Portable clinical EOG instrument system

Author

Chen, Shih-Chung ; Tsai, Tzu-Tung ; Luo, Ching-Hsing

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36434

Abstract

It is very important to study the EOG system in eye movement for both clinicians and basic scientists due to the abundant neuropathological information. However, the present commercial stimulation instrument only provides very few and fixed patterns. Therefore, techniques of computer animation, data acquisition, data analysis and database management are applied to implement an intelligent instrument that can stimulate and diagnose EOG system with patterns freely set by the doctors or the researchers, so that vision and nerve system illnesses can be studied efficiently. Instead of the expensive and huge commercial stimulation instruments in the present market, in this paper a personal computer is used due to its cheapness, popularity, multifunction and fast speed. A lot of interesting stimulation patterns can easily be created in shape, time sequence, and color under Windows 95. It is hoped that this invention can contribute to clinical diagnosis and basic medical science research for EOG

Keywords

bioelectric potentials; biomedical equipment; computer animation; computerised instrumentation; data acquisition; diseases; eye; medical signal processing; microcomputer applications; neurophysiology; patient diagnosis; portable instruments; vision; EOG system diagnosis; Windows 95; clinical diagnosis; computer animation; data acquisition; data analysis; database management; doctors; eye movement; intelligent instrument; medical science research; nerve system illnesses; neuropathological information; personal computer; portable clinical EOG instrument system; researchers; stimulation patterns; vision; Animation; Clinical diagnosis; Data acquisition; Data analysis; Deductive databases; Electrooculography; Instruments; Machine vision; Microcomputers; Shape;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5674-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1999.804013

Filename

804013