{"title":"Near-field analysis of waveguide and loop antennas for RFID inventory systems using FDTD simulation","authors":"T. Kudou, E. Hanada","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521707","url":null,"abstract":"We present two examples of antenna near-field analysis for RFID inventory systems. One is the radiation characteristic of a waveguide antenna and the other is the magnetic field distribution around a loop antenna. Computer simulations are based on FDTD method. We discuss the usefulness of the numerical results for constructing appropriate electromagnetic environment in hospitals.","PeriodicalId":387991,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123980495","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}
Kai Lee, Hsueh-Chun Lin, Yao-Chiang Kan, Shu-Yin Chiang
{"title":"A pilot study of activity recognition on rehabilitation exercise of frozen shoulder using wireless inertial sensor node","authors":"Kai Lee, Hsueh-Chun Lin, Yao-Chiang Kan, Shu-Yin Chiang","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521712","url":null,"abstract":"This study establishes wireless sensor network (WSN) inertial sensor nodes (ISN) that comprise micro control unit, ZigBee-compatible radio frequency chip, tri-axial accelerometer, biaxial gyroscope, single-axial gyroscope, and a planar inverted-F type antenna on a four-layer printable circuit board with size of 40mm × 37mm × 2mm. Two wireless ISNs are attached on arm and wrist for measuring rehabilitation exercise of frozen shoulder. The measured data are sent wirelessly to a base node where a Matlab-based program is developed for retrieving packet, parsing packets, and recognizing motion data based on the artificial neural network (ANN) algorithm. Six rehabilitation exercises for frozen shoulder are measured by wearing two nodes on the wrist and the arm. Accelerations in three axes and the derived angle form a 4-tuple vector as the motor feature of employed recognition algorithm. As results, five of six exercises are successfully recognized with 85-90 % of accuracy rates but the complex one (i.e. the spiral rotation exercise) reached only around 60 %. The pilot study approves good feasibility of self-developed WSN ISNs to recognize rehabilitation exercises as well as contribute advanced applications for mobile or ubiquitous health care in the future.","PeriodicalId":387991,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121249362","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 impulse Radio UWB for medical monitoring sensor networks: a performance evaluation","authors":"M. Zahner, Oliver Lauer, D. Barras, J. Fröhlich","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521692","url":null,"abstract":"A compact testbed for real-time UWB performance evaluation in terms of un-coded bit-error rate is presented. Both the transmitter and the receiver are realized in form of a small PCB. This testbed represents a very versatile tool for the evaluation of IR-UWB as physical layer for various wireless technologies. It operates in the frequency range from 3.1-5.0 GHz with a maximum data rate of 10 MBit/s. Several measurements involving the influence of the human body are performed in a laboratory room in order to get a realistic picture of the performance and reliability that can be expected using IR-UWB for body area networks. In this paper the focus is set on medical monitoring applications. A body area sensor network was emulated and showed good connectivity for all tested scenarios. At a data rate of 10 Mbit/s the measured bit-error rate was better than 10-5 for every node operating in the network.","PeriodicalId":387991,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126887316","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}
R. R. Cruz, T. Roque, J. D. Rosas, Charles Vincent M. Vera Cruz, M. Cordel, J. Ilao, A. P. Rabe, J. P. Petronilo
{"title":"SMO-based System for identifying common lung conditions using histogram","authors":"R. R. Cruz, T. Roque, J. D. Rosas, Charles Vincent M. Vera Cruz, M. Cordel, J. Ilao, A. P. Rabe, J. P. Petronilo","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521711","url":null,"abstract":"A radiograph is a visualization aid that physicians use in identifying lung abnormalities. Although digitized X-ray images are available, diagnosis by a medical expert through pattern recognition is done manually. Thus, this paper presents a system that utilizes machine learning for pattern recognition and classification of three lung conditions, namely Normal, Pleural Effusion and Pneumothorax cases. Using two histogram equalization techniques, the designed system achieves an accuracy rate of 76.19% and 78.10% by using Sequential Minimal Optimization (SMO).","PeriodicalId":387991,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134569203","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":"On IEEE 802.15.6 UWB symbol length for energy detector receivers' performance with OOK and PPM","authors":"Ville Niemelä, M. Hämäläinen, J. Iinatti","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521694","url":null,"abstract":"The IEEE 802.15.6 standard for short range communications in or around human body was published in February 2012. The wireless body area network (WBAN) standard characterizes both medium access control and physical layer (PHY) specifications. The medium access is disregarded here and the focus is on PHY definitions. There are three different PHY options defined in the standard. The interest in this article is in impulse radio ultra wideband (UWB) definitions. In it, the on-off keying (OOK) modulation is stated to be the one used with the mandatory mode. The simulation model has been implemented according to the standard's UWB PHY definitions. The target in this study is to define (close to) an optimal integration interval for an energy detector receiver and an energy threshold required for the OOK detection. For the energy detector receivers, the optimal integration interval is channel dependent and playing an important role in the detection performance. As the data rate increases, the symbol duration is shortened in impulse radio UWB. Depending on the channel conditions, short symbols can be vulnerable for inter-symbol-interference. The used channel models in the simulations are the IEEE 802.15.6 channel model 3 (C M 3) and another one, measured in a real hospital environment at the Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland. The study is continuing our earlier work related to the previously published impulse radio UWB