshop","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126840051","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. Slavine, T. Soesbe, E. Richer, M. Lewis, P. Antich
{"title":"Construction, calibration and evaluation of a tissue phantom with reproducible optical properties for investigations in light emission tomography","authors":"N. Slavine, T. Soesbe, E. Richer, M. Lewis, P. Antich","doi":"10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSW.2007.4454189","url":null,"abstract":"We describe in details the materials and methods used to construct, calibrate and evaluate tissue phantoms and light sources; we describe the method for acquiring the data and present quantitative results for light intensity reconstruction using the reproducible phantom's optical properties as a priori information. We consider a tissue phantom imaging with optical properties which match those for typical mouse tissues, as a useful part of light diffusion studies in heterogeneous biological media in order to obtain important parameters for any reconstruction technique. Solid tissue phantoms are particularly useful for the study of light-tissue interaction and are still an active area of investigation.","PeriodicalId":333843,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Dallas Engineering in Medicine and Biology Workshop","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127317245","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}