{"title":"Introducing knowledge in the process of supervised classification of activities of Daily Living in Health Smart Homes","authors":"A. Fleury, N. Noury, Michel Vacher","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556549","url":null,"abstract":"Telemedicine and Telemonitoring of elderly people is an actual challenge that is explored to prevent some problems linked to the constant growing of the mean age of the population. It requires to recognize the behavior and the actions of a person inside his own home with non-intrusive sensors and to process data to check the evolution of the person. Activities of Daily Living can be learned and automatically recognized using supervised classification on sensor data. This paper presents the results of the study of prior introduction, in Support Vector Machine, to improve this automatic recognition of Activities of Daily Living. We started from a set of data acquired in daily life during an experimentation in the Health Smart Home of the TIMC-IMAG Lab. From this restricted set of data, we obtained models for seven activities of Daily Living and test, with leave-one-out method, the performance of this classification. This first step gave baseline results that this paper tends to improve using consistent priors to compute more specific and accurate models of the different activities that are learned and obtain better results on the leave-one-out method on the sensors data.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125949285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Orlando R. E. Pereira, J. M. L. P. Caldeira, Joel Rodrigues
{"title":"A Symbian-based mobile solution for intra-body temperature monitoring","authors":"Orlando R. E. Pereira, J. M. L. P. Caldeira, Joel Rodrigues","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556548","url":null,"abstract":"Biofeedback data acquisition is an extremely important task in body sensor networks (BSNs). Data collected by sensors need to be processed in order to be shown in an easy and meaningful way for the user. The use of mobile devices may support and offer new user experiences. When connected to a BSN they can aggregate and process data collected by each sensor, providing a mobile solution for a healthcare system. This mobility offers a better patients' quality of life allowing a regular daily routine and always under monitoring. This paper proposes a Symbian-based mobile solution for intra-body temperature monitoring. Mobile device connects wirelessly to an intra-vaginal temperature sensor and interacts with sensor for temperature data collection and monitoring. This system helps women to detect their fertile and ovulation periods by the increasing of their intra-vaginal temperature. The mobile system was tested and validated with success and it is available for regular use.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124725835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A time-slot scheduling algorithm for e-health wireless sensor networks","authors":"Ó. Gama, P. Carvalho, P. Mendes","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556534","url":null,"abstract":"For e-health wireless sensor networks presenting significant traffic loads, MAC protocols based on deterministic scheduling algorithms are consensually considered more adequate than protocols based on random access algorithms. Indeed, TDMA-based MAC protocols are able to control the delay bound and save power by eliminating collisions. However, these protocols always require some expedite scheme to assign the superframe time-slots to the network devices that need to transmit data. Knowing that patients of an e-health wireless network are normally monitored by the same number and types of motes, originating a regular traffic pattern, a simple collaborative time-slot allocation algorithm can be achieved, as introduced in this paper. In the proposed algorithm, the announcement of time-slot allocation by the network coordinator is avoided, which helps to improve the packet delivery ratio and reduce the energy consumption in the e-health wireless network.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"201 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133354561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imposing holistic privacy and data security on person centric ehealth monitoring infrastructures","authors":"A. Fragopoulos, John Gialelis, Dimitrios Serpanos","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556580","url":null,"abstract":"Telemetric monitoring of vital parameters of patients with chronic diseases is recognized to improve their medical condition and hence their quality of life. It also improves treatment adjustments, reaction time in acute cases and helps to reduce duration and costs of hospitalization. As a result of this, there are plenty of products and solutions for personal health monitoring available today that acquire physiological data in real-time. In order for such systems to be widely acceptable and utilized by the medical community and the patients, they must be developed satisfying the security requirements imposed by real-time data communication and protection of sensitive physiological data and measurements, data integrity and confidentiality, and protection of the monitored patient's privacy. The work presented in this paper intends to fill the security gap, which makes these devices and the data acquired by them, vulnerable to any kind of attacks. By utilizing MPEG-21 standard's primitives, we show that protection of transmitted medical information and enhancement of patient's privacy is accomplished, since there is selective and controlled access to medical data that sent toward the hospital's servers.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132002746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Zeeb, Guido Moritz, W. Thronicke, Myriam Lipprandt, A. Hein, Frerk Muller, J. Kruger, Oliver Dohndorf, Anna F. Litvina, Christoph Fiehe, Ingo Luck, F. Golatowski, D. Timmermann
