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Biomedical electronics engineering at Universiti Malaysia Perlis
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008)
Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) is one of the public higher learning institutions in Malaysia to offer Biomedical Engineering at the undergraduate level. Biomedical engineering is a new branch of engineering which apply ...
Malaysia and telecare — a preliminary study
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008)
Advancements in nutrition, sanitation, health practices and medical care has significantly reduced infant mortality rate improved the life expectancy of the population. With the increasing ageing population and chronic ...
An application of finite element modelling to pneumatic artificial muscle
(Science Publications, 2005)
The purpose of this article was to introduce and to give an overview of the Pneumatic Artificial Muscles (PAMs) as a whole and to discuss its numerical modelling, using the Finite Element (FE) Method. Thus, more information ...
Characterization of Chitosan-poly (ethylene oxide) blends as haemodialysis membrane
(Science Publications, 2005)
Blend membranes of chitosan and poly (ethylene oxide) with different molecular weights of 100,000 and 600,000 were prepared by the solution cast technique. The Chitosan-PEO blend membranes were produced to study their water ...
Development of a mobile patient data management system using ASP .Net
(Springer-Verlag, 2007)
The primary aim of this study is to look into the feasibility of developing a mobile patient data management system using ASP .Net technology. It was envisioned that medical personnel, by using any WAP-enabled devices, ...
Image enhancement techniques using local, global, bright, dark and partial contrast stretching for acute leukemia images
(International Association of Engineers, 2009-07)
Leukaemia is a malignant disease (cancer) that affects people in any age either they are children or adults over 50 years old. Nowadays, there are screening system guidelines for leukaemia patients. The screening result ...
Blood cell image segmentation: a review
(Springer-Verlag, 2008-06)
Image processing technique involved five basic components which are image acquisition, image preprocessing, image segmentation, image post-processing and image analysis. The most critical step in image processing is the ...
Development of an ambient lighting monitoring system for radiological image viewing application
(Springer-Verlag, 2007)
Ambient lighting plays a very important role in radiological image viewing environment. Excessive room ambient lighting (or illuminance) degrades image contrast, introducing veiling glare, diffuse reflectivity on the viewing ...
Measuring blood pressure using a photoplethysmography approach
(Springer-Verlag, 2008-06)
Blood pressure is often measured using a device called a sphygmomanometer, a stethoscope, and a blood pressure cuff. All the existing manual or automatic measuring techniques of blood pressure are based on this principle, ...
Development of web-based medical history compiler
(Springer-Verlag, 2007)
The medical industry is moving towards ‘personalized medicine’ in all aspects of healthcare services, due to the realisation that each human body is different and ideally requires particular combination of drugs and ...