Cardio-respiratory and daily activity monitor based on FMCW Doppler radar embedded in a wheelchair

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1917-1920

  Postolache, Octavian ^a,e   Girão, Pedro Silva ^a,b   Postolache, Gabriela ^c   Gabriel, Joaquim ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c Universidade Atlantica   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^e INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE SETÚBAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Android OS tablet computer; FMCW Doppler radar; unobtrusive monitoring; wheelchair user

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; CONDITIONING CIRCUIT; DAILY ACTIVITY; DATA STORAGE; DATA SYNCHRONIZATION; DOPPLER; FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVES; MANUAL OPERATIONS; MANUAL WHEELCHAIR; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION AGING; PRIMARY PROCESSING; RADAR SENSORS; RESPIRATORY ACTIVITY; TABLET COMPUTER; UNOBTRUSIVE MONITORING;

ACTIVE FILTERS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR; DOPPLER RADAR; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MONITORING; ROBOTS; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WHEELCHAIRS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ACTIMETRY; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELECOMMUNICATION; WHEELCHAIR; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

ACTIGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; RADAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY RATE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 84862252870     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090542     Document Type: Conference Paper

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