News

April, 2023

Dr. Marija Ivanović has received a personal invitation to represent Serbia at the 15^th Austria Leadership Program, held on April 17-23, 2023.

She will have opportunity to meet with high-level representatives from Austrian business, industry, politics and public life; visit Vienna-based headquarters of international organisations, corporate groups and production sites and converse with Austria´s leading representatives in the fields of technology/innovation/research and Austria´s vibrant start-up community. Congratulations and viel Erfolg!

For more information, please visit Austrian Leadership Programs.

March, 2023

Dr. Predrag Tadić has given an invited talk titled „Photoplethysmogram (PPG) as a source of biomarkers for AI-based diagnosis of heart failure“ at the 16th Photonics Workshop on Kopaonik. He presented the SensSmart prototype device and discussed the challenges before the extraction of PPG signal features.

Here you can find the Abstract.

We have also presented a new algorithm for denoising of ECG and PPG signals, see the Abstract.

SensSmart project has been described and featured in the title „Veštačkom inteligencijom do uređaja koji otkriva srčanu slabost“ („Artificial Intelligence as a Route to Detection of Heart Failure“) of a „Politika“ article about 75th anniversary of Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences in Feb 22, 2023.

You can read the original aritcle in Serbian here.

Nov, 2022

Natalija Djordjevic, the youngest member of the SensSmart team, has been awarded the stipend for DSC Europe 22, a leading AI & Data Conference, held on Nov 14-18, 2022 in Belgrade. Congratulations and enjoy the conference!

16 Aug 2022

Keynote lecture at SOPO 2022, China, August 2022

Dr. Jovana Petrovic to give a keynote lecture “Photonics-Assisted Smart Diagnostics of Heart Failure” at the 14th International Symposium on Photonics and Optoelectronics (SOPO 2022), Xiamen, China, August 2022

Abstract: https://www.soposymposium.org/2022/SOPO/1506s8982.html

22 May 2022

Our first article is published in Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine!

The influence of atrial flutter in automated detection of atrial arrhythmias – are we ready to go into clinical practice?”, Viktor Domazetoski, Goran Gligoric, Milan Marinkovic, Alexei Shvilkin, Jelena Krsic, Ljupco Kocarev, Marija D. Ivanovic,

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 221 (2022) 106901

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2022.106901.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169260722002838

11 May 2022

We have made first academic studies in the brand new Clinical Centre of Serbia. The polycardiograph works!

12 April 2022

The kick-off meeting of the IDEAS SensSmart project financed by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia has been held at at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade on April 12^th 2022.

The project team members and officers from the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and the School of Electronic Engineering, University of Belgrade, gathered for a bonding session and introductory discussion of scientific and organizational matters of the project.

With a strong motivation, high ambition and clear plan, we are setting off on developing a new multiparameter diagnostic technology that will enable heart failure diagnostics in primary care.

Our multidisciplinary team: Prof. Dr. Arsen Ristic and Prof. Dr. Vladan Vukcevic (Faculty of Medicine), Aleksandra Lazic, Dr. Jovana Petrovic and Dr. Ljupco Hadzievski (INN Vinca), Natalija Djordjevic and Dr. Predrag Tadic (School of Electronic Engineering), and Ana Pavlovic (project officer, INN Vinca).

16 March 2022
Invited talk at the 15^th Photonics Workshop, Serbia, March 2022

Dr. Jovana Petrovic gave an invited talk on SensSmart project at the Photonics Workshop, Kopaonik, Serbia, March 2022. She has presented our work on multiparameter sensing technology and preliminary results of polycardiographic measurements. The emphasis was on photonic sensors used to measure pulse forms of arterial pulsations. Conventionally used photoplethysmographs are usually designed as point sensors, which makes the measurement operator-dependent. This reduces the measurement reproducibility and increases cost. The linear form and high sensitivity of the fibre gratings ameliorate the operator dependence. However, cross-sensitivity of fibre gratings to the body movement cause artefacts in signals. These preliminary inspire further investigations of both sensors within the SensSmart project.

Abstract: http://www.photonicsworkshop.ipb.ac.rs/15/images/RFotonika2022KnjigaApstrakata-B5-CIP.pdf