A Wearable SSVEP BCI for AR-based, Real-time Monitoring Applications

A real-time monitoring system based on Augmented Reality (AR) and highly wearable Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) for hands-free visualization of patient’s health in Operating Room (OR) is proposed. The system is designed to allow the anesthetist to monitor hands-free and in real-time the patient’s vital signs collected from the electromedical equipment available in OR. After the analysis of the requirements in a typical Health 4.0 scenario, the conceptual design, implementation and experimental validation of the proposed system are described in detail. The effectiveness of the proposed AR-BCI-based real-time monitoring system was demonstrated through an experimental activity was carried out at the University Hospital Federico II (Naples, Italy), using operating room equipment.