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  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,379 Views
11 Pages

26 October 2023

At present, people and hospital management are wasting their time and wealth due to a lack of a smart system in the pre-examination process for patients. This paper discusses an approach to designing a healthcare system that collects necessary health...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
20,115 Views
12 Pages

Design and Evaluation of a Low-Cost Smartphone Pulse Oximeter

  • Christian L. Petersen,
  • Tso P. Chen,
  • J. Mark Ansermino and
  • Guy A. Dumont

6 December 2013

Infectious diseases such as pneumonia take the lives of millions of children in low- and middle-income countries every year. Many of these deaths could be prevented with the availability of robust and low-cost diagnostic tools using integrated sensor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
12,566 Views
15 Pages

Wearable Sensor System to Monitor Physical Activity and the Physiological Effects of Heat Exposure

  • Sean Pham,
  • Danny Yeap,
  • Gisela Escalera,
  • Rupa Basu,
  • Xiangmei Wu,
  • Nicholas J. Kenyon,
  • Irva Hertz-Picciotto,
  • Michelle J. Ko and
  • Cristina E. Davis

6 February 2020

Mobile health monitoring via non-invasive wearable sensors is poised to advance telehealth for older adults and other vulnerable populations. Extreme heat and other environmental conditions raise serious health challenges that warrant monitoring of r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,146 Views
16 Pages

14 October 2022

Background:In the diagnosis and primary health care of an individual, estimation of the pulse rate and blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) is critical. The pulse rate and SpO2 are determined by methods including photoplethysmography (iPPG), light spectros...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,077 Views
7 Pages

Accuracy of a Wrist-Worn Heart Rate Sensing Device during Elective Pediatric Surgical Procedures

  • Gloria Pelizzo,
  • Anna Guddo,
  • Aurora Puglisi,
  • Annalisa De Silvestri,
  • Calogero Comparato,
  • Mario Valenza,
  • Emanuele Bordonaro and
  • Valeria Calcaterra

The reliability of wearable photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors to measure heart rate (HR) in hospitalized patients has only been demonstrated in adults. We evaluated the accuracy of HR monitoring with a personal fitness tracker (PFT) in children unde...