High impact blow detection over a reactive Mobile-Cloud Framework

Abstract

Brain injury is quite common in athletes due to the frequent and high level of impact, especially in football and hockey. One of the most challenging problems faced by medical personnel responsible for the health care of athletes is the recognition and management of concussions [1, 2]. With the advancements in sensor technology, medical imaging, mobile devices, wireless communications, and cloud computing, we have opportunities to monitor and analyze the impact between athletes in real time. The research will assist team doctors to immediately identify head injuries among athletes and drive the development of new technology to be used for protecting the athletes more efficiently. We propose a Reactive Mobile Cloud-based framework that will be utilized to effectively manage both the textual and image data in DICOM format; allowing us to create a repository of information on each player throughout the length of their career.