Recently, as smart devices are equipped with various kinds of sensors and wireless network interface, many studies in the field of U-healthcare service have been in progress to provide smart device based medical applications to patients or healthcare ...

With the help of the Internet, data is often shared between organizations in Business-to-Business healthcare networks. In many applications, users' personal profiles may contain sensitive information that they do not want to make public. The existing ...

The LOD cloud comprises of billions of facts covering hundreds of datasets. In accordance with the Linked Data principles, these datasets are connected by a variety of typed links, forming an interlinked "Web of Data". The growing diversity of the Web ...

Nowadays, new challenges are presenting new opportunities for healthcare services in the Internet. The increasing availability of connected Personal Health Devices (PHDs) enables a new type of information to be available in the Internet: health ...

This paper presents a low cost solution for Digital Operating Rooms called MIR (Multimedia Integrated Room). MIR is capable of real time transmission and recording of endoscopic procedures using multiple HD cameras, integration with the hospital systems ...

In this paper, we present a bio-health monitoring system prototype specialized in capturing the Premature Ventricular Contraction (PVC) event, one of the major cardiac disorder events. The proposed bio-health system comprises three parts: (1) the ...

We propose an algorithm for clustering very large molecular graph databases according to scaffolds (i.e., large structural overlaps) that are common between cluster members. Our approach first partitions the original dataset into several smaller ...

The main objective of Emergency Medical Assistance services is to attend patients with sudden diseases at any possible location within an area of influence. Especially for severe emergency patients, the potential of such systems to reduce mortality is ...

Stroke commonly leads to partial or complete paralysis of one side of the body and there is limited availability of therapists to provide rehabilitation. It is a priority therefore to identify the most effective rehabilitation strategies and/or ...