Computer applications in industry and technology

Algorithms play a central role both in the theory and in the practice of computing.

This book clarifies consumer and personal health informatics and their relevance to precision medicine and healthcare applications.

This extensively revised textbook describes and defines the US healthcare delivery system, its many systemic challenges and the prior efforts to develop and deploy informatics tools to help overcome these problems.

This book describes how the creation of new digital services-through vertical and horizontal integration of data coming from sensors on top of existing legacy systems-that has already had a major impact on industry is now extending to healthcare.

This book provides an overview of the innovative concepts, methodologies and frameworks that will increase the feasibility of the existing telemedicine system.

This book gathers extended contributions to the workshop on Long-Term Digital Care, LTC-2021, organized by the Universita Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), Ancona, Italy, and the Hochschule Konstanz (HTWG), Germany, in November 2021, and funded by the DAAD Joint Mobility Program.

Der Psychologe und Politikwissenschaftler Philip Tetlock gibt in seinem leichtverständlichen Wissenschafts-Sachbuch ›Superforecasting.

In March 2000 leading scientists gathered at the Centro Seminariale Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, for the Third International Symposium on "e;Fractals 2000 in Biology and Medicine"e;.

"e;Fractals in Biology and Medicine"e; explores the potential of fractal geometry for describing and understanding biological organisms, their development and growth as well as their structural design and functional properties.

Agent Cities [4] is an ambitious project whose main aim is the construction of a worldwide, publicly accessible network of agent-based FIPA platforms!

This book sheds light on state-of-the-art theories for more challenging outfit compatibility modeling scenarios.

This book introduces a variety of well-proven and newly developed nature-inspired optimization algorithms solving a wide range of real-life biomedical and healthcare problems.

This book provides a hands-on introduction to Machine Learning (ML) from a multidisciplinary perspective that does not require a background in data science or computer science.

This book gathers extended contributions to the workshop on Long-Term Digital Care, LTC-2021, organized by the Universita Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), Ancona, Italy, and the Hochschule Konstanz (HTWG), Germany, in November 2021, and funded by the DAAD Joint Mobility Program.

This monograph introduces a novel multiset-based conceptual, mathematical and knowledge engineering paradigm, called multigrammatical framework (MGF), used for planning and scheduling in resource-consuming, resource-producing (industrial) and resource-distributing (economical) sociotechnological systems (STS).

This book introduces a maintenance model that will assist decision-makers in their choice of building maintenance policies.

This book, Proceedings of the ICR'22 International Conference on Innovations in Computing Research, provides an essential compilation of relevant and cutting-edge academic and industry work on key computer and network security, smart cities, smart energy, IoT, health informatics, biomedical imaging, data science and computer science and engineering education topics.

The neurosurgical, surgical and medical training and practice models have to keep up with the technological revolution in the 21st Century as our lives changed on a swift base.

 This set of teaching notes provides extensive guidance for educators related to its sister title and contains numerous tools and questions to help educators provide didactics and evaluation of students in this essential area of biomedical informatics.

In line with advances in digital and computing systems, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies have transformed many aspects of medical and healthcare services, delivering tangible benefits to patents and the general public.

User care at home is a matter of great concern since unforeseen circumstances might occur that affect people's well-being.

This book is a foundational resource on how to create, implement and maintain a successful healthcare technology training program.

This book offers a timely review of modern technologies for health, with a special emphasis on wireless and wearable technologies, GIS tools and machine learning methods for managing the impacts of pandemics.

This monograph provides a comprehensive and rigorous exposition of the basic concepts and most important modern research results concerning blockchain and its applications.

This book examines modern paradigms of disease control based on social network surveillance applications, including electronic sentinel surveillance and wireless application-based surveillance science.

This book clarifies consumer and personal health informatics and their relevance to precision medicine and healthcare applications.

This book presents a comprehensive study in the field of advances in medical data science and contains carefully selected articles contributed by experts of information technology.

This textbook comprehensively covers the latest state-of-the-art methods and applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine, placing these developments into a historical context.

This two-volume set LNCS 12962 and 12963 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th International MICCAI Brainlesion Workshop, BrainLes 2021, as well as the RSNA-ASNR-MICCAI Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) Challenge, the Federated Tumor Segmentation (FeTS) Challenge, the Cross-Modality Domain Adaptation (CrossMoDA) Challenge, and the challenge on Quantification of Uncertainties in Biomedical Image Quantification (QUBIQ).

This new edition of the classic textbook provides bold and honest descriptions of the current and evolving state of US healthcare information technology.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mobile Communication and Healthcare, MobiHealth 2021, held in November 2021.

The three-dimensional structure and function of molecules present many challenges and opportunities for developing an understanding of biological systems.

This book looks at how AgeTech can support the autonomy and independence of people as they grow older.

This book aims to explore technology solutions and systems to help people in remote areas in order to improve medical care.

This essential book reviews how digital health ventures can be integrated with more traditional techniques to revolutionize the healthcare system.

The neurosurgical, surgical and medical training and practice models have to keep up with the technological revolution in the 21st Century as our lives changed on a swift base.

This book describes an overlooked solution to a long-standing problem in health care.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most prevalent childhood psychiatric condition, with estimates of more than 5% of children affected worldwide, and has a profound public health, personal, and family impact.

This book explores the ways in which AgeTech can contribute to healthy cognitive aging and support the independence of people with dementia.

This book provides an in-depth review of the historical and state-of-the-art use of technology by and for individuals with autism.

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

Have you ever experienced the burden of an adverse event or a near-miss in healthcare and wished there was a way to mitigate it?

Assistive Technology Design for Intelligence Augmentation presents a series of frameworks, perspectives, and design guidelines drawn from disciplines spanning urban design, artificial intelligence, sociology, and new forms of collaborative work, as well as the author's experience in designing systems for people with cognitive disabilities.

Within the context of healthcare, there has been a long-standing interest in understanding the posture and movement of the human body.

Approximately 10% of North Americans have some communication disorder.

Designed Technologies for Healthy Aging identifies and presents a variety of contemporary technologies to support older adults' abilities to perform everyday activities.

Conducting fieldwork for investigating technology use in healthcare is a challenging undertaking, and yet there is little in the way of community support and guidance for conducting these studies.

Performing fieldwork in healthcare settings is significantly different from fieldwork in other domains and it presents unique challenges to researchers.

Computer software has been productive in helping individuals with cognitive disabilities.

Demographic trends and increasing support costs means that good design for older and disabled people is an economic necessity, as well as a moral imperative.