On the Development of an Automatic ECG Monitoring System for Diabetic Patients

Nuno Gonçalves, Luis Coelho

2011

Abstract

Diabetes has become progressively common throughout the world due to changes in the lifestyle and in the eating habits. Among other consequences, this disease seriously affects the circulatory system, whose complications are the leading cause of death in diabetics. In this paper we present a new device, developed specifically for diabetics, which allows estimating blood glucose levels and, simultaneously, automatically detect potentially pathological electrocardiographic patterns. We will present the entire processing sequence system and will give special importance to the modules targeting the electrocardiogram (ECG) and its analysis. A set of reference databases has been used as support for performance evaluation. The system proved to be able to effectively detect changes in the ECG morphology for occurrences of different nature and in various contexts. The use of the ECG signal, whose acquisition is non-invasive, provides comfort to the user and has the advantage of allowing a continuous patient monitoring.

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Gonçalves N. and Coelho L. (2011). On the Development of an Automatic ECG Monitoring System for Diabetic Patients . In Proceedings of the 1st International Living Usability Lab Workshop on AAL Latest Solutions, Trends and Applications - Volume 1: AAL, (BIOSTEC 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-39-3, pages 13-22. DOI: 10.5220/0003301700130022


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@conference{aal11,
author={Nuno Gonçalves and Luis Coelho},
title={On the Development of an Automatic ECG Monitoring System for Diabetic Patients},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Living Usability Lab Workshop on AAL Latest Solutions, Trends and Applications - Volume 1: AAL, (BIOSTEC 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={13-22},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003301700130022},
isbn={978-989-8425-39-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Living Usability Lab Workshop on AAL Latest Solutions, Trends and Applications - Volume 1: AAL, (BIOSTEC 2011)
TI - On the Development of an Automatic ECG Monitoring System for Diabetic Patients
SN - 978-989-8425-39-3
AU - Gonçalves N.
AU - Coelho L.
PY - 2011
SP - 13
EP - 22
DO - 10.5220/0003301700130022