A Final-Year Group-Led Research on a Dry-Contact EEG Monitoring System Accepted for Publication in Prestigious IEEE TBME
A paper authored by Nima Wickramasinghe, Dinuka Sandun Udayantha, Akila Abeyratne, and Kavindu Weerasinghe, co-supervised by Dr. Chamira U. S. Edussooriya, Dr. Anjula De Silva, Prof. Jithangi Wanigasinghe, and Kithmin Wickremasinghe, has been accepted for publication in the prestigious IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME).
The research, titled “An Active Dry-Contact Continuous EEG Monitoring System for Seizure Detection Applications in Clinical Neurophysiology,” details a novel approach towards developing a cost-effective and user-friendly continuous EEG monitoring system for seizure detection in representative clinical settings. This work is significant for its attempt to address a long-standing need for comfortable and reliable EEG monitoring systems, potentially improving patient care and extending to young children.
It began as a final-year project at the Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering (ENTC) by a team of biomedical engineering undergraduates. This achievement highlights the calibre of biomedical research conducted by our students and faculty, demonstrating the department’s modest commitment to advancing wearable technology and personalized medicine. This publication in IEEE TBME, a top-tier Q1 journal ranked among the top 10 in the field, is a significant accomplishment for the university in advancing biomedical research.
The computational resources used in the project were funded by the Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Operation of the Ministry of Higher Education of Sri Lanka, sponsored by the World Bank. A special thanks is conveyed to the staff and technicians from Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children, Sri Lanka, for facilitating the patient experiments. This publication was further financially supported in part by the Senate Research Committee, University of Moratuwa.
Link to paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11230808