Title :
Clinical tests and evaluations of a Wireless ECG sensor for realization of ubiquitous health care systems
Author :
Sugano, Hiroto ; Tsujioka, Tetsuo ; Inoue, Tadayuki ; Nakajima, Shigeyoshi ; Hara, Shinsuke ; Nakamura, Hajime ; Takeuchi, Kazuhide
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Eng., Osaka City Univ., Osaka, Japan
fDate :
Aug. 31 2010-Sept. 4 2010
Abstract :
This paper introduces the concept of an online medical diagnosis system for ubiquitous health care using a wireless ECG sensor. To confirm the feasibility ofthe system, we conducted clinical tests by 67 subjects with a wireless ECG sensor and a Holter ECG monitor simultaneously for comparison purpose. We made five types of evaluations such as analyses on data loss rate, burst data loss length, ECG waveforms comparison, normalized cross-correlation and heart rate variability (HRV) by RR50. The results show that, as long as the sensed data are successfully received at a receiver, the wireless ECG sensor has a comparable performance with the Holter ECG monitor.
Keywords :
biomedical telemetry; electrocardiography; health care; medical diagnostic computing; ubiquitous computing; wireless sensor networks; ECG waveforms comparison; Holter ECG monitor; RR50; burst data loss length; clinical tests; data loss rate; heart rate variability; normalized cross-correlation; online medical diagnosis system; ubiquitous health care systems; wireless ECG sensor; Batteries; Biomedical monitoring; Electrocardiography; Indexes; Medical diagnostic imaging; Monitoring; Transient analysis; Algorithms; Arrhythmias, Cardiac; Computer Communication Networks; Electrocardiography; Electrodes; Equipment Design; Heart Rate; Humans; Models, Statistical; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Reproducibility of Results; Software; Telemedicine;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Buenos Aires
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4123-5
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626793