Development of Diagnostic Device for COPD: A MEMS Based Approach

Sümbül H., Yuzer A. H.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND NETWORK SECURITY, cilt.17, sa.7, ss.196-203, 2017 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 17 Sayı: 7
  • Basım Tarihi: 2017
  • Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND NETWORK SECURITY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.196-203
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Acceleration, COPD, diaphragm, data acquisition, signal processor, ACCELEROMETER
  • Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of most common diseases related to breathing. In this study, a new diagnostic method is developed to detect the COPD parameters by using a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) based acceleration sensor. It records the data of acceleration that occur the movements of the diaphragm in three axes during the respiratory. With the developed device in this work, the parameters such as Tidal volume capacity (TVC), forced vital capacity (FVC) and respiratory rate (RR) which are commonly associated with COPD are successfully measured and recorded on a secure digital memory (SD) card. 5 people are chosen as a subject (3 healthy, 2 copd) to perform simultaneous measurements with both medical spirometer and the developed system. The measurement results are compared. It is concluded that results are acceptable. Healthy people and the people having COPD are successfully determined by looking the measured FVC curves with the developed system. So the developed device is considered as an alternative method to spirometer and as well as portable device.