Designing a low-cost mattress sensor for automated body position classification

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 6437-6440

  Lowne, Duncan R ^a,b   Tarler, Matthew ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Cleveland Medical Devices Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DIAGNOSIS; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; PATIENT TREATMENT; POSITION MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE CONTROL; SLEEP RESEARCH;

BODY POSITION; CLINICAL SETTING; PRESSURE SENSORS; SLEEP DISORDERS;

SENSORS;

EID: 33846918718     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2005.1615972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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