Systems and Signal Processing of Capnography as a Diagnostic Tool for Asthma Assessment

Associate Professor Ir. Dr. Malarvili BalaKrishnan (M.B. Malarvili) have acquired more than 15 years of experience in the academics as well as involvements in the biomedical industry. She is the head of Biosignal Processing Research Group under Health and Wellness Research Alliance at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. She obtained Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Sciences Engineering from The University of Queensland, Australia in 2008. Currently, she is attached to School of Biomedical and Health Sciences Engineering, Universiti Teknologi of Malaysia. Dr. Malarvili is actively involved in research related to digital signal processing, time-frequency signal analysis, pattern recognition, biosensor and medical monitoring devices. To date, she has published nearly 100 publications consisting of refereed journals (30), books (8), scopus indexed (35), ISI indexed (20), book chapters (8) and over 20 refereed conference papers. Dr. Malarvili has also produced 13 copyrights and 5 patents. She also received 5 international awards, 12 national awards and many more appreciation certificates. In addition, she has chaired sessions as chair person in prestigious conference, editorial board member and technical reviewer by IEEE, EMBS and medical society besides appointed as scientific and technical committee members for several international conferences. She was recently selected for an 'Outstanding Woman in Health and Medical Sciences' award at the 4th Venus International Women Awards - VIWA 2019, Chennai, India.Teo Aik Howe managed ED-HPP for more than 10 years as Head of Department, developing clinical capabilities and initiating specialty clinical services in Emergency Medicine. Currently, the ED-HPP manages more than 160,000 emergency admissions per year; has in excess of 30 medical officers, and more than 120 staff members in total. It is recognized as a training center for the MMed (Emergency Medicine) and MMed (Family Medicine) programs, as well as for undergraduate medical

1. Background of Human Respiratory Mechanism
2. Current Tools for the Assessment of Asthma
3. Analysis of Capnogram Using Signal Processing Techniques
4. New Diagnostic Tool for Assessment of Asthma
5. A real Time CO2 Measurement Device to Monitor Severity of Asthma