Handbook of Medical and Healthcare Technologies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Medical Technologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Mobile Medical and Healthcare Applications

      • Ankur Agarwal, Borko Furht, Mamata Yenagi

      Pages 3-15

   3. Medical Information Retrieval Enhanced with User’s Query Expanded with Tag-Neighbors

      • Frederico Durao, Karunakar Bayyapu, Guandong Xu, Peter Dolog, Ricardo Lage

      Pages 17-40

   4. Medical Technology Breakthroughs in Tissue Engineering

      • Mirjana Pavlovic, John Mayfield, Bela Balint

      Pages 41-78

   5. Innovations in 3D Interventional X-ray Imaging

      • Svitlana Zinger, Daniel Ruijters, Rudolph M. Snoeren, Chrysi Papalazarou, Peter H. N. de With

      Pages 79-119

   6. Automated Classification of Echo-Cardiography Images Using Texture Analysis Methods

      • Jyotismita Chaki, Ranjan Parekh

      Pages 121-143

   7. Innovative Soft Computing Methodologies for Evaluating Risk Factors of Atherosclerosis

      • M. Naresh Kumar, V. Sree Hari Rao

      Pages 145-180

   8. Nanotechnology and Its Application in Medicine

      • Mirjana Pavlovic, John Mayfield, Bela Balint

      Pages 181-205

   9. Anomaly Detection Scheme for Medical Wireless Sensor Networks

      • Osman Salem, Alexey Guerassimov, Ahmed Mehaoua, Anthony Marcus, Borko Furht

      Pages 207-222

   10. Predicting the Outcome of Antihypertensive Therapy Using Knowledge Mining

       • Srdjan Sladojevic, Miroslava Sladojevic, Katica Pavlovic, Nada Cemerlic-Adjic, Dubravko Culibrk

       Pages 223-244

   11. Cloud Computing Approach to Novel Medical Interface Design

       • Maya Dimitrova, Lubomir Lahtchev, Siya Lozanova, Chavdar Roumenin

       Pages 245-265

   12. Tissue Engineering Triangle and its Development

       • Mirjana Pavlovic, John Mayfield, Bela Balint

       Pages 267-282

3. Healthcare Technologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 283-283

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   2. Brief Overview of Various Healthcare Tools, Methods, Framework and Standards

      • Timothy Cyr, Ankur Agarwal, Borko Furht

      Pages 285-295

   3. Predicting Hospital Readmission Risk for COPD Using EHR Information

      • Ravi Behara, Ankur Agarwal, Faiz Fatteh, Borko Furht

      Pages 297-308

   4. Modeling Personalized and Context-Aware Multimedia e-Health Framework

      • Md. Abdur Rahman, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

      Pages 309-335

   5. Personal Web in Healthcare

      • Aniket Bochare, Kristen Brady, Kristianne Oristian, Omar El-Ghazawi, Yelena Yesha, Yaacov Yesha

      Pages 337-353

   6. Secure Mobile Framework for Monitoring Medical Sensor Data

      • Ankur Agarwal, Borko Furht, Mark Conatser, Chris Baechle

      Pages 355-369

   7. Virtual Doctor: A WBAN Based Architecture for Healthcare Service

      • Deena M. Barakah, Muhammad Ammad-uddin

      Pages 371-399

This book equips readers to understand a complex range of healthcare products that are used to diagnose, monitor, and treat diseases or medical conditions affecting humans. The first part of the book presents medical technologies such as medical information retrieval, tissue engineering techniques, 3D medical imaging, nanotechnology innovations in medicine, medical wireless sensor networks, and knowledge mining techniques in medicine. The second half of the book focuses on healthcare technologies including prediction hospital readmission risk, modeling e-health framework, personal Web in healthcare, security issues for medical records, and personalized services in healthcare. The contributors are leading world researchers who share their innovations, making this handbook the definitive resource on these topics. Handbook of Medical and Healthcare Technologies is intended for a wide audience including academicians, designers, developers, researchers and advanced-level students. It is also valuable for business managers, entrepreneurs, and investors within the medical and healthcare industries.  

• Electronic Medical Records
• Health Informatics
• Health Record Systems Integration
• Knowledge Mining
• Medical Imaging
• Medical Information Retrieval
• Medical Interface Design
• Medical Technology Breakthroughs
• Medical Wireless Sensor Networks
• Mobile Medical Systems and Applications
• Nanotechnology and Applications
• Personalized Medicine
• Soft Computing Methodologies
• Tissue Engineering
• Virtual Doctors
• Wearable and Implantable Technologies

• Florida Atlantic University Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Boca Raton, USA

  Borko Furht

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA

  Ankur Agarwal

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