Title :
Virtual instrumentation for a new health care device
Author :
Andrade, T.P. ; Quintas, M.R. ; Silva, C.M. ; Restivo, M.T. ; Chouzal, M.P. ; Amaral, T.M.
Abstract :
Nowadays, the assessment of body composition by estimating the percentage of body fat has a great impact in many fields such as nutrition, health, sports, chronic diseases and others. The main purpose for this work is to demonstrate the development of a Virtual Instrument that permits more effective assessment of body fat, automatic data processing, recording results and storage in a database, with high potential to conduct new studies.
Keywords :
health care; medical diagnostic computing; virtual instrumentation; automatic data processing; body composition assessment; body fat estimation; chronic diseases; database storage; health care device; nutrition; recording results; sports; virtual instrumentation; Biomedical measurements; Indexes; biomedical equipment; medical diagnosis; virtual instrument; wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV), 2012 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bilbao
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2540-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2541-7
DOI :
10.1109/REV.2012.6293181
