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Special Issue “Advanced Signal Processing in Intelligent Systems for Health Monitoring”

by Maysam Abbod and Jiann-Shing Shieh

Sensors 2019, 19(21), 4727; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19214727 - 31 Oct 2019

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Recently, significant developments have been achieved in the field of artificial intelligence, in particular the introduction of deep learning technology that has improved the learning and prediction accuracy to unpresented levels, especially when dealing with big data and high-resolution images. Significant developments have [...] Read more.

Recently, significant developments have been achieved in the field of artificial intelligence, in particular the introduction of deep learning technology that has improved the learning and prediction accuracy to unpresented levels, especially when dealing with big data and high-resolution images. Significant developments have occurred in the area of medical signal processing, measurement techniques, and health monitoring, such as vital biological signs for biomedical systems and noise and vibration of mechanical systems, which are carried out by instruments that generate large data sets. These big data sets, ultimately driven by high population growth, would require Artificial Intelligence techniques to analyse and model. In this Special Issue, papers are presented on the latest signal processing and deep learning techniques used for health monitoring of biomedical and mechanical systems. Full article

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A Comparative Study of Computational Methods for Compressed Sensing Reconstruction of EMG Signal

by Lorenzo Manoni, Claudio Turchetti, Laura Falaschetti and Paolo Crippa

Sensors 2019, 19(16), 3531; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19163531 - 13 Aug 2019

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Wearable devices offer a convenient means to monitor biosignals in real time at relatively low cost, and provide continuous monitoring without causing any discomfort. Among signals that contain critical information about human body status, electromyography (EMG) signal is particular useful in monitoring muscle [...] Read more.

Wearable devices offer a convenient means to monitor biosignals in real time at relatively low cost, and provide continuous monitoring without causing any discomfort. Among signals that contain critical information about human body status, electromyography (EMG) signal is particular useful in monitoring muscle functionality and activity during sport, fitness, or daily life. In particular surface electromyography (sEMG) has proven to be a suitable technique in several health monitoring applications, thanks to its non-invasiveness and ease to use. However, recording EMG signals from multiple channels yields a large amount of data that increases the power consumption of wireless transmission thus reducing the sensor lifetime. Compressed sensing (CS) is a promising data acquisition solution that takes advantage of the signal sparseness in a particular basis to significantly reduce the number of samples needed to reconstruct the signal. As a large variety of algorithms have been developed in recent years with this technique, it is of paramount importance to assess their performance in order to meet the stringent energy constraints imposed in the design of low-power wireless body area networks (WBANs) for sEMG monitoring. The aim of this paper is to present a comprehensive comparative study of computational methods for CS reconstruction of EMG signals, giving some useful guidelines in the design of efficient low-power WBANs. For this purpose, four of the most common reconstruction algorithms used in practical applications have been deeply analyzed and compared both in terms of accuracy and speed, and the sparseness of the signal has been estimated in three different bases. A wide range of experiments are performed on real-world EMG biosignals coming from two different datasets, giving rise to two different independent case studies. Full article

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Measurement of Dynamic Responses from Large Structural Tests by Analyzing Non-Synchronized Videos

by Yuan-Sen Yang

Sensors 2019, 19(16), 3520; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19163520 - 11 Aug 2019

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Image analysis techniques have been employed to measure displacements, deformation, crack propagation, and structural health monitoring. With the rapid development and wide application of digital imaging technology, consumer digital cameras are commonly used for making such measurements because of their satisfactory imaging resolution, [...] Read more.

Image analysis techniques have been employed to measure displacements, deformation, crack propagation, and structural health monitoring. With the rapid development and wide application of digital imaging technology, consumer digital cameras are commonly used for making such measurements because of their satisfactory imaging resolution, video recording capability, and relatively low cost. However, three-dimensional dynamic response monitoring and measurement on large-scale structures pose challenges of camera calibration and synchronization to image analysis. Without satisfactory camera position and orientation obtained from calibration and well-synchronized imaging, significant errors would occur in the dynamic responses during image analysis and stereo triangulation. This paper introduces two camera calibration approaches that are suitable for large-scale structural experiments, as well as a synchronization method to estimate the time difference between two cameras and further minimize the error of stereo triangulation. Two structural experiments are used to verify the calibration approaches and the synchronization method to acquire dynamic responses. The results demonstrate the performance and accuracy improvement by using the proposed methods. Full article

