Project Description

Brain stroke is an urgent age-related cerebrovascular disease. Both ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes are life-threatening, requiring timely and different treatment. MRI is a diagnosis benchmark, but only available in hospitals. In rural areas, limited access to MRI prolongs treatment, raising time risks, including ambulance waiting, transportation, and MRI diagnosis time. Rapid accurate brain stroke classification is crucial to prevent mortality and worsening. To this end, our group proposed a capacitive sensing-based portable brain stroke imaging system that allows electric fields to penetrate the deeper region below the skull and reconstruct the permittivity-based imaging in response to ischemic and hemorrhagic lesions. The main innovation of the proposed idea offers a new, low-cost, portable medical imaging system for rapid brain stroke classification. Our proposed imaging system offers a cost-effective, portable alternative to cumbersome MRI scans. It enables rapid brain stroke classification, aiding in not only timely intervention for life-saving but also post-operative monitoring for life quality improvement. In the future perspectives, this transformative technology can be easily deployed in ambulances, clinics, and brain stroke rehabilitation centers globally, advancing cardiovascular and brain science, and promoting healthy longevity.

資料來源：https://healthylongevitychallenge.org/winners/portable-brain-stroke-imaging-system-for-rapid-transcranial-classification-of-ischemic-and-hemorrhagic-lesions/