Publications by Tomas Teijeiro Campo

Cough-E: A multimodal, privacy-preserving cough detection algorithm for the edge

David Atienza Alonso, Lara Orlandic, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Jérôme Paul Rémy Thevenot, Stefano Albini, Jonathan Dan

Continuous cough monitors can greatly benefit doctors in home monitoring and treatment of respiratory diseases. Although many works propose algorithms to automate this task, they suffer of poor data privacy and short-term monitoring. Edge-AI is a promising ...

2025

M2SKD: Multi-to-Single Knowledge Distillation of Real-Time Epileptic Seizure Detection for Low-Power Wearable Systems

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Saleh Baghersalimi, Farnaz Forooghifar, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Alireza Amirshahi

Integrating low-power wearable systems into routine health monitoring is an ongoing challenge. Recent advances in the computation capabilities of wearables make it possible to target complex scenarios by exploiting multiple biosignals and using high-perfor ...

2024

How to Count Coughs: An Event-Based Framework for Evaluating Automatic Cough Detection Algorithm Performance

David Atienza Alonso, Lara Orlandic, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Jérôme Paul Rémy Thevenot, Jonathan Dan

Chronic cough disorders are widespread and challenging to assess because they rely on subjective patient questionnaires about cough frequency. Wearable devices running Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are promising for quantifying daily coughs, providing c ...

IEEE2024

Combining general and personal models for epilepsy detection with hyperdimensional computing

David Atienza Alonso, Una Pale, Tomas Teijeiro Campo

Epilepsy is a highly prevalent chronic neurological disorder with great negative impact on patients' daily lives. Despite this there is still no adequate technological support to enable epilepsy detection and continuous outpatient monitoring in everyday li ...

Elsevier2024

A semi-supervised algorithm for improving the consistency of crowdsourced datasets: The COVID-19 case study on respiratory disorder classification

David Atienza Alonso, Lara Orlandic, Tomas Teijeiro Campo

Background and Objective: Cough audio signal classification is a potentially useful tool in screening for respiratory disorders, such as COVID-19. Since it is dangerous to collect data from patients with contagious diseases, many research teams have turned ...

2023

Event-based sampled ECG morphology reconstruction through self-similarity

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Silvio Zanoli, Tomas Teijeiro Campo

Background and Objective: Event-based analog-to-digital converters allow for sparse bio-signal acquisition, enabling local sub-Nyquist sampling frequency. However, aggressive event selection can cause the loss of important bio-markers, not recoverable with ...

2023

An Error-Based Approximation Sensing Circuit for Event-Triggered Low-Power Wearable Sensors

David Atienza Alonso, Silvio Zanoli, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Flavio Ponzina

Event-based sensors have the potential to optimize energy consumption at every stage in the signal processing pipeline, including data acquisition, transmission, processing, and storage. However, almost all state-of-the-art systems are still built upon th ...

2023

Layer-Wise Learning Framework for Efficient DNN Deployment in Biomedical Wearable Systems

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Saleh Baghersalimi, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Alireza Amirshahi

The development of low-power wearable systems requires specialized techniques to accommodate their unique requirements and constraints. While significant advancements have been made in the inference phase of artificial intelligence, the training phase rema ...

2023

A Multimodal Dataset for Automatic Edge-AI Cough Detection

David Atienza Alonso, Lara Orlandic, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Jérôme Paul Rémy Thevenot

Counting the number of times a patient coughs per day is an essential biomarker in determining treatment efficacy for novel antitussive therapies and personalizing patient care. Automatic cough counting tools must provide accurate information, while runnin ...

New York2023

Decentralized Federated Learning for Epileptic Seizures Detection in Low-Power Wearable Systems

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Saleh Baghersalimi, Tomas Teijeiro Campo

In healthcare, data privacy of patients regulations prohibits data from being moved outside the hospital, preventing international medical datasets from being centralized for AI training. Federated learning (FL) is a data privacy-focused method that trains ...

