Classification of glucose concentration in diluted urine using the low-resolution Raman spectroscopy and kernel optimization methods.

abstract：:Active locomotion of wireless capsule endoscopes has the potential to improve the diagnostic yield of this painless technique for the diagnosis of gastrointestinal tract disease. In order to design effective locomotion mechanisms, a quantitative measure of the propelling force required to effectively move a capsule in...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Natali CD,Beccani M,Obstein KL,Valdastri P

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Brain waves vary between people. This work aims to improve automatic sleep staging for longitudinal sleep monitoring via personalization of algorithms based on individual characteristics extracted from sleep data recorded during the first night. APPROACH:As data from a single night are very small, thereby ma...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Phan H,Mikkelsen K,Chén OY,Koch P,Mertins A,Kidmose P,De Vos M

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heart rate responds dynamically to various intrinsic and environmental stimuli. The autonomic nervous system is said to play a major role in this response. Multifractal analysis offers a novel method to assess the response of cardiac interbeat intervals. Twenty-four hour ECG recordings of RR interbeat intervals (o...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Makowiec D,Rynkiewicz A,Wdowczyk-Szulc J,Zarczyńska-Buchowiecka M,Gałaska R,Kryszewski S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectral analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) is used for the assessment of cardiovascular autonomic control. In this study, a data-driven adaptive technique called empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and the associated Hilbert spectrum has been used to evaluate the effect of local anaesthesia on HRV parameters in ...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Shafqat K,Pal SK,Kumari S,Kyriacou PA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analytic solution of the potential distribution on a 2D homogeneous disk for electrical impedance tomography under the complete electrode model is expressed via an infinite system of linear equations. For the shunt electrode model with two electrodes, our solution coincides with the previously derived solution expr...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Demidenko E

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical alterations of red blood cells (RBCs) during storage eventually affect the electrical properties of blood. In this study, the physiological parameters such as extracellular (SAGM + CPD + residual plasma) Na(+), K(+), Cl(-), pH, 2,3-DPG and ATP together with the Cole-Cole parameters were measured using erythro...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Sezdi M,Bayik M,Ulgen Y

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ECG-gated electrical impedance tomographic spectroscopy (EITS) measurements of the lungs were taken on seven normal subjects in the frequency range 9.6 kHz to 614.4 kHz. The results show that in late systole the resistivity p' relative to the R-wave (i.e. p' = 1 at the R-wave) decreases consistently within the lung. I...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Nopp P,Zhao TX,Brown BH,Wang W

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy scavenging has increasingly become an interesting option for powering electronic devices because of the almost infinite lifetime and the non-dependence on fuels for energy generation. Moreover, the rise of wireless technologies promises new applications in medical monitoring systems, but these still face limita...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Romero E,Warrington RO,Neuman MR

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Part I of this series showed that the five-element circuit model accurately mimics impedances measured using multi-frequency electrical impedance myography (MFEIM), focusing on changes brought on by disease. This paper addresses two requirements which must be met if the method is to qualify for clinical use. First, th...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Shiffman CA,Rutkove SB

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Characteristic impedance (Zc) is an important component in the theory of hemodynamics. It is a commonly used metric of proximal arterial stiffness and pulse wave velocity. Calculated using simultaneously measured dynamic pressure and flow data, estimates of characteristic impedance can be obtained using metho...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Qureshi MU,Colebank MJ,Schreier DA,Tabima DM,Haider MA,Chesler NC,Olufsen MS

更新日期：2018-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) has the potential to become a new tool for bedside monitoring of regional lung ventilation. The aim of our study was to assess the reproducibility of regional lung ventilation distribution determined by EIT during mechanical ventilation under identical ventilator settings. The exp...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Frerichs I,Schmitz G,Pulletz S,Schädler D,Zick G,Scholz J,Weiler N

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine the performance of dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) for the quantification of liver fat content (LFC). We prepared two phantoms: homogenized mixtures of porcine liver and fat and homogeneous mixtures of liver- and fat-equivalent solutions. Tubes containing mixtures with k...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Li JH,Tsai CY,Huang HM

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of intracranial pressure (ICP) can be invaluable in the management of critically ill patients. Cerebrospinal fluid is produced by the choroid plexus in the brain ventricles (a set of communicating chambers), after which it circulates through the different ventricles and exits into the subarachnoid space ar...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Zhang X,Medow JE,Iskandar BJ,Wang F,Shokoueinejad M,Koueik J,Webster JG

更新日期：2017-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Vital signs monitoring is ubiquitous in clinical environments and emerging in home-based healthcare applications. Still, since current monitoring methods require uncomfortable sensors, respiration rate remains the least measured vital sign. In this paper, we propose a video-based respiration monitoring method that aut...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Janssen R,Wang W,Moço A,de Haan G

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a preliminary clinical evaluation of a one-frequency electrical impedance tomography (EIT) system enabling static in vivo imaging are presented. The design of the measuring system and image reconstruction software are described. Thirty-one subjects were examined and divided into four clinical groups. Th...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Cherepenin V,Karpov A,Korjenevsky A,Kornienko V,Kultiasov Y,Mazaletskaya A,Mazourov D

