A miniature device aiming for long-term surveillance of nasopharynx cancer

Author

Wei Liu ; Hongliang Ren ; Chwee Ming Lim

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2013

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

In this paper, we proposed a wireless and miniature device for long-term surveillance for nasopharynx cancer. The device was composed with Φ3.5mm diameter mini-camera, 2.4GHz wireless emitter and rechargeable 80mAh lithium-ion battery. The miniature camera was attached on the surface of the vomer bone. The captured image from the device was performed with sobel edge detection algorithm to extract the contour of artificial marker. The validity of the proposed device was assessed by the present experiment.

Keywords

biomedical optical imaging; bone; cameras; cancer; edge detection; image capture; medical image processing; camera; contour extraction; current 80 mA; frequency 2.4 GHz; image capture; long-term surveillance; miniature device; nasopharynx cancer; rechargeable lithium-ion battery; size 3.5 mm; sobel edge detection algorithm; vomer bone surface; wireless emitter device; Batteries; Bones; Cameras; Cancer; Image edge detection; Magnetic resonance imaging; Wireless communication; Nasopharynx; camera; implants; miniature device;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Workshop Series on RF and Wireless Technologies for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications (IMWS-BIO), 2013 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Singapore

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMWS-BIO.2013.6756242

Filename

6756242