A New Digital Platform for Collecting Measurement Data from the Novel Imaging Sensors in Urology.

The use of UT and EIT technologies gives the opportunity to develop new, effective, minimally invasive diagnostic methods for urology. The introduction of new diagnostic methods into medicine requires the development of new tools for collecting, processing and analysing the data obtained from them. Such system might be seen as a part of the electronic health record EHR system. The digital medical data management platform must provide the infrastructure that will make medical activity possible and effective in the presented scope. The solution presented in this article was implemented using the newest computer technologies to obtain advantages such as mobility, versatility, flexibility and scalability. The architecture of the developed platform, technological stack proposals, database structure and user interface are presented. In the course of this study, an analysis of known and available standards such as Hl7, RIM, DICOM, and tools for collecting medical data was performed, and the results obtained using them are also presented. The developed digital platform also falls into an innovative path of creating a network of sensors communicating with each other in the digital space, resulting in the implementation of the IoT (Internet of Things) vision. The issues of building software based on the architecture of microservices were discussed emphasizing the role of message brokers. The selected message brokers were also analysed in terms of available features and message transmission time.

Short-Time Fourier Transform Based on Metaprogramming and the Stockham Optimization Method.

The extension for high-performance STFT (Short-Time Fourier Transform) algorithm written entirely in Java language for non-parallel computations is presented in the current paper. This solution could compete with the best available and most common algorithms supplied by libraries such as FFTW or JTransform. The main idea was to move complex computations and expensive functions to the program generation phase. Thus, only core and essential operations were executed during the runtime phase. Furthermore, new approach allows to eliminate the necessity for a rearrangement operation that uses the bit-reversal permutation technique. This article presents a brief description of the STFT solution that was worked out as an extension for the original application, in order to increase its efficiency. The solution remains a Stockham algorithm adapted using metaprogramming techniques and entails an additional reduction its execution time. Performance tests and experiments were conducted using a Java Platform and JMH library, which allowed for accurate execution time measurements. Major aspects of the Java VM like warm-up effects were also taken into consideration. Solution was applied into Electrical Capacitance Tomography measurement system in order to measure the material changes during the silo discharging industrial process.

Plug Regime Flow Velocity Measurement Problem Based on Correlability Notion and Twin Plane Electrical Capacitance Tomography: Use Case.

In this paper, the authors present the flow velocity measurement based on twin plane sensor electrical capacitance tomography and the cross-correlation method. It is shown that such a technique has a significant restriction for its use, particularly for the plug regime of a flow. The major issue is with the irregular regime of the flow when portions of propagated material appear in different time moments. Thus, the requirement of correlability of analyzed input signal patterns should be met. Therefore, the checking of the correlability should be considered by such a technique. The article presents a study of the efficiency of the original algorithm of automatic extraction of the suitable signal patterns which has been recently proposed, to calculate flow velocity. The obtained results allow for choosing in practice the required parameters of the algorithm to correct the extraction of signal patterns in a proper and accurate way. Various examples of the application of the discussed algorithm were presented, along with the analysis of the influence of the parameters used on the quality of plugs identification and determination of material flow.