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Clinical evaluation of electroencephalogram (EEG) is essential for monitoring the electrical activity present in the brain. In collusion with engineering advances, the movement towards portable, rapid and low-cost EEG acquisition and monitoring is growing. A low-cost and portable system for neonatal EEG is presented in this paper that aims to improve signal quality and robustness, while decreasing...
A novel wearable sensor system for seizure monitoring of neonates comprised of smart clothing, video recording and cloud platform is presented. Textile electrodes and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) are embedded in the smart clothing to obtain ECG signal and motion signal whereby epileptic seizure detection algorithm is performed. Moreover, a video monitoring module provides real-time information...
Absence seizures are associated with generalized 2.5–5 Hz spike-wave discharges in the electroencephalogram (EEG). Rarely are patients, parents, or physicians aware of the duration or incidence of seizures. Six patients were monitored with a portable EEG-device over four times 24 h to evaluate how easily outpatients are monitored and how well an automatic seizure detection algorithm can identify the...
The goal of this research was to design an RFID based wearable platform capable of continuous heart rate monitoring for infants. Two TechnikTex P180+B conductive fabric electrodes with interconnects were integrated onto a baby onesie and connected to an RFID heart rate detection circuit that used an on-off keying modulation scheme to transmit heart rate data. The quality of the output signals obtained...
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is one of the major causes of death among infants during their sleep. To increase the safety of the infants, we matched different emergent research fields for the development of Baby Night Watch. This Smart Wearable System (SWS), developed under the context of the European Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge (TIIC) 2015, is composed by the following elements:...
In the last decade, the trends in the development and management of national healthcare service are focused telemedicine with the aim of cost reduction. Telemedicine can be useful to reduce cost thanks to early de-hospitalization and diagnosis. These development drivers can be achieved only through the use of new technology oriented to the production of low cost product, which can be integrated with...
The desired performance of every childcare and monitoring system is to clearly read the user activity into a relevant category of the solution domain. This categorization highly depends on error free processing methods and systematic regression or classification. The wearable interface acquires multiple signals of the user activity that serves as the input to the monitoring system. The pattern of...
Monitoring neonatal EEG signal is useful in identifying neonatal convulsions or seizures. For neonates, seizures can be electrographic, electro clinical, or both simultaneously. Electrographic seizure is identified via recorded EEG signal, while electro clinical seizures exhibit clinical manifestations. Sometimes neonates can exhibit silent seizures which may be clinically invisible but identifiable...
When designing an ECG monitoring system embedded with textile electrodes for comfort, it is challenging to ensure reliable monitoring, because textile electrodes suffer from motion artifacts and incidental poor signal quality. For the design of a comfortable monitoring system for prematurely born babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), we propose the concepts of ‘diversity measurement’...
Convulsions represent a characteristic signal of neurological disease in the newborn period. Single-channel EEG is a convenient tool for continuous evaluation of neonatal convulsions and gives valuable prognostic information on neurological recovery. Among various abnormal EEG waveforms during convulsions, burst suppression (BS) pattern is distinctive and usually indicates an urgent state that therapeutic...
To test the reliability of amplitude-integrated electroencephalogram (aEEG) in cerebral hypoxic ischemia (HI), 12 neonatal piglets subjected to different levels of HI are divided into three groups based on the histological outcomes obtained 4 days after experiment. Results show that concomitant with the increased severity of brain injury, the upper and lower margins of aEEG decrease significantly...
Critically ill new born babies admitted at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are extremely tiny and vulnerable to external disturbance. Smart Jacket proposed in this paper is the vision of a wearable unobtrusive continuous monitoring system realized by body sensor networks (BSN) and wireless communication. The smart jacket aims for providing reliable health monitoring as well as a comfortable...
A special transthoracic electrical impedance infant respiration monitor that can sample eight pairs of electrodes has been used to measure breathing patterns in newborn infants. Quasi-simultaneous recordings have been made and used to determine the breath amplitude and duration of spontaneously occurring apneas during two-hour sessions. Preliminary results from eight infants have shown that breath...
The use of electrical impedance pneumography (EIP) and respiratory inductive plethysmography (RIP) for noninvasive ventilatory measurements during incremental cycle-ergometer stress testing was evaluated. In three normal subjects and two overweight subjects tidal volume as determined by either technique was linearly related to that resulting from a conventional pneumotachograph from rest to maximal...
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