Digital Advances in Medicine, E-Health, and Communication Technologies

Digital Advances in Medicine, E-Health, and Communication Technologies

Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 348

ISBN13: 9781466627949|ISBN10: 1466627948|EISBN13: 9781466627956

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2794-9

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Digital Advances in Medicine, E-Health, and Communication Technologies explores the developments and trends in medical informatics and its approaches toward telemedicine and e-health applications. This comprehensive collection of research brings together academia and industry by highlighting recent advances in electronic health, medical communications and applications for e-health and medicine.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Chapter 1

A Comprehensive Overview of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) (pages 1-32)

Nourchene Bradai, Lamia Chaari, Lotfi Kamoun

In recent years, the wireless body area network (WBAN) has emerged as a new technology for e-healthcare applications. The WBANs promise to revolutionize health monitoring. However, this technology remains in the first stages and much...

Chapter 2

An Advanced and Secure Symbian-Based Mobile Approach for Body Sensor Networks Interaction (pages 33-48)

Orlando R. E. Pereira, João M. L. P. Caldeira, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues

The combination of body sensor networks (BSNs) and mobile devices brings a personalized health monitoring opportunity to patients and medical teams. Mobile devices may be used to process and present data collected by BSN sensors in...

Chapter 3

Pervasive Computing Support in the Transition towards Personalised Health Systems (pages 49-64)

Martín Serrano, Ahmed Elmisery, Mícheál Ó Foghlú, Willie Donnelly, Cristiano Storni, Mikael Fernström

This paper discusses pervasive computing work in the transition from traditional health care programs to personalised health systems (pHealth). A chronological guided transition survey is discussed to highlight trends in medicine...

Chapter 4

Study of Zero Velocity Update for Both Low- and High-Speed Human Activities (pages 65-84)

R. Zhang, M. Loschonsky, L.M. Reindl

Previous studies show that inertial sensor-based personal positioning benefited from Zero Velocity Update (ZUPT) method by resetting the foot speed at every foot step. However, only the solution for normal pedestrian movement with...

Chapter 5

Applications of Policy Based Agents in Wireless Body Sensor Mesh Networks for Patient Health Monitoring (pages 85-101)

Kevin Miller, Suresh Sankaranarayanan

Considerable research interest in using wireless and mobile technologies in patient health monitoring exists, particularly in hospitals and nursing homes. For health monitoring, an intelligent agent based hierarchical architecture...

Chapter 6

Acquisition of Multiple Physiological Parameters During Physical Exercise (pages 102-113)

Virginie Felizardo, Pedro Dinis Gaspar, Nuno M. Garcia, Victor Reis

This paper describes the experimental method focused on the acquisition of various physiological parameters during different effort levels of physical exercise like walking and running at several velocities. The study involved 57...

Chapter 7

QoS Concepts and Architecture Over Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare Applications (pages 114-130)

Lamia Chaari, Lotfi Kamoun

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) applications have emerged as one of the most recent research areas of wireless sensor networks. Lots of research is improving QoS factors in sensor networks. However, QoS requirements vary from...

Chapter 8

Improving Supervised Classification of Activities of Daily Living Using Prior Knowledge (pages 131-147)

Anthony Fleury, Norbert Noury, Michel Vacher

The increase in life expectancy is producing a bottleneck at the entry in institutions. Therefore, telemedicine becomes a timely solution, which is largely explored to care after elderly people living independently at home. It...

Chapter 9

Development of Audio Sensing Technology for Ambient Assisted Living: Applications and Challenges (pages 148-167)

Michel Vacher, François Portet, Anthony Fleury, Norbert Noury

One of the greatest challenges in Ambient Assisted Living is to design health smart homes that anticipate the needs of its inhabitant while maintaining their safety and comfort. It is thus essential to ease the interaction with the...

Chapter 10

On the Use of Home Node Bs for Emergency Telemedicine Applications in Various Indoor Environments (pages 168-186)

Edward Mutafungwa, Zhong Zheng, Jyri Hämäläinen, Mika Husso, Timo Korhonen

The use of emergency telemedicine applications at the site of a medical emergency event provides a multitude of benefits, both from the perspective of the patient and the emergency care providers. Innovations in rich multimedia...

