Title: EAGER: Events-of-interest Capture Using Novel Body-worn Fully-passive Wireless
sensors for S&CC
Funding Source: NSF CISE CNS
Project Duration: 2016 - 2018 (NCE: 2020)
Project Synopsis:
Patients with chronic illness require frequent and avoidable hospital visits. This
project aims to develop a new class of battery-less, low-cost, disposable, wireless
electronic patch sensors to monitor a variety of physiological signals and a custom
smartphone app to monitor their health status and to elect to share their anonymized
events-of-interest with their community towards a smart and connected community (S&CC).
This will empower users, permit the community stakeholders to assess population health
status, reduce the need for frequent hospital visits, and help identify potential
individual and community actions to achieve improvement in health status. The project
also involves the training of undergraduate and graduate students in interdisciplinary
research activities on emerging technologies, and is expected to impact public and
private sector efforts to improve healthcare.
Project Personnel:
PI: Dr. Bashir Morshed, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, The University of Memphis Co-PI: Dr. Brook Harmon, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, The University
of Memphis Consultant: Dr. M. Rahman, Baptist Minor Medical Center, Memphis, TN Collaborator: Memphis District of the United Methodist Church (UMC)
B. Morshed, B. Harmon, and M. Rahman, "EAGER: Events of Interest (EoI) Capture Using Novel Body-worn Fully-passive Wireless
Sensors for S&CC", 7th Annual Cyber-Physical Systems Principal Investigators' Meeting,
Arlington, VA, Oct. 31 - Nov. 1, 2016.
B. I. Morshed, "Impedance Phlebography Based Pulse Sensing Using Inductively-Coupled Inkjet-Printed
WRAP Sensor", Invited Paper, Commission B (Special session: Wearable Antennas and
Electronics), National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, Jan. 4-6, 2017.
B. Noorozi and B. I. Morshed, "PSC Optimization of 13.56-MHz Resistive Wireless Analog Passive Sensors", IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 65, no. 9, pp. 3548-3555, Sept. 2017.
B. Morshed, B. Harmon, and M. Rahman, "EAGER: Events of Interest (EoI) Capture Using Novel Body-worn Fully-passive Wireless
Sensors for S&CC", 8th Annual Cyber-Physical Systems Principal Investigators' Meeting,
Alexandria, VA, Nov. 13-14, 2017.
B. Noroozi and B. I. Morshed, "Coil distance and angle misalignment effects on the
mutual inductance for 13.56 MHz WRAP sensors," 2018 United States National Committee
of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM), Boulder, CO, 2018, pp. 1-2.
M. J. Rahman, R. Mahajan, and B. I. Morshed, "Severity Classification of Obstructive
Sleep Apnea Using Only Heart Rate Variability Measures with an Ensemble Classifier",
IEEE conf Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), Las Vegas, NV, (in press), 2018.
M. S. Zaman and B. I. Morshed, "Design and Verification of a Portable Scanner for
Body-worn Wireless Resistive Analog Passive (WRAP) Sensors", IEEE Electro-Information
Theory (EIT) Conf., Oakland, MI, (accepted), May 3-5, 2018.
T. Siddiqui and B. I. Morshed, "Severity Classification of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
Disease and Asthma with Heart Rate and SpO2 Sensors", IEEE Engineering in Medicine
and Biology Society, Honolulu, HI, (accepted), July 17-21, 2018.
T. Siddiqui and B. I. Morshed, "Severity Exploratory Model Analysis of Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease and Asthma with Heart Rate and SpO2", IEEE Electro-Information Theory
(EIT) Conf., Oakland, MI, (accepted), May 3-5, 2018.
B. Noroozi and B. I. Morshed, "Sensitivity optimization of Printed Spiral Coil for
Wireless Resistive Analog Passive (WRAP) Sensors using Genetic Algorithm," 2018 40th
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
(EMBC), Honolulu, HI, 2018, pp. 4653-4656.
B. I. Morshed and M. Abu-Saude, "Apparatus and Method to Capture Body Signals with
Conjugate Coils and Paired Coils", USPTO Provisional Patent Application, No. 62/664,329, Filed on Apr. 30, 2018.
M. Abu-Saude and B. I. Morshed, " Accessing Differential Measures with a Conjugate
Coil-pair for Wireless Resistive Analog Passive (WRAP) ECG Sensors", IEEE Electro-Information
Theory (EIT) Conf., Oakland, MI, (accepted), May 3-5, 2018. (Received 1st Place award)
S. Afroz and B. I. Morshed, "Web Visualization of Temporal and Spatial Health Data
from Smartphone App in Smart and Connected Community (SCC)", IEEE International Smart
Cities Conference (ISC2), Kansas City, MO, (in press), Sept. 16-19, 2018.
B. Morshed, B. Harmon, and M. Rahman, "EAGER: Events of Interest (EoI) Capture Using
Novel Body-worn Fully-passive Wireless Sensors for S&CC", 9th Annual Cyber-Physical
Systems Principal Investigators' Meeting, Alexandria, VA, Nov. 15 - 16, 2018.
B. I. Morshed, "Ultra Low-power Inductively Coupled Wearable ECG Sensor Design with
Inkjet Printed Dry Electrodes", Special session: Wearable, Implants, and Body-Area
Networks (BK), National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, Jan. 9-12, 2019.
