Y. Masui, A. Toya, M. Sugawara, Tomoaki Maeda, M. Ono, Y. Murasaka, A. Iwata, T. Kikkawa
{"title":"Differential equivalent time sampling receiver for breast cancer detection","authors":"Y. Masui, A. Toya, M. Sugawara, Tomoaki Maeda, M. Ono, Y. Murasaka, A. Iwata, T. Kikkawa","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325058","url":null,"abstract":"A radar-based breast cancer detection system by use of impulse-radio ultrawideband (IR-UWB) integrated circuits was developed. This paper presents a 3–10GHz UWB differential equivalent time sampling receiver for breast cancer detection, which is assembled on a printed-circuit-board by wire bonding. A sampling clock generator including phase interpolator (PI) and multiplexer (MUX) reduced a jitter noise to 0.9 ps which was integrated from 1 kHz to 10 MHz. Equivalent time sampling of 102 GSps was obtained.","PeriodicalId":361477,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128038135","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}
Jiwoong Park, Chul Kim, Abraham Akinin, S. Ha, G. Cauwenberghs, P. Mercier
{"title":"Wireless powering of mm-scale fully-on-chip neural interfaces","authors":"Jiwoong Park, Chul Kim, Abraham Akinin, S. Ha, G. Cauwenberghs, P. Mercier","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325186","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents guidelines for the design and optimization of on-chip coils used for wirelessly-powered mm-scale neural implants. Since available real estate is limited, on-chip coil design involves managing difficult trade-offs between the number of turns, trace width and spacing, proximity to other active circuits and metalization, quality factor, matching network performance/size, and load impedance conditions, all towards achieving high power transfer efficiency. To illustrate the design optimization procedure, a 3 × 3 mm2 on-chip coil is designed, and measurement results reveal a 3.82 % power transfer efficiency for a 1.6 kΩ load that mimics a 100 μW neural interface.","PeriodicalId":361477,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128584708","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":"Inpainting makes every sample count","authors":"Sebastian Schmale, S. Paul","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325147","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we introduce an inpainting design methodology based on masked data acquisition which allows a beneficial shifting of computational load between the data acquisition system and data processing to enhance existing approaches or to find solutions to resource constrained systems. The proposed methodology is a powerful tool to systems, which are limited to, e.g., area or/and energy consumption, but have to handle high data volumes or require long sensing times. Standard methods like JPEG or compressed sensing provide solutions accompanied by a high computational load corresponding to an area and energy consuming large ciruit complexity or insufficient recovered data quality. However, the results in this work based on the proposed inpainting-related guidelines, e.g., for biomedical signal processing or satellite applications outperform State-of-the-Art techniques and prior works without additional computational load.","PeriodicalId":361477,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127674088","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}
Kartik Samtani, Jobin Thomas, S. Deepu, D. S. Sumam
{"title":"Area and power optimised ASIC implementation of adaptive beamformer for hearing aids","authors":"Kartik Samtani, Jobin Thomas, S. Deepu, D. S. Sumam","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325119","url":null,"abstract":"Beamforming is a technique used in hearing aids to improve the intelligibility of target sound by reducing the interference from other directions. An efficient ASIC implementation of a two omnidirectional microphone array based adaptive beamforming algorithm is presented in this paper with various optimisations proposed at different stages of the hardware design. The beamform patterns and improvements in SNR values obtained from experiments conducted in a conference room environment were analysed to verify the working of the design. The architecture was implemented with 0.18 μm standard cell libraries. Cell area and power reports were analysed for different optimisations. The final area and power obtained are 0.054 mm2 and 60.54 μW respectively.","PeriodicalId":361477,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125639640","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}
Fengchao Zhang, Naren Vikram Raj Masna, S. Bhunia, Cheng Chen, S. Mandal
{"title":"Authentication and traceability of food products through the supply chain using NQR spectroscopy","authors":"Fengchao Zhang, Naren Vikram Raj Masna, S. Bhunia, Cheng Chen, S. Mandal","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325173","url":null,"abstract":"Maintaining the security and integrity of our food supply chain has emerged as a critical need. In this paper, we describe a novel authentication approach that can significantly improve the security of the food supply chain. It relies on applying nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) spectroscopy to authenticate the contents of packaged food products. NQR is a non-invasive, non-destructive, and quantitative radio frequency (RF) spectroscopic technique. It is sensitive to subtle features of the solid-state chemical environment such that signal properties are influenced by the manufacturing process, thus generating a manufacturer-specific watermark or intrinsic tag for the product. Such tags enable us to uniquely characterize and authenticate products of identical composition but from different manufacturers based on their NQR signal parameters. These intrinsic tags can be used to verify the integrity of a product and trace it through the supply chain. We apply a support vector machine (SVM)-based classification approach that trains the SVM with measured NQR parameters and then authenticates food products by checking their test responses. Measurement on an example substance using semi-custom hardware shows promising results (95% classification accuracy) which can be further improved with improved instrumentation.","PeriodicalId":361477,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116149306","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}