2023

A Multimodal Dataset for Automatic Edge-AI Cough Detection

David Atienza Alonso, Lara Orlandic, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Jérôme Paul Rémy Thevenot

Counting the number of times a patient coughs per day is an essential biomarker in determining treatment efficacy for novel antitussive therapies and personalizing patient care. There is a need for wearable devices that employ multimodal sensors to perform ...

Zenodo2023

Importance of methodological choices in data manipulation for validating epileptic seizure detection models

David Atienza Alonso, Una Pale, Tomas Teijeiro Campo

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder that affects a significant portion of the human population and imposes serious risks in the daily life. Despite advances in machine learning and IoT, small, non-stigmatizing wearable devices for continuous monito ...

New York2023

Approximate Zero-Crossing: A new interpretable, highly discriminative and low-complexity feature for EEG and iEEG seizure detection

David Atienza Alonso, Una Pale, Renato Zanetti, Tomas Teijeiro Campo

Objective: Long-term monitoring of people with epilepsy based on electroencephalography (EEG) and intracranial EEG (iEEG) has the potential to deliver key clinical information for personalised epilepsy treatment. More specifically, in outpatient settings, ...

2022

Adaptive R-Peak Detection on Wearable ECG Sensors for High-Intensity Exercise

David Atienza Alonso, Grégoire Millet, Elisabetta De Giovanni, Tomas Teijeiro Campo

Objective: Continuous monitoring of biosignals via wearable sensors has quickly expanded in the medical and wellness fields. At rest, automatic detection of vital parameters is generally accurate. However, in conditions such as high-intensity exercise, sud ...

2022

Multi-Centroid Hyperdimensional Computing Approach for Epileptic Seizure Detection

David Atienza Alonso, Una Pale, Tomas Teijeiro Campo

Long-term monitoring of patients with epilepsy presents a challenging problem from the engineering perspective of real-time detection and wearable devices design. It requires new solutions that allow continuous unobstructed monitoring and reliable detectio ...

2022

Exploration of Hyperdimensional Computing Strategies for Enhanced Learning on Epileptic Seizure Detection

David Atienza Alonso, Una Pale, Tomas Teijeiro Campo

Wearable and unobtrusive monitoring and prediction of epileptic seizures has the potential to significantly increase the life quality of patients, but is still an unreached goal due to challenges of real-time detection and wearable devices design. Hyperdim ...

2022

ExG Signal Feature Selection Using Hyperdimensional Computing Encoding

David Atienza Alonso, Una Pale, Tomas Teijeiro Campo

Wearable IoT devices and novel continuous monitoring algorithms are essential components of the healthcare transition from reactive interventions focused on symptom treatment to more proactive prevention, from one-size-fits-all to personalized medicine, an ...

IEEE2022

INCLASS: Incremental Classification Strategy for Self-Aware Epileptic Seizure Detection

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Renaud Marquis, Tomas Teijeiro Campo

Wearable Health Companions allow the unobtrusive monitoring of patients affected by chronic conditions. In particular, by acquiring and interpreting bio-signals, they enable the detection of acute episodes in cardiac and neurological ailments. Nevertheless ...

IEEE2022

Personalized seizure signature: An interpretable approach to false alarm reduction for long‐term epileptic seizure detection

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Dionisije Sopic, Tomas Teijeiro Campo

Objective Long-term automatic detection of focal seizures remains one of the major challenges in epilepsy due to the unacceptably high number of false alarms from state-of-the-art methods. Our aim was to investigate to what extent a new patient-specific ap ...

2022

HDTorch: Accelerating Hyperdimensional Computing with GP-GPUs for Design Space Exploration

David Atienza Alonso, William Andrew Simon, Una Pale, Tomas Teijeiro Campo

The HyperDimensional Computing (HDC) Machine Learning (ML) paradigm is highly interesting for applications involving continuous, semi-supervised learning for long-term monitoring. However, its accuracy is not yet on par with other ML approaches, necessitat ...

Association for Computing MachineryNew YorkNYUnited States2022