Health Monitoring and Personalized Feedback using Multimedia Data
This book presents how multimedia data analysis, information retrieval and indexing are central for comprehensive, personalized, adaptive quality care and the prolongation of independent living at home. With sophisticated technologies in monitoring, diagn
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Health Monitoring and Personalized Feedback using Multimedia Data
Alexia Briassouli • Jenny Benois-Pineau Alexander Hauptmann Editors
Health Monitoring and Personalized Feedback using Multimedia Data
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Editors Alexia Briassouli Centre for Research and Technology, Hellas Information Technologies Institute Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece
Jenny Benois-Pineau Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique/University Bordeaux Talence, France
Alexander Hauptmann Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-17962-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-17963-6
ISBN 978-3-319-17963-6 (eBook)
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Preface
As the world population ages and the care ratio (ratio of healthy young citizens to elderly citizens) is in decline, monitoring and care of individuals with continuous recording of medical information in electronic form, remotely or during in-site medical visits, is becoming more and more incorporated in daily life. Multimodal technologies are constantly being developed to assist people in their daily life, with a vast range of wearable sensors now available for monitoring health parameters (e.g., blood pressure, sweat, body temperature, heart rate, etc.), lifestyle (e.g., monitoring utility use, levels of activity, sleep quantity and quality, etc.), and a person’s ability to carry out activities of daily living. At the same time, health professionals have integrated new technologies into their workflow, for example by using various types of medical imagery to facilitate and support their clinical practice and diagnosis, and also by examining data f
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