Healthcare Technology Letters
Volume 1, Issue 4, October 2014
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Volume 1, Issue 4
October 2014
Ferrite core non-linearity in coils for magnetic neurostimulation
- Author(s): Anil Kumar RamRakhyani and Gianluca Lazzi
- Source: Healthcare Technology Letters, Volume 1, Issue 4, p. 87 –91
- DOI: 10.1049/htl.2014.0087
- Type: Article
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The need to correctly predict the voltage across terminals of mm-sized coils, with ferrite core, to be employed for magnetic stimulation of the peripheral neural system is the motivation for this work. In such applications, which rely on a capacitive discharge on the coil to realise a transient voltage curve of duration and strength suitable for neural stimulation, the correct modelling of the non-linearity of the ferrite core is critical. A demonstration of how a finite-difference model of the considered coils, which include a model of the current-controlled inductance in the coil, can be used to correctly predict the time-domain voltage waveforms across the terminals of a test coil is presented. Five coils of different dimensions, loaded with ferrite cores, have been fabricated and tested: the measured magnitude and width of the induced pulse are within 10% of simulated values.
Monitoring changes in behaviour from multi-sensor systems
- Author(s): James D. Amor and Christopher J. James
- Source: Healthcare Technology Letters, Volume 1, Issue 4, p. 92 –97
- DOI: 10.1049/htl.2014.0089
- Type: Article
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Behavioural patterns are important indicators of health status in a number of conditions and changes in behaviour can often indicate a change in health status. Currently, limited behaviour monitoring is carried out using paper-based assessment techniques. As technology becomes more prevalent and low-cost, there is an increasing movement towards automated behaviour-monitoring systems. These systems typically make use of a multi-sensor environment to gather data. Large data volumes are produced in this way, which poses a significant problem in terms of extracting useful indicators. Presented is a novel method for detecting behavioural patterns and calculating a metric for quantifying behavioural change in multi-sensor environments. The data analysis method is shown and an experimental validation of the method is presented which shows that it is possible to detect the difference between weekdays and weekend days. Two participants are analysed, with different sensor configurations and test environments and in both cases, the results show that the behavioural change metric for weekdays and weekend days is significantly different at 95% confidence level, using the methods presented.
A new way of quantifying diagnostic information from multilead electrocardiogram for cardiac disease classification
- Author(s): R.K. Tripathy ; L.N. Sharma ; S. Dandapat
- Source: Healthcare Technology Letters, Volume 1, Issue 4, p. 98 –103
- DOI: 10.1049/htl.2014.0080
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A new measure for quantifying diagnostic information from a multilead electrocardiogram (MECG) is proposed. This diagnostic measure is based on principal component (PC) multivariate multiscale sample entropy (PMMSE). The PC analysis is used to reduce the dimension of the MECG data matrix. The multivariate multiscale sample entropy is evaluated over the PC matrix. The PMMSE values along each scale are used as a diagnostic feature vector. The performance of the proposed measure is evaluated using a least square support vector machine classifier for detection and classification of normal (healthy control) and different cardiovascular diseases such as cardiomyopathy, cardiac dysrhythmia, hypertrophy and myocardial infarction. The results show that the cardiac diseases are successfully detected and classified with an average accuracy of 90.34%. Comparison with some of the recently published methods shows improved performance of the proposed measure of cardiac disease classification.
Automated pathologies detection in retina digital images based on complex continuous wavelet transform phase angles
- Author(s): Salim Lahmiri ; Christian S. Gargour ; Marcel Gabrea
- Source: Healthcare Technology Letters, Volume 1, Issue 4, p. 104 –108
- DOI: 10.1049/htl.2014.0068
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An automated diagnosis system that uses complex continuous wavelet transform (CWT) to process retina digital images and support vector machines (SVMs) for classification purposes is presented. In particular, each retina image is transformed into two one-dimensional signals by concatenating image rows and columns separately. The mathematical norm of phase angles found in each one-dimensional signal at each level of CWT decomposition are relied on to characterise the texture of normal images against abnormal images affected by exudates, drusen and microaneurysms. The leave-one-out cross-validation method was adopted to conduct experiments and the results from the SVM show that the proposed approach gives better results than those obtained by other methods based on the correct classification rate, sensitivity and specificity.
Non-invasive method to analyse the risk of developing diabetic foot
- Author(s): Rebeca N. Silva ; Ana C.B.H. Ferreira ; Danton D. Ferreira ; Bruno H.G. Barbosa
- Source: Healthcare Technology Letters, Volume 1, Issue 4, p. 109 –113
- DOI: 10.1049/htl.2014.0076
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Foot complications (diabetic foot) are among the most serious and costly complications of diabetes mellitus. Amputation of all or part of a lower extremity is usually preceded by a foot ulcer. To prevent diabetic foot, an automatic non-invasive method to identify patients with diabetes who have a high risk of developing diabetic foot is proposed. To design the proposed method, information concerning social scope and self-care of 153 diabetic patients was presented to the K-means clustering algorithm, which divided the data into two groups: high risk and low risk of developing diabetic foot. In the operational stage, the Euclidian distance from the information vector to the centroids of each group of risk is used as criterion for classification. Both real and simulated data were used to evaluate the method in which promising results were achieved with accuracy of 0.97 ± 0.06 for simulated data and 0.68 ± 0.16 considering the classification of specialists as the gold standard for real data. The method requires a simple computational processing and can be useful for basic health units to triage diabetic patients helping the health-care team to reduce the number of cases of diabetic foot.
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