Multimedia-based healthcare

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Jane You

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

: J Comput Eng Inf Technol

Abstract

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The rapid advances in electronic devices, digital imaging, information technology, computer systems and networks in recent years have stimulated the explosive growth of multimedia computing with diverse applications to different areas including medical service and healthcare. Equipped with various multimedia tools, techniques and services, computerized healthcare is emerging as an ever-increasing important multidisciplinary area which offers tremendous opportunities and excellent facilities to doctors, healthcare professionals and other eligible users to enhance performance by fully utilizing the rich health related multimedia data for effective decision making. Although the current achievements are exciting and the results can be powerful, it remains a challenging task to manage diversity of health related multimedia data on an open heterogeneous landscape (multi-modality, big volume, mobility, time series) efficiently, accurately, reliably and cost-effectively. This talk presents a general multimedia-based framework to tackle the crucial issues on personalized healthcare. The new medical record e-book structure is proposed to facilitate flexible management of high-dimensional medical data on an open heterogeneous landscape. More specifically, our approach is revolved around three key aspects: Multimedia-based medical data management in the context of multi-modality, big volume, mobility and time series; feature selection and fusion of high-dimensional medical data analysis and evaluation with quantitative measurement and; classification and decision support scheme for convenient, reliable, efficient and cost effective medical services. A prototype of smart mobile healthcare is developed to demonstrate the feasibility and potentials of the new solution which bridges the gap between data management, medical applications and multimedia computing in a robust environment.

Biography

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Email: csyjia@comp.polyu.edu.hk