Seven program group members from IJS, together with partners from SAVING and L-TEK, received the Puh Certificate of Recognition for significant achievements in the field of medical equipment, on the following ground: The group has produced a miniature device for the recording of electrocardiogram SAVVY EKG, which enables unobtrusive multi-day recording of heart rate during daily activities, and thus the detection and investigation of heart rhythm disturbances over long periods, which was not possible to date. An innovative ECG measurer was offered as a medically certified product on the world market. A simple, safe handling and affordable price also allow personal use at home, which is a novelty on a global scale. The introduction of the system into a wide range of medical applications will significantly contribute to more efficient and cheaper healthcare for users. Overall, the achievement is an exceptional example of a successful knowledge chain that has been realized in production and has proven that the field of biomedicine offers many opportunities for the implementation of advanced medical devices and services.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 31188519A student of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Mathematics, prepared and defended the master's thesis in the field of Solving linear elastostatic problems with meshless methods under the co-supervision of a member of the programme group, for which he received the faculty Prešeren prize. The work was prepared as part of the project. The author introduces the concept of a stress tensor in a mathematically correct way, derives equations of motion, and shows the existence of a unique solution. Next, he focuses to the numerical solution of the obtained equations with the meshless method. He analyses solutions of several problems and presents an example of a stress analysis in the simplified case of fretting fatigue of the material as the final result.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 18122329Two students from the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Ljubljana carried out a research project titled "Application of Wireless Electrocardiogram in Hospitalized Patients" , under the co-supervision of a member of the programme group for which they received the Prešeren award for student research in 2017. In the work, a wireless ECG sensor was used in 27 dogs with suspected arrhythmias. It was found out that due to its comfort and reliability, and due the possibility of monitoring the heart rate over a long period of time and the possibility of post-examination of the image, the sensor is a good diagnostic tool for the detection of arrhythmias and as such improves the diagnostic value of the standard ECG. Thus, the usefulness of the wireless ECG sensor has also been confirmed in the veterinary medicine. Because of its connectivity to the Internet, the system offers the widest support for all those ECG applications with on-line access to services which require rapid analysis of images and transmission of results. How to make good use of this potential in the future is yet to be explored.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 4405882Janez Perš, a member of the research programme, has been a member of the editorial board of the International journal of distributed sensor networks since 2014. Since the year, the JCR impact factor of the journal has doubled, reaching 1.239 in 2016. The scope of the journal are distributed sensor networks, including distributed camera networks.
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