Individualised mobile dry EEG for health monitoring

Space travel negatively impacts the mental and cognitive performance of astronauts. These effects increase with mission duration and pose a risk to both the astronauts and the mission’s safety, particularly for long-term missions to the Moon or Mars.

The eemagine Medical Imaging Solution consortium is developing an easy-to-use, non-invasive dry EEG system supported by artificial intelligence (AI) for use outside the laboratory. This system is crucial for space travel as it significantly contributes to the health of astronauts by helping to avoid physical or mental overload, thereby reducing the risk of accidents and illness.

This EEG system has many potential applications here on Earth too, including in medical prevention, rehabilitation and treatment at home, and many other areas.

Benefits:

• The dry EEG system will enable wider use, reduce comfort limitations and significantly improve ease of use and signal quality, while providing direct user feedback.
• Combines increased sensor reliability — similar to gel-based EEG — with ease of use and high user comfort (can be applied within 10 seconds) during repeated and long-term use at a reasonable cost.
• Improves the applicability of AI-supported health monitoring.