A Wi-Fi adapter for medical data and imaging applications

Author

Shrestha, Ranjay ; Khan, Tareq ; Wahid, K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

fYear

2013

fDate

16-18 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

61

Lastpage

64

Abstract

In this paper, a design of a microcontroller based Wi-Fi adapter for medical application is proposed. The adapter will enable data logging from an implantable biosensor directly into a Smart device, laptop, or servers connected with hospital´s Wi-Fi network. This will allow medical doctors to analyze important physiological data in real time from a remote distance. The design has been prototyped in laboratory and the advantage of the proposed adapter is demonstrated for wireless capsule endoscopy application. An Android mobile app is developed for Smartphone for storing, decoding and displaying endoscopy images in real-time.

Keywords

Android (operating system); biosensors; data loggers; endoscopes; hospitals; image coding; medical image processing; microcontrollers; smart phones; wireless LAN; Android mobile app; data logging; endoscopy image decoding; endoscopy image display; endoscopy image storage; hospital Wi-Fi network; implantable biosensor; laptop; medical data; medical imaging; microcontroller-based Wi-Fi adapter design; physiological data analysis; remote distance; servers; smart device; smart phone; wireless capsule endoscopy application; Biosensors; Endoscopes; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Radio frequency; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Android application; Wi-Fi; biosensor; capsule endoscopy; data-logging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Aware Computing Systems and Applications (ICEAC), 2013 4th Annual International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEAC.2013.6737638

Filename

6737638