{"title":"Tissue attenuation estimation based on standard ultrasonographic data","authors":"A. Míšek, J. Jan","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1017351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1017351","url":null,"abstract":"Space-variant ultrasound attenuation in tissue is one of the phenomena that should be taken into account when reconstructing images from ultrasonographic data. This contribution presents a method to estimate automatically one-dimensional attenuation profiles along isolated \"rays\", forming ultrasonic images. The estimates are based entirely on digital ultrasonographic data, without any reference to a-priori knowledge on anatomical structures involved. Using a standard model of ultrasound propagation, the \"layered\" and discretised formulation allowed for simplified, thus manageable, least-squares-error estimation of the attenuation profiles. The results of analysing ultrasonographic data obtained from biological objects, as presented on figures, are rather promising.","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":"126153279","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 novel fuzzy neural network estimator for predicting hypoglycaemia in insulin-induced subjects","authors":"N. Ghevondian, H.T. Nguyen, S. Colagiuri","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1020533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1020533","url":null,"abstract":"Predicting the onset of hypoglycaemia can avoid major health complications in Type I insulin-dependent-diabetes-mellitus (IDDM) patients. This paper describes the design of a novel fuzzy neural network estimator algorithm (FNNE) for predicting the glycaemia profile and onset of hypoglycaemia in insulin-induced subjects, by modelling the changes in heart rate and skin impedance parameters. Hypoglycaemia was induced briefly in 12 volunteers (group A: 6 non-diabetic subjects and group B: 6 Type 1 IDDM patients) using insulin infusion. Their skin impedances, heart rates and actual blood glucose levels (BGL) were monitored at regular intervals. The FNNE algorithm was trained using all subjects from group A and validated/tested on the remaining subjects from group B. The mean error of estimation of BGL profile for the training data set (group A) was 0.107 (p < 0.05) and for the validation/test data set (group B) was 0.139 (p < 0.05). Furthermore, the FNNE algorithm was able to predict the onset of hypoglycaemia episodes in group A and group B with a mean error of 0.071 (p < 0.03) and 0. 176 (p < 0.05) respectively.","PeriodicalId":386546,"journal":{"name":"2001 Conference Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"83 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":"126183766","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 mechanical pumping on the arterial pulse wave velocity: peripheral artery and micro-vessels","authors":"Shu-Mei Wu, Y. Shau, Bor-Shyh Lin, F. Chong","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1018897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1018897","url":null,"abstract":"We studied the effect of mechanical pumping on the response of peripheral arteries by focusing on the pulse wave velocity (PWV) in large arterial conduit and micro-vessels. The pressure waveforms were measured simultaneously at the brachial artery (BA), radial artery (RA) and finger. Impulse pumping was operated by alternatively adding 80 mmHg pressure to the arm of normal subjects (N=10) in 3 seconds and relaxing to 0 mmHg in 7 seconds for a period of 15 minutes. After pumping the segmental arterial PWV from BA to finger decreases due to the action of the change in endothelial relaxing factor. However, we find the decrease in PWV from BA to finger after pumping was contributed from the results of BA-RA, the PWV for the micro-vessels (BA-finger) on the contrary was increased.","PeriodicalId":386546,"journal":{"name":"2001 Conference Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"150 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":"123234808","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":"Image pattern perception by interactive sound presentation","authors":"Y. Nomura, S. Nishihama, M. Ozaki, T. Sugiura","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1019662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1019662","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a result of basic research with an interactive sound presentation system to aim at making human perceive color image patterns as a goal. The system has the following characteristics. (1) Operators can interactively input positions of interest to be heard through pen-tablet interfaces. (2) The system presents local colored patterns by the form of concatenated syllables, i.e., a kind of \"color pattern verbal words\". (3) An effect of learning is studied on correct perceptual rate. (4) The positional assignments of syllables to the color pattern verbal words are examined, considering human perceptual characteristics.","PeriodicalId":386546,"journal":{"name":"2001 Conference Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"23 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":"123272186","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":"Estimation of temperature distribution inside biological tissues by means of multifrequency microwave thermograph","authors":"B. Stec, A. Dobrowolski, W. Susek","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1019693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1019693","url":null,"abstract":"Presents problems connected with thermal radiation of human bodies in the microwave range for aspects of breast carcinoma diagnosis. A mathematical model of thermal radiation transmission through tissues is introduced and methods of measurement of temperature, depth and size of heat source, by means of multifrequency microwave thermography, are described. Theoretical considerations are supplemented by presentation of the results of experiments.","PeriodicalId":386546,"journal":{"name":"2001 Conference Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"7 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":"125260651","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}
D.F.G. de Azevedo, S. Helegda, P.C. Godoy, F. D. de Castro, M. D. de Castro
