[Health] health project in GSoC 2008

[Arjun Sarwal]

A link to a PhD thesis that someone working on this area might find
interesting as well as perhaps very directly relevant.
http://vadim.oversigma.com/thesis.pdf
(Vadim Gerasimov, Media Lab alumni)

thanks
Arjun

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Andrzej Wytyczak-Partyka <iapart at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.
> This project seems quite interesting to me because of my suitable
> background. I was also experimenting with EKG some time ago, although
> without success ;)
> As a short introduction of myself - I'm currently in my senior year of
> compute science, writing my masters thesis, and also in my 3rd year of
> medicine at a medical university, so this project would be quite natural, as
> I have some experience with electronics and also some, limited, medical
> knowledge.
> I'll try to come up with a short proposal and post it on the mailing
> lists.
> As far as I understand the idea would be to make the EKG device work with
> Measure?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Mel Chua <metamel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Andrew,
> >
> > Here at OLPC, students propose their own projects for Summer of Code.
> > ;-) Working on an EKG project might be difficult since it assumes access to
> > hardware (microcontrollers, sensors, etc) as well as electrical engineering
> > (in addition to code) work, but feel free to write up a short project
> > proposal for what you're thinking of doing to this list, the devel list, and
> > the gsoc list (which you should join) and people will probably comment on
> > it.
> >
> > The EKG efforts so far seem to be in the very early stages - you may
> > have to start from scratch - but if you write up a proposal the folks
> > working on EKG stuff might come out of the woodwork and chime in on what
> > they're doing. The information on the wiki about EKG efforts isn't terribly
> > up-to-date.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > -Mel
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Andrzej Wytyczak-Partyka <
> > iapart at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > I would like to learn more about the proposed projects for this years
> > > GSoC, I'm especially interested in working on the EKG. I see there has been
> > > some work done related to this, could someone tell me how advanced it is and
> > > what would be the expectations of the SoC project?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Andrew
> > >
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