This document describes the development of an affordable system to detect minute movements in radiology patients during treatment. The system uses a 9-degree of freedom sensor containing an accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer. It communicates wirelessly via Bluetooth and is integrated with existing patient immobilization devices. Testing showed the sensor can reliably detect movements as small as 0.3 degrees or 1 millimeter, meeting the goal of developing an inexpensive alternative to existing movement detection systems that cost over $80,000.
Please have a look at the features and Images from our latest installation of MDT centauri 3000 OPEN MRI systems at Chirayu Hospital, Ratnagiri, India.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
In this stress filled life, so many people are suffering from cardiac diseases. Patients of cardiac ailments are required to admit in hospitals for cardiac treatment and hence require close observation. In today's era telemedicine has been proved boon for both doctors and patients. Now invention in this area have changed the old and traditional practices .Not even that but they can live at home instead of hospital and can get treatment for their cardiac ailment in case of emergency. In this thesis, I propose wireless telemetry system in which doctor can real time visualizes physiological parameters ECG and temperature of patient via GPRS/WI-FI on mobile anywhere in globe. In critical condition of the patient emergency call can be transmitted to the doctor and doctor can guide care taker person via phone for emergency treatment and can keep himself in touch whenever needed. In this thesis we also develop and design ECG application on the platform of Android.
A Wireless Methodology of Heart Attack Detectionijsrd.com
The wrist watch with Heart Attack Detection is equipment that is used daily to indicate heart condition, to detect heart attack and to call for emergency help. It was designed specially to help patients with heart disease.This includes three common sub units. They are Circuit, Analysis Algorithm, and Bluetooth Communication. The first one is to wear on the wrist of the patient to captures the abnormal heart beat waves from the victim and the alternate methods are installed under the stick. This project is based on the previous project “Wireless Heart Attack Detector with GPS†of Fall 2004 [1]. we consider a big improvement in reducing the complexity of the project greatly, in saving power consumption of the project to run much fewer codes and in making the project to run at a faster time. No wire is attached to the wrists. In our project, the ECG waveform is transmitted wirelessly from the wrists to the watch. This gives the user great flexibility while the program is switched on and running. User can drive safely, can use restroom easily and can function normally like without the project. Previous project had the wire connection. All the hardware on the walking watch would have been strapped to the wrists. This will not make the project functional and marketable. Our project is completely portable. Heart condition is displayed in our project. The previous project did not inform the user about his heart condition. We display the heart condition through two LEDs as low-risk (alert level between 4 and 6) and high risk (alert level between 7 and 9). The user can know their heart condition and take proper action to avoid the fatal moment. Proper action could be slowing down and taking a rest.
MICS (Medical Implant Communication Service) based body sensor network design and implementation for patient physiological data collection for health monitoring purposes. The MICS band offers the advantage of miniaturized electronic devices that can either be used as an implanted node or as an external node. In this work, a prototype sensor network is implemented by incorporating temperature and pulse rate sensors on nodes. Each developed sensor node has the capability of physiological data acquisition and local processing. The sensor node can also transmit data over the air to a remote central control unit (CCU) for further pro-cessing and storage. The developed system offers patient mobility as well as medical staff can obtain patient’s physiological data on demand basis via the Internet. The developed system has been optimized for power consumption by using a polling architecture.
Fall Detection System for the Elderly based on the Classification of Shimmer ...Moiz Ahmed
The purpose of this research was to use a body sensor network to analyze falls in elderly. Real-time data from Shimmer device could be the analysis for detection of certain activities of daily livings as well as certain cases of falls.
For more information read the publication:
http://pdf.medrang.co.kr/Hir/2017/023/Hir023-03-03.pdf
The development of wireless patient monitoring system has been quite intensive in the past decade. Hence, in the present study, a new approach of wireless patient monitoring system was proposed as a prototype to minimize the power consumption and the costing issue. Visual Basic Net. 2010 as the software and Peripheral Interface Controller (PIC) 16F877 microcontroller as the hardware circuit were used to implement the system. The communication between the hardware and software systems is in the full duplex communication via the XBee modules happened. The results show that XBee module is successfully communicated with the whole system and the monitoring software is in the best condition to be implemented. Since the prototype using variable voltage, good comparison with the experimental and previous studies shows that the present study can be improved by using the real ECG machine so that the system can be ready to the real user.
