Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Cuff-less blood pressure (BP) is a potential method for BP monitoring because it is undisturbed and continuous monitoring. Existing cuff-less estimation methods are easily influenced by signal noise and non-ideal signal morphology. In this study we p...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Electrocardiogram (ECG) delineation is a process to detect multiple characteristic points, which contain critical diagnostic information about cardiac diseases. We treat the ECG delineation task as an one-dimensional segmentation problem, and propose...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most common arrhythmias. The automatic AF detection is of great clinical significance but at the same time it remains a big problem to researchers. In this study, a novel deep learning method to detect AF was pr...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Chest compressions delivered during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) induce artifacts in the ECG that may make the shock advice algorithms (SAA) of defibrillators inaccurate. There is evidence that methods consisting of adaptive filters that remov...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Photoplethysmogram (PPG) is increasingly used to provide monitoring of the cardiovascular system under ambulatory conditions. Wearable devices like smartwatches use PPG to allow long-term unobtrusive monitoring of heart rate in free-living conditions...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
In recent years, machine learning algorithms have become increasingly popular for analyzing biomedical signals. This includes the detection of cyclic alternating pattern (CAP) in electroencephalography recordings. Here, we investigate the performance...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Dysarthria speakers suffer from poor communication, and voice conversion (VC) technology is a potential approach for improving their speech quality. This study presents a joint feature learning approach to improve a sub-band deep neural network-based...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Wearable technology for the automatic detection of gait events has recently gained growing interest, enabling advanced analyses that were previously limited to specialist centres and equipment (e.g., instrumented walkway). In this study, we present a...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Sleep staging, a process of identifying the sleep stages associated with polysomnography (PSG) epochs, plays an important role in sleep monitoring and diagnosing sleep disorders. We present in this work a model fusion approach to automate this task. ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
We have recently demonstrated that micro-scale Sharp waves in the first few hours EEG of asphyxiated preterm fetal sheep models are the reliable prognostic biomarkers for Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE). Higher number of sharp waves within the ...