{"title":"Electric field evaluation around radiation sources used for EMI test with medical devices from mobile terminals","authors":"S. Ishihara, T. Onishi","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107496","url":null,"abstract":"Electric field distributions around a half-wave dipole antenna, broadband antenna, and various mobile terminals are evaluated and compared in the frequency bands of 800 MHz, 1.5 GHz, 1.7 GHz, and 2 GHz to confirm the difference among radiation sources when conducting EMI tests on medical devices. Comparison results show that the electric field strengths around dipole antennas is almost equal to or higher than those of all mobile terminals used in this study for all the considered frequency bands. Consequently, a half-wave dipole antenna can be used for screening test of EMI with medical devices. With respect to mobile terminals, the maximum difference in the electric field strength among all the terminals is approximately 9 and 5 dB for the 800 MHz and 2 GHz bands, respectively. Regarding broadband antenna used in this study, it can be used for screening test of EMI in the frequency bands of 1.5, 1.7, and 2 GHz.","PeriodicalId":6624,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":"31 1","pages":"52-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74966948","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":"Uplink/downlink channels for the dependable medical channel coding through the cellular standards 3G with end to end connection of BAN","authors":"Emtithal Ahmed Talha, R. Kohno","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107533","url":null,"abstract":"In terms of connecting the Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) end to end through the infrastructure existing networks 3rd Generation (3G) our proposal came-out. The paper originates to use the error control coding for more reliability and dependably assurance for such medical data in Medical Network Channel (MNC) system. The establishment of the uplink (UL) / downlink (DL) channels code through the ready existing 3G channel is proposed in this paper. The technique is to use the concatenated error detection and correction code by adding extra channel code in between to work for the medical data only. The new channel is proposed here to use the convolution code by specific technical parameters depending on 3G Standard capabilities and the Bit Error Rate (BER) performance required for transmitting medical data. Our paper comes to prove the results that focusing on using the UL/DL channel for 3G-channel coding. Therefor the paper focused to use the entire UL/DL channel codes in 3G that using convolution code in inside. The adding of BAN connection end to end by using its own standard code has investigated in this paper. The proposed system results has been derived out and analyzed using the computer simulation under different assumed environment channel models such as AWGN, Rayleigh fading and burst noise as well. Resulting to that, the proposal method has improved in term of the error performance BER in whole aspects. The variance between the superior/inferior performances of BER and system complexity has been analyzed in this paper as well.","PeriodicalId":6624,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":"80 1","pages":"223-227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89018343","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":"Biological information detection using ultra wideband signals","authors":"A. Suzuki, T. Ikegami","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107501","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, detection of high-precision respiration rate and heart rate, by using low-band ultra wideband (UWB) signal is studied. In order to detect the high-precision biological information, two methods are proposed to reduce the background noise, using pre-measured ambient response without the human body, and evaluated with experiments.","PeriodicalId":6624,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":"19 1","pages":"73-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73343054","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}
J. Petäjäjärvi, Konstantin Mikhaylov, H. Karvonen, R. Vuohtoniemi, M. Hämäläinen
{"title":"Loose synchronization method for low-power superregenerative wake-up receiver","authors":"J. Petäjäjärvi, Konstantin Mikhaylov, H. Karvonen, R. Vuohtoniemi, M. Hämäläinen","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107530","url":null,"abstract":"The use of wake-up receivers (WURs) in wireless body area networks (WBAN) has remarkable potential to improve energy efficiency. During the recent years, multiple WUR designs and architectures have been therefore proposed for WBANs and wireless sensor networks (WSN). Superregenerative oscillator (SRO) based architecture is inherently sensitive, which makes it an attractive choice for a WUR. It is known that to improve the selectivity and to reduce the energy consumption the quench frequency should be the same or in the order of data rate. Therefore, synchronization is required. To achieve this with low-power consumption, pulse width modulation is used to encode transferred address information. The decoder measures the pulse widths and uses uncertainty interval that enables loose synchronization between the transmitter and the receiver. The decoder is implemented and its power consumption is measured. Decoder operation is verified with simulations using the hardware description language simulator.","PeriodicalId":6624,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":"6 1","pages":"209-212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78531780","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":"System parameter adjustment of FM-DCSK UWB for different medical environments","authors":"Tingting Huang, L. Wang, Weikai Xu","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107520","url":null,"abstract":"It is conventionally considered that the coverage or transmission distance is a limitation factor for the UltraWideband (UWB) technology applications, meanwhile the value that system parameters need or not configurations when UWB system is used is not clear. In this paper, by investigating parameter adjustment of frequency modulated differential chaos shift keying (FM-DCSK) UWB system, it is observed that there is an interesting problem that different system parameter adjustments may satisfied their application demands under different medical transmission environments. Concretely the system with integral time equaling to chip duration is a good choice for ordinary medical environment with different quality of service (QoS) requirements, where there is proper adjustment value of distance parameter with optimal bit error rate (BER) performance for per signal to noise rate (SNR); while the system integral time equaling to half of symbol period is more suitable for emergency medical environment with same QoS requirements, where a quick and robust communication system is needed to provided prompt information support to doctors and nurses. Given the above, it is obvious that the coverage is not a limitation factor when UWB technology is developed.","PeriodicalId":6624,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":"23 1","pages":"162-165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80960707","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}
