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BIOSTEC
2011
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Aal@home: A New Home Care Wireless Biosignal Monitoring Tool for Ambient Assisted Living
In this article we describe a new wireless biosignal system which monitors in a long-term basis, the users at their homes. The system consists of wearable sensors that measure hear...
Joana Sousa, Susana Palma, Hugo Silva, Hugo Gamboa
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2010
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Wireless non-contact cardiac and neural monitoring
Ubiquitous physiological monitoring will be a key driving force in the upcoming wireless health revolution. Cardiac and brain signals in the form of ECG and EEG are two critical h...
Yu M. Chi, Patrick Ng, Eric Kang, Joseph Kang, Jen...
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2010
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Portable, non-invasive fall risk assessment in end stage renal disease patients on hemodialysis
Patients with end stage renal diseases (ESRD) on hemodialysis (HD) have high morbidity and mortality due to multiple causes, one of which is dramatically higher fall rates than th...
Thurmon E. Lockhart, Adam T. Barth, Xiaoyue Zhang,...
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2010
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Evaluation of body sensor network platforms: a design space and benchmarking analysis
Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) consist of sensor nodes deployed on the human body for health monitoring. Each sensor node is implemented by interfacing a physiological sensor with a ...
Sidharth Nabar, Ayan Banerjee, Sandeep K. S. Gupta...
WH
2010
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Blood oxygen estimation from compressively sensed photoplethysmograph
In this work, we consider low power, wearable pulse oximeter sensors for ambulatory, remote vital signs monitoring applications. It is extremely important for such sensors to main...
Pawan K. Baheti, Harinath Garudadri, Somdeb Majumd...
WH
2010
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The Berkeley Tricorder: wireless health monitoring
The advancement of precision micropower amplifiers, microcontrollers, and MEMs devices have allowed for a paradigm shift from traditionally large and costly health monitoring equi...
Reza Naima, John F. Canny
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2010
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Social sensing: obesity, unhealthy eating and exercise in face-to-face networks
What is the role of face-to-face interactions in the diffusion of health-related behaviors- diet choices, exercise habits, and long-term weight changes? We use co-location and com...
Anmol Madan, Sai T. Moturu, David Lazer, Alex Pent...
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2010
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Towards power optimized kalman filter for gait assessment using wearable sensors
Systems with wearable and wireless motion sensors have been receiving significant attention in the past few years specifically for the applications of human movement monitoring. O...
Prem Santosh Udaya Shankar, Nikhil Raveendranathan...
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2010
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AndWellness: an open mobile system for activity and experience sampling
Advances in mobile phone technology have allowed phones to become a convenient platform for real-time assessment of a participants health and behavior. AndWellness, a personal dat...
John Hicks, Nithya Ramanathan, Donnie H. Kim, Moha...