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The explosion of smaller and more powerful wearable sensing devices has allowed us to continually record and quantify our lives. Undertaking such activities is becoming very popular and has grown into a community called the Quantified Self (QS). Utilizing this outlet has the potential to benefit many aspects of our lives and is gaining momentum within the health sector. However, whilst we can easily...
We present an example of unobtrusive, continuous monitoring in the home for the purpose of assessing early health changes. Sensors embedded in the environment capture behavior and activity patterns. Changes in patterns are detected as potential signs of changing health. We first present results of a preliminary study investigating 22 features extracted from in-home sensor data. A 1-D alert algorithm...
Extra-corporal Circulation Support Systems (ECCS) are used in cardiac surgery on a daily basis. Surgeons and perfusionists supervise patients' vital signals such as heart rate or blood pressure and ensure secure and errorless operation of the ECCS. Latest developments clear the way to use an ECCS for emergency circulatory resuscitation in non-clinical environments, even when trained staff is sparse...
Patients suspected of suffering Sleep Apnea and Hypopnea Syndrome (SAHS) have to undergo sleep studies such as expensive polysomnographies to be diagnosed. Healthcare professionals are constantly looking for ways to improve the ease of diagnosis and comfort for this kind of patients as well as reducing both the number of sleep studies they need to undergo and the waiting times. In this paper we present...
In this work, we present the concept, the architecture and the evaluation of the INTREPID system. INTREPID is an advanced monitoring system which optimally classifies an individual's emotional state based on 5 pre-defined emotional classes, (relaxed, neutral, startled, apprehensive and very apprehensive), through association of the information arising from specific biological signals (Blood Volume...
Wheezy breath is a general sign for airway obstructive diseases like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. This paper presents a novel wheeze detection method that can be used to detect and identify wheezes automatically. The proposed method exploits ``entropy" to describe the pattern of the frequency spectrum of the wheezing signal and the wheeze identification can be conducted using...
Pervasive healthcare provides an effective solution for monitoring the wellbeing of elderly, quantifying post-operative patient recovery and monitoring the progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's. However, developing functional pervasive systems is a complex task that entails the creation of appropriate sensing platforms, integration of versatile technologies for data stream...
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