title: Ubiquitous health monitoring and real-time cardiac arrhythmias detection: a case study.
abstract: As the symptoms and signs of heart diseases that cause sudden cardiac death, cardiac arrhythmia has attracted great attention. Due to limitations in time and space, traditional approaches to cardiac arrhythmias detection fail to provide a real-time continuous monitoring and testing service applicable in different environmental conditions. Integrated with the latest technologies in ECG (electrocardiograph) analysis and medical care, the pervasive computing technology makes possible the ubiquitous cardiac care services, and thus brings about new technical challenges, especially in the formation of cardiac care architecture and realization of the real-time automatic ECG detection algorithm dedicated to care devices. In this paper, a ubiquitous cardiac care prototype system is presented with its architecture framework well elaborated. This prototype system has been tested and evaluated in all the clinical-/home-/outdoor-care modes with a satisfactory performance in providing real-time continuous cardiac arrhythmias monitoring service unlimitedly adaptable in time and space.
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China School of Economics and Management, HuBei University of Automotive Technology, Shiyan, 442002, China.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Haiying
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Decheng
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zuo
authors.forename: Kun-Mean
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: De Vaulx
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003199:Computer Systems; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004566:Electrodes; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013686:Telemetry
keywords: Ubiquitous health monitoring; ambulatory ECG detection; cardiac arrhythmias; smart healthcare