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IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter
The IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter is a new initiative to bring forth interesting articles and informative interviews within the exciting field of life sciences every month.
Arthur W. Astrin received the Ph.D. E.E. from U.C.L.A. in Communication Engineering in 1984 and Master Degree in Mathematics from U.C. San Diego. He has worked for Apple Computer, Inc., IBM (where he achieved 100% club), Siemens, ROLM, Memorex and Citicorp in technical and management …
By Benny Lo
Aiming to develop pervasive sensing technologies to address the increasing demands on the healthcare services caused by the demographic shifts, Body Sensor Networks (BSN) has attracted many interests in both academic and industrial communities. Together with the advances in sensing, computing and wireless …
By G. Fortino
SPINE is an open-source framework, using versatile wireless communication between body-mounted Sensor Nodes and a remote Coordinator. It supports development of efficient BSN Systems. Several applications have already been implemented. The article contains a link to the web site from which the framework …
By Daniel W. Bliss
In this article, a system-level discussion of body sensor networks and their applications is provided. Because the nature of engineering, it is easy to become focused on a particular aspect associated with one’s area of expertise. Here, the engineer is encouraged to …
Nitish Thakor, Editor-In-Chief
This Issue features articles on wearable wireless Body Sensor Networks. With the advent of miniaturized sensors for monitoring physiological signals there is an increasing need for efficient, secure networks to integrate sensor data into a mobile network to allow continuous, remote monitoring of …
Benny Ping Lai Lo is Lecturer at the Hamlyn Centre and the Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London. He also acts as the Programmer Manager of the ESPRIT Programme, a UK EPSRC and UK Sport funded programme. Dr. Lo received his BASc in …
Giancarlo Fortino is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering (since 2006) at the Dept. of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics and Systems (DIMES) of the University of Calabria (Unical), Rende (CS), Italy. He received a Laurea Degree and a PhD in Computer Engineering from Unical in …
Daniel W. Bliss is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. Dan received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Physics from the University of California at San Diego (1997 and 1995), and his BSEE in Electrical Engineering …
Nikhil Singh is pursuing his PhD in computer science at the University of Utah. He works at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI) with Dr. Tom Fletcher and Dr. Sarang Joshi as a research assistant.
By Nitish Thakor
ISBI 2013, held recently in San Francisco, CA USA, brought together world experts on Biomedical Imaging in a wide range of events. See “New Methods Explored at Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI’13)” for an interesting account of the scope and …