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A Rail Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Quartic C² Hermite Improved Empirical Mode Decomposition Algorithm

by Hanzhong Liu, Chaoxuan Qin and Ming Liu

Sensors 2019, 19(15), 3300; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19153300 - 26 Jul 2019

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For compound fault detection of high-speed rail vibration signals, which presents a difficult problem, an early fault diagnosis method of an improved empirical mode decomposition (EMD) algorithm based on quartic C² Hermite interpolation is presented. First, the quartic C² Hermite interpolation [...] Read more.

For compound fault detection of high-speed rail vibration signals, which presents a difficult problem, an early fault diagnosis method of an improved empirical mode decomposition (EMD) algorithm based on quartic C² Hermite interpolation is presented. First, the quartic C² Hermite interpolation improved EMD algorithm is used to decompose the original signal, and the intrinsic mode function (IMF) components are obtained. Second, singular value decomposition for the IMF components is performed to determine the principal components of the signal. Then, the signal is reconstructed and the kurtosis and approximate entropy values are calculated as the eigenvalues of fault diagnosis. Finally, fault diagnosis is executed based on the support vector machine (SVM). This method is applied for the fault diagnosis of high-speed rails, and experimental results show that the method presented in this paper is superior to the traditional EMD algorithm and greatly improves the accuracy of fault diagnosis. Full article

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Intelligent Fault Diagnosis of Diesel Engines via Extreme Gradient Boosting and High-Accuracy Time–Frequency Information of Vibration Signals

by Jianfeng Tao, Chengjin Qin, Weixing Li and Chengliang Liu

Sensors 2019, 19(15), 3280; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19153280 - 25 Jul 2019

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Accurate and timely misfire fault diagnosis is of vital significance for diesel engines. However, existing algorithms are prone to fall into model over-fitting and adopt low energy-concentrated features. This paper presents a novel extreme gradient boosting-based misfire fault diagnosis approach utilizing the high-accuracy [...] Read more.

Accurate and timely misfire fault diagnosis is of vital significance for diesel engines. However, existing algorithms are prone to fall into model over-fitting and adopt low energy-concentrated features. This paper presents a novel extreme gradient boosting-based misfire fault diagnosis approach utilizing the high-accuracy time–frequency information of vibration signals. First, diesel engine misfire tests were conducted under different spindle speeds, and the corresponding vibration signals were acquired via a triaxial accelerometer. The time-domain features of signals were extracted by using a time-domain statistics method, while the high-accuracy time–frequency domain features were obtained via the high-resolution multisynchrosqueezing transform. Thereafter, considering the nonlinearity and high dimensionality of the original characteristic data sets, the locally linear embedding method was employed for feature dimensionality reduction. Eventually, to avoid model overfitting, the extreme gradient boosting algorithm was utilized for diesel engine misfire fault diagnosis. Experiments under different spindle speeds and comprehensive comparisons with other evaluation methods were conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed extreme gradient boosting-based misfire diagnosis method. The results verify that the highest classification accuracy of the proposed extreme gradient boosting-based algorithm is up to 99.93%. Simultaneously, the classification accuracy of the presented approach is approximately 24.63% higher on average than those of algorithms that use wavelet packet-based features. Moreover, it is shown that it obtains the minimum root mean squared error and can effectively prevent the model from falling into overfitting. Full article

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Wearable Real-Time Heart Attack Detection and Warning System to Reduce Road Accidents

by Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury, Khawla Alzoubi, Amith Khandakar, Ridab Khallifa, Rayaan Abouhasera, Sirine Koubaa, Rashid Ahmed and Anwarul Hasan

Sensors 2019, 19(12), 2780; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19122780 - 20 Jun 2019

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Heart attack is one of the leading causes of human death worldwide. Every year, about 610,000 people die of heart attack in the United States alone—that is one in every four deaths—but there are well understood early symptoms of heart attack that could [...] Read more.

