A. Martínez, J. Millet, J. Chorro, A. Cebrián, M. Arredondo, I. Garcia
{"title":"Medmap: a powerful multichannel ELG recordings analyzer","authors":"A. Martínez, J. Millet, J. Chorro, A. Cebrián, M. Arredondo, I. Garcia","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1017211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1017211","url":null,"abstract":"The study and analysis of multiple recording electrograms (ELG) in experimental models requires dedicated software for their processing. This software must be quick and efficient in manipulating the enormous amounts of recorded data. Furthermore, the software has to be easily extensible in order to introduce new work methods and analysis algorithms adapted to the needs of each research group. This has led us to develop a modular software package in which introduction of new functionalities will not require the development of a new program, resulting in considerable time savings. For development we chose MATLAB, an interactive program with high computing capabilities and powerful tools for graphic visualization. Being a standard platform, developed code can be easily modified and the functionality of any module can be optimised and/or altered at any time, allowing implementation of the latest scientific advances. This software has been conceived for many applications, although in this paper we focus our experience on the study of fibrillatory processes in experimental models where up to 256 electrograms have been recorded using a cardiac electrical system.","PeriodicalId":386546,"journal":{"name":"2001 Conference Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126370901","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. Sheridan, C. Heneghan, M. O'Malley, P. Nolan, W. McNicholas, J. Cullen, P. Nolan
{"title":"Characterization of autonomic nervous influences on PR and RR intervals in the electrocardiogram","authors":"E. Sheridan, C. Heneghan, M. O'Malley, P. Nolan, W. McNicholas, J. Cullen, P. Nolan","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1018989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1018989","url":null,"abstract":"RR and PR intervals were extracted from single channel electrocardiograms in normal human subjects using a wavelet based technique. RR and PR intervals were shown to be correlated with respiration due to common autonomic nervous activation of the sino-atrial and atrio-ventricular nodes. However, evidence for independent autonomic nervous activation of these nodes is also shown based on RR and PR interval spectra, and on RR vs. PR plots.","PeriodicalId":386546,"journal":{"name":"2001 Conference Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126433363","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}
Y. Hirao, T. Kuroda, D. Zhang, Y. Kinouchi, H. Yamaguchi, K. Yoshizaki
{"title":"Synchronized measurements of maximum blood flow velocities in carotid, brachial and femoral arteries, and ECG in human posture changes","authors":"Y. Hirao, T. Kuroda, D. Zhang, Y. Kinouchi, H. Yamaguchi, K. Yoshizaki","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1018870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1018870","url":null,"abstract":"In this research, a system has been developed to measure the maximum blood flow velocity simultaneously by an ultrasonic Doppler technique in three arteries during posture changes. As a peculiarity of this system, two semicircular transducers of 15.0 mm in diameter were used as a transmitter to irradiate a wide ultrasonic beam and a receiver. Because, the position relation between an artery and transducers change rapidly during exercise. This system could be applied to a human body changing from a sitting position to an erect position with voluntary muscle constriction. As a result of measurements, the maximum blood flow velocity in femoral artery has been increased significantly in posture changes like the above.","PeriodicalId":386546,"journal":{"name":"2001 Conference Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126488964","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. Tanaka, M. Yoshizawa, T. Yamada, K. Abe, H. Takeda, T. Yambe, S. Nitta
{"title":"In vivo evaluation of pressure head and flow rate estimation in a continuous-flow artificial heart","authors":"A. Tanaka, M. Yoshizawa, T. Yamada, K. Abe, H. Takeda, T. Yambe, S. Nitta","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1017446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1017446","url":null,"abstract":"To avoid using sensors with low biocompatibility and low durability in implantable TAH systems, the authors previously proposed a new method for estimating instantaneous values of flow rate and pressure head on the basis of voltage, current and rotational speed in a motor driven centrifugal pump. The previous in vitro experiments showed that the proposed estimator could automatically compensate for the effect of the change in blood viscosity on the estimation accuracy by employing two kinds of auto-regressive exogenous model. In this study, validity and reliability of this estimation method were ascertained in an acute animal experiment. In the experiment, two centrifugal blood pumps were implanted into an adult goat as a total artificial heart. Results of estimation were compared with true values when blood viscosity was changed by injecting physiological saline. The results indicated that the system could successfully estimate pressure head by compensating the change of viscosity although the estimation accuracy of the in vivo estimation was not so high as that of the previous in vitro tests.","PeriodicalId":386546,"journal":{"name":"2001 Conference Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128082035","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. Umetani, T. Yamashita, N. Maehara, S. Imai, Y. Kajihara
{"title":"Small-field angiographic imaging of tumor blood vessels using synchrotron radiation","authors":"K. Umetani, T. Yamashita, N. Maehara, S. Imai, Y. Kajihara","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1017254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1017254","url":null,"abstract":"Microangiography with about 10 /spl mu/m resolution has been carried out for depicting angiogenic vessels in a rabbit model of cancer using a high-resolution detector and a third generation synchrotron radiation source at SPring-8. In synchrotron radiation radiography, a long source-to-object distance and a small source spot can produce high-resolution images. VX2 carcinoma had been transplanted in a rabbit auricle. By using this imaging system, small tumor blood vessels with diameters of 20-30 /spl mu/m in an immature vascular network produced by angiogenesis were visualized after contrast material injection to the auricular artery.","PeriodicalId":386546,"journal":{"name":"2001 Conference Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125595906","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":"An experimental and model based investigation of the potential and limitations of surface EMG spectral analysis for assessment of motor unit recruitment strategy","authors":"D. Farina, R. Merletti","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1020410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1020410","url":null,"abstract":"Characteristic