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Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2015

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Yen-Wei Chen

    1. Ritsumeikan University, College of Info Sci & Engg, Kusatsu, Japan

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  2. Carlos Torro

    1. Mikeletegi Pasealekua 57, Vicomtech-IK4, Donostia San Sebastian, Spain

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  3. Satoshi Tanaka

    1. College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu-shi, Japan

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  4. Robert J. Howlett

    1. KES International, Shoreham-by-Sea, United Kingdom

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  5. Lakhmi C. Jain

    1. Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Mathematics, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia

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  • Presents how recent innovation, knowledge exchange and enterprise can be applied to issues relating to medicine, surgery, healthcare and the issues of an ageing population
  • Proceedings of the third International Conference Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2015 held 11-12 September 2015, in Kyoto, Japan
  • A central theme is Smart Medical and Healthcare Systems which featuring the ways in which modern intelligent systems contribute to the solution of problems faced by healthcare and medical practitioners today
  • Interesting for researchers, students, engineers, and professionals working in the medical systems, medical technology and intelligent systems fields
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (SIST, volume 45)

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Table of contents (54 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Emerging Research Leaders of Medical Informatics in KANSAI Area

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Prediction of Clinical Practices by Clinical Data of the Previous Day Using Linear Support Vector Machine

      • Takashi Nakai, Tadamasa Takemura, Risa Sakurai, Kenichiro Fujita, Kazuya Okamoto, Tomohiro Kuroda
      Pages 3-13

    3. Method for Detecting Drug-Induced Interstitial Pneumonia from Accumulated Medical Record Data at a Hospital

      • Yoshie Shimai, Toshihiro Takeda, Shirou Manabe, Kei Teramoto, Naoki Mihara, Yasushi Matsumura
      Pages 15-24

    4. Visualization and Quantitative Analysis of Nursing Staff Trajectories Based on a Location System

      • Kikue Sato, Tomohiro Kuroda, Akitoshi Seiyama
      Pages 25-35

    5. A Web-Based Stroke Education Application for Older Elementary Schoolchildren Focusing on the FAST Message

      • Shoko Tani, Hiroshi Narazaki, Yuta Ueda, Yuji Nakamura, Tenyu Hino, Satoshi Ohyama et al.
      Pages 37-48

  3. Biomedical Engineering, Trends, Research and Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. A Review of Mobile Apps for Improving Quality of Life of Asthmatic and People with Allergies

      • Miguel A. Mateo Pla, Lenin G. Lemus-Zúñiga, José-Miguel Montañana, Julio Pons, Arnulfo Alanis Garza
      Pages 51-64

    3. Physical Implementation of a Customisable System to Assist a User with Mobility Problems

      • Sandra López, Rosario Baltazar, Miguel Ángel Casillas, Víctor Zamudio, Juan Francisco Mosiño, Arnulfo Alanis et al.
      Pages 65-74

    4. Mobile Applications in Health, Competitive Advantage in the State of Baja California Mexico

      • Nora del Carmen Osuna Millán, Margarita Ramírez Ramírez, María del Consuelo Salgado Soto, Bogart Yali Márquez Lobato, Arnulfo Alanís Garza
      Pages 75-84

    5. Mental Activation of Seniors Incorporating ICT in Their Daily Lives

      • Maricela Sevilla Caro, María del Consuelo Salgado Soto, Margarita Ramírez Ramírez, Esperanza Manrique Rojas, Hilda Beatriz Ramírez Moreno, Lenin G Lemus Zúñiga
      Pages 85-92

    6. Quality of Life and Active Aging Through Educational Gerontology in Information Technology and Communication

      • Esperanza Manrique Rojas, Hilda Beatriz Ramírez Moreno, Margarita Ramírez Ramirez, Nora del Carmen Osuna Millan, Arnulfo Alanís Garza, José Sergio Magdaleno Palencia
      Pages 93-101

    7. Simulation of Cervical Cord Compression Using Finite Element Method (FEM)

      • Nur Fadhlina Binti Shaari, Junji Ohgi, Norihiro Nishida, Xian Chen, Itsuo Sakuramoto, Toshihiko Taguchi
      Pages 103-112

  4. Management for Healthcare

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. A Study of Older People’s Socializing Form with Others: Comparative Analysis of “Living Alone” and “Living with a Spouse” Using Quantification Theory Type II

      • Takayuki Kawaura, Yasuyuki Sugatani
      Pages 115-126

    3. Analysis of Japanese Health using Fuzzy Principal Component Analysis

      • Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi, Takayuki Kawaura
      Pages 127-138

    4. Analysis of Time-Series Data Using the Rough Set

      • Yoshiyuki Matsumoto, Junzo Watada
      Pages 139-148

    5. Study on Multi-Period Transportation Problem Considering Opportunity Loss and Inventory

      • Shinichiro Ataka, Hisayoshi Horioka
      Pages 149-159

    6. Diagnosis of ECG Data for Detecting Cardiac Disorder Using DP-Matching and Artificial Neural Network

      • Mohamad Sabri bin Sinal, Eiji Kamioka
      Pages 161-171

    7. Smart Technology for a Smarter Patient: Sketching the Patient 2.0 Profile

      • Luca Buccoliero, Elena Bellio, Maria Mazzola, Elisa Solinas
      Pages 173-182
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About this book

Innovation in medicine and healthcare is an interdisciplinary research area, which combines the advanced technologies and problem solving skills with medical and biological science. A central theme of this proceedings is Smart Medical and Healthcare Systems (modern intelligent systems for medicine and healthcare), which can provide efficient and accurate solution to problems faced by healthcare and medical practitioners today by using advanced information communication techniques, computational intelligence, mathematics, robotics and other advanced technologies. The techniques developed in this area will have a significant effect on future medicine and healthcare.

   The volume includes 53 papers, which present the recent trend and innovations in medicine and healthcare including Medical Informatics; Biomedical Engineering; Management for Healthcare; Advanced ICT for Medical and Healthcare; Simulation and Visualization/VR for Medicine; Statistical Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence; Smart Medical and Healthcare System and Healthcare Support System.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ritsumeikan University, College of Info Sci & Engg, Kusatsu, Japan

    Yen-Wei Chen

  • Mikeletegi Pasealekua 57, Vicomtech-IK4, Donostia San Sebastian, Spain

    Carlos Torro

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

    Satoshi Tanaka

  • KES International, Shoreham-by-Sea, United Kingdom

    Robert J. Howlett

  • Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Mathematics, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2015

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

  • Series Title: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23024-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-23023-8Published: 20 August 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37311-9Published: 01 November 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23024-5Published: 31 August 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2190-3018

  • Series E-ISSN: 2190-3026

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 593

  • Number of Illustrations: 245 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Computational Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Public Health

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