Distributed processing for features improvement in real-time portable medical devices

Author

Mercado, Erwin John Saavedra

Author_Institution

Unidades TecnolÃ³gicas de Santander, Calle de los Estudiantes, No. 9-82 Bucaramanga, Colombia

fYear

2008

fDate

20-25 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

5935

Lastpage

5938

Abstract

Portable biomedical devices are being developed and incorporated in daily life. Nevertheless, their standalone capacity is diminished due to the lack of processing power required to face such duties as for example, signal artifacts robustness in EKG monitor devices. The following paper presents a multiprocessor architecture made from simple microcontrollers to provide an increase in processing performance, power consumption efficiency and lower cost.

Keywords

Biomedical monitoring; Costs; Distributed processing; Energy consumption; Face; Medical diagnostic imaging; Real time systems; Robustness; Signal processing; Signal processing algorithms; Action Potentials; Animals; Computer Simulation; Computer Systems; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; Electronics, Medical; Heart Conduction System; Humans; Miniaturization; Models, Cardiovascular; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1814-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4650568

Filename

4650568