Please have a look at the features and Images from our latest installation of MDT centauri 3000 OPEN MRI systems at Chirayu Hospital, Ratnagiri, India.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
In this stress filled life, so many people are suffering from cardiac diseases. Patients of cardiac ailments are required to admit in hospitals for cardiac treatment and hence require close observation. In today's era telemedicine has been proved boon for both doctors and patients. Now invention in this area have changed the old and traditional practices .Not even that but they can live at home instead of hospital and can get treatment for their cardiac ailment in case of emergency. In this thesis, I propose wireless telemetry system in which doctor can real time visualizes physiological parameters ECG and temperature of patient via GPRS/WI-FI on mobile anywhere in globe. In critical condition of the patient emergency call can be transmitted to the doctor and doctor can guide care taker person via phone for emergency treatment and can keep himself in touch whenever needed. In this thesis we also develop and design ECG application on the platform of Android.
A Wireless Methodology of Heart Attack Detectionijsrd.com
The wrist watch with Heart Attack Detection is equipment that is used daily to indicate heart condition, to detect heart attack and to call for emergency help. It was designed specially to help patients with heart disease.This includes three common sub units. They are Circuit, Analysis Algorithm, and Bluetooth Communication. The first one is to wear on the wrist of the patient to captures the abnormal heart beat waves from the victim and the alternate methods are installed under the stick. This project is based on the previous project “Wireless Heart Attack Detector with GPS†of Fall 2004 [1]. we consider a big improvement in reducing the complexity of the project greatly, in saving power consumption of the project to run much fewer codes and in making the project to run at a faster time. No wire is attached to the wrists. In our project, the ECG waveform is transmitted wirelessly from the wrists to the watch. This gives the user great flexibility while the program is switched on and running. User can drive safely, can use restroom easily and can function normally like without the project. Previous project had the wire connection. All the hardware on the walking watch would have been strapped to the wrists. This will not make the project functional and marketable. Our project is completely portable. Heart condition is displayed in our project. The previous project did not inform the user about his heart condition. We display the heart condition through two LEDs as low-risk (alert level between 4 and 6) and high risk (alert level between 7 and 9). The user can know their heart condition and take proper action to avoid the fatal moment. Proper action could be slowing down and taking a rest.
MICS (Medical Implant Communication Service) based body sensor network design and implementation for patient physiological data collection for health monitoring purposes. The MICS band offers the advantage of miniaturized electronic devices that can either be used as an implanted node or as an external node. In this work, a prototype sensor network is implemented by incorporating temperature and pulse rate sensors on nodes. Each developed sensor node has the capability of physiological data acquisition and local processing. The sensor node can also transmit data over the air to a remote central control unit (CCU) for further pro-cessing and storage. The developed system offers patient mobility as well as medical staff can obtain patient’s physiological data on demand basis via the Internet. The developed system has been optimized for power consumption by using a polling architecture.
Fall Detection System for the Elderly based on the Classification of Shimmer ...Moiz Ahmed
The purpose of this research was to use a body sensor network to analyze falls in elderly. Real-time data from Shimmer device could be the analysis for detection of certain activities of daily livings as well as certain cases of falls.
For more information read the publication:
http://pdf.medrang.co.kr/Hir/2017/023/Hir023-03-03.pdf
The development of wireless patient monitoring system has been quite intensive in the past decade. Hence, in the present study, a new approach of wireless patient monitoring system was proposed as a prototype to minimize the power consumption and the costing issue. Visual Basic Net. 2010 as the software and Peripheral Interface Controller (PIC) 16F877 microcontroller as the hardware circuit were used to implement the system. The communication between the hardware and software systems is in the full duplex communication via the XBee modules happened. The results show that XBee module is successfully communicated with the whole system and the monitoring software is in the best condition to be implemented. Since the prototype using variable voltage, good comparison with the experimental and previous studies shows that the present study can be improved by using the real ECG machine so that the system can be ready to the real user.
