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Chemical and Biological Sensors: Devices and Systems

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2020) | Viewed by 5292

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The ability to measure changes in a large environment such as a water processing plant or an ecological system as well as in smaller scale environments such as the human body is increasing in importance because of economic, health and safety consequences. There have been many advances in recent years and it is timely to provide a Special Issue.

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  • Lab-on-a-chip
  • Nano-fluidic devices
  • Bio-medical sensors
  • DNA chips
  • Wearable biosensors
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  • Instrumentation
  • AI enhancement of selectivity
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Keywords

  • DNA recognition 
  • Enzyme 
  • Drug discovery 
  • Optical sensors
  • Piezoelectric transducers 
  • Electrochemical transduction
  • Membranes 
  • Surface attachment 
  • Surface properties 
  • Potentiometric 
  • Amperometric 
  • Contaminants

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A Hybrid System for Distinguishing between Brain Death and Coma Using Diverse EEG Features
by Li Zhu, Gaochao Cui, Jianting Cao, Andrzej Cichocki, Jianhai Zhang and Changle Zhou
Sensors 2019, 19(6), 1342; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19061342 - 18 Mar 2019
Cited by 9 | Viewed by 4799
Abstract
Electroencephalography (EEG) signals may provide abundant information reflecting the developmental changes in brain status. It usually takes a long time to finally judge whether a brain is dead, so an effective pre-test of brain states method is needed. In this paper, we present [...] Read more.
Electroencephalography (EEG) signals may provide abundant information reflecting the developmental changes in brain status. It usually takes a long time to finally judge whether a brain is dead, so an effective pre-test of brain states method is needed. In this paper, we present a hybrid processing pipeline to differentiate brain death and coma patients based on canonical correlation analysis (CCA) of power spectral density, complexity features, and feature fusion for group analysis. In addition, time-varying power spectrum and complexity were observed based on the analysis of individual patients, which can be used to monitor the change of brain status over time. Results showed three major differences between brain death and coma groups of EEG signal: slowing, increased complexity, and the improvement on classification accuracy with feature fusion. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first scheme for joint general analysis and time-varying state monitoring. Delta-band relative power spectrum density and permutation entropy could effectively be regarded as potential features of discrimination analysis on brain death and coma patients. Full article
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