Computer applications in industry and technology

This book presents simulation as an essential, powerful tool to develop the best possible healthcare system for patients.

This book constitutes extended and revised versions of the selected papers from the 13th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2020, held in Valletta, Malta, in February 2020.

The year 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic marked a huge change globally, both in working and home environments.

This book provides a unique introduction to the vast field of Medical Imaging Informatics for students and physicians by depicting the basics of the different areas in Radiology Informatics.

This book presents innovative solutions utilising informatics to deal with various issues related to the COVID-19 outbreak.

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

This book gathers revised selected papers from the 3rd International Workshop on Gerontechnology, IWoG 2020, held on October 5-6, 2020, in Evora, Portugal.

This book focuses on the basics of teleneurology and provides an outline of curriculum and practice with the help of clinical vignettes.

This textbook provides a detailed resource introducing the subdiscipline of mental health informatics.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Internet of Things (IoT) Technologies for HealthCare, HealthyIoT 2020, held in Viana do Castello, Portugal, in December 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Science and Health Engineering in Health Services.

This book presents a compilation of the most recent implementation of artificial intelligence methods for solving different problems generated by the COVID-19.

The book highlights recent developments in the field of biomedical sensors with a focus on technology and design aspects of novel sensors and sensor systems.

GeoComputation and Public Health is fundamentally a multi-disciplinary book, which presents an overview and case studies to exemplify numerous methods and solicitations in addressing vectors borne diseases (e.

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 presents the papers included in the proceedings of the 5th International Conference of Reliable Information and Communication Technology 2020 (IRICT 2020) that was held virtually on December 21-22, 2020.

The book Multimedia for Accessible Human Computer Interfaces is to be the first resource to provide in-depth coverage on topical areas of multimedia computing (images, video, audio, speech, haptics, VR/AR, etc.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mobile Communication and Healthcare, MobiHealth 2020, held in December 2020.

This book presents the latest cutting edge research, theoretical methods, and novel applications in the field of computational intelligence and computational biological approaches that are aiming to combat COVID-19.

Artificial intelligent systems, which offer great improvement in healthcare sector assisted by machine learning, wireless communications, data analytics, cognitive computing, and mobile computing provide more intelligent and convenient solutions and services.

This book provides an interdisciplinary look at emerging trends in signal processing and biomedicine found at the intersection of healthcare, engineering, and computer science.

This book offers a comprehensive yet concise overview of the challenges and opportunities presented by the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

This book fosters a scientific debate for sophisticated approaches and cognitive technologies (such as deep learning, machine learning and advanced analytics) for enhanced healthcare services in light of the tremendous scope in the future of intelligent systems for healthcare.

This book focuses on recent advances and different research areas in multi-modal data fusion under healthcare informatics and seeks out theoretical, methodological, well-established and validated empirical work dealing with these different topics.

Music recommendation systems are becoming more and more popular.

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

This volume uniquely presents case studies on health geography in Africa, and analyzes health practices in different African regions to illustrate a unified perspective to the geographies of health.

This book discusses the current trends in nursing and healthcare in relation to the integration of information technological interventions across the care continuum.

This book provides an insight into ways of inculcating the need for applying mobile edge data analytics in bioinformatics and medicine.

This book is dedicated to addressing the major challenges in fighting COVID-19 using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) - from cost and complexity to availability and accuracy.

The book presents recent trends and solutions to help healthcare sectors and medical staff protect themselves and others and limit the spread of the COVID-19.

This significantly revised 5th edition provides nurses with a practical guide to the fundamental concepts of digital health from a nursing perspective.

This 5th edition of this essential textbook continues to meet the growing demand of practitioners, researchers, educators, and students for a comprehensive introduction to key topics in biomedical informatics and the underlying scientific issues that sit at the intersection of biomedical science, patient care, public health and information technology (IT).

This book reviews the recent research into biological aspects of suicide behavior and outlines each of the varied, recent approaches to prevent suicide.

This book focuses on signal processing techniques used in computational health informatics.

This book provides a practically applicable guide to the methodologies and technologies for the application of interactive process mining paradigm.

This book presents a systematic review of research concerning processes and systems in Emergency Departments (EDs), the issues faced by EDs, and their solutions to ensure the delivery of proper and ideal healthcare services for patients through superior quality process management.

This heavily revised second edition defines the current state of the art for informatics education in medicine and healthcare.

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.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to computational epidemiology, highlighting its major methodological paradigms throughout the development of the field while emphasizing the needs for a new paradigm shift in order to most effectively address the increasingly complex real-world challenges in disease control and prevention.

This book presents a range of current research topics in biological network modeling, as well as its application in studies on human hosts, pathogens, and diseases.

This book aims to highlight the gaps and the transparency issues in the clinical research and trials processes and how there is a lack of information flowing back to researchers and patients involved in those trials.

The edition will cover proceedings of the second International conference on digital health Technologies (ICDHT 2019).

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Mobile Communication and Healthcare, MobiHealth 2019, held in Dublin, Ireland, in November 2019.

Design Engineering and Science teaches the theory and practice of axiomatic design (AD).

This book constitutes extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from the 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2019, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in February 2019.

This book provides a practically applicable guide to designing evidence-based medical apps and mHealth interventions.

Think - Plan - BuyThis is the first complete guide for creating a sustainable healthcare simulation program/center.

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