Ambulatory electroencephalographic monitoring system for the analysis of brain waves.
This work is concerned with the development of a special equipment to monitor the brain waves of the patients even when he is under mobility in his locality and transmit them to the hospital or any monitoring station and record the electroencephalogram (EEG) of those patients and to diagnose the presence of epileptic seizures if any with an intelligent software and to store these details which may be useful for further analysis or expert consultations. This may prove very useful for the epileptic patients especially when the patient develops occasional problems related to his neural activities; bedside monitoring is not feasible both physically and economically. Under such conditions, ambulatory electroencephalographic monitoring provides an efficient and effective solution for this problem. This unit is equipped with a sophisticated hardware to acquire, amplify and transmit EEG and receive them through an interface unit and a software module to denoise and analyse them with epileptic seizure and spike detection algorithms coded with discrete wavelet transformation technique.
Ravindran
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Centre for Med. Electron., Anna Univ., Chennai, India.
Ashwin Chandar
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