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Fog Computing in Medical Internet-of-Things: Architecture, Implementation, and Applications
In the era when the market segment of Internet of Things (IoT) tops the chart
in various business reports, it is apparently envisioned that the field of
medicine expects to gain a large benefit from the explosion of wearables and
internet-connected sensors that surround us to acquire and communicate
unprecedented data on symptoms, medication, food intake, and daily-life
activities impacting one's health and wellness. However, IoT-driven healthcare
would have to overcome many barriers, such as: 1) There is an increasing demand
for data storage on cloud servers where the analysis of the medical big data
becomes increasingly complex, 2) The data, when communicated, are vulnerable to
security and privacy issues, 3) The communication of the continuously collected
data is not only costly but also energy hungry, 4) Operating and maintaining
the sensors directly from the cloud servers are non-trial tasks. This book
chapter defined Fog Computing in the context of medical IoT. Conceptually, Fog
Computing is a service-oriented intermediate layer in IoT, providing the
interfaces between the sensors and cloud servers for facilitating connectivity,
data transfer, and queryable local database. The centerpiece of Fog computing
is a low-power, intelligent, wireless, embedded computing node that carries out
signal conditioning and data analytics on raw data collected from wearables or
other medical sensors and offers efficient means to serve telehealth
interventions. We implemented and tested an fog computing system using the
Intel Edison and Raspberry Pi that allows acquisition, computing, storage and
communication of the various medical data such as pathological speech data of
individuals with speech disorders, Phonocardiogram (PCG) signal for heart rate
estimation, and Electrocardiogram (ECG)-based Q, R, S detection.Comment: 29 pages, 30 figures, 5 tables. Keywords: Big Data, Body Area
Network, Body Sensor Network, Edge Computing, Fog Computing, Medical
Cyberphysical Systems, Medical Internet-of-Things, Telecare, Tele-treatment,
Wearable Devices, Chapter in Handbook of Large-Scale Distributed Computing in
Smart Healthcare (2017), Springe
Weighted Time Warping for Temporal Segmentation of Multi-Parameter Physiological Signals
We present a novel approach to segmenting a quasiperiodic multi-parameter physiological signal in the presence of noise and transient corruption. We use Weighted Time Warping (WTW), to combine the partially correlated signals. We then use the relationship between the channels and the repetitive morphology of the time series to partition it into quasiperiodic units by matching it against a constantly evolving template. The method can accurately segment a multi-parameter signal, even when all the individual channels are so corrupted that they cannot be individually segmented. Experiments carried out on MIMIC, a multi-parameter physiological dataset recorded on ICU patients, demonstrate the effectiveness of the method. Our method performs as well as a widely used QRS detector on clean raw data, and outperforms it on corrupted data. Under additive noise at SNR 0 dB the average errors were 5:81 ms for our method and 303:48 ms for the QRS detector. Under transient corruption they were 2:89 ms and 387:32 ms respectively
ECG Biometric Authentication: A Comparative Analysis
Robust authentication and identification methods become an indispensable urgent task to protect the integrity of the devices and the sensitive data. Passwords have provided access control and authentication, but have shown their inherent vulnerabilities. The speed and convenience factor are what makes biometrics the ideal authentication solution as they could have a low probability of circumvention. To overcome the limitations of the traditional biometric systems, electrocardiogram (ECG) has received the most attention from the biometrics community due to the highly individualized nature of the ECG signals and the fact that they are ubiquitous and difficult to counterfeit. However, one of the main challenges in ECG-based biometric development is the lack of large ECG databases. In this paper, we contribute to creating a new large gallery off-the-person ECG datasets that can provide new opportunities for the ECG biometric research community. We explore the impact of filtering type, segmentation, feature extraction, and health status on ECG biometric by using the evaluation metrics. Our results have shown that our ECG biometric authentication outperforms existing methods lacking the ability to efficiently extract features, filtering, segmentation, and matching. This is evident by obtaining 100% accuracy for PTB, MIT-BHI, CEBSDB, CYBHI, ECG-ID, and in-house ECG-BG database in spite of noisy, unhealthy ECG signals while performing five-fold cross-validation. In addition, an average of 2.11% EER among 1,694 subjects is obtained
Flexible Time Series Matching for Clinical and Behavioral Data
Time Series data became broadly applied by the research community in the last decades after
a massive explosion of its availability. Nonetheless, this rise required an improvement
in the existing analysis techniques which, in the medical domain, would help specialists
to evaluate their patients condition. One of the key tasks in time series analysis is pattern
recognition (segmentation and classification). Traditional methods typically perform subsequence
matching, making use of a pattern template and a similarity metric to search
for similar sequences throughout time series. However, real-world data is noisy and variable
(morphological distortions), making a template-based exact matching an elementary
approach. Intending to increase flexibility and generalize the pattern searching tasks
across domains, this dissertation proposes two Deep Learning-based frameworks to solve
pattern segmentation and anomaly detection problems.
