10.1 Wearable and Smart Medical Devices Day: Diagnosis and prevention systems

Date: Thursday 30 March 2017
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Location / Room: 5BC

Organisers:
José L. Ayala, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES
Chris Van Hoof, IMEC, BE

Chair:
Olivier Romain, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, FR

Co-Chair:
Mario Konijnenburg, IMEC, BE

This session will present novel approaches, techniques and devices for the improvement of diagnosis and prevention systems. Improved bioanalytics-on-chip designs, wearables in the prevention of elderly, computational mechanisms for prevention of symptoms, and bioelectronics medicines will be covered.

Time	Label	Presentation Title Authors
11:00	10.1.1	ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR NEXT GENERATION BIOANALYTICS ON CHIP Author: Carlota Guiducci, EPFL, CH Abstract The adoption of lab-on-chip based solutions in clinical practice and in the framework of the most common bioanalytics protocols has long been sought for the possibility to fine control the movement of fluids and the flow of molecules and particles. Nevertheless, the existing solutions inherently limit both throughput and the possibility to sense and manipulate single particles. A few years ago, we undertook a major challenge in this context, starting from the consideration that the lack of solutions to localize electric fields in micro-regions and to control their distribution over the height of the chambers fundamentally limited the efficiency and the scalability of these systems. Our strategy, based on monolithic process, results in highly conductive and singularly addressable vertical microelectrodes, fully integrated in high aspect-ratio microfluidics. We have applied this novel process to develop a new generation of microfluidic flow cytometers that could successfully detect, for the first time, activated T lymphocytes in a cellular sample. In this talk we will describe as well our contribution to the integration of biosensors on IC layers and to solve the issues related to the specific surface treatments involved in the analytical protocol.
11:20	10.1.2	BIOELECTRONICS MEDICINES - BRIDGING BIOLOGY WITH TECHNOLOGY Author: Firat Yazicioglu, GSK, BE
11:45	10.1.3	AN OPTIMAL APPROACH FOR LOW-POWER MIGRAINE PREDICTION MODELS IN THE STATE-OF-THE-ART WIRELESS MONITORING DEVICES Speaker: Josué Pagán, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES Authors: Josué Pagán¹, Ramin Fallahzadeh², Hassan Ghasemzadeh³, Jose Manuel Moya⁴, José Luis Risco Martín¹ and Jose L. Ayala¹ ¹Complutense University of Madrid, ES; ²School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, US; ³Washington State University, US; ⁴Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES Abstract Wearable monitoring devices for ubiquitous health care are becoming a reality that has to deal with limited battery autonomy. Several researchers focus their efforts in reducing the energy consumption of these motes: from efficient micro-architectures, to on-node data processing techniques. In this paper we focus in the optimization of the energy consumption of monitoring devices for the prediction of symptomatic events in chronic diseases in real time. To do this, we have developed an optimization methodology that incorporates information of several sources of energy consumption: the running code for prediction, and the sensors for data acquisition. As a result of our methodology, we are able to improve the energy consumption of the computing process up to 90% with a minimal impact on accuracy. The proposed optimization methodology can be applied to any prediction modeling scheme to introduce the concept of energy efficiency. In this work we test the framework using Grammatical Evolutionary algorithms in the prediction of chronic migraines. Download Paper (PDF; Only available from the DATE venue WiFi)
12:05	10.1.4	WEARABLE ELECTRONICS - WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR - AND WHAT IS MISSING TO SUPPORT THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF ELDERLY PEOPLE? Author: Ralf Brederlow, Kilby Labs at Texas Instruments, DE
12:30		End of session Lunch Break in Garden Foyer Keynote Lecture session 11.0 in "Garden Foyer" 1320 - 1350 Lunch Break in the Garden Foyer On all conference days (Tuesday to Thursday), a buffet lunch will be offered in the Garden Foyer, in front of the session rooms. Kindly note that this is restricted to conference delegates possessing a lunch voucher only. When entering the lunch break area, delegates will be asked to present the corresponding lunch voucher of the day. Once the lunch area is being left, re-entrance is not allowed for the respective lunch.