Sensors for everyday life : healthcare settings

• Other Authors: Postolache, Octavian Adrian (Editor), Mukhopadhyay, Subhas Chandra (Editor), Jayasundera, Krishanthi P. (Editor), Swain, Akshya K. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer, 2016.
• Series: Smart sensors, measurement and instrumentation ; 22.
• Subjects: Medical innovations > Social aspects.; Medical innovations.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319473192; 9783319473185
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Sensors were developed to detect and quantify structures and functions of human body as well as to gather information from the environment in order to optimize the efficiency, cost-effectiveness and quality of healthcare services as well as to improve health and quality of life. This book offers an...

Table of Contents:

• Preface; How this Book is Organized; Who Is It For?; About the Editors; Contents; 1 FPGA Based Smart System for Non Invasive Blood Glucose Sensing Using Photoplethysmography and Online Correction of Motion Artifact; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Background; 3 Methods and Procedures; 3.1 Trans Impedance Amplifier; 3.2 High Pass Filter; 3.3 Low Pass Filter; 4 Adaptive Filtering; 5 Conventional Fir Based Adaptive Filtering of PPG; 6 Adaptive Filter Based on Adaline Neural Network; 6.1 Adaptive Linear Network Architecture.
• 7 FPGA Implementation of Multi-Layered Perceptron Neural Network Prediction Model7.1 Structure of the Feed Forward Network; 7.2 Implementing the Sigmoid Activation Function; 7.3 System Level Design; 8 Results; 9 Conclusion; References; 2 Sensing System for Bone Health Monitoring; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Osteoporosis and Bone Health; 1.2 Contemporary Methods Available for Osteoporosis Detection and Their Limitations; 2 Motivation; 3 Behaviour of Interdigital Sensors; 3.1 Operating Principle of Interdigital Sensors; 3.2 High Penetration Depth Planar Interdigital Sensors.
• 4 Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy5 Experiments Using the Elisa Kit; 5.1 Assay Procedure; 5.2 Experimental Results from ELISA; 6 Experiments Using the Developed Sensing System; 6.1 Experimental Set up; 6.2 Sensor Functionalization and EIS Testing; 6.2.1 Results and Discussions; 6.2.2 Complex Nonlinear Least Squares Curve Fitting; 7 Conclusion; References; 3 Cavitas Sensors (Soft Contact Lens Type Biosensor, Mouth-Guard Type Sensor, etc.) for Daily Medicine; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Contact Lens Sensors in Conjunctiva Sac; 2.1 Tear Fluid; 2.2 Tear Conductivity Sensor.
• 2.3 Eyelid Transcutaneous Gas Sensor3 Soft Contact Lens Type Biosensors for Tear Chemicals; 4 Mouthguard Sensors in an Oral Cavity; 4.1 Salivary Fluids in a Human; 4.2 pH Sensing; 4.3 Salivary Uric Acid Sensor in Oral Cavity; 4.4 Glucose Sensor in Oral Cavity; 5 Conclusion; References; 4 Development of Novel Image Sensor for Root Canal Observation; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 System Requirements; 3 Experimental Setup of the External-Irradiation System; 3.1 Gradient-Index Lens (GRIN Lens); 3.2 Image Fibre; 3.3 System Construction; 3.4 Observation Method.
• 4 Observation Results of the External-Irradiation System5 Evaluation of the External-Irradiation System; 6 Experimental Setup of the Internal-Irradiation System; 6.1 Improvement of the System Construction; 6.2 Specification of the Image Fibre and GRIN Lens for Internal-Irradiation System; 7 Results of the Internal-Irradiation System; 8 Latest Research Progress; 9 Discussions; 10 Conclusions; References; 5 Frame-by-Frame Speech Signal Processing and Recognition for FPGA Devices; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Speech Analysis for FPGA Implementation; 2.1 Fundamentals of Speech.