Innovative algorithms for actionable insights
Turn raw health data into actionable insights with algorithms optimized for your connected health device.
Connected health solutions such as an EEG headset or health patch capture enormous amounts of data. How do you turn that into meaningful information and actionable insights? Count on imec to develop the algorithms that make your application truly smart.
Turning raw data into reliable results
Calculating body movements from the measurements of kinematic sensors, determining the heart rate from the readings of a vital sign monitoring device, ...
Imec develops a lot of algorithms that accurately characterize – often in real time – the collected mass of raw data. It’s a crucial step towards your development of clinical-grade connected health solutions.
These data analysis algorithms perform different data processing steps: from cleaning up noisy data to signal quality prediction. This last function is particularly important in neurotechnology applications, where users need to assess the reliability of the data before starting the procedure.
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Extracting actionable insights
Once you have these filtered and reliable data sets, you can mine them for deeper meanings. For example:
- What does the output of several body movement sensors tell us about the revalidation process of a patient?
- How do someone’s skin conductance, skin temperature and acceleration (movement) relate to his stress level?
- Can we derive someone’s emotional state from his EEG readings?
It’s this layer of algorithms that opens the door towards advanced connected health applications that combine unobtrusive monitoring with reliable feedback – encouraging healthy behaviors and lifestyle choices.
Co-designing of algorithms and devices
If we want to integrate medical wearables seamlessly into our active lives, we need to make sure that they:
- don’t rely on a connection to the cloud, but can perform their basic functions off-line
- can get by for hours, days or even weeks on a limited power budget.
That’s why imec, driven by its vision of edge AI, devotes special attention to the co-optimization of device hardware and algorithms – resulting in exceptionally efficient solutions.
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Related clinical areas
Gait Analysis
Release human motion analysis from the lab by developing wearable kinematic sensor systems.
Release human motion analysis from the lab by developing wearable kinematic sensor systems.
Neurotechnology
Work with advanced algorithms and systems to develop non-invasive brain monitoring and stimulation solutions.
Work with advanced algorithms and systems to develop non-invasive brain monitoring and stimulation solutions.
Ophthalmology
Use recent advances in nano and digital technology to develop ophthalmology applications such as smart contact lenses and eye-tracking glasses.
Use recent advances in nano and digital technology to develop ophthalmology applications such as smart contact lenses and eye-tracking glasses.
Sleep monitoring technology
Start from imec’s technology to make sleep monitoring less burdensome for patients and more cost-effective for caregivers.
Start from imec’s sensing technology to make sleep monitoring less burdensome for patients and more cost-effective for caregivers.
Vital sign monitoring
Discover the technologies that pave the way towards unobtrusive health monitoring.
Discover the technologies that pave the way towards unobtrusive health monitoring.
Technology for respiratory care
Discover technologies that allow for non-obtrusive and continuous respiratory monitoring.
Pain and stress monitoring
Use wearable technologies to leverage physiological pain and stress signals, and improve research and treatments.
New dialysis approaches
Improve the life of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) by leveraging microelectronics and nanotechnology
Improve the life of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) by leveraging microelectronics and nanotechnology.
Related prototypes
EEG headset
An electroencephalography no longer needs to be a complicated affair of patches and wires. Imec’s EEG headset combines user comfort with low-power technology, which opens doors to new therapeutic possibilities.
Eye-tracking glasses
Our eye movements speak volumes about our mental health. Imec’s eye-tracking glasses allow you to record them exactly and ergonomically.
Disposable health patch
Continuous health monitoring has a promising future. It will enable us to find new diagnostic methods, improve therapies and reduce hospital readmissions. And this patch makes it considerably easier.
Chill+
Wrist-worn fitness devices are a big success on the consumer market. But there’s a lot more health data to be collected at the wrist beyond activity. If you want to take wireless health tracking to a higher level, imec’s Chill+ prototype is an excellent starting point.
Other technologies
Non-contact vital sign sensing
Use capacitive sensors and 140 GHz radar for the invisible integration of vital sign sensing in our environment.
Use capacitive sensors and 140 GHz radar for the invisible integration of vital sign sensing in our environment.
Dry EEG electrodes
Dry electrodes are opening up new directions in EEG and other biotechnology applications. To ensure they provide maximum comfort and signal quality, imec works together with Datwyler.
Dry electrodes are opening up new directions in EEG and other biotechnology applications. To ensure they provide maximum comfort and signal quality, imec works together with Datwyler.
Systems-on-chip for medical sensor devices
Imec assists you in the development of biomedical systems-on-chip that integrate essential functions, while maintaining medical-grade fidelity.
An electronic device that’s comfortably connected to the human body needs to be as compact as possible. That’s why imec’s assists you in the development of biomedical systems-on-chip that strive for an unparalleled integration of essential functions, while maintaining medical-grade fidelity.
Implantable devices
Download our white paper on technologies for the next generation of implantable devices.
Small, smart and Connected. Technologies for the next generation of implantable devices.
