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As researchers push for Exascale computing, one of the emerging challenges is system resilience. Unlike fault-tolerance which corrects errors, recent reports suggest that resilient systems will need to continue to make progress on an application despite faults. A first step in developing a resilient system is to have robust, scalable system monitoring. The work described here presents a novel, minimally-invasive...
Due to home accidents occurring within the world's aging population, especially with the accidental stumble and falling of the elderly, mortality and morbidity from falls have become one of the major issues in the health care system. In most developed countries, most frequent stumbles and falls occur in and around the community or at home. A number of wearable devices integrated with accelerometers...
We have proposed a network based system for long-term recording pulse rate (PR), respiration rhythm (RR), and body movement (BM) detected by a sensor unit placed beneath a pillow during sleep from pressure variations corresponding to changes in the heartbeat and respiratory motion. In this research, we studied the analysis of the long-term monitored PR, RR, and BM during sleep recorded by this system...
Tele-health is an inter-disciplinary area where the delivery of health, medical information and services over large and small distances is possible by combining electronic information with communication technologies. Deaths from cardiovascular diseases have decreased substantially over the past two decades, largely as a result of advances in acute care and cardiac surgery. These developments have...
This paper describes a medical IT platform based on Wireless Sensor Networks and e-textile which supports indoor location-aware services as well as monitoring physiological parameters, such as ECG, heart rate, body temperature, etc., from a group of patients within hospital facilities. The paper presents the architecture, system deployment and validation results based on local test as well as on a...
With the use of the advantages of computer and network technology, design and development of athletes information management systems achieve the basic information, evaluation, statistics of athletes, monitor and evaluate on the athletic ability of elite athletes and achieve information management of athletes automation scientific and management man-machine integration, and provide management of scientific...
Healthcare services are becoming vital and growing immensely with the passage of time, and so is the use of information technology in every aspect of life. Information and communication technologies are essential parts of any healthcare or life critical solution available in this era - the era of information technology. Quality is one of the major issues that are currently being faced. For healthcare...
Due to the perfect management of hospital information system, the hospital staff could draw a better heal scheme for patients with the whole information when they take care of them. And hospital information in the medical environment has also played a key to the role to make patient have a convenient and efficient medical environment. These are the strong protection for the hospital flinty competition...
To increase the amount of happiness in our daily life, we must recover ourselves from displeasing emotional states and try to keep to more pleasing emotions. The way for the user to avoid displeasing emotions depends on the category of the emotion, whether it be fear, anger, disgust or sadness. In this study, we focus on emotion recognition for service robots in the living space. An emotional state...
As monitor plays a critical role in self-healing loop as the basis of self-healing, this paper proposes a comprehensive monitor model for self-healing systems on the basis of building model for general applications and organically combining monitor methods for different attributes of files. The monitor model can improve the performance of self-healing by reducing the grain size of monitor and recovery...
Recent advances in ultra lightweight communications and sensor devices have ushered in a new range of applications to incorporate location awareness into mission critical situations such as remote health monitoring of chronically ill patients or emergency response personnel. However, in an open environment where these devices could potentially operate in the future, reliable and accurate positioning...
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is one of the leading causes of death which underlie one third of the world's death. The online monitoring and early warning message to cardiovascular system might protect sudden heart disease and save human's life. Scientists have used various vital signs to detect and predict CVD, such as blood pressure (BP), electrocardiogram (ECG), sphygmogram (SPG) and pulse wave...
The body area sensor network is widely regarded as a key technology that holds promise of enabling low-cost healthcare to be accessible to the fast growing aging sector of the population. The popularity of smartphones with their open operating systems provides a powerful platform for developing very low-cost personalized healthcare applications. In addition to the requirement of low cost, the limited...
This paper reports on a project focussed on developing a tool which aids self management of Diabetes, a long term chronic illness. The Diabetes Online Patient Management (DO-PM) tool was developed to allow patients to record, visualise trends and peaks in glucose measurement and, to send - ahead of an appointment, samples of the measures to the clinic staff or the doctor who provides care for the...
The monitoring blood pressure at home is an important part of managing hypertension. We have developed a home healthcare system to monitor blood pressure. Our system has operated for about 1 year. In this study, we focused on blood pressure monitoring and discussed the motivation of subjects, and the importance of monitoring. We tested two different locations: one was a non-interventional location...
We studied the feasibility of application of consecutive hydrostatic pressure changes to assess accuracy of measurement of finger blood pressure changes in 11 normal volunteers. The results demonstrated that specific physiological responses to hand postural changes were small in healthy subjects and the consecutive hydrostatic pressure changes of controlled magnitude can be applied to assess accuracy...
An ECG monitoring system comprised of six wearable textile-based electrodes is used to detect the ECG and sitting posture of vehicle drivers. The electrodes are washable, comfortable, sewed into ordinary shirt, and not connected with extra wires; as a result, they not only detect drivers' ECG while they move, but also prevent hindering their driving. While drivers change the sitting postures, different...
To make street orienteering sports attractive and interesting to global online viewers it is important to build a system that is capable of tracking mobile competitor positions in real-time using global positioning systems (GPS) and wireless networking to collect information at a central server to be displayed to the viewers. Another important aspect of such a real-time system is the ability to monitor...
This paper presents two artificial neural network (ANN) structures to estimate the depth of anesthesia (DOA). First, a clinical study involved on 33 patients is proposed to construct reference data and also to compare the results with BIS monitor (Aspect Medical, Vista), which represents satisfactory correlation with clinical assessments. Secondly, to extract features from electroencephalogram (EEG)...
Usage of compressed Electrocardiography (ECG) for fast and efficient telecardiology application is crucial, as ECG signals are enormously large in size. However, conventional ECG diagnosis algorithms require the compressed ECG to be decompressed before diagnosis can be applied. This added step of decompression before performing diagnosis for every ECG packets introduces unnecessary delays, which is...
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