Imperial College London
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Dr Syed Anas Imtiaz

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Research Fellow
 
 
 
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907Electrical EngineeringSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Rodriguez:2018:10.1109/MSSC.2018.2867247,
author = {Rodriguez, Villegas E and Iranmanesh, S and Imtiaz, SA},
doi = {10.1109/MSSC.2018.2867247},
journal = {IEEE Solid State Circuits Magazine},
pages = {43--52},
title = {Wearable medical devices: high level system design considerations and trade-offs},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2018.2867247},
volume = {10},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Wearable devices have seen tremendous growth over the last 10 years. This has been madepossible with the ever-shrinking electronics, reduction in costs as well as the rise in mobilecomputing making it possible to share significant computational workload. Recent estimatesshow an annual growth of 17% in wearable devices in the year 2017 with over 300 milliondevices being sold. It is also projected that over 500 million devices will be sold by the year2021 [1]. While these figures show some staggering growth and potential for wearable devices,a detailed look at the numbers reveal that the application areas where wearable devices havebeen a success are quite limited. Most of these devices whichare consideredwearable, takethe form of smartwatches, fitness trackers, body worn cameras and headphones. It should beemphasized that the mentioned numbers are for devices that are made for consumers and usedmostly for entertainment, wellness and general health purposes. The benefits provided by mostof these health-related wearable devices are insufficient for medical usage mainly because oflow quality data and insufficient accuracy in classificationtasks.While wearables for consumer use will continue to grow, it is important to keep in mindthe distinction between consumer and medical-grade devices. In the sphere of medical devices,wearables for monitoring, diagnosing and real-time management of illnesses is still at a veryearly stage. One of the main reasons for this slow growth, as well as adoption, is the designof such devices, which is inherently very challenging. In this paper, we will first look at theneed for wearable devices to improve healthcare in order to understand and define a set of requirements for the design of such devices. Subsequently,based on these requirements, we willlook at the challenges that exist in the development of wearable medical devices particularlyfrom the perspective of their system and circuit level implementations.
AU  - Rodriguez,Villegas E
AU  - Iranmanesh,S
AU  - Imtiaz,SA
DO  - 10.1109/MSSC.2018.2867247
EP  - 52
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 1943-0582
SP  - 43
TI  - Wearable medical devices: high level system design considerations and trade-offs
T2  - IEEE Solid State Circuits Magazine
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MSSC.2018.2867247
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/63878
VL  - 10
ER  -
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