Wearable body sensor network towards continuous cuff-less blood pressure monitoring

Proc. 5th Int. Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, BSN2008, in conjunction with the 5th Int. Summer School and Symp. on Medical Devices and Biosensors, ISSS-MDBS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 28-32

  Espina, Javier ^a   Falck, Thomas ^a   Muehlsteff, Jens ^b   Jin, Yilin ^c   Adán, Miguel A ^d   Aubert, Xavier ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; DATA PROCESSING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; ESTIMATION; HEALTH; SENSORS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ACCELERATION SENSORS; ARTERIAL BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE ESTIMATION; BLOOD-PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY SENSOR NETWORK; CONTEXT INFORMATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM (ECG); EVENT DETECTION; FLOODING TIME SYNCHRONIZATION PROTOCOL; FUTURE WORK; HYPERTENSION DIAGNOSIS; IEEE 802.15.4; MEDICAL DEVICES; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAM; PULSE ARRIVAL TIME; SENSOR DATA PROCESSING; STRESS MONITORING; SUMMER SCHOOLS; WEARABLE BODY SENSOR NETWORK;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 51949109786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSMDBS.2008.4575008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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