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    Basic investigation of breast cancer detection in early stage using microwave radiation: Finite element analysis approach
    (2011-12-01)
    Sanpanich, A.
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    Wongtrairat, W.
    One of the main problem which threatening health in middle-aged women around the world is breast cancer. Not only a physical painfulness but also including her own family and victim relatives who suffering from this unavoidable pity fate. To detect those cancerous tumors as in an earlier stage as possible seem to be the best way to handle with this hazard. Besides from x-rays mammography and a conventional diagnostic ultrasound, microwave radiation tomography technique is a promising method to investigate any abnormality forming in her mammalian gland. In this paper, we propose a simulation of microwave radiation using a finite element method (FEM) of our modified imaging setup system for female breast cancer diagnosis. By using FEM, we propose a preliminary study of microwave breast cancer detection from a patch antenna propagation in 3D tissue space approaching. In term of wave penetration, voluminous 3D distribution geometry of electrical field in nonhomogenous simple breast phantom model was presented. These simulations not only show a promising result but also encourage us to develop a real imaging setup system in the near future. © 2011 IEEE.
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    Approximation of the maximally flat filter by using Bézier curve with an exponential function
    (2020-02-24) ;
    Kanjanasurat, I.
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    Sithiyopasakul, P.
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    This paper presents a design of filter by using Bézier curve with an exponential function. This paper used the advantage of The Bézier curve which had ability for approximation and an exponential function which had the adaptable parameters of the polynomial. It can adjust the characteristic of frequency response for the best performance. The simulation results of various setting show the frequency response, step response. The comparison of response between the Bernstein filter and Butterworth filter in order two show that the rise time of Bernstein filter better than Butterworth filter and Bézier curve filter has not overshoot. Furthermore, the stability Nyquist criterion has been used to guarantee the stability of the transfer function.
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    Blood Vessel Extraction and Optic Disk Localization for Diabetic Retinopathy
    (2020-09-15)
    Kanjanasurat, Isoon
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    Benjangkaprasert, Chawalit
    This paper presents methods of vascular extraction and optic disk localization in the retinal images. Our approach begins with preprocessing to improve the quality of blood vessels. In the next step, a matrix filter was applied to express blood vessels. Finally, the blood vessel structure was used to estimate the location of the optic disk. The proposed method was tested on all different forty retinal images from the DRIVE database, which public retinal image dataset. The results of vessel extraction were compared with the ground truth image. The error of vascular extraction showed that the average sensitivity and accuracy were 79.81% and 94.98%, respectively. The optic disk localization achieved 97.5%.
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    Remote Temperature Monitoring for Infant Incubator using Thermal Camera
    (2022-01-01)
    Chuenpirom, Thanaporn
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    Health concerns over the premature babies are their immature organs and low birth weight. As a result, these babies may have difficulty in breathing, maintaining their healthy body temperature or being light sensitive. Infant incubator has been designed to overcome these issues. It is a medical device that could provide healthy environment, such as light, temperature and humidity. Moreover, it is also able to control and detect any changes which affect the baby's health. Health monitoring systems are critical in modern incubators, which could involve a set of sensors to read and send physiological information, such as temperature. It has also been proposed that establishing remote monitoring system via global system for mobile communications (GSM) would be beneficial for the incubators as it could send an alarm to the doctors and parents in the event that unhealthy vital parameters have been detected. Although a variety of vital parameters are included in the monitoring features of some modern incubators, the capability to detect body temperature of the babies are limited. Hence, this project proposes the development of an effective low-cost smart infant incubator that will benefit the body temperature monitoring of newborn babies using remote IoT-based monitoring system. The monitoring system is controlled through the use of a Raspberry Pi attached to a visual camera and a thermal IR camera with temperature sensor MLX90640, which was able to measure the body temperature remotely. The software of this smart infant incubator was used to improve monitoring system, which involves image processing techniques. The results of measured ambient temperature were found to be accurate and reliable. The prototypical incubator has been designed and manufactured with affordable cost, and the control system of the incubator was able to work comparably to other incubators with potential capability to measure body temperature of the infant.
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    Combined medical imaging with CFD analysis for application of diagnostic and treatment planning: The case study of human nasal airflow simulation based on CT imaging
    (2009-01-01)
    Hemtiwakorn, Khaisang
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    Phoocharoen, Niwat
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    Mahasittiwat, Visan
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    Sangworasil, Manas
    The previous methods of human airflow measurement such as rhinomanometry or acoustic rhinometry could not visualize the airflow and calculated the velocity magnitude in specific region of nasal cavity. Thus, this study proposes the combination of CT and CFD analysis of nasal airflow simulation in normal human breathing. This method can demonstrate the airflow direction, and also calculate the velocity magnitude inside the nasal cavity. The processes of this study are segmentation, meshing, solving, and post-processing. Firstly, Mimic 10.01 software was used to segment the nasal cavity. Secondly, Pro-STAR/amm software was used to generate trimmed mesh of 338, 496 elements. Finally, computational grid model was imported to STAR-CD version 3.26 for numerical computation, and visualize the solution by post-processing. The result shows that velocity magnitude of airflow is greatest in nasal valve area which is the narrowest area of the human nose. Also, the flow commonly pass through the main nasal passage and middle meatus areas of nose. Experimental validation will be reported in the further publication. In conclusion, this study is the important begining of an applied CFD analysis with medical imaging. CT imaging combines with CFD analysis could be useful for rhinologist as a nose function evaluation technique. Moreover, the applications of this method could be utilized in a wide range of research topics, especially development of diagnostic and treatment planning techniques.