Real Time Physiological Status Monitorinig through Telemetry System for on Sp...ijtsrd
In todays era, Internet of Things is playing an important role in health care management systems, which is not only for monitoring but also to communicate, stores and display. The prime aim of this study is to design and implement effective real time healthcare monitoring dashboard for on spot accident patients who is injured and went to unconscious state. The proposed system monitor the ECG, EEG, EMG waveforms, Temperature, heart beats etc, and transmit those vital parameters wirelessly through wifi technology. The transmitted patients data is displayed in the PC based application called the central nurse station where PC with the receive wifi acts as hub. This data gets updated into database continuously. From the database of the android application fetches all the updated data, stores and displays it. This enables the doctor to receive the current status of an accident patient in real time. The parameters of a particular patient go beyond a threshold value an automated notification will pop up in doctor android mobile application. This android application can also generate call option if the doctor will not notifynotification messages. Additionally system is also able to generate alarm to notify nurse around for emergency treatment and by using GSM module the patient datas can also be send to the authorized person i.e friends, relatives etc. Ultimate goal of this project is to implement a low cost, high efficient and effective wireless real time system for health monitoring through telemetry system. S. Rabia Jebin | N. Mohamedbeemubeen ""Real Time Physiological Status Monitorinig through Telemetry System for on-Spot-Accident Patients using IoT"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-3 , April 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd23470.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/bio-mechanicaland-biomedical-engineering/23470/real-time-physiological-status-monitorinig-through-telemetry-system-for-on-spot-accident-patients-using-iot/s-rabia-jebin
An Enhanced & Effective Fall Detection System for Elderly Person Monitoring u...IJRES Journal
Various fall-detection solutions have been previously proposed to create a reliable surveillance system for elderly people with high requirements on accuracy, sensitivity and specificity. In this paper, an enhanced fall detection system is proposed for elderly person monitoring that is based on smart sensors worn on the body and operating through consumer home networks. With treble thresholds, accidental falls can be detected in the home healthcare environment. By utilizing information gathered from an accelerometer, cardiotachometer and smart sensors, the impacts of falls can be logged and distinguished from normal daily activities. The proposed system have to be analyzed in a prototype system as detailed in this paper. From a test group of 30 healthy participants, it was found that the proposed fall detection system can achieve a high detection accuracy of 97.5%, while the sensitivity and specificity are 96.8% and 98.1% respectively. Therefore, this system can reliably be developed and deployed into a consumer product for use as an elderly person monitoring device with high accuracy and a low false positive rate.
A Low Power Wearable Physiological Parameter Monitoring Systemijsrd.com
The design and development of a low power wearable physiological parameter monitoring system have been developing and reporting in this paper. The system can be used to monitor physiological parameters, such as ECG signals, temperature and heartbeat. The system consists of an electronic device which is worn on the wrist and finger, by an at-risk person. Using several sensors to measure different vital signs, the person is wirelessly monitored within his own home. An epic sensor has been used to detect ECG signals. The device is battery powered for use outdoors. The device can be easily adapted to monitor athletes and infants. The low cost of the device will help to lower the cost of home monitoring of patients recovering from illness. A prototype of the device has been fabricated and extensively tested with very good results.
Fibrillation Detection using Accelerometer and Gyroscope of a Smartphoneijtsrd
Using the smartphone as an answer for the identification of Atrial Fibrillation (AFib), which uses the built-in accelerometer and gyroscope sensors (Inertial Measurement Unit, IMU) of the smartphone for detection? Contingent upon the patients circumstance, it is conceivable to utilize the created cell phone application either routinely or at times for making an estimation of the subject with no outer sensors is required. From that point forward, the application decides if the patient experiences AFib or not. Arun Pranav K. R | Elavarasan C"Fibrillation Detection using Accelerometer and Gyroscope of a Smartphone" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-3 , April 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd11074.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/other/11074/fibrillation-detection-using-accelerometer-and-gyroscope-of-a-smartphone/arun-pranav-k-r
Wireless Data Transmission and Acquisition for Alive DetectionIJMERJOURNAL
ABSTRACT: Wireless sensor network have a broad range of application in the category of detection and monitoring. Data acquisition plays an important role in the field of modern industry control .In any cases remote data should be transferred to monitor center which is far away from the manufacturing field .Traditional data acquisition system by means of wires could not satisfy the requirement,as there is rapid development of embedded system, wireless communication technology and depend on 3G as wireless data transmit terminals will be in use widely in industry. This paper presents a new data acquisition and analyzing system based on 3G technology .In this paper the problem of soldiers is alive or not is considered and a comprehensive framework is proposed for the use of wireless sensor network for real-time jawan’s detection and monitoring . This paper presents a development platform of pulse sensor ,capable of transmitting pulse rate via wireless technology to the control room where the set up has been made to receive these pulse rate data .The device would make the acquisition of pulse data through pulse sensor/heartbeat sensor ,easy to obtain and sent. The goal of work reported in this paper was to build a system to benefit and facilitate relative detection wirelessly. Today is the age of automation and centralized control of processes ,where emphasis is more and more towards coalescing of techniques to form a unifiesd entity that can support itself without much intervention from external agents .Automation eliminates human errors, while achieving better productivity and optimum utilization of resources with lesser requirement of time.With innovative and creative bent of mind, man comes out with solution for every problems.The use of wireless data transmission provided by wearable system is also interesting to avoid wires that could limit the movement of subjects in studies . The goal of work reported in this paper was to build a system to detect and monitor .without much human efforts by using our circuit we can monitor the generating units in alive detection and control the performance automatically.
