Title :
Ambulatory electroencephalographic monitoring system for the analysis of brain waves
Author :
Ravindran, G. ; Chandar, O. R Ashwin
Author_Institution :
Centre for Med. Electron., Anna Univ., Chennai, India
Abstract :
This work is concerned with the development of a special equipment to monitor the brain waves of the patients even when he is under mobility in his locality and transmit them to the hospital or any monitoring station and record the electroencephalogram (EEG) of those patients and to diagnose the presence of epileptic seizures if any with an intelligent software and to store these details which may be useful for further analysis or expert consultations. This may prove very useful for the epileptic patients especially when the patient develops occasional problems related to his neural activities; bedside monitoring is not feasible both physically and economically. Under such conditions, ambulatory electroencephalographic monitoring provides an efficient and effective solution for this problem. This unit is equipped with a sophisticated hardware to acquire, amplify and transmit EEG and receive them through an interface unit and a software module to denoise and analyse them with epileptic seizure and spike detection algorithms coded with discrete wavelet transformation technique.
Keywords :
discrete wavelet transforms; electroencephalography; medical signal detection; medical signal processing; neurophysiology; patient diagnosis; patient monitoring; EEG; ambulatory electroencephalographic monitoring system; bedside monitoring; brain wave analysis; discrete wavelet transformation; epileptic patients; epileptic seizure diagnosis; intelligent software; neural activities; spike detection algorithms; Algorithm design and analysis; Condition monitoring; Detection algorithms; Discrete wavelet transforms; Electroencephalography; Epilepsy; Hardware; Hospitals; Patient monitoring; Wavelet analysis; Ambulatory Electroencephalogram (AEEG); Denoising; Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT); Electroencephalogram (EEG); Epilepsy; Frequency Modulation (FM); Frequency Shift Keying (FSK); Seizure analysis; Spike Detection;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2004. IEMBS '04. 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8439-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1403163