10.1 SPECIAL DAY Hot Topic: Wearable Medical Applications

Date: Thursday 12 March 2015
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Location / Room: Salle Oisans

Organiser:
Jo De Boeck, IMEC, BE

Chair:
Renzo Dal Molin, Sorin Group, FR

Co-Chair:
Chris Van Hoof, IMEC, BE

Wearable devices are hot. This session will treat opportunities in technology and application for devices that assist in prevention and monitoring in selected cases.

Time	Label	Presentation Title Authors
11:00	10.1.1	MOBILE HEALTH MONITORING: ADOPTION AND SYSTEM CHALLENGES Speaker: David Shanes, BioTelemetry, Inc., US Abstract Biotelemetry, formerly Cardionet, is leader in the advancement of mobile health monitoring by providing innovative products and services to help healthcare professionals track and diagnose patients in a more efficient, accurate, and cost-effective manner. This presentation will indicate the challenges in the adoption of innovative medical device systems including how to excite and capture customers. Also, it will address medical application considerations in electronic systems design where a unique system of requirements needs to be met including factors such as availability, dependability, ruggedness, operational environments, testing and documentation.
11:30	10.1.2	WEARABLE DEVICE FOR PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH MONITORING Speaker: Srinivasan Murali, SmartCardia, CH Abstract Personal health monitoring systems are emerging as promising solutions to tackle health-care costs and delivery. There is a growing interest within the medical community in developing ultra-small, portable devices that can continuously monitor and process several vital body parameters, such as the Electrocardiogram (ECG) and breathing. In this talk, we will present a wearable device for physical and emotional health monitoring. The device obtains user's key physiological signals: ECG, breathing and skin conductance and derives the user's emotion states as well. We will present case studies on how the technology can improve physical and emotional health of users and the key challenges encountered during the design process.
12:00	10.1.3	GAIT ANALYSIS FOR FALL PREDICTION USING HIERARCHICAL TEXTILE-BASED CAPACITIVE SENSOR ARRAYS Speaker: Rebecca Baldwin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, US Authors: Rebecca Baldwin, Stanislav Bobovych, Ryan Robucci, Nilanjan Banerjee and Chintan Patel, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, US Abstract Falls are a major cause of injuries in adults above the age of sixty-five. The economic aftermath of falls and their consequent hospitalization can be huge, totally more than 30 billion dollars in 2010 alone. A plausible way of mitigating this problem is accurate prediction of future falls and taking proactive remedial action. Spatio-temporal variation in gait is a reliable indicator of a future fall, however, existing systems focus on gait analysis in clinical settings and are not tuned towards continuous gait analysis. In this paper, we present the design of a novel textile capacitive sensor array-based system built into clothing that can reliably capture spatio-temporal gait attributes in a home setting. A key novel research contribution of our work is a context-aware hierarchical signal processing architecture that breaks down the signal processing algorithm into a hierarchy of processing elements. The lower power processing components perform generic feature extraction using observations derived from the capacitor plates, while the higher-level processors aggregate features to infer gait attributes such as stride speed and inter-leg spacing. The system activates the higher power processing elements only when it detects walking. We have prototyped our system using textile capacitive plates built into an ace-bandage and a custom FPGA-based system and show that our system can accurately detect gait attributes that have high correlation with falls, while consuming minimal energy as estimated for a multi-clock-domain 180-nm IC. Download Paper (PDF; Only available from the DATE venue WiFi)
12:30		End of session Lunch Break, Keynote lecture from 1320 - 1350 (Room Oisans) in Les Écrins Coffee Break in Exhibition Area On all conference days (Tuesday to Thursday), coffee and tea will be served during the coffee breaks at the below-mentioned times in the exhibition area. Lunch Break On Tuesday and Wednesday, lunch boxes will be served in front of the session room Salle Oisans and in the exhibition area for fully registered delegates (a voucher will be given upon registration on-site). On Thursday, lunch will be served in Room Les Ecrins (for fully registered conference delegates only). Tuesday, March 10, 2015 Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:30 Lunch Break 13:00 - 14:30; Keynote session from 13:20 - 14:20 (Room Oisans) sponsored by Mentor Graphics Coffee Break 16:00 - 17:00 Wednesday, March 11, 2015 Coffee Break 10:00 - 11:00 Lunch Break 12:30 - 14:30, Keynote lectures from 12:50 - 14:20 (Room Oisans) Coffee Break 16:00 - 17:00 Thursday, March 12, 2015 Coffee Break 10:00 - 11:00 Lunch Break 12:30 - 14:00, Keynote lecture from 13:20 - 13:50 Coffee Break 15:30 - 16:00