Fabian Torres-Robles, F. Gallegos-Funes, A. Rosales-Silva
{"title":"Fuzzy feature extraction in image radiographies to detect cardiac insufficiency","authors":"Fabian Torres-Robles, F. Gallegos-Funes, A. Rosales-Silva","doi":"10.1109/CASME.2010.5706687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CASME.2010.5706687","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a fuzzy feature extraction method for medical imaging. We use thorax image radiographies to detect cardiac insufficiency. From simulation results we observe that the proposed fuzzy method improves the feature extraction in comparison with a classical method.","PeriodicalId":337009,"journal":{"name":"2010 2nd Circuits and Systems for Medical and Environmental Applications Workshop (CASME)","volume":"302 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130052267","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}
L. Moreno-Hagelsieb, X. Tang, O. Bulteel, N. Van Overstraeten-Schlogel, N. André, P. Dupuis, J. Raskin, L. Francis, D. Flandre, P. Fonteyne, J. Gala, Y. Nizet
{"title":"Miniaturized and low cost innovative detection systems for medical and environmental applications","authors":"L. Moreno-Hagelsieb, X. Tang, O. Bulteel, N. Van Overstraeten-Schlogel, N. André, P. Dupuis, J. Raskin, L. Francis, D. Flandre, P. Fonteyne, J. Gala, Y. Nizet","doi":"10.1109/CASME.2010.5706682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CASME.2010.5706682","url":null,"abstract":"Innovative, simple, miniaturized, low-cost and low-power consumption devices are required in future medical applications. In our laboratory we have developed different devices in this field. Firstly, oxide aluminum-coated interdigitated (ID) Al capacitors have been successfully tested for DNA hybridization test (down to 30 pM target concentrations), as well as for specific bacteria recognition (S. Aureus, down to 100 CFU on a sensing area of 200×200 µm2) with an appropriate anti-monoclonal antibody (MoAb) and finally for humidity detection with application in a breath rate monitoring system, an important element for preventive medical studies, which is light, non-invasive, comfortable to wear for the patient. Secondly a complete microsystem enabling the measurement of biomolecules concentration in assay tubes has been developed based on ultraviolet (UV) light absorption with miniaturized LEDs and SOI high-efficiency photodiodes. Our technologies combine high-performance CMOS integrated circuits, sensors and MEMS; operation in harsh conditions (micro power, high-temperature, remote RF link, etc.); very low power consumption; and broad applications in biomedical and environmental sectors. This opens the door to many new emerging applications into medical devices.","PeriodicalId":337009,"journal":{"name":"2010 2nd Circuits and Systems for Medical and Environmental Applications Workshop (CASME)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114589365","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 CMOS Analog Front-End interface IC for gas sensors","authors":"Hyuntae Kim, B. Bakkaloglu","doi":"10.1109/CASME.2010.5706689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CASME.2010.5706689","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a gas sensor readout IC for amperometric and conductometric electrochemical sensors. The Analog Front-End (AFE) readout circuit enables tracking long term exposure to hazardous gas fumes in diesel and gasoline equipment, which may be correlated to diseases. The AFE reads out the output of eight conductometric sensor arrays and eight amperometric sensor arrays. The IC consists of a low noise potentiostat, and associated 9bit current-steering DAC for sensor stimulus, followed by the first order nested chopped ΣΔ ADC. The conductometric sensor uses a current driven approach for extracting conductance of the sensor depending on gas concentration. The amperometric sensor uses a potentiostat to apply constant voltage to the sensors and an I/V converter to measure current out of the sensor. The core area for the AFE is 2.65×0.95 mm2. The proposed system achieves 91 dB SNR at 1.32mW quiescent power consumption per channel. With digital offset storage and nested chopping, the readout chain achieves 500 µV input referred offset.","PeriodicalId":337009,"journal":{"name":"2010 2nd Circuits and Systems for Medical and Environmental Applications Workshop (CASME)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121702272","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":"Microsystems for single cell analysis","authors":"A. Han","doi":"10.1109/CASME.2010.5706686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CASME.2010.5706686","url":null,"abstract":"Single cell analysis has become a topic of great interest in recent years. Any population of cells is heterogeneous. Whereas most traditional cell analysis can capture only average responses from a population of cells, single cell analysis allows measuring and analyzing this heterogeneity and enables identifying and studying various sub-populations. Microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip technologies are ideally suited for such analysis due to their unique capabilities in manipulating and analyzing micrometer-scale objects and accurately controlling their microenvironments. Two such examples of microfluidic devices for single cell analysis are presented here.","PeriodicalId":337009,"journal":{"name":"2010 2nd Circuits and Systems for Medical and Environmental Applications Workshop (CASME)","volume":"354 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134440185","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":"Effect of carrier topologies on PSRR and PS-IMD of open-loop Class D amplifiers for hearing aids","authors":"Linfei Guo, T. Ge, J. Chang","doi":"10.1109/CASME.2010.5706685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CASME.2010.5706685","url":null,"abstract":"Open-Loop Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) Class D amplifiers are attractive for power critical