Yuta Okuyama, Pham Thanh Hiep, K. Yamasue, C. Sugimoto, R. Kohno
{"title":"Elliptical shape estimation by nonlinear least-squares method for breast cancer using UWB radar technology","authors":"Yuta Okuyama, Pham Thanh Hiep, K. Yamasue, C. Sugimoto, R. Kohno","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107514","url":null,"abstract":"Ultra wide band (UWB) microwave imaging has been proposed for detecting small malignant breast cancers and expected to detect breast cancers with safety, less-discomfort and accuracy for high resolution of UWB pulse. However, shape estimation for breast cancers has been remained as a challenge. In this paper, we propose an elliptical shape estimation method by nonlinear least-squares method in order to develop a breast cancer shape estimation using UWB radar technology. We define a regression formula of a nonlinear least-squares method for one cancer considering a two-dimensional (2D) space. We confirm that our method could estimate parameters of an elliptical shape under simple environment using 2D Finite Difference Time Domain(FDTD) calculation. We evaluate the performance of our proposed method under additive white Gaussian noise(AWGN) environment using theoretical signal sets. We could get good results of estimation of 5 elliptical parameters.","PeriodicalId":6624,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":"20 1","pages":"134-138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76201170","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 role of ICT, healthcare investment and eHealth policy in achieving millennium development goals: A cross-country comparison","authors":"Y. S. Irawan, A. P. Koesoema","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107509","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a country level study on the impact of ICT level development, healthcare expenditures and eHealth policy establishment to public health outcomes, specifically Infant and Maternal Mortality rate (IMR & MMR), which is a key part of the Millennium Development Goals. As one of the few large sample studies connecting ICT and public health, we complement empirical results from existing case studies and present interesting insights on how the effect of ICT level development, healthcare expenditures and eHealth policy establishment to these health outcomes are not independent, but contingent to each other.","PeriodicalId":6624,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":"29 1","pages":"112-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82611777","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}
Ibuki Yokota, H. Shimasaki, Tomonori Nakamura, Y. Kado, Masaki Ishida
{"title":"Analysis of signal propagation loss on the human body in intrabody communication","authors":"Ibuki Yokota, H. Shimasaki, Tomonori Nakamura, Y. Kado, Masaki Ishida","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107492","url":null,"abstract":"Near-field coupling communication (NFCC) is a technology that uses the surface of the human body as a transmission path in the MHz band. It is necessary to assess the signal loss on the body to ensure stable NFCC links. The dependence of signal loss on different positions on the body was measured with a transmitter powered by a battery and an electrically isolated probe as a receiver. The electric-field distributions on the body were evaluated with a high frequency structure simulator (HFSS). We found that the signal loss on the human body was affected by the shape of the body. These results enable us to design reliable NFCC links in various applications.","PeriodicalId":6624,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":"72 1","pages":"35-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74635443","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":"Pulse duty factor and transmission power evaluation of direct sequence spread spectrum communication system for body area network","authors":"M. Sakata, T. Ikegami","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107502","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the Bit Error Rate characteristics of Ultra Wide Band signals made by using the low pulse duty factor and spreading code in the body surface channel, body to external channel as well as multiuser multipath channel. Additionally, this paper presents the distance-mean transmitting power performances, yielded from the BER characteristics results in the body surface channel and body to external channel. From the results, it was found that the spreading code increases the time resolution of separating paths in using RAKE receiver and decreases the multiuser interference in multipath channel.","PeriodicalId":6624,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":"13 1","pages":"78-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83289608","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":"Breathing motion artifact cancellation in PPG-based heart rate sensing","authors":"Takunori Shimazaki, S. Hara","doi":"10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107528","url":null,"abstract":"We have developed a photoplethysmography (PPG)-based heart rate (HR) sensor [1], which is equipped with two sensors; one is a normal PPG sensor and the other is a motion artifact sensor. In the PPG-based HR sensor, applying an adaptive filter algorithm for the outputs from the two sensors, it can effectively cancel motion artifact induced by vigorous exercise. Breathing motion is also one of the main sources of artifact in PPG-based HR sensing. In this paper, we evaluate the cancellation performance of breathing motion artifact by the PPG-based HR sensor in experiments using five subjects.","PeriodicalId":6624,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)","volume":"16 1","pages":"200-203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89003572","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}