Heart attack is one of the leading causes of human death worldwide. Every year, about 610,000 people die of heart attack in the United States alone—that is one in every four deaths—but there are well understood early symptoms of heart attack that could be used to greatly help in saving many lives and minimizing damages by detecting and reporting at an early stage. On the other hand, every year, about 2.35 million people get injured or disabled from road accidents. Unexpectedly, many of these fatal accidents happen due to the heart attack of drivers that leads to the loss of control of the vehicle. The current work proposes the development of a wearable system for real-time detection and warning of heart attacks in drivers, which could be enormously helpful in reducing road accidents. The system consists of two subsystems that communicate wirelessly using Bluetooth technology, namely, a wearable sensor subsystem and an intelligent heart attack detection and warning subsystem. The sensor subsystem records the electrical activity of the heart from the chest area to produce electrocardiogram (ECG) trace and send that to the other portable decision-making subsystem where the symptoms of heart attack are detected. We evaluated the performance of dry electrodes and different electrode configurations and measured overall power consumption of the system. Linear classification and several machine algorithms were trained and tested for real-time application. It was observed that the linear classification algorithm was not able to detect heart attack in noisy data, whereas the support vector machine (SVM) algorithm with polynomial kernel with extended time–frequency features using extended modified B-distribution (EMBD) showed highest accuracy and was able to detect 97.4% and 96.3% of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and non-ST-elevation MI (NSTEMI), respectively. The proposed system can therefore help in reducing the loss of lives from the growing number of road accidents all over the world. Full article

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A New Wearable Device for Blood Pressure Estimation Using Photoplethysmogram

by Remo Lazazzera, Yassir Belhaj and Guy Carrault

Sensors 2019, 19(11), 2557; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19112557 - 4 Jun 2019

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We present a novel smartwatch, CareUp

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, for estimating the Blood Pressure (BP) in real time. It consists of two pulse oximeters: one placed on the back and one on the front of the device. Placing the index finger on the front [...] Read more.

We present a novel smartwatch, CareUp

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, for estimating the Blood Pressure (BP) in real time. It consists of two pulse oximeters: one placed on the back and one on the front of the device. Placing the index finger on the front oximeter starts the acquisition of two photoplethysmograms (PPG); the signals are then filtered and cross-correlated to obtain a Time Delay between them, called Pulse Transit Time (PTT). The Heart Rate (HR) (estimated from the finger PPG) and the PTT are then input in a linear model to give an estimation of the Systolic and Diastolic BP. The performance of the smartwatch in measuring BP have been validated in the Institut Coeur Paris Centre Turin (ICPC), using a sphygmomanometer, on 44 subjects. During the validation, the measures of the CareUp

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were compared to those of two oscillometry-based devices already available on the market: Thuasne

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and Magnien

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. The results showed an accuracy comparable to the oscillometry-based devices and they almost agreed with the American Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation standard for non-automated sphygmomanometers. The integration of the BP estimation algorithm in the smartwatch makes the CareUp

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an easy-to-use, wearable device for monitoring the BP in real time. Full article

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A Novel Health Indicator Based on Cointegration for Rolling Bearings’ Run-To-Failure Process

by Hongru Li, Yaolong Li and He Yu

Sensors 2019, 19(9), 2151; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19092151 - 9 May 2019

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The extraction of rolling bearings’ degradation features has been developed for decades. However, the degradation features always present different trends of different run-to-failure data. To find a consistent indicator of different data will be helpful to establish a general model and explore the [...] Read more.

The extraction of rolling bearings’ degradation features has been developed for decades. However, the degradation features always present different trends of different run-to-failure data. To find a consistent indicator of different data will be helpful to establish a general model and explore the nature of bearings’ degradation. In this study, we have found there is a trend of similarity between the energy and complexity features. By using the cointegration test, we found the two kinds of features exhibit a certain degree of cointegration relationship. Fused by the cointegration method, we have obtained a novel health indicator which can depict different run-to-failure data in a unified way. The difference between the energy features and complexity features can be explained by the novel health indicator. The indicator has “two-stage” characters. The first stage is the zero-line stage and the second stage is the quickly raise stage, which presents like an exponential function. It is easy to think about using an exponential degradation model to model this indicator. Next, we have compared the indicator to root mean square (RMS) by using the exponential degradation model. It shows that the indicator is more suitable for the exponential degradation model. In this paper, we used eleven run-to-failure data to verify the generality and “two-stage” characters of the proposed indicator. The result shows that the novel indicator is general and effective and that it will promote the development of bearings’ prognostics. Full article