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we developed a novel technique for estimating non-constrained and cuffless blood pressure (BP) that was based on electrocardiogram (ECG) and ballistocardiogram (BCG). The BCG was non-invasively measured using a common electronic weighing scale when a subject was standing on it. The ECG was measured usin...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Shin JH,Lee KM,Park KS

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infant multiple breath washout (MBW) testing serves as a primary outcome in clinical studies. However, it is still unknown whether current software algorithms allow between-centre comparisons. In this study of healthy infants, we quantified MBW measurement errors and tried to improve data quality by simply changing so...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Anagnostopoulou P,Egger B,Lurà M,Usemann J,Schmidt A,Gorlanova O,Korten I,Roos M,Frey U,Latzin P

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-contact vital sign monitoring enables the estimation of vital signs, such as heart rate, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation (SpO2), by measuring subtle color changes on the skin surface using a video camera. For patients in a hospital ward, the main challenges in the development of continuous and robust non-co...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Chaichulee S,Villarroel M,Jorge J,Arteta C,McCormick K,Zisserman A,Tarassenko L

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Controversial data exist on acute and chronic effects of competitive sports on central hemodynamics and arterial stiffness. We investigated chronic as well as acute training effects in professional rowers. The trial was planned as a non-randomized, controlled pilot-study comparing athletes and controls. 13 German nati...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Franzen K,Reppel M,Köster J,Mortensen K

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cardiac arrhythmias have been studied extensively, little is known about arrhythmic phenomena in the gastrointestinal (GI) system. In this study, we demonstrate for the first time that the onset of GI arrhythmias is associated with statistically significant fluctuations in the information dimension of the ass...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Irimia A,Wikswo JP Jr

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If electrical impedance tomography is to be used as a clinical tool, the image reconstruction algorithms must yield accurate images of impedance changes. One of the keys to producing an accurate reconstructed image is the inclusion of prior information regarding the physical geometry of the object. To achieve this, ma...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Bayford RH,Gibson A,Tizzard A,Tidswell T,Holder DS

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A magnetic pulse generator has been set up in order to study gastric activity. Two coils 1.05 m in diameter, arranged in a Helmholtz configuration, were used. The system generated magnetic field pulses higher than 15 mT, of duration 17.3+/-1.2 ms. Measurements were performed in 11 male volunteers, with average age 29....

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Cordova-Fraga T,Bernal-Alvarado JJ,Gutierrez-Juarez G,Sosa M,Vargas-Luna M

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multi-frequency electrical impedance tomography system for cardiopulmonary monitoring has been designed with specialized digital signal processors developed primarily for the telecommunications sector. The system consists of two modules: a scan-head and a base-station. The scan-head, located close to the patient's t...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Robitaille N,Guardo R,Maurice I,Hartinger AE,Gagnon H

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In this study, electroencephalography activity recorded during monotonous driving was investigated to examine the predictive capability of monopolar EEG analysis for fatigue/sleepiness in a cohort of train drivers. APPROACH:Sixty-three train drivers participated in the study, where 32- lead monopolar EEG dat...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Lees T,Chalmers T,Burton D,Zilberg E,Penzel T,Lal S,Lal S

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In this paper, a support vector machine (SVM) approach using statistical features, P wave absence, spectrum features, and length-adaptive entropy are presented to classify ECG rhythms as four types: normal rhythm, atrial fibrillation (AF), other rhythm, and too noisy to classify. APPROACH:The proposed algori...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Liu N,Sun M,Wang L,Zhou W,Dang H,Zhou X

更新日期：2018-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) has shown significant promise for lung imaging. One key challenge for EIT in this application is the movement of electrodes during breathing, which introduces artefacts in reconstructed images. Various approaches have been proposed to compensate for electrode movement, but no comp...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Biguri A,Grychtol B,Adler A,Soleimani M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-frequency (HF) oscillations in RR interval from 0.15-0.40 Hz are widely accepted as a measure of cardiac vagal outflow but the HF/RR relationship appears complex, particularly with longer RR intervals. The aim of this study was to evaluate the HF/RR interval relationship during free and paced breathing. HF power ...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Sandercock G,Gladwell V,Dawson S,Nunan D,Brodie D,Beneke R

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal motility is a widely accepted indicator of the well-being of a fetus. In previous research, it has be shown that fetal motion (FM) is coherent with fetal heart rate accelerations and an indicator for active/rest cycles of the fetus. The most common approach for FM and fetal heart rate (FHR) assessment is by Dopp...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Biglari H,Sameni R

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A finite difference model of the human thorax with 113,400 control volumes (nodes) based on ECG gated MRI images was used to evaluate the Sheffield DAS-01P EIT system. Sixteen simulated electrode positions equally spaced around the thorax model at approximately the fourth intercostals space level were selected. Pairs ...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Patterson RP,Zhang J

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies have associated the negative effects of sedentary time and sedentary patterns on health indices. However, these studies have used methodologies that do not directly measure the sedentary state. Recent technological developments in the area of motion sensors have incorporated inclinometers, whic...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Dowd KP,Harrington DM,Bourke AK,Nelson J,Donnelly AE

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00