{"title":"Proof of principle of a stokes polarimetry probe for skin lesion evaluation","authors":"Daniel C. Louie, L. Tchvialeva, Tim K. Lee","doi":"10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508619","url":null,"abstract":"This paper covers two proof of principle trials in an ongoing project to develop a fast, portable, and low-cost optical probe that uses Stokes polarimetry to evaluate skin lesions. Polarization is a property of light waves that describes the orientation and shape of their oscillations. The polarization state can be described using Stokes parameters, and several measurements derived from these parameters such as the degree of polarization, the azimuth and ellipticity angles of the polarization ellipse, and the coordinates on a Poincaré sphere. The probe shines low-intensity polarization-controlled laser light at a lesion, and analyzes the backscattered light in order to detect how the light's polarization has been changed due to the light-tissue interaction. Testing with skin phantoms has demonstrated a relationship between phantom roughness and the degree of polarization. Preliminary testing on an in-vivo lesion showed that lesion sites demonstrated a lower degree of polarization as compared to normal skin. These results indicate our progress towards the development of a powerful and practical tool to assist skin lesion evaluation.","PeriodicalId":361773,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE EMBS International Student Conference (ISC)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126249548","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":"Using deep neural networks for natural saccade classification from electroencephalograms","authors":"Alexandre Drouin-Picaro, T. Falk","doi":"10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508606","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a model to classify saccades from frontal (i.e., Fp1/Fp2) electroencephalography (EEG) data into up, down, left and right directions. The aim of the model is to provide brain-computer interfaces with improved cursor control without the need for a separate eye tracking device. To test the accuracy of the model \"in-the-wild,\" an EEG dataset with (uncontrolled) natural saccades was used, where subjects looked freely at images on a screen. EEG data was input to deep neural networks, namely a multi-layer perceptron and a convolutional neural network. As benchmarks, two systems were explored using features measured from the Fp1/2 EEG channels, as well as from the AF7/8, F7/8, FT7/8, and T7/8 channels. Experimental results show the proposed system achieving an accuracy of 72.92%, thus outperforming all benchmarks, which achieved accuracies of 51.80% and 50.72%, respectively.","PeriodicalId":361773,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE EMBS International Student Conference (ISC)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134264721","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 inter-electrode distance on frequency parameters of surface EMG during isometric contraction","authors":"G. Hajian, E. Morin, Ashmita De","doi":"10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508610","url":null,"abstract":"A linear electrode array was used to investigate the relationship between inter-electrode distance (IED) and frequency content of the surface EMG during isometric contraction of the elbow flexor muscles. It is shown that mean and median frequencies decrease as IED is increased from 5mm to 15mm. No effect of joint angle was observed, but it was noted that the spectral parameters differ with muscle.","PeriodicalId":361773,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE EMBS International Student Conference (ISC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131006476","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":"Comparison of inertial sensor data from the wrist and mid-lower back during a 2-minute walk test","authors":"J. Farah, E. Lemaire, N. Baddour","doi":"10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508608","url":null,"abstract":"Triaxial inertial sensor data was measured at the wrist and mid-lower back location during a 2-minute walk test. A Microsoft Band 2 was used to acquire gait data at the wrist and a Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone was placed at the posterior pelvis. Accelerometer and gyroscope signals did not correlate well between the two locations. Important gait parameters at the wrist may lead to a better understanding of human locomotion profile due to periodic trends observed in wrist data. Turn detection accuracy was 86.0±23.1% and 78.3±20.2% for the MSB2 and smartphone, respectively. Turn detection showed that the smartphone y-axis gyroscope had more distinct peaks. Turn peak analysis showed that normalized peak heights were in agreement and MSB2 had a longer turn time.","PeriodicalId":361773,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE EMBS International Student Conference (ISC)","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122955181","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":"Automatic multisegmentation of abdominal organs by level set with weighted global and local forces","authors":"Malinda Vania, Sunhee Kim, Deukhee Lee","doi":"10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508625","url":null,"abstract":"The automatic multisegmentation of computed tomography (CT) data of the upper abdomen poses a challenge with regard to accuracy, automation, and strength. In this paper, we propose automatic organ segmentation to segment the kidney, vena, and liver on the basis of a gray-level analysis. Furthermore, the method has been developed by utilizing the level set with weighted global and local forces to handle the topological data of organs and tissues to improve the accuracy of multi organ segmentation. The proposed methods were tested by performing segmentation of three abdominal organs (liver, kidneys, and inferior vena cava) from several CT datasets, and good segmentation results and visualization of 3D models were obtained.","PeriodicalId":361773,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE EMBS International Student Conference (ISC)","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126382958","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":"The effect of surface electromyography placement on muscle activation amplitudes and timing","authors":"R. López, T. C. Davies","doi":"10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508618","url":null,"abstract":"Muscle activity detected by surface electromyography sensors can be affected by several factors, one of which is the location of sensor placement. The objective of this study is to determine how the location of the sensors affect the amplitudes and timing of muscle activity measured by the sensors during