Medical percussion is a common manual examination procedure used by physicians to determine the state of underlying tissues from their acoustic responses. Although it has been used for centuries, there is a limited quantitative understanding of its dynamics, leading to subjectivity and a lack of detailed standardisation. This paper presents a novel compliant two-degree-of-freedom robotic device inspired by the human percussion action, and validates its performance in two tissue characterisation experiments. In Experiment 1, spectrotemporal analysis using 1-D Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) proved the potential of the device to identify hard nodules, mimicking lipomas, embedded in silicone phantoms representing a patient's abdominal region. In Experiment 2, Gaussian Mixture Modelling (GMM) and Neural Network (NN) predictive models were implemented to classify composite phantom tissues of varying density and thickness. The proposed device and methods showed up to 97.5% accuracy in the classification of phantoms, proving the potential of robotic solutions to standardise and improve the accuracy of percussion diagnostic procedures.
Consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices are increasingly common in everyday homes, from smart speakers to security cameras. Along with their benefits come potential privacy and security threats. To limit these threats we must implement solutions to filter IoT traffic at the edge. To this end the identification of the IoT device is the first natural step.In this paper we demonstrate a novel method of rapid IoT device identification that uses neural networks trained on device DNS traffic that can be captured from a DNS server on the local network. The method identifies devices by fitting a model to the first seconds of DNS second-level-domain traffic following their first connection. Since security and privacy threat detection often operate at a device specific level, rapid identification allows these strategies to be implemented immediately. Through a total of 51,000 rigorous automated experiments, we classify 30 consumer IoT devices from 27 different manufacturers with 82% and 93% accuracy for product type and device manufacturers respectively.
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