Population ageing is already having an impact on societies. This study briefly reviews associated technologies employed within the framework of elderly care, namely: robotic nursing, ambient assisted living and assistive ...

Advances in video compression, network technologies, and computer technologies have contributed to the rapid growth of mobile health (m-health) systems and services. Wide deployment of such systems and services is expected ...

Non-invasive ultrasound imaging of carotid plaques can provide information on the characteristics of the arterial wall including the size, morphology and texture of the atherosclerotic plaques. Several studies were carried ...

There is a growing need for developing fast and scalable methods for storing and processing large databases of healthcare images and videos. The paper reviews current medical image analysis techniques and the recent ...

Precision medicine promises better healthcare delivery by improving clinical practice. Using evidence-based substratification of patients, the objective is to achieve better prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment that will ...

The wider adoption of mobile Health (mHealth) video communication systems in standard clinical practice requires real-time control to provide for adequate levels of clinical video quality to support reliable diagnosis. The ...

In this paper we define diagnostic Regions of Interest (ROIs) for carotid ultrasound medical video, which we then use as input for Flexible Macroblock Ordering (FMO) slice encoding. We extend the FMO concept by enabling ...

The wireless transmission of medical video is expected to see significant growth in the coming years. This is primarily due to the expected availability of significant bandwidth in the next-generation of wireless communications ...

For wireless medical video communications, the emerging high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard and network standards support low-delay and high-resolution video transmission, at the clinically acquired resolution and ...