{"title":"Tomography simulation and reconstruction tools applied in the evaluation of parameters and techniques","authors":"D.F.G. de Azevedo, S. Helegda, P.C. Godoy, F. D. de Castro, M. D. de Castro","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1017224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1017224","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce a tomography platform consisting of a new set of programs written in ANSI C++ to help researchers to develop and to evaluate tomography simulation/reconstruction based on the direct Fourier method. We applied these tools in the evaluation of tomographic techniques. We describe and compare two techniques to overcome the inferior image quality due to the inherent artifacts of the direct Fourier method: the increase of the zero-padding factor and the resampling grid density factor.","PeriodicalId":386546,"journal":{"name":"2001 Conference Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"20 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":"125270316","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 IIOP architecture for Web-enabled physiological models","authors":"Shixin Zhang, C. Dewey","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1019735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1019735","url":null,"abstract":"This paper develops a specific information architecture to serve complex physiological information models and a means of delivering these models in a manner that allows interactive and distributed use. By redesign of existing models for distributed use, the IIOP (Internet Inter-ORB Protocol) architecture provides general access across the Internet; the methods are replicable with many different types of physiological models that produce a variety of results. This paper defines and explains the complete architecture for the user interface, the model encapsulation, and the communication layer between the client and server by developing a general example. Using the equivalent of interactive browsers to access remote models and display the results, the IIOP architecture is built up using platform-independent technology such as CORBA, Java and XML. The existing physiological models are first encapsulated by a suitable software language respect to the legacy models. Then CORBA IDL-XML interfaces are built accordingly as a broker interface connecting user interfaces to encapsulating interfaces. Therefore, the standard user interfaces on the browsers are easily built to access these models through the CORBA ORB and the encapsulating interfaces. This interface software is capable of interpreting and displaying very high-level descriptors and model output such that the amount of data required to be transmitted over the Internet is reduced.","PeriodicalId":386546,"journal":{"name":"2001 Conference Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"33 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":"125340499","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}
B. Messnarz, B. Tilg, R. Modre, G. Fischer, F. Hanser, P. Wach
{"title":"Linear inverse approaches for the reconstruction of epicardial and transmembrane potential patterns","authors":"B. Messnarz, B. Tilg, R. Modre, G. Fischer, F. Hanser, P. Wach","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1018928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1018928","url":null,"abstract":"In this study we compare two different linear inverse approaches to the inverse problem of electrocardiography. Method A is the standard Tikhonov zero order approach used as a reference method.. Method B is based on the general deconvolution theorem proposed by Greensite. Both methods are applied to both the epicardial potential and the transmembrane potential considered as the primary source. In order to compare the performance of both methods the activation time pattern is estimated.","PeriodicalId":386546,"journal":{"name":"2001 Conference Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"42 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":"125382994","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":"Working on the Noltisalis database: measurement of nonlinear properties in heart rate variability signals","authors":"M. Signorini, R. Sassi, S. Cerutti","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1018991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1018991","url":null,"abstract":"We present results obtained from the analysis of 50 heart rate variability series (HRV) which have been extracted from Holter recordings in the 24-hours in normal subjects and pathological patients. Data have been collected inside a multicentric research program, which aimed at the nonlinear analysis of HRV series. Multifractal approaches such as generalized structure functions have been used to characterize the HRV signal. Moreover, classical parameters for the analysis of the HRV signal over long time scales have been considered to perform a proper comparison. We considered classical time-domain indexes, \"monofractal\" characteristics (1/f/sup /spl alpha// spectrum; detrended fluctuation analysis) and a regularity statistic (approximate entropy). The hypothesis of nonlinearity for the HRV signal has been verified by computing the generalized structure function on a set of surrogate data (amplitude adjusted surrogate data). In most cases, the multifractal spectrum of the original HRV series significantly differs (t-test), from those obtained from surrogate signals. This result can be associated with the presence of nonlinear correlations in the HRV signal. Moreover, results show that nonlinear parameters can be used to separate normal subjects from patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases.","PeriodicalId":386546,"journal":{"name":"2001 Conference Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"41 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":"125526919","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":"Quantitative assessment of respiratory derivation algorithms","authors":"C. L. Mason, L. Tarassenko","doi":"10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1020622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1020622","url":null,"abstract":"A method for quantitatively assessing respiration derivation algorithms is presented. Algorithms for deriving respiration from the electrocardiogram using respiration-induced amplitude modulation of the QRS complex are investigated. The algorithms are tested on the MIT-BIH Polysomnography Database and evaluated and compared using the proposed assessment method.","PeriodicalId":386546,"journal":{"name":"2001 Conference Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society","volume":"26 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":"126907846","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}