applications including hearing aids due to their simple hardware and high power-efficiency. Nevertheless, a drawback of open-loop Class D amplifiers is their susceptibility to supply noise, quantified by power supply rejection ratio (PSRR) and power supply induced intermodulation distortion (PS-IMD). In this paper, PSRR and PS-IMD of a commonly-used carrier generation method are investigated and compared against other common carrier generation methods. The analyses are verified by means of HSPICE simulations. The analyses and comparisons provide designers useful insight to the design of power critical Class D amplifiers.","PeriodicalId":337009,"journal":{"name":"2010 2nd Circuits and Systems for Medical and Environmental Applications Workshop (CASME)","volume":"190 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114540307","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 research platform for Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator (ICD) using a novel Power Harvesting Scheme","authors":"R. Patel, Adimathara Preethy","doi":"10.1109/CASME.2010.5706680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CASME.2010.5706680","url":null,"abstract":"Dependency of human beings on technology is reaching such an extent that almost everything unimaginable until lately is now achievable technologically. Biomedical research and development is constantly exploring the natural phenomenon and is trying to achieve the same through engineering technology. In this research, we are proposing a research platform for Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator (ICD) using a novel Power Harvesting Scheme.","PeriodicalId":337009,"journal":{"name":"2010 2nd Circuits and Systems for Medical and Environmental Applications Workshop (CASME)","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124722005","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}
Adilson J. Cardoso, M. C. Schneider, C. G. Montoro
{"title":"Design of very low voltage CMOS rectifier circuits","authors":"Adilson J. Cardoso, M. C. Schneider, C. G. Montoro","doi":"10.1109/CASME.2010.5706674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CASME.2010.5706674","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a simple analytical model of the basic rectifier circuit for very low voltage operation based on the Shockley (exponential) law of the diode. The main alternatives for the implementation of diodes in CMOS technologies and the calculation of the equivalent diode parameters for low voltage operation are summarized. The model of the half-wave rectifier for very low voltage is verified with measurements on a circuit built with a 1N4148 diode. The main diode implementations using MOS transistors of a 0.13 µm technology operating in weak inversion are analyzed and a very simple design procedure is suggested.","PeriodicalId":337009,"journal":{"name":"2010 2nd Circuits and Systems for Medical and Environmental Applications Workshop (CASME)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123370163","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":"Proactive space — A novel post stroke mobility rehabilitation tool","authors":"M. Linnavuo, Oleg Kovalev, R. Sepponen","doi":"10.1109/CASME.2010.5706671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CASME.2010.5706671","url":null,"abstract":"The stroke is one of the most prevalent health and well being risks world-wide. In stroke patient rehabilitation, retrieving the ability to walk is an important goal. In addition to that, the gait should be sufficient for independent mobility in the community, thus eliminating the risk of more severe immobilization, falls and health deterioration. In this paper the requirements of a comprehensive and flexible mobility rehabilitation system — a proactive space are presented. The focus area of the system is described and motivated. The requirements cover the instrumentation and software. The realized pilot space is described.","PeriodicalId":337009,"journal":{"name":"2010 2nd Circuits and Systems for Medical and Environmental Applications Workshop (CASME)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126479398","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 hybrid modulation scheme for digital Class D amplifier modulators","authors":"V. Adrian, J. Chang","doi":"10.1109/CASME.2010.5706681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CASME.2010.5706681","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we adopt a hybrid modulation scheme for digital modulators of Class D amplifiers of power-critical digital hearing aids. The hybrid modulation scheme comprises the Delta-Sigma modulation (ΔΣM) scheme and the Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) scheme. The ΔΣM of the hybrid modulation scheme quantizes down the input data while the PWM generates 3-state output pulses corresponding to the quantized data. For this hybrid modulation scheme, we propose to quantize down the input to an output with 5 quantization levels. By using this amount of quantization levels, it is possible to obtain higher output linearity than that obtained by using the ΔΣM alone (same 3-state, but only 3 quantization levels). It is also possible to generate the output pulses without using a higher clock frequency than the input sampling frequency - unlike the usual PWM pulse generation that typically requires higher clock frequency. We also propose a simple pulse randomizer to improve the output linearity. We simulate a digital modulator design embodying the hybrid modulation scheme and the pulse randomizer, and compare its performance with that of a similar design employing a 3-state ΔΣM scheme alone. The THD+N of the output from the hybrid scheme modulator is −85 dB and is 10 dB better than that of the ΔΣM modulator.","PeriodicalId":337009,"journal":{"name":"2010 2nd Circuits and Systems for Medical and Environmental Applications Workshop (CASME)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126150123","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}