See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.

net/publication/325741545

Medical Signal Processing in Biomedical and Clinical Applications

Article  in  Journal of Healthcare Engineering · June 2018

DOI: 10.1155/2018/3932471

CITATIONS READS

5 622

5 authors, including:

Kunal Pal Arindam Bit

National Institute of Technology Rourkela National Institute of Technology Raipur
264 PUBLICATIONS   4,488 CITATIONS    80 PUBLICATIONS   265 CITATIONS   

SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE

Saugat Bhattacharyya
Ulster University
60 PUBLICATIONS   648 CITATIONS   

SEE PROFILE

Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects:

Linear and non-linear classification of EMG signals for probable applications in designing control system for assistive aids. View project

ECG and HRV Analyses View project

All content following this page was uploaded by Kunal Pal on 18 June 2018.

The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file.

Hindawi
Journal of Healthcare Engineering
Volume 2018, Article ID 3932471, 2 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/3932471

Editorial
Medical Signal Processing in Biomedical and Clinical Applications

Kunal Pal ,1 Kunal Mitra,2 Arindam Bit ,3 Saugat Bhattacharyya,4 and Anilesh Dey5
1
Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India
2
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA
3
Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Raipur, India
4
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
5
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Kaziranga University, Jorhat, India

Correspondence should be addressed to Kunal Pal; kpal.nitrkl@gmail.com

Received 18 March 2018; Accepted 18 March 2018; Published 12 June 2018

Copyright © 2018 Kunal Pal et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which
permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Biological signals are the reflection of accumulated action
potentials of subdermal tissues of a living being. Its presence
signifies the ionic and electrical activities of the muscular and
the neural cells in a synchronized manner. Being a mosaic
model of a living architecture, the resultant vectors of biolog-
ical signals have temporal as well as spatial representation.
These signals are stochastic in nature. Medical diagnostic
tools are prevalent using the support of medical signals. In
the course of time, a significant amount of progress has been
achieved in the field of medical signal processing for the
improvement of the signal-to-noise ratio, extraction of
features from those filtered signals, and classification of the
extracted signals for clinical applications. This special issue
emphasized the recent development of medical signal
processing, improvement of algorithms, and wider clinical
applications. Entropy-based kernel extraction technique is
being used for the analysis of the nonlinear and nonstation-
ary epoch signals. This kind of approach shows robustness
in noise reduction. Machine learning algorithms are also
being used for real-time feature extraction (pattern extrac-
tion) from tympanic temperature profiles. Quadratic support
vector machine algorithms were also found to enhance the
accuracy of the detection mechanism.
Regulation of rehabilitation devices and protocols are
also governed by the processing of medical signals. Reference
techniques are often used for acquiring surface EMG signals
for the activation of the rehabilitation actuators. Consecutive
placement of stimulator-detector arrays influences the spatial
acquisition of the functional electrical stimulus (FES) and
volitional sEMG which can be used for controlling EMG-
driven FES neuroprosthesis. Dynamic models are also being
used for analyzing and detecting features from sEMG of
deltoid muscles, present in the upper arm. The analysis of
the signals can be used for the evaluation of the differently
abled persons to predict the treatment outcomes. Health
monitoring can also be achieved by processing of time-
domain biological signals of sub-nanosecond durations. It
can even help in predicting the state of the human heart by
correlating the activity of the heart muscles and the blood
pumping process.
Deep recurrent neural networks are also found to be
useful tools for predicting features related to the adverse
effect of drugs on the human body. In addition to this
technique, conditional random fields are also implemented
by many researchers for identifying the biological signals
from significantly highly correlated background noise due
to the subsequent physiological modification after the
introduction of the foreign particles within the body. Simi-
larly, the assessment of the trace elements in the human body
can also be achieved by extracting features of the biological
signals and biomarkers, and subsequently analyzing the
features. A neural network can play an important role
towards the identification of the continuously adaptable trace
elements within the physiological fluids.
Biomedical signaling has significant outreach in its
clinical application domain. Cerebral arterial stenoses can
also be predicted by a nonradioactive technique, namely,
photoplethysmography. It involves the employment of an
2 Journal of Healthcare Engineering

optical detection technique, which is a wavelength-specific

process. Corresponding photodetectors are being used to
measure the wavelength of the reflected light. Cerebral disor-
der can also be detected from EEG-fMRI recordings. It
involves a rigorous filtering process, which employs a comb
filter, followed by a moving-averaged filter for the elimina-
tion of the random noises.
In this special issue, all the above topics are discussed
with their recent state of the art and their corresponding
clinical applications.

Kunal Pal
Kunal Mitra
Arindam Bit
Saugat Bhattacharyya
Anilesh Dey
 International Journal of

Rotating Advances in
Machinery Multimedia

The Scientific
Engineering
Journal of
Journal of

Hindawi
World Journal
Hindawi Publishing Corporation Hindawi
Sensors
Hindawi Hindawi
www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 http://www.hindawi.com
www.hindawi.com Volume 2018
2013 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018

Journal of

Control Science
and Engineering

Advances in
Civil Engineering
Hindawi Hindawi
www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018

Submit your manuscripts at

www.hindawi.com

Journal of
Journal of Electrical and Computer
Robotics
Hindawi
Engineering
Hindawi
www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018

VLSI Design
Advances in
OptoElectronics
International Journal of

International Journal of
Modelling &
Simulation
Aerospace
Hindawi Volume 2018
Navigation and
Observation
Hindawi
www.hindawi.com Volume 2018
in Engineering
Hindawi
www.hindawi.com Volume 2018
Engineering
Hindawi
www.hindawi.com Volume 2018
Hindawi
www.hindawi.com www.hindawi.com Volume 2018

International Journal of
International Journal of Antennas and Active and Passive Advances in
Chemical Engineering Propagation Electronic Components Shock and Vibration Acoustics and Vibration
Hindawi Hindawi Hindawi Hindawi Hindawi
www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018

View publication stats