title: Distributed processing for features improvement in real-time portable medical devices.
abstract: Portable biomedical devices are being developed and incorporated in daily life. Nevertheless, their standalone capacity is diminished due to the lack of processing power required to face such duties as for example, signal artifacts robustness in EKG monitor devices. The following paper presents a multiprocessor architecture made from simple microcontrollers to provide an increase in processing performance, power consumption efficiency and lower cost.
authors.affiliation: Unidades Tecnológicas de Santander, Calle de los Estudiantes, No. 9-82 Bucaramanga, Colombia. esaavedra@ieee.org
authors.forename: Erwin John Saavedra
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Mercado
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003199:Computer Systems; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D004582:Electronics, Medical / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006329:Heart Conduction System / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008904:Miniaturization; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*