frequencies of the surface EMG power spectrum have been used in the past as indicative of motor unit (MU) recruitment, since they are rather insensitive to changes of MU firing rates and thus they should remain constant when only rate coding is used to modulate muscle force. However, this speculation has not been yet validated by simulated and experimental data. In this paper, a model of surface EMG signal generation and detection is used to simulate EMG signals detected during linearly increasing force contractions. Different MU control strategies (corresponding to different ways for force generation by recruitment and rate coding) are simulated. A number of simulations are performed to study the effect of a random distribution of MUs in the muscle's cross-section upon the surface EMG. The results are compared with those obtained analyzing the EMG signals detected experimentally during linearly increasing force contractions of the biceps brachii muscle in 10 subjects. Results show that the volume conductor properties may act as confounding factors which may mask any relationship between characteristic spectral frequencies and conduction velocity as a size principle parameter. It is concluded that more advanced signal processing techniques which aim at the analysis of single MU activity are required for the surface EMG based assessment of the central nervous system control strategy.","PeriodicalId":386546,"journal":{"name":"2001 Conference Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"18 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125619242","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":"XMedIA communication system: an XML driven medical image processing and archiving environment","authors":"G. C. Sakellaris, D. Fotiadis","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1019621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1019621","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the contribution of XML and related technologies, to the integration of a distributed healthcare system that inherits characteristics from the extended framework of eXtended Markup Language, XML, the distributed Simple Object Access Protocol, SOAP and Distributed Component Object Model, DCOM, architecture. The solution that this system suggests is a two-module architecture that involves the familiar, secure and effective environment of a distributed architecture using DCOM and the flexible, lightweight and ideal for distributed applications protocol named SOAP. The XMedIA system meets the requirements for secure search, transaction, and presentation of medical information to the end users, whether patient or healthcare professional. Key features of the work include personalized access and efficient management of distributed medical knowledge, intercommunication of heterogeneous systems and presentation of information in a concise way, across different platforms.","PeriodicalId":386546,"journal":{"name":"2001 Conference Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121595639","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":"Implementation of spectral maxima sound processing for cochlear implants by using Bark scale frequency band partition","authors":"Han Xianhua, Nie Kaibao","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1020648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1020648","url":null,"abstract":"A new method based on Bark scale frequency-band partition is presented to improve the recognition performance of cochlear implants. Using the principles of physics, it is based on the human cochlea filtering properties. Also the mechanism of a cochlear implant and its spectral maxima sound processing (SMSP) strategy are presented. The time-frequency analyzing property of the human cochlea is considered. The theoretical determination of the Bark scale frequency-band is also given with a formula. Simulation results using Bark scale transform signal processing are discussed in detail and the results show that the new method is feasible in speech processors for cochlear implants.","PeriodicalId":386546,"journal":{"name":"2001 Conference Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115925725","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":"MR-guided vascular interventions","authors":"E. Atalar","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1019737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1019737","url":null,"abstract":"Summary form only given. In modern interventional procedures imaging plays a crucial role. This is especially true for vascular interventional procedures. With accurate determination of lesion position and size in the blood vessels as well as determination of related organ function, vascular interventions can be conducted quickly and accurately. X-ray fluoroscopy is the current standard for many procedures. Although the X-ray fluoroscopy technique is accurate for determining the position of interventional devices, the silhouette appearance of the organs and the invisibility of plaques limit many interventional. procedures. New magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques that combine interventional abilities with versatile imaging capabilities have been developed. Currently, because of these new techniques, selective catheterizations of the coronary arteries can be achieved rapidly. Interventional MRI offers the best alternative to X-ray fluoroscopy for vascular interventions with no risk of ionizing radiation for the patient and new imaging possibilities for the controlled delivery of future treatments.","PeriodicalId":386546,"journal":{"name":"2001 Conference Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115789386","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":"Integration of distributed healthcare information systems: application of CEN/TC251 ENV13606","authors":"J. Maldonado, M. Robles, C. Cano","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1019648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1019648","url":null,"abstract":"Everyday, more and more, the healthcare sector requires the exchange of healthcare information between professionals from different disciplines and institutions. To support co-operative work among health professionals and institutions it is necessary to share healthcare information about patients in a meaningful way. But, nowadays, in most hospitals the heath data is distributed across several heterogeneous and autonomous information systems whose interconnection is difficult to achieve. Integration of such system may bring about many advantages such as consistent patient health records or interdepartmental workflows. In this paper, an overview of a computing system prototype, currently under development using CORBA and Java, is presented. It allows healthcare professionals to access patient information stored in heterogeneous autonomous information systems through a set of formal aggregates of health data based on the healthcare record architecture ENV13606 from CEN/TC251.","PeriodicalId":386546,"journal":{"name":"2001 Conference Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131937942","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}