Second International Conference on Innovative Computing, Information and Control


Innovative Computing for Homecares

Professor Harold Szu, PhD
Fellow of IEEE, and AIMBE

We develop an accumulatively effective and affordable set of smart pair devices to save the exuberant expenditure for the healthcare of aging population, which will not be sustainable when all the post-war baby boomers retire (78 millions will cost 1/5~? GDP in US alone). To design an accessible test-bed for distributed points of homecare, we choose two exemplars of the set to demonstrate the possibility of translation of modern military and clinical know-how, because two exemplars share identically the noninvasive algorithm adapted to the Smart Sensor-pairs for the real world persistent surveillance. Currently, the standard diagnoses for malignant tumors and diabetes disorders are blood serum tests, X-ray CAT scan, and biopsy used sometime in the physical checkup by physicians as cohort-average wellness baselines. The loss of the quality of life in making second careers productive may be caused by the missing of timeliness for correct diagnoses and easier treatments, which contributes to the one quarter of human errors generating the lawsuits against physicians and hospitals, which further escalates the insurance cost and wasteful healthcare expenditure. Such a vicious cycle should be entirely eliminated by building an "individual diagnostic aids (IDA)," similar to the trend of personalized drug, developed from daily noninvasive intelligent databases of the "wellness baseline profiling (WBP)". Since our physiology state undulates diurnally, the Nyquist anti-aliasing theory dictates a minimum twice-a-day sampling of the WBP for the IDA, which must be made affordable by means of noninvasive, unsupervised and unbiased methodology at the convenience of homes. Thus, a pair of military infrared (IR) spectral cameras has been demonstrated for the noninvasive spectrogram ratio test of the spontaneously emitted thermal radiation from a normal human body at 37oC temperature. This invisible self-emission spreads from 3 microns to 12 microns of the radiation wavelengths. This pair of cameras are used in the military satellite surveillance imaging operated at 3~5 mid IR band and 8~12 long IR band accompanied by several other UV and visible bands cameras. We can thereby measure both the thermal emission bands at the mid IR and the long IR (X1 X2). Similarly, we will take six times per pair saliva samples (X1 X2) inside the upper jaw for three meals daily, of which the dynamics is shown as a delayed mirror image of "blood glucose level". And for which we must design a portable lab "system on chip (SOC)," and the micro-fluidity of pair channels per chemical reactions. According to the same biochemical principle of spontaneity, we apply the identical algorithm to determine both the ratio of hidden malignant and benign heat sources (s1, s2) and the blood glucose & other sources (s1, s2) leaking into the saliva. This is possible because of the Gibbs isothermal spontaneous process, in which the Helmholtz free energy must be minimized for the spontaneous thermal radiation from unknown mixing of malign and benign sources or the diffusion mixing of glucose s1* and other sources s2*. We have derived a general formula relating two equilibrium values, before and after, in order to design our devices. Daily tracking the spectrogram ratio and saliva glucose levels are, nevertheless, needed for a reliable prediction of individual malignant angiogenesis and blood glucose level in real time.

Biography of Dr. Harold Szu
URL: http://www.student.seas.gwu.edu/~dmlab/
Emails: szu_h@yahoo.com; szuh@gwu.edu; szuh@onr.navy.mil
Mail: 12901 Missionwood Way, Potomac MD 20854; 301-838-0448 (H)
Phone: 703-696-0590 (ONR); 202-994-0880 (GWU Lab); 703-696-1331 (Fax)

He has been a Fellow of SPIE (since 1995) for neural nets, Fellow of OSA (1996) for adaptive wavelets, Fellow of IEEE (1997) for bi-sensor fusion, Fellow of Am. Inst. Med. & Bio. Eng. 2004 for medical image diagnoses. Dr. Szu is a Champaign of brain-style computing for decades, a founder, former president, and a current governor of International Neural Network Society (INNS). He received INNS D. Gabor Award, in 1997, "for outstanding contribution to neural network applications in information sciences and pioneer implementations of fast simulated annealing search," and Italy Academy the Eduardo R. Caianiello Award, 1999, for "elucidating and implementing a chaotic neural net as a dynamic realization for fuzzy logic membership function." Recently, he has contributed to the unsupervised learning theory of the thermodynamic free energy of sensory pair for fusion. For which, Dr. Szu is a foreign academician of Russian Academy of Nonlinear Sciences in 1999 for the unsupervised learning based on a homeostasis constant Cybernetic brain temperature.
Besides 300 publications, dozen patents, numerous books & journals, Dr. Szu taught students "how to be creative in interdisciplinary sciences", according to the Uhlenbeck's Royal Dutch tradition, and guided a dozen PhD students. His own practice of the creativity as itemized:
  • NanoRobot modified Atomic Force Microscope with sensing and grapping for nano-pixel CNT assembly.
  • Demonstrate the multispectral remote sensing achieving the surveillance "from Tanks to Tumors" for Amazon deforestation with INPE and breast/skin cancer passive imaging early diagnoses with NIH/NCI. ONR Press Release was aired by Fox TV News Washington DC on March 12, 2003.
  • Design Human Visual System (HVS) singularity map for preserving features in achieving 1000:1 video compression and transmitting through SICGARS radio; recently video BSS without addressing via the legacy power-line.
  • Design cellular phone digital transceivers array for Digital Array Radar test bed with 100db dynamic range including the hyper-spectral imaging & If -SAR terrain mapping on a self-organization team of Micro-UAV's.
  • Prove the fast cooling schedule (1/t) for Cauchy simulated annealing algorithm for global optimum search.
  • Prove adaptive mother wavelet that a linear superposition of admissible mother wavelets is still admissible, representing thus 40 phonemes for natural language segmentation and then ICA for de-hyphenation.
  • Established the first foreign endowed Lamson Professorship in Peking Univ. during her Centennial Celebration. He was an honorable professor of Peking Univ., Tsing-Hua Univ., Hua-Chung Science & Tech Univ. at Wu-Han since 1993, Fudan Univ. since 2001, ChenDu Science & Tech Univ. since 2001, Hefei Institute of Intelligent Machines since 2002.
He received in 1971 Ph.D. in Physics (His thesis advisor is Prof. George Uhlenbeck at the Rockefeller Univ., New York, NY). He worked at Naval Research Lab Washington DC in three divisions over 15 years (1977-1990). He began at GS-12 in Plasma Physics Div.; GS-13 in Optics Div.; GS-14 in Electronics Warfare Div.; he was promoted as GM-15 led the Information Science Group, leader of Naval Surface Warfare Center at White Oak (1990-1996) and relocated at Dahlgren VA (1997-now). He was a visiting member of Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton in 1977-78; on leave as the Alfred Helen Lamson endowed Chair Professor and Director of Center for Advanced Computing (CACS) of Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1996-1998 and built the first NASA satellite earth station over the roof top of CACS. He returned to serve as a program officer of Office of Naval Research and in the evening as a research professor and director of the Digital Media RF Lab, Dept. of ECE, George Washington University, Washington DC; while he remains his affiliation with NSWCDD defining basic research in Discover & Innovation in Sensors, Surveillance, and Communication.




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