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IEEE/EMBS would like to thank all the participants who contributed to the competition. The winner will be announced during the closing ceremony on 18 January 2013. The list of finalists follows: Bikas K Arya, Dennis Robert, Sangeeta Das Bhattacharya, Jayanta Mukhopadhyay for "A Framework for Web based Geographical Information System for countrywide Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring;" Abhishek...
It is a great pleasure and honor to welcome you to the First IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conference on Point-Of-Care (POCT) Healthcare Technologies that will focus on innovation, research, technology development and best practices in deployment of health monitoring technologies in developing and developed economies for better global healthcare. The conference will feature research presentations and technology...
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Deteriorating water quality is a serious concern in many developing countries, with severe health consequences especially for children. However, current methods for monitoring waterborne pathogens are often time-consuming, expensive, and labor intensive, which makes them challenging to be implemented in these regions. Toward a solution to this problem, we have demonstrated an electrochemical sensor...
The main purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the capability to optimize the design of a previously developed prototype of instrumented knee implant. The proposed implant may postoperatively provide the clinician with significant information about the coronal and sagittal instabilities during normal walking without the need to be powered from an external source of electrical energy. The possibility...
We present an LED light source for use with standard clinical endoscopes to enable visualization of tissues labeled with quantum dots (QDs). QD-assisted endoscopy may improve the outcome of surgical endoscopic procedures by identifying specific tissue types. QDs offer several advantages over current fluorescent stains due to their high target selectivity, long-lasting fluorescence, large excitation...
We have developed a system for analysing hand tremors using a deformable object manipulation in a haptic environment. The subject performs some specific manipulative tasks, like moving a soft object from one location to another, in a virtual 3D environment using a haptic device. While the task is being performed, the velocity of hand movement is sampled by the haptic device and this is later processed...
The miniaturization of ultrasound technology provides an opportunity to utilize imaging in new point-of-care settings. The goal of this study was to investigate the feasibility of a universal serial bus (USB) based ultrasound transducer for dynamic imaging of the muscle function during gait. Axial strain of the rectus femoris muscle was measured during gait using the portable USB probe and compared...
A wirelessly controlled magnetic microrobot has been proposed to diagnose and treat pathologies in the posterior segment of the human eye. The robot consists of a magnetic CoNi platform with a conformal coating of functional polymers. Electrodeposition has been the preferred method to fabricate and to functionalize the microrobot. Poly(pyrrole), a widely studied intrinsically conductive polymer has...
Current gold standard sleep study systems that record several biophysical parameters during sleep are bulky and are typically located in a medical facility where patient monitoring becomes costly and inefficient. Home-based portable systems solve these problems but are highly inadequate as they record minimal number of biophysical channels due to limited battery life. A survey conducted in the medical...
In this work a system for instant classification of motion patterns is presented. It is based on a non-contact magnetic induction monitoring device, which is textile-integrated, wearable, and able to measure pulse and respiratory activity. The proposed classificator is based on a decision tree algorithm generated by bootstrap aggregating. Its accurate classification performance is validated with the...
Intelligent systems deliver meaningful information of patient's physiological data and provide essential decision support, on patient's status, to medical professionals. This study focuses on two important areas of healthcare; real-time remote patient monitoring and decision support systems for diagnosing of Hypertension and Hypotension. The proposed real-time, wireless vital sign monitoring system...
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