[A universal control unit for people with disabilities].

Home automation in the area of disability is a rapidly developing field. A hospital rehabilitation unit and a university institute of technology have formed an experimental partnership with the aim of improving patient care management. This collaboration resulted in the development of a control interface in a hospital room equipped with certain home automation systems, opening up perspectives for the return home of patients with a disability.

Foetal PQRST extraction from ECG recordings using cyclostationarity-based source separation method.

This work proposes a novel foetal electrocardiogram (FECG) extraction approach based on the cyclostationary properties of the signal of interest. The problem of FECG extraction can easily fit in a blind source separation (BSS) framework; taking into account specific statistical nature of the signal, that one wants to extract, leads to an algorithm able to estimate the FECG contribution to ECG recordings where the maternal ECG is predominant. We show that the proposed procedure provides estimates of the FECGs PQRST complexes without incorporating any prior knowledge concerning PQRST features.