M. J. Rahman and B. I. Morshed, "Improving Accuracy of Inkjet Printed Core Body WRAP
Temperature Sensor Using Random Forest Regression Implemented with an Android App",
Special session: Wearable, Implants, and Body-Area Networks (BK), National Radio Science
Meeting, Boulder, CO, Jan. 9-12, 2019.
M. J. Rahman, R. Mahajan, and B. I. Morshed, "Exacerbation in Obstructive Sleep Apnea:
Early Detection and Monitoring Using a Single Channel EEG with Quadratic Discriminant
Analysis", IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER), San Francisco, CA, 20-23
Ma. 2019.
B. Noroozi and B. I. Morshed, "The effect of Resonator Configurations on the optimized
sensitivity in the Wireless Resistive Analog Passive (WRAP) sensors", IEEE Electro-Information
Technology (EIT) Conf., Brookings, SD, (accepted), May 20-22, 2019.
H. Gollakota and B. I. Morshed, "A Novel Severity Ranking Approach for Continuous
Monitoring of Heart Disease Progression Using Beat-wise Classification of ECG", IEEE
Electro-Information Technology (EIT) Conf., Brookings, SD, (accepted), May 20-22,
2019.
M. J. Rahman and B. I. Morshed, "SCC Health: A Framework for Online Estimation of
Disease Severity for the Smart and Connected Community", IEEE Electro-Information
Technology (EIT) Conf., Brookings, SD, (accepted), May 20-22, 2019.
July 2019: IRB revision has been submitted with updated protocol for approval.
June 2019: The project has been extended (NCE) to Jan 2010 to complete deployment.
May 2019: Android app has been tested with an Android phone that will be included
in the sensor suite.
Mar 2019: Android app has been updated to resolve installation with the new Android
OS.
Jan 2019: Sensor suite finalized and deployment in "living labs". The sensor suite
now includes MiBand 2 HR monitor.
Dec. 2018: The SCC web-server (http://sccmobilehealth.com/) has been fully assessed
with mock data.
Nov. 2018: The Android App (SCChealth) has been updated with algorithms for Flu, COPD,
and OSA.
Aug. 2018: A sensor suite is deployed for initial assessment.
May 2018: The team welcomes Aaron Alexander, an UG EECE student, to join the NSF Project from Summer 2018 as a REU student.
May 2018: The paper titled "Accessing Differential Measures with a Conjugate Coil-pair
for Wireless Resistive Analog Passive (WRAP) ECG Sensors", by M. Abu-Saude and B.
I. Morshed, has received the first place award at the IEEE Electro-Information Theory
(EIT) Conf., Oakland, MI, on May 3-5, 2018.
Feb. 2018: Rachel Alexander has received 1st prize award in Engineering category at TLSAMP (Tennessee Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority
Participation) Research Conference in Chattanooga, TN on Feb. 22-23, 2018. Congratulations!
Nov. 2017: The team welcomes Rachel Alexander, an UG EECE student, to join the NSF Project from Fall 2017 as a REU student.
Nov. 2017: The project flyer was shared with attendees of the Faith and Health: Making
the Connection 16th Annual Conference for Clergy and Congregational Leaders.
Oct. 2017: The project has been presented by Drs. Harmon and Morshed to two church
congregations in Memphis and the recruitment flyer shared with 3 additional congregations.
Jul. 2017: The project has been presented by Drs. Harmon and Morshed to a Methodist Men's group to inform the community about
the research and seek interest in recruitment to the Pilot Study.
Jul. 2017: IRB has been approved for the Pilot Study recruitment. The recruitment flyer can now be publicly distributed.
Jul. 2017: The SCC webserver with mock data has been deployed (Click http://sccmobilehealth.com/ and use Guest Login)
Jun. 2017: A poster [4] has been presented at Smart Cities Connect Conference & Expo
(US Ignite), Austin, TX on June 26, 2017.
Jun. 2017: A framework of web-portal is being developed with mock dataset.
May 2017: A meeting with the project PIs (Drs. Morshed and Harmon) was conducted with
UMC collaborators. Potential recruitment approaches were identified and presentation
slots at UMC gatherings and churches were discussed, so that the project can be presented
to potential recruits.
Apr. 2017: IRB application for the proposed pilot study has been submitted to University
of Memphis.
Mar. 2017:Temper ature and heart-rate WRAP sensors on paper prototyped and being evaluated.
The first revision of scanner prototype hardware is completed with functional testing.
A second revision is ongoing.
Mar. 2017: SCC Android app and SCC web-server framework ongoing. Other EoI algorithm
development is ongoing.
Feb. 2017: Coil design optimization algorithm finalized and published [3].
Jan. 2017: Temperature EoI finalized.
Jan. 2017: A second Ph.D. student has been recruited with partial funding to assist
in the project related activities.
Jan. 2017: A conference paper [2] has been presented on WRAP heart rate sensor printed
on the paper substrate.
Dec. 2016: The hardware design for the scanner device completed.
Nov. 2016: A poster [1] has been presented to NSF CPS PI meeting.
Aug. 2016: A Ph.D. student has been recruited for the project activities.
Aug. 2016: Inaugural team meeting conducted with a focus on long-term and short-term
goals.
Aug. 2016: The proposal has been funded by NSF CISE.
SCC Health Memphis Web-portal