D.Germanese, M.D'Acunto, M.Magrini, M.Righi, O.Salvetti:"Self-monitoring the Breath for the Prevention of Cardio-metabolic Risk", Proc. of SENSORDEVICES2017,The 8th Int. Conf. on Sensor Device Techn. and Appl., Rome, Italy, 10-14Sept. 2017, pp.96-101

Breath analysis techniques offer a potential revolution in health care diagnostics because of their un-obtrusiveness and their inherent safety. However, while standard instrumentation such as mass spectrometers use laboratory settings to provide a...

D.Germanese, M.D'Acunto, M.Magrini, M.Righi, O.Salvetti:"Cardio-metabolic Diseases Prevention by Self-monitoring the Breath", Sensors and Transducers Journal, 2017, vol.215, pp. 19-26

D.Germanese, M.D'Acunto, M.Magrini, M.Righi, O.Salvetti:"A low cost technology-based device for breath analysis and self-monitoring".In: SIGNAL 2017-The 2nd Int. Conf. on Adv. in Signal,Image and Video Processing(Barcelona,Spain,21-25May 2016)pp.8-13

Here, we describe the development of a portable device, based on low cost technology, able to collect and analyze in real time the composition of the breath. Despite its great potential, breath analysis is not widely used in clinical practice: high...

P.Henriquez,[...], D.Germanese,[...]:"Mirror mirror on the wall... an unobtrusive intelligent multisensory mirror for well-being status self-assessment and visualization", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. Vol. 19, Issue: 7, July 2017, pp. 1467 - 1481

A person's well-being status is reflected by their face through a combination of facial expressions and physical signs. The SEMEOTICONS project translates the semeiotic code of the human face into measurements and computational descriptors that are...

D.Germanese,[...]:"A low cost,portable device for breath analysis and self-monitoring,the wize sniffer". In: Appl. in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society. APPLEPIES2015. pp.51-57.,A.De Gloria ed.,Lect. Notes in Electr. Eng. vol409

Here we describe the implementation of the first prototype of the  Wize Sniffer 1.x  (WS 1.x), a low cost, portable electronic device for breath analysis. The device is being developed in the framework of the Collaborative European Project SEMEOTICONS...

D.Germanese, M.D'Acunto, O.Salvetti: "Design of a breath analysis device for self-monitoring and remote health-care". Proc. of BIOSTEC 2016-9th Int. Joint Conf. on Biomedical Eng. Sys. and Techn.-Doctoral Consortium (Rome,Italy, 21-23Feb.2016)pp.9-14

D.Germanese, M.Righi, M. Magrini, M.Guidi, M.D'Acunto, O.Salvetti: "A device for self-monitoring breath analysis". Proceeding of SENSORDEVICES 2016 - The Seventh Int. Conf. on Sensor Device Techn. and App. (Nice, France, 24-28 July 2016), pp.77-82

Let’s think about the numerous diagnostic screening methods. How many of them are invasive? How many of them present side effects? How many of them are expensive? We can affirm that the majority of the regular prophylactic checkups are sufficiently...

S.Colantonio, G.Coppini, D.Germanese, [...]:"A smart mirror to promote a healthy lifestyle", Biosystems Engineering, vol. 138 (October 2015) pp. 33 - 43. Special Issue: Innovations in Medicine and Healthcare. Elsevier, 2015.

ICT solutions to foster behavioural change have been shown to be effective in implementing  primary prevention in terms of a healthy lifestyle. Primary prevention is the most viable  approach to reduce the socio-economic burden of chronic and widespread...

S.Colantonio, D.Germanese, [...]:"Semeoticons-reading the face code of cardio-metabolic risk", Proceeding of IWCIM 2015 - International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding (Prague, Czech Republic, 29-30 October 2015)

What if you could discover your health status by looking at yourself in the mirror? Since November 2013, the EU FP7 Project SEMEOTICONS is working to make this possible. The Project is building a multi-sensory device, having the form of a conventional...

Y.Andreu-Cabedo, P.Castellano, S.Colantonio, G.Coppini, R.Favilla, D.Germanese,[...]:"Mirror mirror on the wall… An intelligent multisensory mirror for well-being self-assessment", Proc. of IEEE Int.Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2015, pp.1-6

The face reveals the healthy status of an individual, through a combination of physical signs and facial expressions. The project SEMEOTICONS is translating the semeiotic code of the human face into computational descriptors and measures, automatically...

M.D'Acunto, A.Benassi, F.Chiellini, D.Germanese, [...]: "Wize Sniffer-A New Portable Device Designed for Selective Olfaction", Proceeding of BIOSTEC2014 - 7th Int. Joint Conf. on Biomedical Eng. Sys. and Techn., Angers,France,3-6 March2014,pp.577-582

Digital semeiotics is one of the newest recent challenges for assessing a number of computational descriptors to atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases that are leading causes of mortality worldwide. These descriptors can be expressed involving (i)...