Publications related to Holter monitor

Who says you are so sick? An investigation on individual susceptibility to cybersickness triggers using EEG, EGG and ECG

In this research paper, we conducted a study to investigate the connection between three objective measures: Electrocardiogram(ECG), Electrogastrogram (EGG), and Electroencephalogram (EEG), and individuals' susceptibility to cybersickness. Our primary obje ...

2024

Finding information-rich electrocardiographic biomarkers to characterize atrial fibrillation

Anna Mary Mc Cann

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia; it will affect one in four adults worldwide in their lifetime. AF has serious consequences, including drastically increased risk of stroke. Catheter ablation surgery is an established treatmen ...

EPFL2023

Automatic and high-precision microseismic monitoring of progressive failure prior, during, and after tunnel excavation

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Seyyedmaalek Momeni, Christophe Nussbaum

Acoustic emission (AE) monitoring is commonly used to inspect the health of a structure continuously. During fracture processes elastic waves of AE are created and emitted, and sensors can capture these waves. The acquired signals can be processed to track ...

2023

Single-arm diagnostic electrocardiography with printed graphene on wearable textiles

Ata Jedari Golparvar

Stimulated by the COVID-19 outbreak, the global healthcare industry better acknowledges the necessity of innovating novel methods for remote healthcare monitoring and treating patients outside clinics. Here we report the development of two different types ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Flexible Silk-Based Graphene Bioelectronics For Wearable Multimodal Physiological Monitoring

Ata Jedari Golparvar

We introduce a skin-inspired epidermal bioelectronic patch (EBP) with unprecedented integration of graphene on silk with a facile and cost-effective fabrication process, excluding complex ink formulation. We advance the state-of-the-art by directly screen- ...

IEEE2023

On the similarity between aortic and carotid pressure diastolic decay: a mathematical modelling study

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Georgios Rovas, Sokratis Anagnostopoulos, Vasiliki Bikia

Aortic diastolic pressure decay (DPD) has been shown to have considerable pathophysiological relevance in the assessment of vascular health, as it is significantly affected by arterial stiffening. Nonetheless, the aortic pressure waveform is rarely availab ...

Nature Portfolio2023

A robust walking detection algorithm using a single foot-worn inertial sensor: validation in real-life settings

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Gaëlle Prigent, Francesca Salis

Walking activity and gait parameters are considered among the most relevant mobility-related parameters. Currently, gait assessments have been mainly analyzed in laboratory or hospital settings, which only partially reflect usual performance (i.e., real wo ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2023

Cardiovascular monitoring system

Marco Mattavelli, Catherine Dehollain, Diego Ruben Barrettino, Kerim Türe, Mustafa Besirli

A cardiovascular monitoring system for measuring at least cardiac output comprises an implantable unit (2) configured for placement in a section of artery of a patient and a portable external unit (1) configured for mounting against or close to a patient's ...

2022

Towards real-world biomechanical analysis of performance and functional capacity using wearable sensors

Salil Apte

Today, wearable heart rate monitors are an integral part of runners' training sessions, with heart rate data routinely used to assess effort intensity and stress on the body. As athletes translate their physical capacity into performance on the field throu ...

EPFL2022

An Energy-Efficient Bridge-to-Digital Converter for Implantable Pressure Monitoring Systems

Marco Mattavelli, Catherine Dehollain, Diego Ruben Barrettino, Kerim Türe, Mustafa Besirli, Franco Maloberti

This paper presents an energy-efficient, duty-cycled, and spinning excitation bridge-to-digital converter (BDC) designed for implantable pressure sensing systems. The circuit provides the measure of the pulmonary artery pressure that is particularly releva ...

2022

ReBeatICG database

David Atienza Alonso, Adriana Arza Valdes, Olivier Muller, Una Pale, David Meier

ReBeatICG database contains ICG (impedance cardiography) signals recorded during an experimental session of a virtual search and rescue mission with drones. It includes beat-to-beat annotations of the ICG characteristic points, made by a cardiologist, with ...

2021

Implantable blood pressure monitor

Grégoire Courtine, Jordan Squair

An implantable blood pressure monitor has two or more elements configured to wrap at least part way around a blood vessel. Changes in pressure within the blood vessel may be sensed by detecting movements of the elements or forces applied to the elements. A ...

2021

Dynamics of Intraprocedural Dominant Frequency Identifies Ablation Outcome in Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

Jean-Marc Vesin, Adrian Luca, Andréa Buttu, Etienne Pruvot, Alain Pithon

Background: The role of dominant frequency (DF) in tracking the efficiency of a stepwise catheter ablation (step-CA) in persistent atrial fibrillation (peAF) remains poorly studied. We hypothesized that the DF time-course during step-CA displays divergent ...

2021

ECG-Based Indices to Characterize Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Before and During Stepwise Catheter Ablation

Jean-Marc Vesin, Adrian Luca, Etienne Pruvot

Background: Consistently successful patient outcomes following catheter ablation (CA) for treatment of persistent atrial fibrillation (pers-AF) remain elusive. We propose an electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis designed to (1) refine selection of patients most ...

2021

Modular Design and Optimization of Biomedical Applications for Ultra-Low Power Heterogeneous Platforms

David Atienza Alonso, Miguel Peon Quiros, Simone Machetti, Luca Benini, Benoît Walter Denkinger, Elisabetta De Giovanni, Fabio Montagna

In the last years, remote health monitoring is becoming an essential branch of health care with the rapid development of wearable sensors technology. To meet the demand of new more complex applications and ensuring adequate battery lifetime, wearable senso ...

2020

Automatic 12-lead ECG Classification Using a Convolutional Network Ensemble

Manoel Horta Ribeiro

The 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is a major diagnostic test for cardiovascular diseases and enhanced automated analysis tools might lead to more reliable diagnosis and improved clinical practice. Deep neural networks are models composed of stacked trans ...

IEEE2020

Monitoring of Cardiovascular and Neurological Diseases Using Wearable Devices

Dionisije Sopic

In this thesis, I focus on monitoring of patients suffering from cardiovascular and neurological diseases through the use of wearable devices. The main diseases considered in this thesis are atrial fibrillation (AF), myocardial infarction (MI), and epileps ...

EPFL2020

REWARD: Design, Optimization, and Evaluation of a Real-Time Relative-Energy Wearable R-Peak Detection Algorithm *

David Atienza Alonso, Jean-Marc Vesin, Sasan Yazdani, Lara Orlandic, Adriana Arza Valdes, Elisabetta De Giovanni

Wearable devices are an unobtrusive, cost-effective means of continuous ambulatory monitoring of chronic cardiovascular diseases. However, on these resource-constrained systems, electrocardiogram (ECG) processing algorithms must consume minimal power and m ...

2019

Denoising ECG Signal by CSTFM Algorithm: Monitoring During Motorbike and Car Races

Guglielmo Frigo

mHealth technology, by using habitual devices, i.e., smartphones, improves prevention, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, and management of health. Monitoring heart profile during intense sports activities allows to diagnose pathologies, not identifiable wi ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Event-Triggered Sensing for High-Quality and Low-Power Cardiovascular Monitoring Systems

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Grégoire Casimir Joseph Surrel, Tomas Teijeiro Campo

In the context of wearable medical systems, resources are scarce while performance requirements are high. Traditional sampling strategies create large amounts of data, which hinders the device's battery lifetime. However, energy savings are possible when r ...

2019