A Review Paper on Design of GPS and GSM Based Intelligent Ambulance MonitoringIJERA Editor
Proposed paper presents design of such a monitoring system for emergency patient transportation employing ARM 7 processor module. The system will be useful for monitoring ambulance location using Google map. It also include biomedical sensors to monitor heart bit rate and temperature of patient through SMS. The front end application at the monitoring system is developed using visual basic software in Personal Computers. It can display location of ambulance and status of heart bit rate and temperature of patient. After receiving SMS hospital can prepare their staff for proper treatment of coming patient.
Hand gesture recognition using ultrasonic sensor and atmega128 microcontrollereSAT Publishing House
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To deal with various technologies which provide smart sensing in healthcare and compare them for their energy usage and battery life and discuss the format of communication to the database of these devices. To put forward devices which use smart sensors in advanced medical check-ups. To discuss the prospects of upcoming technology called Smart Dust in e-health and its advantages and effects for better deployment of trustworthy services in healthcare keeping in mind all the capabilities of the Smart Sensor.
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Wireless sensor network (WSN) technologies have the potential to change our lifestyle with different applications in fields such as healthcare, entertainment, travel, retail, industry, dependent care, and emergency management, in addition to many other areas. The combination of wireless sensors and sensor networks with computing and artificial intelligence research has built a cross-disciplinary concept of ambient intelligence in order to overcome the challenges we face in everyday life. over the next 20 years, the 65-and over population in the developed countries will become almost 20% of the total population.
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1. Intra-fractional Movement Detection in Immobilized
Radiology Patients
Erik Zaro
Advisor: Dr. Farid Farahmand
Collaborator: Dr. Robert Woodburn, Kankakee Radiation Oncology
Introduction
Current methods for detection of minute movements in patients are very accurate
and precise. However, the price of these systems can average around $80,000
with installation costs, and additional maintenance costs. The goal of this project is
to create a system that meets the minimum thresholds for movement detection in
radiology treatments with a unit cost of under $150 U.S. The device uses a 9-
degree sensor system containing an accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer
for real-time, accurate data gathering. The system will be integrated with current
immobilization techniques in order to minimize intrusion on existing procedures.
Detector Software Implementation
The detector software is hosted on the end-user terminal. This program allows the
user to manually input an angular threshold. Once this threshold is set, the program
will continuously read in serial data; If any axis experiences angular movement
greater than the threshold; the program will trigger an alert message box detailing
which axis experienced movement. Once a patient has been repositioned, the
message box can be closed and the program will begin waiting for another
threshold exceeding movement. The equations below demonstrate how angular
movement can be mapped an approximate physical distance.
Bluetooth Communications
9-DOF Sensor with IMU
Bluetooth communication is handled by a Bluetooth Mate Gold circuit. This circuit
handles serial input from the 9-DOF IMU and outputs a wireless Bluetooth serial
stream that can be received by a compatible, paired terminal.
The 9-DOF sensor chip comes with 3 sensors: an accelerometer, a gyroscope, and a
magnetometer, as well as an integrated microprocessing unit (IMU). This allows for
some of the data processing to be done locally on the chip. The IMU takes the
information from each of the 3 sensors and calculates a 3-axis value
(Yaw,Pitch,Roll) which represents the current angular position of the sensor board.
This data is then sent to a serial terminal; this data can be picked up through an
end-user serial connection and applied in a variety of ways.
Device enclosure and Mounting
The device enclosure was designed to snap into mounts present on a Precise Bite
Patient Re-Positioner, an existing immobilization device used to deter patient
movement. By replacing the Precise Bite top plate with the detection device, new
technology is seamlessly integrated with current techniques for a minimally intrusive
operation. It also places the sensor at an optimal position on the patient’s body,
reducing noise, and maximizing sensor potential. Enclosures were 3D printed from
Solidworks models designed by Aram Yegiazaryan.
Testing setup and trials
Sensitivity and accuracy tests were conducted on a variety of different magnitudes
of movement. A rotating angular table was used to test the device. The table would
be rotated a set number of degrees, and sensor data would be used to compare the
programmed movement against the measured movement.
Results
Testing of the device showed that the sensor could reliably detect movements up
to 0.3 degrees, or approximately 1 millimeter. The device is very accurate and
sensitive for minute movement detection. However it does not perform as well
with accurately measuring larger magnitude movements.
9-DOF sensor with IMU Bluetooth Mate Gold Module
Rotating table testing setup
Sensor output with movement detection software