In this paper we have designed, realized and tested an innovative, low-cost, electronic medical device, named "Aglaia", which is a completely new technological tool designed for the non-invasive continuous real-time monitoring of breathing functions. It diagnoses respiratory pathologies by the electronic three dimensional (3-D) auscultation of lung sounds and performing a correlation between lung sounds and diseases. Both incipient and advanced respiratory pathologies are detected.Thanks to its specific sensors, which can be applied to the body chest with a wearable elastic band or attached separately with adhesive tape, Aglaia allows the effective auscultation, the accurate processing and the detailed visualization (temporal and frequency graphs) of any lung sound. When using a simple stethoscope, the recognition and differentiation of lung sounds depends on the individual's hearing abilities, experience and skilfulness; then, the auscultation and interpretation of sounds performed by means of electronic stethoscope has a consistent subjective component. Aglaia goes beyond the stethoscope both to automatically process the acquired signal (thereby removing subjectivity) and to perform 3-D auscultation by placing sensors all over the thorax.
In questo lavoro si è progettato e realizzato un innovativo dispositivo elettromedicale, denominato "Aglaia", che si avvale delle tecnologie elettroniche ed informatiche più avanzate e che in maniera non invasiva e non fastidiosa per il paziente, tramite la sola acquisizione e post-elaborazione tridimensionale (3-D) dei suoni polmonari, consente un monitoraggio altamente affidabile della funzionalità respiratoria con lo scopo sia di prevenire patologie acute, che Aglaia consente di rilevare allo stato incipiente o addirittura latente, sia di verificare in tempo reale l'efficacia di una terapia curativa di patologie in atto a carico dell'apparato respiratorio. Grazie ad una specifica sensoristica di rilevamento, composta da sensori acustici e/o di vibrazione applicati attraverso una fascia elastica indossabile o, alternativamente, applicati singolarmente tramite nastri adesivi, Aglaia consente un efficace acquisizione, un'accurata elaborazione ed una dettagliata visualizzazione di tutti i possibili suoni respiratori, eliminando la soggettività d'interpretazione dei suddetti suoni prelevati tramite stetoscopio.
AGLAIA: un dispositivo elettromedicale per il rilievo dei suoni polmonari / Giorgio, Agostino; Alessandro, Convertino; Perri, Anna Gina. - In: LA COMUNICAZIONE. - ISSN 1590-864X. - LIV:(2006), pp. 73-78.
AGLAIA: un dispositivo elettromedicale per il rilievo dei suoni polmonari
GIORGIO, Agostino;PERRI, Anna Gina
2006-01-01
Abstract
In this paper we have designed, realized and tested an innovative, low-cost, electronic medical device, named "Aglaia", which is a completely new technological tool designed for the non-invasive continuous real-time monitoring of breathing functions. It diagnoses respiratory pathologies by the electronic three dimensional (3-D) auscultation of lung sounds and performing a correlation between lung sounds and diseases. Both incipient and advanced respiratory pathologies are detected.Thanks to its specific sensors, which can be applied to the body chest with a wearable elastic band or attached separately with adhesive tape, Aglaia allows the effective auscultation, the accurate processing and the detailed visualization (temporal and frequency graphs) of any lung sound. When using a simple stethoscope, the recognition and differentiation of lung sounds depends on the individual's hearing abilities, experience and skilfulness; then, the auscultation and interpretation of sounds performed by means of electronic stethoscope has a consistent subjective component. Aglaia goes beyond the stethoscope both to automatically process the acquired signal (thereby removing subjectivity) and to perform 3-D auscultation by placing sensors all over the thorax.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.