Advanced Infrastructures for Future Healthcare

by Marsh, Andy

• ISBN13: 9781586030957
• ISBN10: 1586030957
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: IOS PRESS INC

Summary

Healthcare is a major candidate for improvement in any vision of the kinds of "information highways" and "information societies" that are now being visualised. The (interactive) communication between healthcare providers and their patients or other healthcare providers regardless of geographic distance, namely telemedicine, will become of central importance. The objective of any advanced infrastructure that can be imagined for future healthcare must be to provide a global uniform level of healthcare. To facilitate the possibilities for any international collaboration standardised approaches must be adopted. This book has been mainly written for specialists, practitioners, scientists and managers in the new growing area of health information technologies. It is particularly relevant for those people - a large increasing number - who bridge and integrate knowledges in medicine (basic and clinical) and advanced technologies such as IT. The intended audience is broad and interdisciplinary; biomedical engineers, medical practitioners interested in the advanced IT infrastructures applied to medicine, computer scientists, academic professionals and graduate students, health care managers, standardization bodies, industrial engineers: designers and planners of innovative health care technologies, specialists in telemedicine, internet computing, computer graphics applications.

Table of Contents

Preface
Advanced Medical Information Society	p. 1
The 21st Century Telemedical Information Society	p. 3
Elements of Success in Telemedicine Programs: Advice from Telemedicine Leaders	p. 6
Real Applications of Patient-Related Telemedical Services	p. 20
Telemedicine: Medicine + Telecommunications	p. 38
Polish Reality and Prospects in the Context of Telematic Applications	p. 48
Internet and Medical Service Chains	p. 57
A Framework for the Security of Telemedical Services	p. 67
Virtual Medical Worlds - The Foundation for a Telemedical Information Society	p. 87
Establishing a Pilot ITIS - International Telemedical Information Society	p. 128
ITIS'98 - Seeds for the New Telemedical Information Society	p. 157
Compunetics	p. 185
High Performance Distributed Computing: An Introduction	p. 187
Making Large-scale Telemedicine Work: A Computational Infrastructure for Telemedicine	p. 195
Ultrasonic Diffraction Tomography - An Application Connecting High Performance Computing Centers with Clinical Environment	p. 214
High Performance Computing and Networking in Medical Imaging Applications	p. 244
Tumor Growth Simulation and Visualization: a Review and a Web-based Paradigm	p. 255
Simulation and Visualisation in Medical Diagnosis: Perspectives and Computational Requirements	p. 275
Telemedical Informatics	p. 283
Teaching and Learning with Virtual Reality	p. 285
Nursing Education for the Telemedical Society	p. 292
The Integration of Virtual Reality into a Web-based Telemedical Information Society	p. 305
Electronic Biomedical Library Image Service for Europe - Phase II ELISE II	p. 326
Intelligent Medical Systems	p. 332
Telecollaboration on EEG Data Analysis: a Pilot Experience in Italy	p. 343
Computer Aided Medical Diagnosis as a Knowledge Discovery Application	p. 358
Medical Imaging Technologies	p. 367
Medical Image Compression	p. 369
Wavelet Based Image Compression for Telemedicine	p. 407
Applications of Fractal Theory on Medical Data Processing	p. 425
Novel Surface Reconstruction Techniques for Visualization of Medical Data	p. 442
Automatic Medical Image Registration Schemes using Global Optimization Techniques	p. 463
Wavelet Medical Signal Processing	p. 492
Multiresolutional Distributed Filtering: A Novel Technique that Reduces the Amount of Data Required in High Resolution Electrocardiography	p. 519
Arterial Motion Estimation from Sequences of Images	p. 536
Author Index	p. 550
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