regular walking. A surface electromyography sensor placed on the vastus lateralis according to SENIAM guidelines was considered the “gold standard”. It appeared that sensors placed along the same muscle fibers showed less variability in muscle signal amplitude and timing compared to sensors located medially and laterally.","PeriodicalId":361773,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE EMBS International Student Conference (ISC)","volume":"221 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134217488","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":"Effects of membrane noise on cardiac excitable model pacemaking activity","authors":"Alireza Aghighi, P. Comtois","doi":"10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508596","url":null,"abstract":"Fluctuations of the cardiac pacemaker cell membrane voltage can affect the regularity of the heartbeat. Understanding the effects of stochastic membrane variations on the period of spontaneous activity would help determine the stability and robustness of pacemaker cells. The specific dependency of these effects and the rate of spontaneous activity in presence of a bias parameter were studied in the Luo-Rudy model and a Fitzhugh-Nagumo type model. Important differences between models are found with interesting acceleration or deceleration effects and pauses of activity. These results highlight the need for further evaluation of more realistic ionic model.","PeriodicalId":361773,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE EMBS International Student Conference (ISC)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122405753","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":"Color image processing in Hirschsprung's disease diagnosis","authors":"M. Law, A. Chan, D. El Demellawy","doi":"10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508617","url":null,"abstract":"Hirschsprung's disease is a gut motility disorder, which can affect newborns and children, characterized by absent ganglion cells within the rectum or colorectum. Surgical intervention involves a pull-through operation, connecting ganglionic segments together after excising the aganglionic segment. Subjective examination of seromuscular biopsies and resected segment for ganglion cells by a pathologist is the standard of care for Hirschsprung's patients. This paper explores the feasibility of an objective approach using multistage color image processing to segment the muscularis propria, identify regions of interest within, separate plexuses in the regions of interest, and detect and quantify ganglion cells within individual plexuses. Results observed on one test case showed that this multistage approach was able to segment muscularis propria with results comparable to manual segmentation at 77.3% region-coincidence. Regions of interest were identified with 100% accuracy, all containing at least one plexus, with 0 false negatives. Automatic plexus segmentation had a precision of 88.5% and recall of 90.2%. Automated ganglion detection achieving a precision of 85.7% and recall of 72.0%. Preliminary results are encouraging but performance needs improvement. The main issues encountered is the varying colour contrast within an image and the use of an imperfect feature set for classification.","PeriodicalId":361773,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE EMBS International Student Conference (ISC)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131301394","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":"Degree-wise control of an humanoid manipulator based on biceps brachii muscle activity","authors":"L. He, P. Mathieu","doi":"10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508612","url":null,"abstract":"Human arm performs dextrous movements through the voluntary contraction of muscles. To produce a given body movement, a group of muscles are usually acting in a synergic fashion. It is possible that information about a movement could also be extracted from an individual muscle within a synergic group. Physiologically, the large biceps brachii (BB) muscle is involved in forearm flexion and hand supination and also contributes to raising the arm forward and upward. For the BB, synergy can originate from its different compartments and their contribution identified with a decomposition algorithm applied on signals recorded over its surface. Here, the synergy extracted from 3 signals collected over the BB were used to control one degree of freedom (DoF) of the shoulder, elbow, and wrist joints of a dextrous humanoid arm manipulator. Synergy information could thus be useful for helping an upper-limb amputee person to control a modern myoelectric prosthesis.","PeriodicalId":361773,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE EMBS International Student Conference (ISC)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133007637","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}
S. H. Kim, Hana Lee, Donghyun Hwang, D. Seo, Hansung Kim, Seungkwan Cho
{"title":"Effectiveness of micro-current electrical stimulation for treating rheumatoid arthritis","authors":"S. H. Kim, Hana Lee, Donghyun Hwang, D. Seo, Hansung Kim, Seungkwan Cho","doi":"10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBSISC.2016.7508615","url":null,"abstract":"Induction of micro-current in subject is known to be effective on the treatment of inflammatory disease. Thus, this study evaluated that the micro-current electrical treatment (MET) can reduce rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which is one of inflammatory disease, and tried to find optimized level of current for treatment. 55 male 11-week-old C57BL/6 mice were used and randomly allocated into five groups; normal group (N; n=11), the group of induced RA (C; n=11) and three groups of induced RA with MET (M) using different levels of current by 22 μA, 50 μA, and 400 μA (22M, 50M and 400M; n=11, respectively). MET was carried out for 1 hour each day. Both 3rd metatarsal (3rd MT) and tarsal (T) were scanned by in-vivo micro computed tomography (micro-CT) at 0week and after 3weeks in order to obtain structural parameters including BMD (Bone mineral density), BV (Bone volume) and Obj.N (Mean number of objects per slice). In M groups, all the measured parameters after 3 weeks were significantly higher than those of C group regardless of the current levels. However, there is no significant difference among the different levels of electrical current at 3week. These results indicated that the MET may be effective on the treatment of RA. However, we cannot assure the optimized level of current to treat RA tremendously.","PeriodicalId":361773,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE EMBS International Student Conference (ISC)","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123427004","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}