Computer applications in industry and technology

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, IPMI 2019, held at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, in June 2019.

As the health care industry becomes increasingly dependent on electronic information, the need for sophisticated information retrieval systems and for knowledgeable people to design, purchase, and use them also increases.

This book explores the pivotal role played by technology over the past decade in advancing global public health and health care.

This book investigates novel accurate and efficient privacy-preserving techniques and their applications in e-Healthcare services.

 The successful implementation of health information systems in complex health care organizations ultimately hinges on the receptivity and preparedness of the user.

Due to inefficiencies, under utilization, and diminished resources, the delivery of healthcare worldwide is a major issue.

Now is a critical time in pediatric informatics.

As its name implies, this book deals with clinical information systems.

This book defines the phenomenon of mHealth and its evolution, explaining why an understanding of mHealth is critical for decision makers, entrepreneurs and policy analysts who are pivotal to developing products that meet the collaborative health information needs of consumers and providers in a competitive and rapidly-changing environment.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2019 held in Gdansk, Poland, on September 19, 2019.

Many residency programs in primary care specialties do not provide the education in pediatric orthopedics necessary to effectively deal with the field's challenges.

This book focuses on information seeking and the knowledge economy for teaching and research in Africa.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop and Challenge on Computational Methods and Clinical Applications for Spine Imaging, CSI 2018, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2018, in Granada, Spain, in September 2018.

This book introduces zero-effort technologies (ZETs), an emerging class of technology that requires little or no effort from the people who use it.

The practice of medicine has become an information intensive profes- sion.

Hardly a day goes by without news headlines concerning infectious disease threats.

This book provides an analysis of the role of fog computing, cloud computing, and Internet of Things in providing uninterrupted context-aware services as they relate to Healthcare 4.

This book reports on the theoretical foundations, fundamental applications and latest advances in various aspects of connected services for health information systems.

When health and human services organizations (new, established, or mature) engage in a strategic planning process, invariably the suggestion is made to offer a public speaker bureau to support their mission.

AIDS is the fourth leading cause of death among women of childbearing age and is increasing by about 8% a year in this group.

The 2022 release of Adobe Animate provides significant new controls for animation with puppet warping and improvements to layer parenting, and enhancements to paint brush preferences and symbol options.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Body Area Networks, BodyNets 2020, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in October 2020.

Adobe Photoshop: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features is your guide to creating, editing, and enhancing images and designs in Adobe Photoshop.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Patch-Based Techniques in Medical Images, Patch-MI 2018, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2018, in Granada, Spain, in September 2018.

In this introductory textbook to epidemiology, students will discover the knowledge and skills required for managing population-based health care under health reform.

This book is intended for professionals who must deal with telemedicine having little or no knowledge of matrix algebra and matrix calculus, and little or no knowledge of higher mathematics with special reference to differential equations: no other books cover these topics starting from scratch.

This book describes the emerging point-of-care (POC) technologies that are paving the way to the next generation healthcare monitoring and management.

This in-depth book addresses a key void in the literature surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT) and health.

Multiple complex pathways, characterized by interrelated events and c- ditions, represent routes to many illnesses, diseases, and ultimately death.

This book adopts an integrated and workflow-based treatment of the field of personalized and precision medicine (PPM).

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th EAI International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering in Health Services (COMPSE 2023), which took place November 16-17, 2023, in Mexico City, Mexico.

This volume collects most of the papers presented at the International Workshop on Robustness in Identification and Control, held in Torino (Italy) in 1988.

This book provides a novel solution for existing challenges in wireless body sensor networks (WBAN) such as network lifetime, fault tolerant approaches, reliability, security, and privacy.

This book provides a thorough introduction to the many facets of designing technologies for autism, with a particular focus on optimizing visual attention frameworks.

This book constitutes the revised, selected and extended papers of the 5th International Conference on Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health, ICT4AWE 2019, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in May 2019.

In einer zunehmend dynamischen und technologiegesteuerten Welt sind IT-Services das Rückgrat moderner Unternehmen.

The field of health psychology has grown dramatically in the last decade, with exciting new developments in the study of how psychological and psychosocial processes contribute to risk for and disease sequelae for a variety of medical problems.

This book originates from the idea to adapt biomedical engineering and medical informatics to current clinical needs and proposes a paradigm shift in medical engineering, where the limitations of technology should no longer be the starting point of design, but rather the development of biomedical devices, software, and systems should stem from clinical needs and wishes.

This book constitutes the revised, selected and extended papers of the 6th International Conference on Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health, ICT4AWE 2020, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in May 2020.

This book describes the multidisciplinary approach needed to tackle better aging.

This book presents work on healthcare management and engineering using optimization and simulation methods and techniques.

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the 7th Joint International Workshop on Computing and Visualization for Intravascular Imaging and Computer Assisted Stenting, CVII-STENT 2018, and the Third International Workshop on Large-Scale Annotation of Biomedical Data and Expert Label Synthesis, LABELS 2018, held in conjunction with the 21th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018, in Granada, Spain, in September 2018.

This book is a revised version of the PhD dissertation written by the author at the Department of Business Informatics and Operations Management at Ghent University in Belgium.

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the First International Workshop on Data Driven Treatment Response Assessment, DATRA 2018 and the Third International Workshop on Preterm, Perinatal and Paediatric Image Analysis, PIPPI 2018, held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018, in Granada, Spain, in September 2018.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of advances in the field of medical data science, presenting carefully selected articles by leading information technology experts.