Design and implementation of a wearable pervasive healthcare system based on intra-body sounds

<h1> Design and implementation of a wearable pervasive healthcare system based on intra-body sounds </h1>

<h2> Background</h2> 
<p>Some parts of the body like heart, lungs and respiratory system generate acoustic signals during their operations achievable by putting some sensors (microphones) on proper positions at the skin. The captured signals are useful for diagnosis approaches. In medical applications, specialists listen to the intra-body sounds by using stethoscope to estimate the wellness of the patients. </p>
<p>The idea of this thesis is to design and implementation of a wearable system capable of auscultation (listening intra-body sounds) for diagnostic purposes. It is very important for wearable systems to make no limitation for the users. It forces the systems to be as small, lightweight and power efficient as possible which result in rather limited flexibility and accuracy. Besides, the environmental noise and defections due to sensor movements degrade the performance of wearable systems. On the other hand, wearable systems benefit from long term monitoring. 
Therefore current methods need some modifications to be applicable for wearable systems. </p>

<h2> Tasks: </h2> 
To achieve the project goals, after primary studies about related physiological foundations and the signals of interests, proper system to capture the signals should be designed. At the research stage, the signals are analysed by MATLAB in a PC. After selecting proper feature extraction and classification algorithms to detect abnormalities, the final signal processing module is implemented on embedded platforms. 
Finally, it is expected that the wearable pervasive healthcare system can properly sense the acoustic signals of the organ(s) under consideration, analyse them and report the user probable abnormalities. 

<h2> The skills you need:</h2> 
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<li>Programming with C/C++ and Matlab </li>
<li>Electronic design and implementation</li>
<li>Basic knowledge and interest in pervasive healthcare </li>
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<h2> Hints: </h2> 
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<li>The project is suitable for electronic engineering or computer science students.</li>
<li>If you have other similar ideas, hopefully we can find some topics related to my researches and of course close to your interests.</li>
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