Development of monitoring systems, aid to diagnosis and/or neurodevelopment therapy in pediatrics

Generally, dysphagia has been diagnosed by videofluorscopic studies and videondoscopic, however, these are highly invasive. For its part, cervical auscultation (AC) is a non -invasive measurement tool to assess the aspiration, penetration and pharynx retention and has been widely used in clinical environments including medical and nursing facilities, so it is presented as a cheaper and more viable solution for the diagnosis of dysphagia in children with neurodevelopment problems. This project consists in the development of a pilot system of cervical auscultation for the diagnosis of dysphagia in children with neurodevelopmental problems. To this end, it is necessary to make the design of the pilot biomedical application as such, from the instrumentation (hardware) necessary for its implementation (stages of capture, measurement, development of the data acquisition system and its interface with a computer (PC or laptop)), to the design and development of computer programs (software) for sampling, processing of the signals, and the visualization of the data obtained by the data Hardware, as well as the friendly man-machine interface for the end user (treating doctor). Finally, the evaluation of the developed system and its validation through equivalent techniques is proposed. Although in the literature there are developments of this type, they generally consider only a particular signal, without greater processing of it, needing highly specialized personnel for the appropriate interpretation of the results. This is why the application of new signal processing techniques that allow their classification as a support for the diagnosis of dysphagia is proposed.

PROMETEO PROGRAM - UNIVERSITY OF CUENCA