Le, C. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5168-2297, Ann Phan, P., Quoc Le, H., Long Vo, D., Tuan Mai, A., Tam Le, N. and Hoa Le, M. (2017) Innovative development of the inspired sinewave device to measure lung functions and inhomogeneity for diagnosis and evaluations of early lung diseases. In: 6th International Conference on the Development of Biomedical Engineering in Vietnam (BME6). IFMBE Proceedings, 63 . Springer Singapore, pp. 649-654. ISBN 978-981-10-4360-4 ISSN 1680-0737 (doi:10.1007/978-981-10-4361-1_111)

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Abstract

Surprisingly, lung disease is still one of the leading causes of deaths in the developed countries, including UK. According to the UK National Health Service (NHS), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the fifth biggest killer disease in the UK, killing approximately 25,000 people a year. This prob-lem is even worse in developing countries such as Vietnam, India and China, where air pollution is a big problem and the disease awareness is under-recognised. The NHS has set out one of its challenges is to identify people with lung disease earlier in the disease’s development pathway, in order to pro-vide more effective and timely intervention and treatment. This paper presents a novel Inspired Sinewave Device (ISD) to measure lung function and inhomogeneity. Both set of infor-mation are important for diagnosis and detection of early lung diseases. ISD has the potential to replace or supplement the traditional spirometry in the routine lung function testing. The paper describes both the principle of ISD and a set of experi-mental results demonstrating the capability of ISD to asymp-totically detect asthmatic symptoms. Finally the paper discuss-es the future plan, including the testing of 300+ COPD patients at the Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit in UK, and the potential collaborations among research institutions in Vietnam and UK about cost-effective and innovative developments of smart devices, biosensors, lab-on-chips and telehealth solutions for the routine lung function testing, diagnosis and evaluations of early lung diseases.

Item Type:	Conference Proceedings
Title of Proceedings:	6th International Conference on the Development of Biomedical Engineering in Vietnam (BME6)
Additional Information:	Presented at the 6th International Conference on the Development of Biomedical Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, June 27-29 2016
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Lung Function Testing, Respiratory Disease, Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Medical Device
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) T Technology > T Technology (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science Faculty of Engineering & Science > School of Engineering (ENG)
Related URLs:	Organisation Publisher
Last Modified:	18 Sep 2020 23:36
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/17476

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