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Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on the Switchable Normalization SSGAN with 1-D Representation of Vibration Signals as Input

by Dongdong Zhao, Feng Liu and He Meng

Sensors 2019, 19(9), 2000; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19092000 - 29 Apr 2019

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The bearing is a component of the support shaft that guides the rotational movement of the shaft, widely used in the mechanical industry and also called a mechanical joint. In bearing fault diagnosis, the accuracy much depends on the feature extraction, which always [...] Read more.

The bearing is a component of the support shaft that guides the rotational movement of the shaft, widely used in the mechanical industry and also called a mechanical joint. In bearing fault diagnosis, the accuracy much depends on the feature extraction, which always needs a lot of training samples and classification in the commonly used methods. Neural networks are good at latent feature extraction and fault classification, however, they have problems with instability and over-fitting, and more labeled samples must be trained. Switchable normalization and semi-supervised learning are introduced to solve the above obstacles in this paper, which proposes a novel bearing fault diagnosis method based on switchable normalization semi-supervised generative adversarial networks (SN-SSGAN) with 1-dimensional representation of vibration signals as input. Experimental results showed that the proposed method has a desirable 99.93% classification accuracy in the case of less labeled data from the public data set of West Reserve University, which is better than the state-of-the-art methods. Full article

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Machine Learning Methods Applied to Predict Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia with Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection via Sensor Array of Electronic Nose in Intensive Care Unit

by Yu-Hsuan Liao, Zhong-Chuang Wang, Fu-Gui Zhang, Maysam F. Abbod, Chung-Hung Shih and Jiann-Shing Shieh

Sensors 2019, 19(8), 1866; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19081866 - 18 Apr 2019

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One concern to the patients is the off-line detection of pneumonia infection status after using the ventilator in the intensive care unit. Hence, machine learning methods for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) rapid diagnose are proposed. A popular device, Cyranose 320 e-nose, is usually used [...] Read more.

One concern to the patients is the off-line detection of pneumonia infection status after using the ventilator in the intensive care unit. Hence, machine learning methods for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) rapid diagnose are proposed. A popular device, Cyranose 320 e-nose, is usually used in research on lung disease, which is a highly integrated system and sensor comprising 32 array using polymer and carbon black materials. In this study, a total of 24 subjects were involved, including 12 subjects who are infected with pneumonia, and the rest are non-infected. Three layers of back propagation artificial neural network and support vector machine (SVM) methods were applied to patients’ data to predict whether they are infected with VAP with Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. Furthermore, in order to improve the accuracy and the generalization of the prediction models, the ensemble neural networks (ENN) method was applied. In this study, ENN and SVM prediction models were trained and tested. In order to evaluate the models’ performance, a fivefold cross-validation method was applied. The results showed that both ENN and SVM models have high recognition rates of VAP with Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection, with 0.9479 ± 0.0135 and 0.8686 ± 0.0422 accuracies, 0.9714 ± 0.0131, 0.9250 ± 0.0423 sensitivities, and 0.9288 ± 0.0306, 0.8639 ± 0.0276 positive predictive values, respectively. The ENN model showed better performance compared to SVM in the recognition of VAP with Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. The areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve of the two models were 0.9842 ± 0.0058 and 0.9410 ± 0.0301, respectively, showing that both models are very stable and accurate classifiers. This study aims to assist the physician in providing a scientific and effective reference for performing early detection in Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection or other diseases. Full article

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Detection of Congestive Heart Failure Based on LSTM-Based Deep Network via Short-Term RR Intervals

by Ludi Wang and Xiaoguang Zhou

Sensors 2019, 19(7), 1502; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19071502 - 28 Mar 2019

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Congestive heart failure (CHF) refers to the inadequate blood filling function of the ventricular pump and it may cause an insufficient heart discharge volume that fails to meet the needs of body metabolism. Heart rate variability (HRV) based on the RR interval is [...] Read more.

