Bart Vanrumste

Research

Data Analytics for Home Monitoring of Older Persons and Patients with Chronic Illnesses

Current research team

Juha Carlon

Biography

Bart Vanrumste was born in Blankenberge, Belgium in 1971. 

He received a Master in Electrical Engineering and Master in Biomedical Engineering both  from Ghent University in 1994 and 1998, respectively. In 2001 he received a Ph.D. in Engineering from the same institute entiled  ‘EEG Dipole Source Analysis in a Realistic Head Model’.

He worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow from 2001 until 2003 at the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of the University Of Canterbury, New Zealand .

From 2003 until 2005 he was Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of STADIUS (ESAT) at KU Leuven.

In 2005 he was appointed Professor in the Engineering Technology Department at the ‘Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen’ in Geel and the ‘Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg, both of which are now integrated in the Faculty of Engineering Technology of KU Leuven.

Bart Vanrumste currently teaches courses on Digital Signal Processing, Digital Image Processing and Machine Learning. He is member of the eMedia Lab at GroepT, member of the ESAT-STADIUS division and Principle Investigator of iMinds Future Health Department. 

His research interests is Decision Support in Healthcare in general and Ambient Assisted Living in particular. His current research activities focus among other on multimodal sensor integration for monitoring of older persons and patients with chronic illnesses at their homes.

Since 2013 he is chair of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Benelux Chapter and member of the International Society for Bioelectromagnetism. 

Active projects

• HealthyDiets4Africa - Combating Malnutrition in Africa Through Diversification of the Food System
• RevalExo - A wearable lower- limb exoskeleton that assists activities of daily living and enables data-driven remote rehabilitation

Finished projects

• Ingenieurs in het WZC
• Acoustic event detection - Acoustic event detection: sparse signal representations, embedded optimization algorithms, and case studies
• AI4EXO - Improving wearability and acceptance of AI-driven human-centered robotics
• ALHTOUR - ASSISTED LIVING TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE HEALTH TOURISM SECTOR
• AMACS - Automatische monitoring van activiteiten van het dagelijks leven dmv contactloze sensoren
• DISCRETE - Supporting incontinence management in nursing homes through ambient monitoring and actionable data
• DISH - Devices for food Intake using Smart devices in Healthcare (DISH)
• EEG-fMRI - Advanced algorithms for integrated EEG-fMRI data processing
• FallRisk - Intelligent services in view of prevention, risk evaluation and detection of fall incidents
• FOG-IT - An Integrated software platform for Tagging Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease
• FOODIE - A Food Intake Monitoring Tool for the Analysis of Eating Behavior
• GRaCE-AGE - GRaCE-AGE
• Heart - HEalth related Activity Recognition system based on IoT – an interdisciplinary training program for young researchers
• iMinds SBO dotatie - iMinds Medical Information Technologies- SBO (dotatie)
• REINITIALISE - pREservIng fuNdamental rIghTs in the use of digitAl technoLogIes for e-health ServicEs
• SINS - Sound INterfacing through the Swarm
• WearIT4Health - Wearable Integrated Technology for Health Monitoring of Hospitalized Patients in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine

Awards

• Best Paper (Bioengineering).
• Second prize in the Young Investigators Poster Competition
• Young scientist award for the best oral presentation.

Membership

• Member of the International Society for Bioelectromagnetism since September 1997
• Member of IEEE since June 1997

Publications