Chapter 11

Modeling Emergency and Telemedicine Health Support System: A Service Oriented Architecture Approach Using Cloud Computing (pages 187-213)

Weider D. Yu, Radhika Bhagwat

This paper examines the study of healthcare services provided through a telemedicine oriented Emergency Health Support System (EHSS). This study caters to the needs of senior citizens, but can be extended to a larger population. The...

Chapter 12

Discrete Portable Measuring Device for Monitoring Noninvasive Intraocular Pressure with a Nano-Structured Sensing Contact Lens Prototype (pages 214-229)

Ana Moya, Anton Guimerà, Irene Sánchez, Vladimir Laukin, Raúl Martín, Fernando Ussa, Elena Laukhina, Concepció Rovira, Jaume Veciana, José Carlos Pastor, Rosa Villa, Jordi Aguiló

A new portable measuring device for monitoring intraocular pressure with a non invasive system using a prototype of contact lens has been developed. The contact lens is based on a new organic flexible highly piezo-resisitive film...

Chapter 13

A Prototype Agent Based Model and Machine Learning Hybrid System for Healthcare Decision Support (pages 230-253)

Marek Laskowski

Science is on the verge of practical agent based modeling decision support systems capable of machine learning for healthcare policy decision support. The details of integrating an agent based model of a hospital emergency department...

Chapter 14

Proposed Framework for the Deployment of Telemedicine Centers in Rural Bangladesh (pages 254-270)

Raqibul Mostafa, Gazi Mehedi Hasan, A.M. Alomgir Kabir, Md Atiqur Rahman

This paper presents a unique and comprehensive framework for the deployment of effective telemedicine centers in diverse locations in Bangladesh. The framework employs a top-down analysis and design approach by properly organizing...

Chapter 15

Affordable System for Rapid Detection and Mitigation of Emerging Diseases (pages 271-288)

Nuwan Waidyanatha, Artur Dubrawski, Ganesan M., Gordon Gow

South and South-East Asian countries are currently in the midst of a new epidemic of Dengue Fever. This paper presents disease surveillance systems in Sri Lanka and India, monitoring a handful of communicable diseases termed as...

Chapter 16

Malaria Parasite Detection: Automated Method Using Microscope Color Image (pages 289-300)

Anant R. Koppar, Venugopalachar Sridhar

Healthcare Delivery Systems are becoming overloaded in developing countries like India and China. It is imperative that more efficient and cost effective processes are employed. One such requirement is the automatic detection of...

Chapter 17

A Tool for Automatic Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination (pages 301-311)

Debi Prosad Dogra, Karthik Nandam, Arun Kumar Majumdar, Shamik Sural, Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, Bandana Majumdar, Arun Singh, Suchandra Mukherjee

Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination (HINE) is a popular method to estimate the neurological development of infants aged less than two years. Using HINE, especially for preterm or premature babies, the risk of neural disorder...

Chapter 18

Evaluating the IEEE 802.15.6 2.4GHz WBAN Proposal on Medical Multi-Parameter Monitoring under WiFi/Bluetooth Interference (pages 312-325)

Yufei Wang, Qixin Wang

Wireless body area networks (WBAN) play a key role in the future of e-Health. In response, IEEE sets up working group 802.15.6 to standardize WBAN schemes. Of all existing standard proposals, the 2.4GHz proposal is the most mature...

Chapter 19

Expected Communications Technology to Track Avian Influenza and Related the Statement of Appeal by ITU-D SG2 Q14 (pages 326-340)

Isao Nakajima, Toshihiko Kitano, Masaaki Katayama, Leonid Androuchko

This paper points out some problems of telemetry for wild birds and future technical expectations to prevent Avian Influenza. For medium to large migratory birds, the data collection system aboard the NOAA meteorological satellites...

Chapter 20

Design Considerations for Delivering E-Learning to Surgical Trainees (pages 341-350)

Jane Coughlan, Willem-Paul Brinkman

Challenges remain in leveraging e-health technologies for continuous medical education/professional development. This study examines the interface design and learning process features related to the use of multimedia in providing...

Chapter 21

Research Essay: The Ethics of E-Health (pages 351-354)

Christopher C. Hood, Sarah Bougourd

Some online health information and services have the potential to mislead, confuse or create unnecessary anxiety and more should be done to help people find trustworthy health websites and use online health services safely and...

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