Imperial College London
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ProfessorEstherRodriguez Villegas

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Professor in Low Power Electronics
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 6193e.rodriguez

 
 
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914Electrical EngineeringSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Torres:2017:10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037846,
author = {Torres, I and Echebarria, U and Imtiaz, SA and Peng, M and Rodriguez-Villegas, E},
doi = {10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037846},
pages = {4459--4462},
publisher = {IEEE},
title = {Monitoring smoking behaviour using a wearable acoustic sensor},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037846},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Smoking  is  a  cause  of  multiple  health  problemsresulting  in  diseases  which  can  also  be  fatal.  It  is  well  knownthat   smoking   has   long-term   impact   on   the   health   of   anindividual  as  well.  While  a  number  of  studies  have  looked  atthe  impact  of  smoking  on  health  and  its  economic  impacts,most  of  these  rely  on  input  from  smokers  in  the  form  ofquestionnaires and surveys. Long-term monitoring of smokinghabits  and  behaviour  is  thus  not  possible  because  of  the  lackof  means  to  do  so.  This  paper  proposes  the  use  of  a  wearabledevice to monitor breathing signals of subjects. It is shown thatthe acoustic properties of a smoking breath are different froma non-smoking breath. To encapsulate these differences, severalfeatures from a breath segment are extracted and used with asimple classifier to automatically identify smoking breaths. Theproposed algorithm detected smoking and non-smoking breathswith  average  accuracy  of  66%  and 99%  respectively.
AU  - Torres,I
AU  - Echebarria,U
AU  - Imtiaz,SA
AU  - Peng,M
AU  - Rodriguez-Villegas,E
DO  - 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037846
EP  - 4462
PB  - IEEE
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 1558-4615
SP  - 4459
TI  - Monitoring smoking behaviour using a wearable acoustic sensor
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037846
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000427085304222&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/64227
ER  -
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