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Governing Cybersecurity Risks and Benefits of the Internet of Things: Connected Medical and Health Devices and Connected Vehicles

IRGC organised in 2016 an expert workshop on 'Governing Cybersecurity Risks and Benefits in the Internet of Things (IoT), applied to connected vehicles and medical devices. In those sectors, connectivity improves both safety and vulnerability, but cybersec ...

International Risk Governance Center2017

Signal Processing Approaches for Cardio-Respiratory Biosignals with an Emphasis on Mobile Health Applications

Leila Mirmohamadsadeghi

We humans are constantly preoccupied with our health and physiological status. From precise measurements such as the 12-lead electrocardiograms recorded in hospitals, we have moved on to mobile acquisition devices, now as versatile as smart-watches and sma ...

EPFL2017

HEAL-WEAR: an Ultra-Low Power Heterogeneous System for Bio-Signal Analysis

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Ruben Braojos Lopez, Soumya Subhra Basu, Loris Gérard Duch

Personalized healthcare devices enable low-cost, unobtrusive and long-term acquisition of clinically-relevant biosignals. These appliances, termed Wireless Body Sensor Nodes (WBSNs), are fostering a revolution in health monitoring for patients affected by ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Towards Vision-Based Smart Hospitals: A System for Tracking and Monitoring Hand Hygiene Compliance

Alexandre Massoud Alahi

One in twenty-five patients admitted to a hospital will suffer from a hospital acquired infection. If we can intelligently track healthcare staff, patients, and visitors, we can better understand the sources of such infections. We envision a smart hospital ...

2017

A photopolymerized composite hydrogel and surgical implanting tool for a nucleus pulposus replacement

Dominique Pioletti, Pierre-Etienne Bourban, Christophe Moser, Andreas Schmocker, Azadeh Khoushabi

Nucleus pulposus replacements have been subjected to highly controversial discussions over the last 40 years. Their use has not yet resulted in a positive outcome to treat herniated disc or degenerated disc disease. The main reason is that not a single imp ...

Elsevier2016

Robust Wearable UHF Antennas for Security Applications

Jovanche Trajkovikj

Wearable electronics are occupying an increasing portion of our daily activities. The span of wearable applications extends from purely medical, over different security services to various sports and fashion devices. Antennas play one of the most important ...

EPFL2015

Participatory Language Technologies as Core Systems for Sustainable Development Activities

Martin Benjamin

Introduction and purpose: Language is the medium by which people interact with all aspects of their worlds, whether economics, health, the environment, or technology. In both development programs and technology, however, language is usually given secondary ...

2014

Deeply implanted medical device based on a novel ultrasonic telemetry technology

Michela Peisino

Medical devices have gone a long way since their beginning. In the last decades, the trend has been towards Implanted Medical Devices (IMDs). The technology evolution has provided the necessary tools for longer-term, less invasive devices. Several devices ...

EPFL2013

Design of Dexterous Mechanical Systems for Intuitive Telemanipulation in Minimally Invasive Surgery

Ricardo Daniel Rita Beira

Major progress in abdominal surgery has occurred over the last decades with the introduction of laparoscopic and minimally invasive techniques in the operating room. These innovative procedures attracted much attention due to several advantages: the need f ...

EPFL2013

Healthy Aims: Developing new medical implants and diagnostic equipment

Arnaud Bertsch

Healthy Aims is a 23- million, four-year project, funded under the EU's information society technology sixth framework program to develop intelligent medical implants and diagnostic systems (www.healthyaims.org). The project has 25 partners from 10 countri ...

2008

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