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Application of wireless inertial measurement units and EMG sensors for studying deglutition - preliminary results

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posted on 2015-05-22, 15:33 authored by U. Imtiaz, K. Yamamura, Weisheng Kong, Salvatore Sessa, Zhuohua Lin, Luca Bartolomeo, Hiroyuki Ishii, Massimiliano ZeccaMassimiliano Zecca, Y. Yamada, Atsuo Takanishi
Different types of sensors are being used to study deglutition and mastication. These often suffer from problems related to portability, cost, reliability, comfort etc. that make it difficult to use for long term studies. An inertial measurement based sensor seems a good fit in this application; however its use has not been explored much for the specific application of deglutition research. In this paper, we present a system comprised of an IMU and EMG sensor that are integrated together as a single system. With a preliminary experiment, we determine that the system can be used for measuring the head-neck posture during swallowing in addition to other parameters during the swallowing phase. The EMG sensor may not always be a reliable source of physiological data especially for small clustered muscles like the ones responsible for swallowing. In this case, we explore the possibility of using gyroscopic data for the recognition of deglutition events.

Funding

This research has been supported by the JSPS Scientific Research-C grant [24500616] from JSPS, the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (Wakate B) [25750259], the Global COE Program "Global Robot Academia", MEXT, Japan, and the Consolidated Research Institute for Advanced Science and Medical Care, Waseda University (ASMeW). It was also partially supported by a grant by STMicroelectronics, which also provided the core sensors and the microcontroller.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Pages

5381 - 5384

Citation

IMTIAZ, U. ... et al, 2014. Application of wireless inertial measurement units and EMG sensors for studying deglutition - preliminary results. IN: Proceedings of the 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE on Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 26th-30th August 2014, Chicago, pp. 5381 - 5384.

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© IEEE

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

2014

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1557-170X

Language

  • en

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