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Intelligent eHealth monitoring

Special Session Call for papers

Rapid advances in wireless communications and networking technologies, linked with advances in computing and medical technologies facilitate the development and offering of systems and services for emergency health care support independent form the time or place where an emergency event takes place. The main topics of this session are for systems that can be used for monitoring of a patient during an emergency event. The systems could be used for several types of emergency events like Cardiovascular problems (e.g. heart attacks, strokes), or major trauma cases (e.g serious injuries of the head or the spinal cord).

• Ambulance Emergency Health Care Support
• Rural health centres Support
• Systems supporting patients in the sea or on the air
• Systems monitoring patients at home during an emergency event

Chairs

Constantinos Pattichis

Professor - Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Short Bio

He was born in Cyprus on Jan 30, 1959 and received his diploma as technician engineer from the Higher Technical Institute in Cyprus in 1979, the BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, in 1983, the MSc in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, in 1984, the MSc in Neurology from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, in 1991, and the PhD in Electronic Engineering from the University of London, UK, in 1992. His current research interests include ehealth, medical imaging, biosignal analysis, and intelligent systems. He has been involved in numerous projects related to health telematics funded by EU, the National Research Foundation of Cyprus, the INTERREG and other bodies, with a total funding managed close to 5 million Euros. He has published 47 refereed journal and 110 conference papers, and 18 chapters in books in these areas. He is Co-Editor of the books M-Health: Emerging Mobile Health Systems, published in 2006 by Springer and of the Information Technology in Biomedicine, to be published in 2008 by IEEE. He is Guest Co-Editor of the forthcoming Special Issues on Emerging Technologies in Biomedicine, and Computational Intelligence in Medical Systems of the IEEE Trans. on Information Technology in Biomedicine. He was Program Co-Chair of the IEEEInformation Technology in Biomedicine, ITAB06, and he was the Co-Chair of ITAB09 and Technical program Co-Chair of ISCCSP 2010 in Cyprus. Moreover, he served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Information Technology in Biomedicine (2000-2007) and the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks (2005-2007). He served as Chairperson of the Cyprus Association of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (96-98), and the IEEE Cyprus Section (98-00). He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Frederick University, Cyprus

Short Bio

Undergraduate and Graduate studies at the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) Greece (Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering 1996, Ph.D. 2000). During the period 1996 to 2008 he was involved in a number of collaborations in both Greece and Cyprus. Research postgraduate student at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, NTUA (Feb. 1996-June 2000), working in the area of telemedicine, medical imaging and medical informatics. The Athens Medical Center Group in Athens Greece, working in the fields of telemedicine and medical databases (Sept. 2000-Oct. 2001). Visiting lecturer at the Dep. of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus (Sept.2002-Dec. 2006). Postdoctoral researcher at the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, working in the fields of medical image processing and medical informatics (Dec. 2001-Aug. 2006). Assistant Professor at Frederick institute of Technology (Jan. 2007-Sept. 2008). Since September 2008 he holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Frederick University. He is a research collaborator with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus. He has published several journal and conference papers in the fields of telemedicine, medical imaging and medical informatics. His research interests focus on Telematics, image processing, neural networks and their applications in medicine.

Assistant Professor, University of Western Macedonia, Greece

Short Bio

Dr. Pantelis A. Angelidis received his diploma in Electrical Engineering and his Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering from the School of Electrical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1989 and 1993 respectively. He is currently with the University of Western Macedonia, Greece, Ass. Prof. on eHealth and a visiting scholar of MIT Media Lab. He has worked as a technology expert in the areas of Telecommunications and eHealth for the past 20 years. He has served as a project manager in over twenty international eHealth projects. He has presented more than 50 papers in international scientific conferences and has published more than 20 original articles in international research journals. He is the author of six monographs and five book chapters. He is also a co-editor of a book on wireless networks. He serves as an evaluator of ICT projects for the European Commission in the areas of eHealth and eInclusion. He is the leader of the CEN eEHIC PT, a member of the EC M/403 eHealth-INTEROP PT and treasurer of HL7 Hellas. Dr. Angelidis is the founder and president of VIDAVO, a health telematics company in Greece, the founder of Mobihealth, a technology research company in Cyprus and the President of South Eastern Europe Telecommunications and Informatics Research Institute (INA).

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