{"678295":{"#nid":"678295","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sanchez Perez Wins Best Paper Award for Novel Non-Invasive Medical Assessment","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE) Ph.D. graduate \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.uprm.edu\/people\/faculty\/name\/jesus-sanchez-perez\/\u0022\u003EJesus Antonio Sanchez Perez\u003C\/a\u003E won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Body Sensor Networks (BSN) Conference held in Chicago from Oct. 15-17.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESanchez Perez, who recently started as an assistant professor at his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM), conducted the research in Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/omer-t-inan\u0022\u003EOmer Inan\u003C\/a\u003E\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/irl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInan Research Lab\u003C\/a\u003E. It\u2019s the second consecutive year a researcher from Inan\u2019s lab won the Best Paper Award from the conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award-winning research introduced a novel approach for the continuous and non-invasive assessment of pleural effusion (PE) using transthoracic bioimpedance continuously measured at multiple frequencies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPE, which affects over 1.5 million patients in the U.S., is the accumulation of excess fluid around the lungs, compressing them, increasing the risk of developing infections, and leading to respiratory distress.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrent PE assessments remain limited to sporadic measurements due to their cost, availability, or radiation exposure. This results in the unsatisfactory prognosis and assessment of symptoms for patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESanchez Perez\u2019s approach addresses the problem by exploiting the information embedded in the multi-frequency bioimpedance signals at multiple resolutions, namely the baseline and respiratory components.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe achieved this by extracting six fluid-tracking surrogates and found them to be strongly and significantly correlated to the infused pleural fluid in a porcine animal model of bilateral PE. The early results have promising, paving for continued research and testing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, the research may enable continuous and convenient respiratory monitoring in at-home and uncontrolled clinical settings, which can prevent acute deteriorations, improve treatment outcomes, and help patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe technology also has future applications in assessing many diseases including congestive heart failure, liver cirrhosis, and pneumonia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESanchez-Perez\u2019s blended his research at ECE with his minor, biomedical engineering. It focused on investigating novel cardiopulmonary monitoring technologies, with a special focus on applications to clinical and acute-care settings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt helped him to achieve his dream of returning to UPRM as a faculty member, where he\u2019ll now continue doing innovative research with hopes of continuing to help people and achieve better medical outcomes.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe novel approach developed by ECE Ph.D. graduate is aimed at being used for pleural effusion monitoring and has the potential for future expanded uses with many diseases.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The novel approach developed by ECE Ph.D. graduate is aimed at being used for pleural effusion monitoring and has the potential for future expanded uses with many diseases."}],"uid":"36558","created_gmt":"2024-11-08 18:15:20","changed_gmt":"2024-11-08 18:24:51","author":"zwiniecki3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2024-11-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-11-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"675562":{"id":"675562","type":"image","title":"Sanchez Perez.jpg","body":null,"created":"1731089728","gmt_created":"2024-11-08 18:15:28","changed":"1731089728","gmt_changed":"2024-11-08 18:15:28","alt":"Jesus Sanchez Perez","file":{"fid":"259200","name":"Sanchez Perez.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/11\/08\/Sanchez%20Perez.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/11\/08\/Sanchez%20Perez.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":833676,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/11\/08\/Sanchez%20Perez.jpg?itok=TP9wSn6l"}}},"media_ids":["675562"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"103141","name":"Best Paper Award"},{"id":"179350","name":"biomedical egnineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EZachary Winiecki\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["zwiniecki3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}