The first is of interest to various context-aware healthcare applications and is applicable across all continuous care domains, e.g., hospitals, home care environments and residential care settings.
Namely, the healthcare system can be seen as a cyber physical system (CPS) for patient-centric healthcare applications and services, called Health-CPS, based on cloud computing, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) and big data analytics technologies.
Dr. Yoo's areas of expertise include advanced low energy circuit technology for wearable bio signal sensors, SoC design to system realization for wearable healthcare applications and energy-efficient circuit techniques and its chip implementation.
Consisting of various components and devices, ranging from sensors and actuators to multimedia devices, these systems support complex healthcare applications and enable low-cost wearable, non-invasive alternatives for continuous 24-h monitoring of health, activity, mobility, and mental status, both indoors and outdoors.
In the next section, we present our cloud hospital architecture designed to mobile healthcare applications and we introduce the implementation details, the evaluation and discussion.
Context-aware applications are an emerging category of intelligent applications that offer personalized services by adapting their behavior according to the users' needs and changing situation (e.g. personalized healthcare applications and smart shopping applications).
This work also evaluates the impact of the synergies between the 2.5G and 3G systems and beyond for healthcare applications and explores the augmentation of these technologies for the next generation of m-health services.
Due to recent technological development, the amount of data generated by internet, social networking sites, sensor networks, healthcare applications, and many other companies, is drastically increasing day by day.
The goal of this special issue is to provide most up-to-date and recent advances of signal/image processing techniques in system and network design of healthcare applications and to serve as a forum and venue for researchers in both academia and industries working in this fascinating and emerging area who share their experiences and findings with the readers.
Hospitals should encourage healthcare professionals to use smartphone-based healthcare applications, and financially support them to keep the applications up-to-date with regular update.