{"title":"Generic platform for advanced E-health applications","authors":"E. Zeeb, Guido Moritz, W. Thronicke, Myriam Lipprandt, A. Hein, Frerk Muller, J. Kruger, Oliver Dohndorf, Anna F. Litvina, Christoph Fiehe, Ingo Luck, F. Golatowski, D. Timmermann","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556571","url":null,"abstract":"The demographic change and the cost pressure in the healthcare sector drive the need for efficient and secure medical homecare solutions which apply for the people who are elderly or in anastasis. As the complexity of such systems is rising, there is a need of a common foundation of components which can be reused to lower the implementation effort of such systems. The European ITEA2 OSAmI research project targets such a common foundation of basic components for a basic, widely applicable service-oriented component platform. The German OSAmI-D subproject develops a construction kit based on the OSAmI component platform with a particular focus on services for medical and E-Health applications. The results of the ongoing project and especially the foundation of reusable components are demonstrated in the scenario of home-based ergometer training during the rehabilitation of patients with cardiologic illnesses.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132173670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michel Vacher, François Portet, A. Fleury, N. Noury
{"title":"Challenges in the processing of audio channels for Ambient Assisted Living","authors":"Michel Vacher, François Portet, A. Fleury, N. Noury","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556546","url":null,"abstract":"One of the greatest challenges in Ambient Assisted Living is to design health smart homes that could be able to anticipate the needs of its inhabitant while maintaining their comfort and their safety with an adaptation of the house environment and a facilitation of the connections to the outside world. The most likely to benefit from these smart homes are people in loss of autonomy such as the disabled people or the elderly with cognitive deficiencies. But it becomes essential to ease the interactions with the smart home through dedicated interfaces, in particular, thanks to systems reactive to vocal orders. Audio recognition is also a promising way to ensure more safety by contributing to detection of distress situations. This paper presents the stakes and the challenges of this domain based on some experiments carried out concerning distress call recognition and sound classification at home.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"240 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133757435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Tsai, C. Y. Yu, M. Y. Wang, J. Zao, H. Yeh, C. Shih, J. W. S. Liu
{"title":"iMAT: Intelligent medication administration tools","authors":"P. Tsai, C. Y. Yu, M. Y. Wang, J. Zao, H. Yeh, C. Shih, J. W. S. Liu","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556551","url":null,"abstract":"iMAT is a system of automatic medication dispensers and software tools. It is for people who take medications on long term basis at home to stay well and independent. The system helps its users to improve rigor in compliance by preventing misunderstanding of medication directions and making medication schedules more tolerant to tardiness and negligence. This paper presents an overview of the assumptions, models, architecture and implementation of the system.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133972561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Nakajima, Y. Tomioka, H. Juzoji, T. Kitano, L. Androuchko
{"title":"A method for applying a Ku-band device to the S-band","authors":"I. Nakajima, Y. Tomioka, H. Juzoji, T. Kitano, L. Androuchko","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556566","url":null,"abstract":"Most devices recently used in communications satellite Low Noise Amplifiers (LNA) have been designed and manufactured for use at 12 GHz (Noise Figure [NF] = 0.2 at 12 GHz), the frequency of broadcasting satellites (BS). Designed for use with the Ku-band, the internal wiring of the components is too thin for the S-band, and presents the prospect of large input impedance values. Generally, if we manufacture 2 GHz LNA for testing, NF will degrade at least 1 dB to NF = 1.2 (in the old notation method of NF, 2.2 dB). In this paper, we will report on an improved method for a wearable terminal with a low part count. With our methods, the LNA and the patch antenna, which we manufactured for the test, exhibited a confirmed improvement of 0.6 dB as a relative value, compared to power matching due to the S-parameter (including the stub circuit).","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133547106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Queirós, Nelson Pacheco da Rocha, S. Carvalho, J. Pavão
{"title":"Integrated care of the elderly and the continuous development and adaptation of information systems","authors":"A. Queirós, Nelson Pacheco da Rocha, S. Carvalho, J. Pavão","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556579","url":null,"abstract":"There is a need to overcome problems resulting from disconnected and fragmented healthcare and social assistance services when it comes to provide integrated care services for the elderly. The concept of integrated care services requires healthcare information services, such as Electronic Health Record, to be up and running not only in hospitals and other healthcare units, but also in social assistance institutions since they take on an important role in providing care for the elderly. This paper proposes a reference model that identifies the processes, procedures and concepts inherent to the functioning of social assistance institutions. This model coupled with an implementation architecture whose flexibility and modularity allows for the gradual development of applications and components reuse. This makes possible to introduce and adapt information services through the involvement of the care providers in a sector that traditionally has had difficulties to incorporate Information and Communication Technology.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115391669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feasibility trial of a novel mobile cardiac rehabilitation application","authors":"V. Gay, P. Leijdekkers, E. Barin","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556529","url":null,"abstract":"A trial with a cardiac rehabilitation centre is in progress where we test a novel cardiac rehab application using a standard mobile phone and wireless sensors. The goal is to obtain insight how remote monitoring compares to conventional rehabilitation methods in terms of adherence to cardiac rehabilitation programmes. In this trial we seek feedback from patients and health professionals regarding usability and practicability of the software and hardware used and we investigate whether the use of the novel mobile rehabilitation application provides clinically meaningful reassurance to patients during their cardiac rehabilitation. The trial also investigates whether physical and psychological measures improve using the system. This paper describes the mobile cardiac rehabilitation application as well as the setup of the trial.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116461126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}