Special Session

MHEALTH MEDICAL VIDEO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS: THE PROMISE THAT LIES AHEAD

First Proposer – Dr. A. S. Panayides
University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Biographical Sketch
A. S. Panayides (EMBS Member, IEEE Member) is with the Electronic Health (eHealth) Laboratory of the University of Cy-prus. He is also a Visiting Research Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico (Image and Video Processing and Communications group) and an Honorary Research Associate at Imperial College, where he was a Marie Curie Fellow with the Communications and Signal Processing group. His research interests lie in adaptive wireless video delivery, mHealth and eHealth systems, and pervasive computing for healthcare applications. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, and book chapters, in these areas. Dr. Panayides participated in national and international research projects, funded by the European Commission, the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus, and recently the National Science Foundation (USA).

Second Proposer – Dr. N. Philip
Kingston University, United Kingdom

Biographical Sketch
N. Philip (EMBS Member, IEEE Member) is the leader of Digital Media for Health Research Group and a senior lecturer at Kingston University. Dr Nada Philip obtained her PhD in mhealth with thesis title “Medical QoS for Optimised Ultrasound Streaming in Wireless Robotic Tele-ultrasonography System” from Kingston University in 2008. Since then she has estab-lished world class research with over 50 publications and many research grants (e.g. FP7-WELCOME and H2020-AEGLE) in the areas of medical video streaming over 4G and beyond, medical QoS/QoE, and innovations in mobile chronic disease management and Big Data Analytics.

Theme
Healthcare Information Systems & Telemedicine

Keywords
mHealth Medical Video Communication Systems, Encoding, Video Quality Assessment, Security, Video Analytics, Quality of service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE)

Abstract
The wider adoption of wireless medical video communication mHealth systems in standard clinical practice re-lies on the development of effective methods that can match the quality of in-hospital examinations. Integration of current and emerging wireless networks and compression technologies, respectively, are expected to facilitate video communica-tions with the low-delay and quality requirements for emergency telemedicine, while developing the appropriate mecha-nisms that will guarantee the clinical quality of the communicated video. The special session will cover recent advances in associate disciplines of video compression (HEVC), wireless networks (towards 5G), medical QoS and QoE, and clinical video quality assessment. Moreover, it will address significant security and privacy challenges that stem from wireless transmis-sion of sensitive clinical data, with a particular emphasis on established standards, such as DICOM. The special session will also cover recent trends in video analytics for healthcare applications, and discuss how the use of telerobotics can facilitate remote diagnosis and care in an mHealth setting.

I. Maglogiannis
University of Piraeus, Greece

Title of the presentation
Video analytics for activity recognition in indoor environments

Biographical sketch
Dr. Maglogiannis (M’00, SM’11) has been principal investigator in many European (i.e. FP7: e-LICO, INHOME, FP6: UNITE, NOMAD, TELEMED, FP5: MOMEDA, INTRACLINIC) and National Research programs in Biomedical Engineering and Informat-ics, while he has also served as external evaluator in R&D projects for the EU, the Government of Hong Kong, and other European Countries. His scientific interests include Biomedical Informatics, Image Processing and Computer Vision and Per-vasive Healthcare Systems. His published scientific work includes five (5) books, 80 journal papers and more than 150 in-ternational conference papers, while has received more than 2000 citations on his published work.

A. Alesanco
University of Zaragoza, Spain

Title of the presentation
Signal-based information protection for DICOM ultrasound videos

Biographical sketch
Dr. A. Alesanco is currently Assistant Professor of communication networks in the University of Zaragoza (Spain), and dep-uty director of the eHealthZ research group. His current research interests include signal coding and transmission in wire-less e-health environments, security and network management. He has undergone different research stages working on telemedicine in Australia and the U.K. He has been involved in several research national funded projects in the eHealth field, and published more than 70 publications in forms of SCI-JCR indexed journals, conferences and workshop contribu-tions. He has supervised more than 40 Master Thesis and 4 PhD Thesis.

N. Philip
Kingston University, United Kingdom

Title of the presentation
Towards 5G Health for Medical Video Streaming over Small Cells

Biographical sketch
N. Philip (EMBS Member, IEEE Member) is the leader of Digital Media for Health Research Group and a senior lecturer at Kingston University. Dr Nada Philip obtained her PhD in mhealth with thesis title “Medical QoS for Optimised Ultrasound Streaming in Wireless Robotic Tele-ultrasonography System” from Kingston University in 2008. Since then she has estab-lished world class research with over 50 publications and many research grants (e.g. FP7-WELCOME and H2020-AEGLE) in the areas of medical video streaming over 4G and beyond, medical QoS/QoE, and innovations in mobile chronic disease management and Big Data Analytics.

S. Avgousti
Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

Title of the presentation
Cardiac Ultrasonography over 4G-LTE Wireless Networks using a Tele-operated Robot: A Cyprus Case-study

Biographical sketch
Sotiris Avgousti is Instructor at the Nursing Department of the School of Health Sciences. He is a graduate of the Higher Technical Institute, Department of Electrical Engineering and holds a Master in Data Communications and Computer Net-works from Brunel University, UK. He worked for a number of years in the private sector in the field of informatics and for ten years as electrical/electronics engineering instructor at the Higher Technical Institute. He specializes in the field of computer networks and data communications. He is a PhD candidate at the PRISME Laboratory of the University of Orleans and his research interests focus on the field of Tele-Medicine and medical data communications.

A. S. Panayides
University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Title of the presentation
Dynamically reconfigurable software for adaptive mHealth video delivery systems

Biographical sketch
A. S. Panayides (EMBS Member, IEEE Member) is with the Electronic Health (eHealth) Laboratory of the University of Cy-prus. He is also a Visiting Research Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico (Image and Video Processing and Communications group) and an Honorary Research Associate at Imperial College, where he was a Marie Curie Fellow with the Communications and Signal Processing group. His research interests lie in adaptive wireless video delivery, mHealth and eHealth systems, and pervasive computing for healthcare applications. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, and book chapters, in these areas. Dr. Panayides participated in national and international research projects, funded by the European Commission, the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus, and recently the National Science Foundation (USA).

Paper Submission
The submissions should contain original, high quality, not submitted or published elsewhere work. Papers should be submitted electronically (through Medicon 2016 web site) in PDF format and should conform to IFMBE Proceedings template (single-spaced, double-column, 10-point font size, 4 to 6 pages).

Paper Presentation
Each accepted paper should be presented by one of the authors and accompanied by at least one full registration fee payment, to guarantee publication in the proceedings. One full registration fee can cover up to 2 papers only. All accepted papers will be included in the IFMBE proceedings of Medicon 2016 that will be published by Springer.

Academic Inquiries
Prof. Constantinos S. Pattichis - pattichi@ucy.ac.cy
I. Chrysanthou, Cyprus (Workshops & Special Sessions) - isabelle.chrysanthou@gmail.com