Title :
Context-Aware Medical Content Adaptation through Semantic Representation and Rules Evaluation
Author :
Doukas, Charalampos ; Maglogiannis, Ilias ; Karpouzis, Kostas
Author_Institution :
Dept. Of Inf. & Commun. Syst. Eng., Univ. of the Aegean, Greece
Abstract :
Proper coding and transmission of medical and physiological data is a crucial issue for the effective deployment and performance of telemedicine services. The paper presents a platform for performing proper medical content adaptation based on context awareness. Sensors are used in order to determine the status of a patient being monitored through a medical network. Additional contextual information regarding the patient¿s environment (e.g., location, data transmission device and underlying network conditions, etc.) are represented through an ontological knowledge base model. Rule-based evaluation determines proper content (i.e., biosignals, medical video and audio) coding and transmission of medical data, in order to optimize the telemedicine process. The paper discusses the design of the ontological model and provides an initial assessment.
Keywords :
image sensors; knowledge based systems; medical image processing; ontologies (artificial intelligence); patient diagnosis; patient monitoring; patient treatment; telemedicine; video coding; context-aware medical content adaptation; medical data coding; medical data transmission device; medical network; ontological knowledge base model; patient diagnosis; patient monitoring; patient status; patient treatment process; rule-based evaluation; semantic representation; sensor data; telemedicine service; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical monitoring; Context awareness; Data communication; Data engineering; Image coding; Ontologies; Patient monitoring; Telemedicine;
Conference_Titel :
Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization, 2008. SMAP '08. Third International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Prague
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3444-2
DOI :
10.1109/SMAP.2008.37
