Paper Info
Title
Evaluation of thoraco-abdominal asynchrony using conductive textiles.
Abstract
The desynchronisation between the rib cage and the abdomen known as thoraco-abdominal asynchrony (TAA) is an important parameter in the respiratory field. It can provide useful information about respiratory failures and work of breathing in different scenarios (e.g., clinical setting, sports science) and populations (e.g., neonates, athletes). The purpose of this work was to evaluate the capability of a multi-sensor smart garment to quantifity the TAA. The proposed garment is composed by three elastic bands embedding two conductive sensing element each. Experimental trials were carried out on five healthy volunteers who worn the elastic bands at the level of the upper rib cage, lower rib cage and abdomen. TAA was investigated by analysing the time shift between the rib cage and abdomen respiratory waveform. Data analysis demonstrated the ability of the garment to identify the thoracoabdominal time shift. This result is testified by the good agreement between the data of the proposed system and a commercial motion capture system used as gold standard: the Bland-Altman analysis showed a mean of difference of 170 ms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9128603
I2MTC
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Joshua Di Tocco110.71
C Massaroni25426.42
Marco Bravi310.71
Sandra Miccinilli464.27
Silvia Sterzi5226.19
Domenico Formica68826.60
Emiliano Schena710643.86