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IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter
The IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter is a new initiative to bring forth interesting articles and informative interviews within the exciting field of life sciences every month.
By Christian Seeger and Kristof Van Laerhoven
An increasing variety of sensors has led to a vast increase in sensor-based telemedicine solutions and to an increase in system development effort. An event-driven middleware, which allows applications to define desired information types reduces these efforts. Incoming sensor …
By Prasanna Desikan, Ritu Khare, Jaideep Srivastava, Robert Kaplan, Joydeep Ghosh, Longjian Liu, Vipin Gopal
A workshop on Data Mining for Healthcare (DMH) was part of ICHI 2013.This report summarizes the discussions and recommendations of the workshop in general, and the workshop panel discussion in particular. …
By Christopher C. Yang, Rebecca Chiu, Simon Lin, and Akhil Kumar
At ICHI 2013, a panel of four experts discussed the challenges and opportunities of patient-centered research by harnessing social media. They presented examples illustrating how social media data can be mined to benefit both the …
By Christopher C. Yang
The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2013), held in Philadelphia, PA (USA) from September 8-11, brought together researchers and scientists from academia and industry as well as practitioners to discuss their research and practices. ICHI is concerned with the …
Dr. Aniruddha Datta has been working on a novel technique to optimize cancer therapy design, using tools from classical control therapy, as outlined in an article in last month’s Newsletter. In this interview, he tells us more about his work, and reactions to it …
This month we bring you four interesting articles from presenters at the recent 2013 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2013), held in Philadelphia, PA (USA). Also, we bring you an interview with Aniruddha Datta, who authored an article in last month’s Newsletter.
Kristof Van Laerhoven obtained his Ph.D. at Lancaster University (UK) and his M.Sc. degree at the University of Brussels (Belgium). He heads the Embedded Sensing Systems lab at the TU Darmstadt (Germany), funded by the Emmy Noether Programme of the German research foundation DFG. His …
Christian Seeger received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science from Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Databases and Distributed Systems group led by Prof. Alejandro Buchmann at TU Darmstadt. His research interests are middleware approaches and applications …
Vipin Gopal is the Vice President of Clinical Analytics at Humana, a Fortune 100 company. In this role, Dr. Gopal is responsible for the organization that develops and applies advanced analytics that drives Humana’s clinical strategy, programs and quality. He is an expert in developing …
Longjian Liu, MD, PhD, MSc, FAHA, is an associate professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Drexel University School of Public Health, and associate professor of medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine. Dr. Liu’s main research covers cardiovascular disease and diabetes prevention, and the usage …
