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Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare

Proceedings of 8th KES-InMed 2020

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2020

Overview

  • Discusses modern intelligent systems for addressing problems faced by healthcare and medical practitioners
  • Presents new research in innovative medicine and health care
  • Serves as an excellent reference resource for researchers

Part of the book series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (SIST, volume 192)

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Table of contents (20 papers)

  1. Biomedical Engineering, Trends, Research, and Technologies

  2. Advanced ICT for Medicine and Healthcare

  3. Statistical Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence

  4. Support System for Medicine and Healthcare

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About this book

This book presents the proceedings of the KES International Conferences on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare (KES-InMed-19), held in Split, Croatia, on June 17–19, 2020. Covering a number of key areas, including digital IT architecture in healthcare; advanced ICT for medicine and healthcare; biomedical engineering, trends, research and technologies; and healthcare support systems, this book is a valuable resource for researchers, managers, industrialists and anyone wishing to gain an overview of the latest research in these fields. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusuatsu, Japan

    Yen-Wei Chen

  • College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan

    Satoshi Tanaka

  • Bournemouth University, Poole, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  • Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

About the editors

Yen-Wei Chen received his Ph.D. degree from Osaka University, Japan, in 1990. He is currently a Professor at the College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. He is also a Visiting Professor at the College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, China. His research interests include medical image analysis and pattern recognition.

Satoshi Tanaka received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at Waseda University, Japan, in 1987. After serving as an Assistant Professor, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at Waseda and Fukui Universities, he became a Professor at Ritsumeikan University in 2002. His current research focuses on computer visualization of complex 3D shapes such as 3D scanned cultural heritage objects, internal structures of the human body, and fluid simulations.

Robert Howlett is the Executive Chair of KES International, a non-profit organization that facilitates knowledge transfer and the dissemination of research findings in areas such as intelligent systems, sustainability and knowledge transfer. He is a Visiting Professor at Bournemouth University in the UK. His has technical expertise in the use of intelligent systems to solve industrial problems, and his current research focuses on the use of smart microgrids to reduce energy costs and lower carbon emissions in areas such as housing and protected horticulture.

Lakhmi C. Jain, Ph.D., M.E., B.E. (Hons), Fellow of Engineers Australia, works for the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and Liverpool Hope University, UK. He also serves at KES International, providing the professional community with opportunities for knowledge exchange, cooperation and teaming. Involving around 5,000 researchers drawn from universities and companies worldwide, KES facilitates international cooperation and generates synergy in teaching and research.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of 8th KES-InMed 2020

  • Editors: Yen-Wei Chen, Satoshi Tanaka, Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain

  • Series Title: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5852-8

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Intelligent Technologies and Robotics, Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5851-1Published: 11 June 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5854-2Published: 11 June 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-5852-8Published: 10 June 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2190-3018

  • Series E-ISSN: 2190-3026

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 222

  • Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 95 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Computational Intelligence, Health Informatics, Artificial Intelligence

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