Regarding pattern segmentation, a Convolution/Deconvolution Neural Network is
proposed, learning to distinguish, point-by-point, desired sub-patterns from background
content within a time series. The proposed framework was validated in two use-cases:
electrocardiogram (ECG) and inertial sensor-based human activity (IMU) signals. It outperformed
two conventional matching techniques, being capable of notably detecting the
targeted cycles even in noise-corrupted or extremely distorted signals, without using any
reference template nor hand-coded similarity scores.
Concerning anomaly detection, the proposed unsupervised framework uses the reconstruction
ability of Variational Autoencoders and a local similarity score to identify
non-labeled abnormalities. The proposal was validated in two public ECG datasets (MITBIH
Arrhythmia and ECG5000), performing cardiac arrhythmia identification. Results
indicated competitiveness relative to recent techniques, achieving detection AUC scores
of 98.84% (ECG5000) and 93.32% (MIT-BIH Arrhythmia).Dados de séries temporais tornaram-se largamente aplicados pela comunidade cientÃfica
nas últimas decadas após um aumento massivo da sua disponibilidade. Contudo, este
aumento exigiu uma melhoria das atuais técnicas de análise que, no domÃnio clÃnico, auxiliaria
os especialistas na avaliação da condição dos seus pacientes. Um dos principais
tipos de análise em séries temporais é o reconhecimento de padrões (segmentação e classificação).
Métodos tradicionais assentam, tipicamente, em técnicas de correspondência em
subsequências, fazendo uso de um padrão de referência e uma métrica de similaridade
para procurar por subsequências similares ao longo de séries temporais. Todavia, dados
do mundo real são ruidosos e variáveis (morfologicamente), tornando uma correspondência
exata baseada num padrão de referência uma abordagem rudimentar. Pretendendo
aumentar a flexibilidade da análise de séries temporais e generalizar tarefas de procura
de padrões entre domÃnios, esta dissertação propõe duas abordagens baseadas em Deep
Learning para solucionar problemas de segmentação de padrões e deteção de anomalias.
Acerca da segmentação de padrões, a rede neuronal de Convolução/Deconvolução
proposta aprende a distinguir, ponto a ponto, sub-padrões pretendidos de conteúdo de
fundo numa série temporal. O modelo proposto foi validado em dois casos de uso: sinais
eletrocardiográficos (ECG) e de sensores inerciais em atividade humana (IMU). Este superou
duas técnicas convencionais, sendo capaz de detetar os ciclos-alvo notavelmente,
mesmo em sinais corrompidos por ruÃdo ou extremamente distorcidos, sem o uso de
nenhum padrão de referência nem métricas de similaridade codificadas manualmente.
A respeito da deteção de anomalias, a técnica não supervisionada proposta usa a
capacidade de reconstrução dos Variational Autoencoders e uma métrica de similaridade
local para identificar anomalias desconhecidas. A proposta foi validada na identificação
de arritmias cardÃacas em duas bases de dados públicas de ECG (MIT-BIH Arrhythmia e
ECG5000). Os resultados revelam competitividade face a técnicas recentes, alcançando
métricas AUC de deteção de 93.32% (MIT-BIH Arrhythmia) e 98.84% (ECG5000)
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