Research And Development On Wearable Monitoring For The Health Of Breast

With the breast cancer of female life threat increases,women began to pay more attention to the prevention of breast cancer.The general methods of breast cancer diagnosing is time-consuming,expensive.Especially,the scarce medical resources can not meet the demand because of the large population of China.Therefore,people do not only rely on medical diagnosis in hospitals and doctors any more.People pay more attention to the daily health monitoring and disease prevention.Female underwear,as an indispensable everyday clothing,can be used as a carrier for breast health monitoring system to monitor the real-time physiological signals.The aim of the study is to design a system to monitor the healthy condition of breasts and record physiological cycle.The system can collect the temperature of breasts where are easily to get cancer and the basal body temperature(BBT).All these values can be used to monitor the health of breasts and calculate the day of ovulation for people to prepare to get pregnant.In this study,the medical background of this monitoring system was introduced.By collecting literature and medical statistics report,the relationship of the breasts cancer and the temperature of breasts were researched.Besides,the relationship of the BBT and physiological cycle were also studied.Then,the locations of the measurement,where are the most easily to get cancer were chosen and the temperature of the armpit was collected as the BBT.Meanwhile,the posture,duration and time of the measurement were also introduced.Secondly,the hardware design of this system introduced.the temperature of each point of breasts and BBT was collected based on DS18B20.STM32F103C8T6 was used as the micro controller to drive each module.The values of temperature were displayed on the LCD.At the same time,the ZigBee wireless communication technology transferred the values to the designed software.As for the design of the software.In this paper,the codes in the Micro controller Unit(MCU)were written using C language.Then software was developed by using the Qt Creator in the windows 7 system.This software can display the temperature data,draw the temperature curve and output the data.Finally,a kind of breast paste was designed to combine the monitoring system and the bra.The demand of comfort and removable ability.Meanwhile,the stability and accuracy of the measurement,display and communication of the whole system were tested.The results of the tests showed that this monitoring system can complete multiple temperature acquisition,storage and calculation.The design of Zigbee wireless communication scheme is effective and each module can achieve the desired functions.The whole monitoring system can be used for monitoring the health status of female breast and BBT.