standard, the IEEE 802.15.4-2011, earlier known as the IEEE 802.15.4a.","PeriodicalId":387991,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115473911","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":"Development of vital-sign telemetry system for long-term ambulatory monitoring of autonomic nerve activity","authors":"K. Shimizu","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521724","url":null,"abstract":"For the senior citizens living alone and the patients in home-care, a vital-sign telemonitoring technique has been proposed. A telemetry system for long-term ambulatory monitoring of pulse wave was developed. It is based on the two-step biotelemetry. In the first step telemetry, the pulse wave is measured with a ring-type sensor and is transmitted to the mobile phone terminal carried by the subject. In the second step telemetry, the data are transmitted from the cell phone to a personal computer. As the communication channel for the second step, a wireless LAN system is used in the home and a cell phone network is used outside the home. In this way, indoor-outdoor common telemetry was realized. With the developed system, we could measure the autonomic nerve activity in real-time without much hindrance in a common activity in a daily life. In the experiment, the sensitivity of the developed system to detect the change in the autonomic nervous system was verified.","PeriodicalId":387991,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128162972","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}
Jari Tervonen, M. Asghar, Goshiro Yamamoto, P. Pulli
{"title":"A navigation aid for people suffering from dementia using a body worm laser device","authors":"Jari Tervonen, M. Asghar, Goshiro Yamamoto, P. Pulli","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521725","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents a body worn laser device as an appropriate navigation aid for the people suffering from dementia. The wearable mobile system which consists of a camera and a laser pointer is a chest worn device equipped with laser projection-based arrows to guide the people suffering from dementia in indoor/outdoor mobility. This device is able to provide navigation aid to the people suffering from dementia in complex and unknown areas; it also helps the user to identify the real objects. A remote caregiver can easily get the scene where the demented person seeing and can guide the directions with laser projected arrows and directly pointing at the real objects with a laser pointer. In this paper we will explain the usability of chest-worn system in indoor/outdoor environments. The results of an indoor field test conducted with real end users are presented. Results reveal the validity and effectiveness of the chest-worn system in the complex and unknown areas.","PeriodicalId":387991,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131333042","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":"Application of near-field intra-body communication and spread spectrum technique to vital-sign monitor evaluation of error rate in ambulatory status","authors":"Takumi Kobayashi, Y. Shimatani, M. Kyoso","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521688","url":null,"abstract":"As a novel vital sign monitor, we have developed wireless ECG monitoring system with Near-field intra-body communication (NF-IBC) technique. However, it was hard to ensure communication reliability because transmission channel is noisy and unstable. In order to improve the problem, we utilize spread spectrum (SS), which is known as robust communication technique even through poor transmission channel. In previous study, we have already developed an ECG monitor using NF-IBC enhanced by SS. In this paper, we evaluated bit error rate (BER) of the system devices in ambulatory status of the user such like walking. The test result shows that communication reliability depends on walking speed. However, it was found that reliability was high enough for practical use. These results indicated that the wireless monitor based on SS NF-IBC was applicable to unrestrained vital-sign monitor.","PeriodicalId":387991,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128255146","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":"Evaluation of IEEE 802.15.6 MAC user priorities with UWB PHY for medical applications","authors":"Leake Zegeye Kahsay, Tuomas Paso, J. Iinatti","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521691","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless body area network (WBAN) is envisioned to became self-evident in future healthcare environments. One candidate to fulfill the reliably and efficiency requirements set by sending vital biomedical information is the novel IEEE 802.15.6 WBAN standard. In this paper, we study the effect of user priority scheme defined for different types of data in the IEEE 802.15.6 standard for medium access control (MAC) layer utilizing Slotted ALOHA channel access. A comparative performance analysis between the original IEEE 802.15.6-based communication system utilizing user priority scheme and a system utilizing a traditional random backoff scheme is presented in wireless hospital environment. Based on the results it can be stated that the performance of the IEEE 802.15.6 user priority scheme is approximately the same than the random backoff scheme in scenarios containing only high-priority medical data. However, in scenarios having both medical and low-priority nonmedical data transmissions the user priority scheme offers superior performance in terms of throughput and packet delivery ratio for medical applications.","PeriodicalId":387991,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133074997","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":"Effective use of RFID in medicine","authors":"E. Hanada, T. Kudou","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521703","url":null,"abstract":"RFID have been used for decades, and several standards and a variety of systems for RFID tags have been developed. RFID systems have long been utilized in industry, but their use in hospitals is not yet widespread. RFID tag systems with specific applications to hospital needs have the potential for great benefit, both clinically and economically. Here, we show some typical uses of RFID in hospitals. Possible medical uses of RFID tags and tag systems are presented.","PeriodicalId":387991,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133008404","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}