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The following topics are dealt with: body sensor networks (BSNs); wearable sensors and applications; wearable health monitoring systems; emerging sensing technology; sensing technology for disease management; wireless body area networks; biosignal processing in BSN; applications in BSN; biomedical imaging analysis; BSN chip design; materials and electrodes; wireless BSN; physiological monitoring;...
This paper will review recent technical improvements in emission tomography (PET and SPECT) as well as new approaches in magnetic resonance in vivo studies (MRI and MRS). These advances now enable more detailed studies of dementia and heart disease as well as improved methods to diagnose and treat cancer. Forms of dementia (Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease) can now be quantitatively accessed using...
In this talk, Prof. Paradiso will describe recent wearable sensor systems that they have developed for applications ranging from sports medicine to social computing, and discuss approaches being explored to extend human perception via distributed sensor networks. Technical issues that he will introduce involve adaptive energy management and power harvesting in wearable systems.
The neuroscience has become more quantitative and information-driven science since emerging implantable and wearable sensors from macro to nano and computational tools facilitate collection and analysis of vast amounts of neural data. Complexity analysis of neural systems provides physiological knowledge for the organization, management and mining of neural data by using advanced computational tools...
Vision information processing (VIP) is the important supports of image processing. Currently, VIP has become as a leader direction in remote sense image processing (which mostly serves the government and military) and in medical Image processing (which widely serves a great numbers of patients). Medical imaging and medical image analysis techniques are the hotspots of the biomedical engineering. On...
In recent years, optical imaging has been of significant interest as a non-invasive medical imaging modality for biomedical and clinical applications. Visible and near-infrared light wavelengths have been used for tissue and organ imaging using surface reflectance, transillumination and transmission based methods. Fluorescence optical imaging has shown great potential in molecular imaging with a spectrum...
ldquoPersonal Healthcarerdquo often referred to as ldquoTelehealthrdquo is the prevention and management of diseases outside the institutional points of care. The paradigm shift is to apply healthcare whereever a person may be, at his home or on the move. This new paradigm will allow a much more frequent interaction of a professional or the patient himself with his health status. Even for ill people...
It is of importance to image cardiac electrical activity. In the presentation we will review state of the arts of cardiac electrical imaging, with emphasis on three-dimensional (3D) electrocardiographic imaging. Such 3D imaging ability was achieved by incorporating a priori information with regard to the anatomy and physiology of the heart. We have demonstrated that by introducing physiological a...
This lecture will cover the basic image formation principles underlying various imaging modalities (such X-ray CT, MRI, etc.). Issues from data acquisition, image reconstruction, and image processing will be discussed, along with various application examples.
Europepsilas health system is undergoing radical changes due to an aging population. It is moving from reactive towards preventative care, and from hospital care to care at home. Tomorrowpsilas patients will become more empowered to take their health into their own hands. New ICT is required to enable this paradigm shift. HeartCycle will provide a closed-loop disease management solution for heartfailure...
Medical imaging is a very dynamic field and corresponds to a young scientific discipline which is at the crossroad of various areas. The first advances in this field were pushed by fundamental discoveries in physics which, added to the engineering contribution, has given raise to the development of technologies that have had and still have a major impact in clinics. In parallel, chemistry has also...
With the rapid advances in sports technologies, athletes and sports coaches are constantly searching for improved performance assessment methods. Whilst athletic performances continue to improve, accurate training prescription and feedback is important to the consistency of the training outcome and maintaining the performance margin. Traditionally, the measurement of elite athlete performance is performed...
Terahertz frequency radiation lies between the millimetre and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum (THz = 10^12 Hz, 1 THz corresponds to 4.14 meV). Terahertz radiation is non-ionising and able to probe intermolecular vibrations such as hydrogen bonds which occur naturally in biological systems. Additionally, terahertz imaging methods are able to obtain an axial resolution of around 40...
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