Foreword
Over the past couple of decades, advancements in information and communication technologies have brought medical services to virtually all corners of the world. For example, a surgeon can now carry out a surgical operation outside the operating theatre, and a physiotherapist can monitor the progress of post-surgical rehabilitation without visiting the patient. Technologies do not only assist medical practitioners and patients receiving treatment, they also benefit perfectly healthy people by providing a wide range of general health assessments. This can help maintain optimum health and identify abnormalities as early as possible via prognostics and health management techniques.
Written by three experts in the areas of telemedicine, multimedia and knowledge management, this book comprehensively covers aspects of telemedicine applications from emergency rescue to treatment and health monitoring and advanced disease detection. The text provides readers with fundamental knowledge in data communications without extensive mathematics, followed by a number of application areas.
This book is primarily intended for readers ranging from medical professionals to final year undergraduate and first year graduate students in biomedical engineering or related disciplines. One of the book’s main objectives is to help medical practitioners acquire fundamental knowledge in the technology behind the systems that help them with their work, and to serve as a reference for people who design ...
