Non-intrusive patient monitoring of Alzheimer's disease subjects using wireless sensor networks

CONGRESS 2009 - 2009 World Congress on Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of e-Business

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 161-165

  Avvenuti, M ^a   Baker, C ^b   Light, J ^b   Tulpan, D ^c   Vecchio, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

AD subjects; Neurosensors; Patient monitoring; Wireless sensors

Indexed keywords

AD SUBJECTS; ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; BODY MOVEMENTS; BRAIN ACTIVITY; COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS; COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; ISSUES AND CHALLENGES; NEUROSENSORS; NON-INTRUSIVE; PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT; ROBUST STRATEGY; WIRELESS MONITORING; WIRELESS SENSOR;

BRAIN; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; NETWORK SECURITY; SENSORS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

PATIENT MONITORING;

EID: 74749086973     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CONGRESS.2009.25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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