Traumatic Brain Injuries affect over 200,000 people year when a physical trauma causes injury to the brain, resulting in loss of memory, consciousness, or speech skills. We believe brain trauma treatments can be expanded to include issues resulting from illness, such as Aphasia and Alzheimers. In moderate to severe brain traumas, later rehabilitation includes working on memory, focus, and logic skills. We hope to help develop a better way for physicians and clinicians to track the recovery of patients suffering TBI, or similarly debilitating illnesses, by developing an integrated system of treatments and assessments.
Many children experience issues with speech including speech and language delays. These delays are often due to hearing difficulties and special needs. As communication with a child is one of the most important things, developing a child’s verbal skills or catching up child’s communication skills is of utmost importance. Repetition and practice of visual comprehension have been shown to improve communication and verbal skills. We are currently looking into developing apps to work with a speech pathologist or clinician to focus on improving communication skills, specifically in children.
For our stress device, we are looking into:
- Implement the current design of an ECG and build it from scratch
- Reduce the physical size of the ECG by implementing the current circuit into a printed circuit board(PCB)
- Obtain larger RCA cable in order to place two electrodes on the wrist and another on bone
- Design and 3D print a case, similar to an already designed case which has two holes, one for the audio jack and one for the Arduino cable
- Combine current ECG with current Pulse Oximeter device to form a “Mega Device” which can summate both values for stress
- Find an algorithm which can effectively incorporate both stress values and can output a single value of stress
- Use machine learning to set thresholds for whether a person is stressed or not based on patient baseline values for HRV and Pulse Oximetry.
- Optimize signal acquisition and analysis process
- Combine with heart rate variability results in order to detect when our patient is stressed
- Finalize design and make it look and feel nicer
- Make device as non-invasive and “invisible”
- Work with iOS and Android sub-teams to properly display data and findings in an application
- Measure more parameters that are indicative of stress (perspiration, pupil dilation, etc).
If you are a physician, clinician, or researcher who works with any form of brain trauma, illness resulting in speech and memory issues, or work with children with delayed speech and would like to use our services, please contact the BTAP at Georgia Tech Research Team at research.btapvip@gmail.com.