Title :
NeuroGlasses: A Neural Sensing Healthcare System for 3-D Vision Technology
Author :
Gong, Fang ; Xu, Wenyao ; Lee, Jueh-Yu ; He, Lei ; Sarrafzadeh, Majid
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
fDate :
3/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
3-D vision technologies are extensively used in a wide variety of applications. Particularly glasses-based 3-D technology facilities are increasingly becoming affordable to our daily lives. Considering health issues raised by 3-D video technologies, to the best of our knowledge, most of the pilot studies are practiced in a highly-controlled laboratory environment only. In this paper, we present NeuroGlasses, a nonintrusive wearable physiological signal monitoring system to facilitate health analysis and diagnosis of 3-D video watchers. The NeuroGlasses system acquires health-related signals by physiological sensors and provides feedbacks of health-related features. Moreover, the NeuroGlasses system employs signal-specific reconstruction and feature extraction to compensate the distortion of signals caused by variation of the placement of the sensors. We also propose a server-based NeuroGlasses infrastructure where physiological features can be extracted for real-time response or collected on the server side for long term analysis and diagnosis. Through an on-campus pilot study, the experimental results show that NeuroGlasses system can effectively provide physiological information for healthcare purpose. Furthermore, it approves that 3-D vision technology has a significant impact on the physiological signals, such as EEG, which potentially leads to neural diseases.
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; biosensors; diseases; electroencephalography; feature extraction; health care; medical signal processing; patient monitoring; signal reconstruction; 3D video technologies; 3D video watchers; 3D vision technology; EEG; feature extraction; glasses-based 3D technology; health-related features; highly-controlled laboratory environment; neural diseases; neural sensing healthcare system; neuroglasses system; nonintrusive wearable physiological signal monitoring system; patient diagnosis; physiological sensors; server-based neuroglasses infrastructure; signal distortion; signal-specific reconstruction; Biomedical monitoring; Feature extraction; Interference; Noise; Physiology; Sensors; Three dimensional displays; Healthcare system; patten recognition; signal processing; Depth Perception; Electrodiagnosis; Eyeglasses; Female; Humans; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; Internet; Male; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Wireless Technology;
Journal_Title :
Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TITB.2011.2176539