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Urine output is deemed very important by Physicians for diagnosis of many diseases like Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT) etc. Until now, in hospitals, urine output is measured using a container having the measurement scale on it from which the nursing staff notes down the readings hourly. This is a very time consuming practice and may have adverse effect on the diagnosis...
A System of Systems (SoS) is an arrangement of useful and independent sub-systems, which are integrated into a larger system. Examples are found in transport systems, nutritional systems, smart homes and smart cities. The composition of component sub-systems into an SoS enables support for complex functionalities that cannot be provided by individual sub-systems on their own. However, to realize the...
Being able to monitor the body condition and health condition of the user telemetrically is a very important for caring the user. Vital signs and the body posture is an important aspect to judge the danger of the user. Body posture will change frequently where body state transition should be done inside the system. By running this system autonomously, it will blend in the human daily life and raise...
Most chemotherapeutics (CTs) are delivered systemically, causing nausea, hair loss, fatigue and a compromised immune system. Biocompatible in situ forming implants (ISFIs) are drug delivery vehicles which are injected as a liquid before solidifying in tissues and ultimately breaking down. By dissolving CTs in an ISFI solution, they can be injected directly to the tumour site and released in a controllable...
Stillbirth is when a baby is born without signs of life after 28 weeks of gestation. It is estimated that 2.6 million stillbirths occurred in 2015 [Lawn et al. 2016]. Today, the fetus is examined at regular hospital checks during pregnancy, but no checks are done between these hospital visits. These antenatal tests are not always effective to prevent stillbirth [O'Neill et al. 2012]. More frequent...
Focused ultrasound (FUS) with circulating microbubbles creates transient and reversible permeabilization of vasculatures which provides an essential means to deliver therapeutics and imaging agents, for instance across the BBB. We have previously shown that 3D color Doppler and photoacoustic imaging can monitor BBB disruption (BBBD) in mice. Here we study how changes in NPs size, concentration and...
For reliable control of the cardiovascular, respiratory, musculoskeletal systems of the human body must be continuously recorded electro-cardio signal for a long time. Detected and quickly transferred over the wireless channel the most informative pieces of daily electro-cardio signal will allow duty cardiologists for react and provide the necessary medical care to remote cardiac patients. The sequences...
Histotripsy uses high-pressure, microsecond-long ultrasound pulses to generate a cloud of cavitation to fractionate cells in target tissues such as tumors, blood clots and brain applications. B-mode ultrasound has been used to detect the cavitation and tissue fractionation generated by histotripsy, but it requires a separate imaging probe and can only detect substantial amounts of tissue fractionation...
Heart health is one of the parameters of one's health condition. Besides using the ECG machine, heart conditions can be determined through blood pressure measurement. Patient's hypertension requires the continuous blood pressure measurement. In some conditions, the health of patients cannot be directly checked at healthcare center. For this, the mobile blood pressure meter devices can send data in...
This paper researches and analyzes the current situation of the application of mobile medical services in chronic disease monitoring and management. With chronic diseases and mobile medical development trend in China, we propose a monitoring and management system for the physical sign of elderly patients with chronic diseases. By using the system, patient can monitor and upload the physical sign data,...
Assisted living and home monitoring systems are gradually becoming a necessity, considering the current trends in population ageing and older adults' desire to continue living independently in their homes and their communities for as long as possible. This paper presents our current achievements regarding the implementation of a cyber-physical system for assisted living and home monitoring, developed...
Artificial Pancreas (AP) systems for people with type 1 diabetes combine the use of a smart insulin pump with a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) and a control algorithm to improve the regulation of the insulin delivery during the postprandial period. New control algorithms need to be tested in clinical trials. In this paper, a safety layer called the SAFE loop [1] is reformulated to be employed during...
In industrial electrical drives has been traditionally employed the technique of analysis the technique of analysis of vibration to detect misalignment between the motor axes and the load. This technique requires the placements of sensors directly on the drive, which makes it difficult to apply. In some cases, it may be impossible to apply (submerged or hard access drives). Recently, as complement...
Stemming from a holistic view of interrelated frailties, cognitive decline, physical frailty, depression and anxiety, social isolation and poor sleep quality, My-AHA proposes an ICT platform for early detection of pre-frailty and intervention to sustain active and healthy ageing and slowing or reversing further decline. The main aim of My-AHA is to reduce frailty risk by improving physical activity...
— IoT is becoming very relevant and getting popular in the field of medical diagnosis nowadays. In this paper, we are bound to limelight in this field which focuses briefly over the child health monitoring. In this work, we implemented a smart and secure health care monitor application that personify the monitoring of total health and mind status of the children. As part of which we are adopting the...
In this paper a proposal is made in order to avoid hypoglycemic events in glycemic closed-loop control. Within the development of closed-loop glucose controllers (referred to as “Artificial Pancreas”), one of the major risks is the insulin induced hypoglycemia that can be produced due to controller overreaction. Here, a supervisory methodology on a main controller is proposed to avoid excessive rates...
The emergence of photoplethysmography for blood pressure estimation is offering a more convenient method. The elements of photoplethysmography waveform is crucial for blood pressure measurement. Several photoplethysmography elements are still not completely understood. The purpose of this study was to investigated corelation of photoplethysmography elements with blood pressure using statistical approach...
One of the ways to reduce the risk of fatality due to cardiovascular disease is by long-term monitoring of the heart condition. Recently, various designs of wearable and flexible ECG monitoring systems have been developed in order to allow long-term monitoring of the heart condition. One of the most important features of flexible ECG monitoring systems is the ECG circuits which perform the ECG signal...
Exercise makes the body fit, but most people do not know the intensity of the exercise they are doing right or otherwise can be dangerous, because not everyone knows the maximum heart rate (MHR), Heart Rate Resting (HRRest), heart rate reserve (HRR) and Target Heart Rate (THR) for each individual, it is proposed an ECG signal-based warning system to find out how much a person's maximum limit in exercise...
The cocrystal of piracetam (PT) and hydroquinone (HQ) under grinding condition has been characterized by terahertz time-domain spectroscopic (THz-TDS) technique. Experimental results show that the characteristic features of the PT-HQ cocrystal are different from those of the corresponding starting materials, and the dynamic process of such pharmaceutical cocrystal formation has been monitored directly...
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