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    Smart Cane for Assisting Visually Impaired People and the Blind
    (2021-01-01)
    Kramomthong, P.
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    The limited mobility of the visually impaired and blind makes daily activities such as avoiding obstacles, traveling, crossing the street, and dealing with an emergency difficult. Currently, there are active studies and developments about devices and technologies that increase deftness daily and travel independently. In this paper, we combine various functions into one device consisting of obstacle detection, navigation, and emergency calls to increase the safety and travel mobility of visually impaired people and the blind. The laboratory experiment results of whole functions were successful, and the device can alert the user with sound and vibration.
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    Pressure Swing Absorption Oxygen Concentrator equipped with Remote Monitoring Pulse Oximeter
    (2021-01-01)
    Ongtrakul, Salila
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    Thitiratannapong, Anyarin
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    The new COVID-19 disease was first identified in China at the end of 2019 and has spread rapidly all over the world. It has been projected that, by March 2021, the number of infections could reach 300 million cases and over two million deaths. One of the main implications for COVID-19 patients is pneumonia where the lung is infected, hence patients suffering from insufficient oxygen in the blood. As the number of COVID-19 cases have significantly increased, the demand for oxygen generators have also skyrocketed. This research concerns the design and construction of emergency low-cost oxygen concentrators used for mild COVID-19 symptoms, of which are forced to be treated at home. Our absorption-based oxygen concentrator uses zeolite packed in a sieve canister. An Oil-free compressor is then used to pump air in. Zeolite will absorb nitrogen from the air leaving oxygen free to travel towards the outlet. To evaluate the treatment, we have equipped the system with a pulse oximeter to measure the percent saturation oxygen, pulse rate and temperature. To prevent COVID-19 infections between patients and caretakers, we have designed an android application to remotely control the oxygen concentrator. Experiment has shown that our emergency low-cost oxygen concentrator can supply oxygen with an 85% purity rate.
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    Development of bone mineral density and bone mineral content measurements system using a dual energy x-ray
    (2012-12-01)
    Promworn, Y.
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    This paper presented a design of a bone mineral density (BMD) and bone mineral content (BMC) measurements system. The main components consist of an outer structure with lead sheet for x-ray protection, x-ray source controlled by microcontroller, CCD-type x-ray detector, detector controller, and computer program for devices control. The acquired x-ray image is sent to PC for image processing. The bone mineral density and bone mineral content measurement is based on dual energy x-ray absorptiometry. The concept of dual energy x-ray is adopted to estimate the BMD on the finger bone. The preliminary results are fairly promising. ©2012 IEEE.
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    Novel limited knee flexion angle device
    (2017-12-19)
    Reanaree, Parkbhum
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    Knee injuries have become more common in Thailand, either caused from the sport or from the accident. The treatment is mostly a surgery. Hence, after the surgery, the patient must be closely monitored to prevent complications and repetitive injury. It also requires physical therapy to restore the knee function to resume a normal use. For this reason, the idea of creating a device that can restrict the patient's knee bend by internal mechanisms to prevent repetitive injury was brought out by measuring the flexion of the patient's knee using 3-axis Accelerometer / Gyro Module (IMU). The information is then displayed through a computer program created so that the doctor or physiotherapist can adjust the therapy to suit a particular patient individually. This will result the patient to return to normal life as quickly as possible. The device is designed by computer aided design (CAD) software and is simulated. The device has an electronic circuit that communicates with the computer wirelessly (Bluetooth) to send data to the display on the generated program. The bending angle can be displayed immediately and recorded for a diagnosis and recovery of the patient.
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    Acclerate a DLT motion capture system with quad-tree searching scheme
    (2006-12-01)
    Chaichana, Thanapong
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    Sangworasil, Manas
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    Aootaphao, Sorapong
    This paper describes a 3D motion capture system to generate a skeleton model representing the human body. The system consists of a number of digital cameras placed at arbitrary position around the subject. The subject's joints to be measured are attached with illuminated landmarks. The 3D dynamic information of these landmarks is then detected using the Direct Linear Transform (DLT) technique. In order to establish corresponding point of the landmarks across individual camera as required in the DLT procedure, the quad-tree searching scheme has been adopted which can speed up the dynamic 3D modelling process of up to 70 percent. The 3D motion capture system has been performed to visualize the motion of various subjects. The result is very promising © 2006 IEEE.