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Contact

TU Braunschweig
Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics
Muehlenpfordtstraße 23
Room: IZ 432
38106 Braunschweig
Germany

Phone: +49 531 391-2128
Fax: +49 531 391-9502
E-mail: diana.baumgaertel@plri.de

Thesis Supervision

If you are interested in writing a Bachelor or Master thesis at PLRI, please contact me by email. The open topics serve as a guide; I welcome suggestions for topics in the field of smart homes! We can also discuss and shape the topic to your interests.

Open Topics

• Behavioral and movement patterns in the smart home
• Signal quality index for photoplethysmography data
• BLE-based identification of persons in a multi-resident scenario
• Integration of a flex/pressure sensor into the cECG chair to improve artifact detection

In Progress

• Automatic selection of the cECG channel using data from the Smart Chair [Project work]
• Influence of the environment (temperature, light, humidity, etc.) on sleep quality in the smart home [Project work]

Completed

• Unsupervised Detection of Behavioral Patterns and Anomalies in Smart Homes [Bachelor Thesis]

Teaching

• WS 2026/27: Seminar in Medical Informatics
• SS 2026: Seminar in Medical Informatics
• SS 2026: Medical Information Systems B (exercise)
• SS 2026: Biomedical Image and Signal Generation (exercise)
• WS 2025/26: Seminar in Medical Informatics
• SS 2025: Seminar in Medical Informatics
• SS 2025: Medical Information Systems B (exercise)

Publications

• Baumgartel D, Warnecke JM, Bollmann J, Deserno TM. Movement Detection for Reliable Capacitive ECG Monitoring in Smart Home Armchairs. In 2026 14th iEECON 2026 Mar 4 (pp. 1-5). IEEE. (https://doi.org/10.1109/iEECON68065.2026.11707058)
• Bollmann J, Warnecke JM, Ji D, Baumgärtel D, Flormann M, Henze R, Deserno TM. Reliable multimodal signals for in-vehicle heartbeat detection. Scientific Reports. 2026 Oct 4;16(1):30709. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-74069-3)
• Ganapathy N, Baumgärtel D, Deserno TM. Automatic detection of atrial fibrillation in ECG using co-occurrence patterns of dynamic symbol assignment and machine learning. Sensors. 2021 May 19;21(10):3542. (https://doi.org/10.3390/s21103542)
• Baumgärtel, D., Mielke, C. and Haux, R., 2018. A review of Decision Support Systems for smart homes in the health care system. Building Continents of Knowledge in Oceans of Data: The Future of Co-Created eHealth, pp.476-480. (https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-852-5-476)