Design of an intelligent and personalised shunting system for hydrocephalus

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 779-782

  Momani, Lina ^a   Alkharabsheh, Abdel Rahman ^a   Al Nuaimy, Waleed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PATIENT TREATMENT; VALVES (MECHANICAL);

CEREBRO SPINAL FLUIDS; FLUID PRESSURES; INTRA-CRANIAL PRESSURE; MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL VALVES; NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE; PERSONALISATION; SHUNTING SYSTEMS;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID;

ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EVALUATION STUDY; EXPERT SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MANOMETRY; METHODOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MANOMETRY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEMETRY; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 61849108595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649268     Document Type: Conference Paper

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