A new technique to monitor the electrode and lead failures in implantable microstimulators and sensors
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The electrodes and wire lead failures are the main reasons of implantable system malfunction. The impedance change and fibrosis of the living tissue which is in contact with the electrode are also important parameters to monitor. Measuring the resistance of leads, electrode-tissue contact and the interelectrode tissue can be used to test the functionality of implanted electrodes and to deduce the state of the interelectrode tissue. This paper describes the feasibility of using an oscillator, the frequency of which is controlled by the above mentioned resistance, to test the electrode functionally as well as the state of the living tissue. The oscillation frequency is a digital signal which can be easily evaluated by the implant or the external controller. It is shown that this approach results in a very low-cost and practical solution. The oscillator has been designed using CMOS 1.2 /spl mu/m technology parameters. This technique can be implemented in any implantable system to increase its reliability.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".