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Introducing Context-Awareness and Adaptation in Telemedicine Systems

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Semantics in Adaptive and Personalized Services

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 279))

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Proper coding and transmission of medical and physiological data is a crucial issue for the effective deployment and performance of telemedicine services. This chapter 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.) is 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.

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  1. Department of Information & Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Greece

    Charalampos Doukas

  2. Department of Biomedical Informatics Lamia, University of Central Greece, Greece

    Ilias Maglogiannis

  3. Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Lab, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

    Kostas Karpouzis

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  3. National Technical University of Athens , Athens, Greece

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  4. Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia

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Doukas, C., Maglogiannis, I., Karpouzis, K. (2010). Introducing Context-Awareness and Adaptation in Telemedicine Systems. In: Wallace, M., Anagnostopoulos, I.E., Mylonas, P., Bielikova, M. (eds) Semantics in Adaptive and Personalized Services. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 279. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11684-1_10

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