Congestive heart failure (CHF) refers to the inadequate blood filling function of the ventricular pump and it may cause an insufficient heart discharge volume that fails to meet the needs of body metabolism. Heart rate variability (HRV) based on the RR interval is a proven effective predictor of CHF. Short-term HRV has been used widely in many healthcare applications to monitor patients’ health, especially in combination with mobile phones and smart watches. Inspired by the inception module from GoogLeNet, we combined long short-term memory (LSTM) and an Inception module for CHF detection. Five open-source databases were used for training and testing, and three RR segment length types (N = 500, 1000 and 2000) were used for the comparison with other studies. With blindfold validation, the proposed method achieved 99.22%, 98.85% and 98.92% accuracy using the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) CHF, normal sinus rhythm (NSR) and the Fantasia database (FD) databases and 82.51%, 86.68% and 87.55% accuracy using the NSR-RR and CHF-RR databases, with N = 500, 1000 and 2000 length RR interval segments, respectively. Our end-to-end system can help clinicians to detect CHF using short-term assessment of the heartbeat. It can be installed in healthcare applications to monitor the status of human heart. Full article

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Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machinery under Noisy Environment Conditions Based on a 1-D Convolutional Autoencoder and 1-D Convolutional Neural Network

by Xingchen Liu, Qicai Zhou, Jiong Zhao, Hehong Shen and Xiaolei Xiong

Sensors 2019, 19(4), 972; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19040972 - 25 Feb 2019

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Deep learning methods have been widely used in the field of intelligent fault diagnosis due to their powerful feature learning and classification capabilities. However, it is easy to overfit depth models because of the large number of parameters brought by the multilayer-structure. As [...] Read more.

Deep learning methods have been widely used in the field of intelligent fault diagnosis due to their powerful feature learning and classification capabilities. However, it is easy to overfit depth models because of the large number of parameters brought by the multilayer-structure. As a result, the methods with excellent performance under experimental conditions may severely degrade under noisy environment conditions, which are ubiquitous in practical industrial applications. In this paper, a novel method combining a one-dimensional (1-D) denoising convolutional autoencoder (DCAE) and a 1-D convolutional neural network (CNN) is proposed to address this problem, whereby the former is used for noise reduction of raw vibration signals and the latter for fault diagnosis using the de-noised signals. The DCAE model is trained with noisy input for denoising learning. In the CNN model, a global average pooling layer, instead of fully-connected layers, is applied as a classifier to reduce the number of parameters and the risk of overfitting. In addition, randomly corrupted signals are adopted as training samples to improve the anti-noise diagnosis ability. The proposed method is validated by bearing and gearbox datasets mixed with Gaussian noise. The experimental result shows that the proposed DCAE model is effective in denoising and almost causes no loss of input information, while the using of global average pooling and input-corrupt training improves the anti-noise ability of the CNN model. As a result, the method combined the DCAE model and the CNN model can realize high-accuracy diagnosis even under noisy environment. Full article

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Integrations between Autonomous Systems and Modern Computing Techniques: A Mini Review

by Jerry Chen, Maysam Abbod and Jiann-Shing Shieh

Sensors 2019, 19(18), 3897; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19183897 - 10 Sep 2019

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The emulation of human behavior for autonomous problem solving has been an interdisciplinary field of research. Generally, classical control systems are used for static environments, where external disturbances and changes in internal parameters can be fully modulated before or neglected during operation. However, [...] Read more.

The emulation of human behavior for autonomous problem solving has been an interdisciplinary field of research. Generally, classical control systems are used for static environments, where external disturbances and changes in internal parameters can be fully modulated before or neglected during operation. However, classical control systems are inadequate at addressing environmental uncertainty. By contrast, autonomous systems, which were first studied in the field of control systems, can be applied in an unknown environment. This paper summarizes the state of the art autonomous systems by first discussing the definition, modeling, and system structure of autonomous systems and then providing a perspective on how autonomous systems can be integrated with advanced resources (e.g., the Internet of Things, big data, Over-the-Air, and federated learning). Finally, what comes after reaching full autonomy is briefly discussed. Full article

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