Towards Developing a Hospital Cabin Management System Using Brain Computer Interaction.

The aim of this article is to propose a conceptual framework for a system, using which a severely ill or disabled patient admitted in a hospital cabin can exert some control on the surrounding environment using only his/her thoughts. A brain computer interface (BCI) headset can be used to collect Electroencephalographic (EEG) data from the brain and an artificial neural network can be used to process the EEG data and predict what the patient is thinking. The proposed system will provide immense benefits to the patients admitted in hospital cabins, especially in developing countries, where the doctor to patient and nurse to patient ratio is really low and a patient admitted in a hospital cabin is usually left unattended for a long period of time.