Main description:

Advances in telemedicine technologies have offered clinicians greater levels of real-time guidance and technical assistance for diagnoses, monitoring, operations or interventions from colleagues based in remote locations. The topic includes the use of videoconferencing, mentorship during surgical procedures, or machine-to-machine communication to process data from one location by programmes running in another.

This edited book presents a variety of technologies with applications in telemedicine, originating from the fields of biomedical sensors, wireless sensor networking, computer-aided diagnosis methods, signal and image processing and analysis, automation and control, virtual and augmented reality, multivariate analysis, and data acquisition devices. The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), surgical robots, telemonitoring, and teleoperation systems are also explored, as well as the associated security and privacy concerns in this field.

Topics covered include critical factors in the development, implementation and evaluation of telemedicine; surgical tele-mentoring; technologies in medical information processing; recent advances of signal/image processing techniques in healthcare; a real-time ECG processing platform for telemedicine applications; data mining in telemedicine; social work and tele-mental health services for rural and remote communities; applying telemedicine to social work practice and education; advanced telemedicine systems for remote healthcare monitoring; the impact of tone-mapping operators and viewing devices on visual quality of experience of colour and grey-scale HDR images; modelling the relationships between changes in EEG features and subjective quality of HDR images; IoMT and healthcare delivery in chronic diseases; and transform domain robust watermarking method using Riesz wavelet transform for medical data security and privacy.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Critical factors in the development, implementation and evaluation of telemedicine
Chapter 2: Surgical tele-mentoring
Chapter 3: Technologies in medical information processing
Chapter 4: A comparative note on recent advances of signal/image processing techniques in healthcare
Chapter 5: A real-time ECG-processing platform for telemedicine applications
Chapter 6: Data mining in telemedicine
Chapter 7: Social work and tele-mental health services for rural and remote communities
Chapter 8: Technology-enhanced social work practice and education
Chapter 9: Advanced telemedicine system for remote healthcare monitoring
Chapter 10: Impact of tone-mapping operators and viewing devices on visual quality of experience of colour and grey-scale HDR images
Chapter 11: Modeling the relationships between changes in EEG features and subjective quality of HDR images
Chapter 12: IoMT and healthcare delivery in chronic diseases
Chapter 13: Transform domain robust watermarking method using Riesz wavelet transform for medical data security and privacy
Chapter 14: Conclusion