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Investigation
computers or smart phones by certain
applications to analyse the data quickly
instead of waiting for a long time to get the
laboratory results and the doctors opinion to
evaluate the medical case.
He referred that Khalifa Semiconductor
Research Centre is seeking to build
partnerships with the competent authorities
in the health, technology and energy sectors
to execute the researches results concluded
by the Centre. The Centre is currently
looking for ways to cooperatewithCleveland
Hospital – Abu Dhabi to develop the sugar
detection devices by Saliva.
DetectingSleepApneaelectronically
The researcher of Khalifa Semiconductor
Research Centre has finished developing a
technology that shall help the Sleep Apnea
patients who will not go to hospitals to
conduct the researches and tests that require
putting certain devices around the neck
and continuous monitoring for several days
while lying on the beds of the health centres
to record themedical seizureswhile sleeping.
The technique is featured in an electronic
chip that collects and stores all the vital data
about the person while sleeping.
Mohammed Radwan, a researcher in the
Centre, explained that the chips will have
the form of wounds bandages and can be
put around the neck to collect and store
information about the respiration level and
movement, heart rates, blood pressure, body
temperature and detecting the Sleep Apnea
before it occurs, meanwhile the doctors will
be easily able to upload these data on the
computer, analyse it and get quick medical
results.
He continued that these chips will also store
themedical information by using power less
than 60% either by using batteries or body
heat. However, it is planned in the future to
add the ability to connect with ‘Wi-Fi’ and
the smart applications to obtain the data and
notify the persons nearby the patient or the
hospitals that he/ she is having sleep Apnea.
Radwan has referred that the challenge
encountering the current patients is that
the detection of Sleep Apnea requires their
stay in hospitals for no less than 24 hours
under observation to conduct the tests
and set all the devices that hinder the easy
movement of the patient in addition that it is
costly process. This invention shall relief the
patients from those complicated procedures.
Sputter analysis
The Emirati researcher in Khalifa University,
Assistant Professor in the department of
electronic engineering and computer Dr
Fatima Taher has invented a scientific way
to discover the different kinds of cancer and
identify it by analysing the physical image
of the patient sputter, instead of taking
samples in laboratory analyses or surgical
intervention.
Taher explained that she conducted around
40 scientific researches to conclude her
current creative results which target the
analyses of the photos after making certain
physical analyses for the patient sputter for
any early detectionof lung cancer or prostate
or knowing the type and the level of the
disease for the current patients.
She further stated that the physical analysis
of the sputter depends on gaining different
degrees of colours which cannot be
accurately defined with the unaided eye.
Smart
Application
replaces the
weight
measurement
devices
Photos analysis
of patients’
Sputter to detect
Cancer
Electrnoic
Chips to detect
radiations in the
surrounding areas
of the nuclear
s t a t i ons
Dr Hani Salah
Dr Fatima Taher
Dr. Mohammed
Baker