Michela Di Girolamo, Nicolò Celadon, S. Appendino, A. Turolla, P. Ariano
{"title":"EMG-based biofeedback system for motor rehabilitation: A pilot study","authors":"Michela Di Girolamo, Nicolò Celadon, S. Appendino, A. Turolla, P. Ariano","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325086","url":null,"abstract":"The study aim was to test, in a clinical context, a compact surface electromyography (sEMG) sensor and a sEMG biofeedback protocol driven by a specifically designed graphic user interface (GUI). The system was tested on 5 healthy subjects and 3 post-stroke patients. The complete system evaluation was conducted considering the device setup time, the calibration procedure duration and the capability of the patients to understand and complete the proposed exercises. Furthermore, a set of two different therapy outcomes was calculated in order to quantify the capability to modulate the muscle contraction from patients and healthy subjects. The pilot results revealed both the suitability of the system in a clinical environment and the effective extraction of quantitative outcomes during the therapy, showing differences between patients and healthy subjects.","PeriodicalId":361477,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125279651","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":"Guide image based enhancement method for wireless capsule endoscopy","authors":"Mingzhu Long, Zhuo Li, Yuchi Zhang, Xiang Xie, Guolin Li, Shigang Yue, Zhihua Wang","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325109","url":null,"abstract":"Good image quality of the wireless capsule endoscopy is key for doctors to diagnose gastrointestinal (GI) tract diseases. However, the limited illumination and complex environment in the GI tract usually result in low quality endoscopic images. Existing image enhancement methods only use the information of the image itself or multiple images of the same scene to accomplish the enhancement. In this paper, we propose a brand-new image enhancement method called guide image based enhancement (GIE). GIE enhances low quality images by using the information of a good quality image of the similar scene. Firstly, the low quality image is preprocessed by the proposed logarithm based contrast limited pointwise histogram equalization (LCLPHE) algorithm. After that it is corrected by a selected good quality image. Experimental results show that GIE improves the average intensity of endoscopic images by 24.67%, the entropy by 16.37% and the average local entropy (MLE) by 56.68%, which outperforms the state-of-art methods.","PeriodicalId":361477,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126413344","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":"Live demonstration: Tactile events from off-the-shelf sensors in a robotic skin","authors":"C. Bartolozzi, P. Ros, F. Diotalevi, M. Crepaldi","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325104","url":null,"abstract":"The demonstration presents a robotic event-based tactile infrastructure for a humanoid robot. It leverages on currently deployed sample-based capacitive sensors to generate tactile events, enabling the investigation and development of event-driven tactile applications, and minimizing communication bandwidth and latency. The modular FPGA-based system samples data from tactile sensors and generates address-events, transmitted through an asynchronous serial address-event representation protocol. To enable performance comparisons of the event-driven approach with respect to standard sample-based solutions, the acquisition modules can directly forward the input samples through the same event-based communication channel. We will show in real time a comparison between the tactile events and the original sampled data generated when the skin patch is touched.","PeriodicalId":361477,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124372179","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":"Bio-impedance spectroscopy (BIS) measurement system for wearable devices","authors":"Bassem Ibrahim, D. Hall, R. Jafari","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325138","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a bio-impedance spectroscopy device for capturing various physiological signals for wearable applications. The system consists of an analog front-end, ADC, and digital signal processing to accurately measure small bio-impedance in the range of 1–120 Ω from the upper arm with an RMSE of 0.07 Ω. The bio-impedance is measured for a wide frequency range, 4 kHz to 120 kHz, in only 150 ms to allow continuous monitoring of rapid physiological activity.","PeriodicalId":361477,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127979585","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}
Philipp Schönle, Qing Wang, N. Brun, Jonathan Bosser, P. Meier, Qiuting Huang
{"title":"Towards an implantable telemetry system for SpO2 and PWV measurement in small animals","authors":"Philipp Schönle, Qing Wang, N. Brun, Jonathan Bosser, P. Meier, Qiuting Huang","doi":"10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOCAS.2017.8325211","url":null,"abstract":"We report preliminary work on an implantable telemetry device for photo-plethysmography based vital signs monitoring with a recently reported multi-sensor and parallel processing system-on-chip. The envisioned system would enable monitoring of arterial oxygenation, heart rate, blood pressure and respiration rate with a single optical probe implanted on an artery — a less invasive method than the current state-of-the-art.","PeriodicalId":361477,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130731770","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}