Main description:

Advances in technological devices unveil new architectures for instrumentation and improvements in measurement techniques. Sensing technology, related to biomedical aspects, plays a key role in nowadays applications; it promotes different advantages for: healthcare, solving difficulties for elderly persons, clinical analysis, microbiological characterizations, etc.. This book intends to illustrate and to collect recent advances in biomedical measurements and sensing instrumentation, not as an encyclopedia but as clever support for scientists, students and researchers in other to stimulate exchange and discussions for further developments.

Contents:

Distributed System Architecture Using a Prototype Web E-Nose.- Magnetic Fluids for Bio-medical Application.- Design of the New Prognosis Wearable System-Prototype for Health Monitoring of People at Risk.- Ultra Wide Band in Medical Applications.- A Wearable Force Plate System Designed Using Small Triaxial Force Sensors and Inertial Sensors.- Optical Ranging in Endoscopy: Towards Quantitative Imaging.- Validation of Denoising Algorithms for Medical Imaging.- Dielectrophoretic Actuation and Simultaneous Detection of Individual Bioparticles.- Use of Triaxial Accelerometers for Posture and Movement Analysis of Patients.- Instrumentation and Sensors for Human Breath Analysis.- Decomposition of Photoplethysmographical Arterial Pulse Waves by Independent Component Analysis: Possibilities and Limitations.- Digital Processing of Diagnostic Images.- Expanding the Metrological and Operating Characteristics of Cytofluorimeters.- Biomedical Sensors for Ambient Assisted Living.- Biosignal Processing to Meet the Emerging Needs of Telehealth Monitoring Environments.- Calibration of Automated Non Invasive Blood Pressure Measurement Devices.- Augmented Reality in Minimally Invasive Surgery.- Advances in EEG Signal Processing for Epilepsy Detection.- A Novel Portable Device for Laryngeal Pathologies Analysis and Classification.