Portable brain-heart monitoring system

Chih Chung Fu*, Chiu Kuo Chen, Shao Yen Tseng, Shih Kang, Ericson Chua, Wai-Chi  Fang

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    Abstract

    A portable brain-heart monitoring system is proposed to integrate and miniaturize those heavy equipments in the hospitals. The system comprises a 4-channel independent component analysis (ICA) engine for artifact removal from EEG, a heart-rate variability (HRV) analysis engine for on-line HRV analysis and a diffuse optical tomography (DOT) engine for reconstruction of the absorption coefficient image of the brain tissue. A lossless compression module achieves 2.5 compression ratio is also employed to reduce the power consumption of the wireless transmission. EEG, EKG and near-infrared signals acquired from the analog front-end IC are processed in real-time or bypassed according to user configurations. Processed data and raw data are compressed and sent to a remote science station by a commercial Bluetooth module for further analysis and 3-D visualization and remote diagnosis. The ICA and HRV engine are verified by real EEG and EKG signals while the DOT engine is verified by an experimental model. The system is implemented using UMC 65nm CMOS technology, and the core size is 680x680 um2, and the estimated power consumption of the chip working at 24 MHz under full mode is 3.6 mW.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationDatabase Theory and Application, Bio-Science and Bio-Technology - International Conferences, DTA and BSBT 2010, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2010, Proc
    Pages241-250
    Number of pages10
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 1 Dec 2010
    Event2010 International Conferences on Database Theory and Application, DTA 2010 and Bio-Science and Bio-Technology, BSBT 2010, Held as Part of the 2nd International Mega-Conference on Future Generation Information Technology, FGIT 2010 - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
    Duration: 13 Dec 201015 Dec 2010

    Publication series

    NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
    Volume118 CCIS
    ISSN (Print)1865-0929

    Conference

    Conference2010 International Conferences on Database Theory and Application, DTA 2010 and Bio-Science and Bio-Technology, BSBT 2010, Held as Part of the 2nd International Mega-Conference on Future Generation Information Technology, FGIT 2010
    Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
    CityJeju Island
    Period13/12/1015/12/10

    Keywords

    • Artifact Removal
    • Biomedical System
    • Bluetooth
    • DOT
    • Health-Care
    • HRV
    • ICA
    • portable
    • Signal Processing
    • wearable

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