Telemedicine Technologies: Big Data, Deep Learning, Robotics, Mobile and Remote Applications for Global Healthcare

D. Jude Hemanth, Valentina Emilia Balas

Academic Press, May 4, 2019 - Science - 260 pages

Telemedicine Technologies: Big Data, Deep Learning, Robotics, Mobile and Remote Applications for Global Healthcare illustrates the innovative concepts, methodologies and frameworks that will increase the feasibility of the existing telemedicine system. The book also focuses on showcasing prototypes of remote healthcare systems, thus emphasizing the data processing side that is often recognized as the backbone of any telemedicine system. - Illustrates the innovative concepts, methodologies and frameworks that will increase the feasibility of the existing telemedicine system - Focuses on showcasing prototypes of remote healthcare systems

Contents

• 1 Mobile Application for Medical Diagnosis: 1
• 2 Emerging Paradigms in TransformBased Medical Image Compression for Telemedicine Environment: 15
• A Boon or a Bane?: 31
• 4 Investigation of Telecardiology System to Detect Cardiac Abnormalities: 43
• 5 Microaneurysms Detection for Early Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy Using Shape and Steerable Gaussian Features: 57
• 6 Telemetry System for Early Detection of Hyperbilirubinemia in Neonates: 71

About the author

Dr. D. Jude Hemanth is currently working as a professor in Department of ECE, Karunya University, Coimbatore, India. He also holds the position of “Visiting Professor in Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Oradea, Romania. He also serves as the “Research Scientist of Computational Intelligence and Information Systems (CI2S) Lab, Argentina; LAPISCO research lab, Brazil; RIADI Lab, Tunisia; Research Centre for Applied Intelligence, University of Craiova, Romania and e-health and telemedicine group, University of Valladolid, Spain.Dr. Hemanth received his B.E degree in ECE from Bharathiar University in 2002, M.E degree in communication systems from Anna University in 2006 and Ph.D. from Karunya University in 2013. He has published 37 edited books with reputed publishers such as Elsevier, Springer and IET. His research areas include Computational Intelligence and Image processing. He has authored more than 200 research papers in reputed SCIE indexed International Journals and Scopus indexed International Conferences.

Dr. Valentina Emilia Balas is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania. She holds a PhD cum laude in applied electronics and telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the author of more than 350 research papers in refereed journals and for international conferences. Her research interests cover intelligent systems, fuzzy control, soft computing, smart sensors, information fusion, modeling, and simulation. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the 'International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms' and the 'International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering', an editorial board member for several other national and international publications, as well as an expert evaluator for national and international projects and PhD theses. Dr. Balas is the Director of the Intelligent Systems Research Center and the Director of the Department of International Relations, Programs and Projects at the “Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad. She served as the General Chair for nine editions of the International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications (SOFA) organized in 2005–2020 and held in Romania and Hungary. Dr. Balas participated in many international conferences as organizer, honorary chair, session chair, member in steering, advisory or international program committees, and keynote speaker. Now she is working on a national project funded by the European Union: BioCell-NanoART = Novel Bio-inspired Cellular Nano-Architectures. She is a member of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology, a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, a senior member of IEEE, a member of the IEEE Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee, the chair of Task Force 14 of the IEEE Emergent Technologies Technical Committee, a member of the IEEE Soft Computing Technical Committee. She is also the recipient of the "Tudor Tanasescu" prize from the Romanian Academy for contributions in the field of soft computing methods (2019).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Telemedicine Technologies: Big Data, Deep Learning, Robotics, Mobile and Remote Applications for Global Healthcare
• Editors: D. Jude Hemanth, Valentina Emilia Balas
• Publisher: Academic Press, 2019
• ISBN: 0128169494, 9780128169490
• Length: 260 pages
• Subjects: Science / Biotechnology; Technology & Engineering / Biomedical