A portable real-time EEG signal acquisition and tele-medicine system

Since electroencephalogram (EEG) signals contain a variety of physiological and pathological information, they are widely used in medical diagnosis, brain machine interface and other fields. The existing EEG apparatus are not perfect due to big size, high power consumption and using cables to transmit data. In this paper, a portable real-time EEG signal acquisition and tele-medicine system is developed in order to improve performance of EEG apparatus. The weak EEG signals are induced to the pre-processing circuits via a noninvasive method with bipolar leads. After multi-level amplifying and filtering, these signals are transmitted to DSP (TMS320C5509) to conduct digital filtering. Then, the EEG signals are displayed on the LCD screen and stored in the SD card so that they can be uploaded to the server through the internet. The server employs SQL Server database to manage patients’ information and to store data in disk. Doctors can download, look up and analyze patients’ EEG data using the doctor client. Experimental results demonstrate that the system can acquire weak EEG signals in real time, display the processed results, save data and carry out tele-medicine. The system can meet the requirement of the EEG signals’ quality, and are easy to use and carry.

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