Title: Design of a user-friendly LabVIEW-based toolbox for real-time monitoring and diagnosis of vital signals

Authors: Mashhour M. Bani Amer, Yasser Qtait, Lina Al-Ebbini, Sammer Ammary, Maher Awwad

Addresses: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 3030, 22110 Irbid, Jordan. ' Department of Biomedical Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 3030, 22110 Irbid, Jordan. ' Department of Biomedical Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 3030, 22110 Irbid, Jordan. ' Department of Biomedical Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 3030, 22110 Irbid, Jordan. ' Department of Biomedical Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 3030, 22110 Irbid, Jordan

Abstract: This paper introduces a powerful LabVIEW-based toolbox for monitoring, diagnosis and management of vital biosignals [electrocardiogram (ECG) and electromyogram (EMG) ]. The main features of this software present in user-friendly graphical user interface, the patient|s data management, real-time monitoring of heart and muscles activities, reviewing patient|s progress through variety of charts, diagnosis of heart and muscles disorders and data transmission to remote clinician. The experimental validation of this toolbox showed that it has good performance and demonstrated a superior assurance quality in optimising clinical decisions based on real-time analysis of patient|s vital signals.

Keywords: vital signals; LabVIEW-based toolbox; real-time monitoring; vital biosignals; electrocardiograms; ECG; electromyograms; EMG; heart monitoring; muscle monitoring; cardiovascular; patient monitoring; patient data management; clinical decisions.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMEI.2010.035222

International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, 2010 Vol.2 No.3, pp.307 - 318

Published online: 14 Sep 2010 *

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