Projects

The general goal is the development of electronic devices for clinical measurement of soft tissues. Specific result is a device for continuous monitoring of the condition of the heart muscle during heart surgery. Heart disease is the most common cause of death (WHO 2019, https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-causes-of-death). Surgery plays an important role in the treatment of advanced heart diseases, with a risk of damage to the muscle (of a stopped heart!) during surgery. Current heart protection methods are poorly controlled, as based on schemes developed by trial and error. The unique solution being created will ensure the real-time usage of protective solutions based on objective heart muscle indicators. The technology being created, also allows measuring of various other muscle, fat and connective tissues, and could also distinguish benign and malignant tissues. The solutions created use inventive electrical impedance spectroscopy technologies of TalTech.

There has been a fast development of new technological devices to monitor glucose levels, matching the ubiquitous dissemination of digital connectivity and social networking. The increase in social, educational, and age disparities among patients, more information on the web and social networks, and the development of better technological devices created a new environment characterized by several challenges. Unfortunately, the ecosystem for treating patients within this new reality has not changed, and there is a need to develop a better understanding of the real value generated by technologies in terms of the patient's behaviors and their decision processes to achieve higher levels of patient empowerment for Type1 and Type 2 diabetes prevention since they have related to different methods of risk perception. These challenges highlight the need to estimate the value offered to each patient by technology to achieve patient empowerment for more efficient prevention. NEODIPPE is born to pursue a crystal clear mission: to explore and identify the best use of technological developments to empower patients to prevent and treat diabetes, which implies innovating the traditional paradigms of health services from occasional appointments to networking monitoring and empowerment, supporting the processes of decision making and proposing new approaches to clinical practices, health organizations, and public financing in terms of the latest needs, resources, and preferences of the patients.

The goal is to study new solutions & principles for electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) with significantly improved metrological and functional characteristics, like higher measurement accuracy, resolution and speed, lower power consumption and wider frequency and dynamic ranges. New solutions enhance the existing and enable new applications of EIS in healthcare, biology and industries. The principles & solutions to measure biological & physiological properties of organs, tissues and microorganisms/pathogens, as well as of composites, alloys etc. are the subjects of the research. Unique low-cost low-power miniaturized high-resolution and flexible measurement components with various connectivity (IoT, BAN etc) will be created by new EIS groundings. An important R&D aspect is synchronous signal processing and communication in EIS sensor-arrays. Research aspects: sampling theory AI/ML) and metrology (eg novel calibration techniques, methods of implementation in biology and medicine.

1. Creation of new terms, i.e. supplementing the Estonian language of with terms that have come into use in the relevant foreign-language electronics scientific and engineering-technical field. 2. Supplementing and editing the electronics term base from the needs accumulated during the professional activities of the members of the terminology committee. The rapid global development of the electronics field has created several new terms that require Estonian-language term entries. The aim of the terminology committee is to develop the language of the field, which is an important basis for both the creation of Estonian-language professional literature (national scientific articles for the national introduction of research project results and university textbooks), and the translation of technical texts (European Union regulations) (product and user manuals, etc.).

Estonian terminology for electronics is in use in both, universities and manufacturing companies. Translation of the texts related to the are provided by the translation agencies and the result is unsteady in its quality. Scientific publications are in English, while the amount of electronics-related modern literature in Estonian is rather small. Creation and preparation of new Estonian terminology are important for electronics-related literature writing, university textbook creation, and for supporting other, science popularization supporting activities. In relation to the fast development in the field of electronics, the terms are often dated. In relation to the fast emergence of large language models also concerning electronics, the terminology requires continuous systemization and renewal. In Thomas Johann Seebeck Institute of Electronics (Tallinn University of Technology), the Estonian terminology has been developed for decades – the goal of the established term committee is to continue this activity purposefully.