Advances in Multidisciplinary Medical Technologies Engineering, Modeling and Findings - Proceedings of the ICHSMT 2019

This book collects the proceedings of the International Congress on Health Sciences and Medical Technologies (ICHSMT), held in Tlemcen, Algeria, from December 5 to 7, 2019. The proceedings present a forum for the latest projects and research in scientific and technological development with an emphasis on smart healthcare system design and future technologies. ICHSMT brings together researchers, students, and professionals from the healthcare, corporate, and academic sectors. It includes a far-reaching program supported by a variety of technical tracks that seek to promote medical technologies and innovation at a nationwide level.

List of contents

Part I. Medical Technologies for the Betterment of Humankind.- Chapter 1. Empathy and the Quest for Social Ethics - Their Relevance to Contemporary Healthcare. The European Perspective.- Chapter 2. Conceptual Model of Professional Supervision Study Based on Data Mining - A Study in the Regional Council of Nutritionists of the 4-th Brazilian Region (Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo States) .- Chapter 3. Building Bridges and Remediating Illiteracy - How Intergenerational Cooperation Foster Better Engineering Professionals.- Chapter 4. Acoustic Contrast between Neutral and Angry Speech: Variation of Prosodic Features in Algerian Dialect Speech and German Speech.- Part II. Medical Technologies Systems.- Chapter 5. Artificial Intelligence and Its Application in Insulin Bolus Calculators.- Chapter 6. Feature Extraction Based on Wavelet Transform for Classification of Stress Level.- Chapter 7. Packet Synchronization in a Network Time Protocol Server and ASTM Elecsys Packets during Detectionfor Cancer with Optical DNA Biochip.- Chapter 8. Particle Swarm Optimization with Tabu Search Algorithm (PSO-TS) Applied to Multiple Sequence Alignment Problem  .- Chapter 9. Extracted Haralick's Texture Features for Abnormal Blood Cells  .- Chapter 10. Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Internet of Medical Things: New Technologies in Detecting, Pre-venting and Controlling of Emergent Diseases.- Chapter 11. The Role of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks in Intelligent Transport Systems for Healthcare .- Chapter 12. The Vedic Design Carry Look Ahead (VD-CLA) - A Smart and Hardware Friendly Implementation of the FIR Filter for ECG Signal Denoising.- Chapter 13. Implementation of an FPGA Real-Time Configurable System for Enhancement of Lung and Heart Images.- Chapter 14. Adaptive Specular Reflection Detection in Cervigrams  (ASRDC) Technique- A Computer-Aided Tool for Early  Screening of Cervical Cancer  .- Chapter 15. Implementation of Image Encryption by Steganography Using Discrete Wavelet Transform in Verilog.- Chapter 16. Non-Destructive Diagnosis and Analysis of Computed Microtomography Images via Texture Descriptors.

About the author

Professor Abdeldjalil Khelassi is an Associate Professor at the Abou Bakr Belkaïd University of Tlemcen, Algeria. He received his Doctor in Science, Magister, and Engineer degrees in Computer Sciences from the Department of Computer Science at Tlemcen University. His research interest includes cognitive systems, knowledge-based systems, case-based reasoning, distributed reasoning, fuzzy sets theory, and health science. He is the Managing Editor of Medical Technologies Journal and the co-Editor-in-chief of Electronic Physician Journal.
Professor Vania Vieira Estrela is currently a member of the faculty in the Department of Telecommunications at Federal Fluminense University (UFF), Brazil. Professor Estrela obtained her B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), an M.Sc. in ECE from the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA) and Northwestern University, and her Ph.D. in ECE from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). She has taught at DeVry University, State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro (UENF), and the West Zone State University, Brazil. Her research interests include signal/image/video processing, inverse problems, computational and mathematical modeling, stochastic models, multimedia, electronic instrumentation, computational intelligence, automated vehicles, machine learning, and remote sensing. She is an Editor for the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, International Journal on Computational Science & Applications, and the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, and a member of the IEEE and ACM.  

Product details

• Assisted by: Vania Vieira Estrela (Editor), Abdeldjali Khelassi (Editor), Abdeldjalil Khelassi (Editor), Vieira Estrela (Editor), Vieira Estrela (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9783030575519
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3057551-9
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 21 mm x 244 mm
• Illustrations: XI, 270 p. 123 illus., 87 illus. in color.
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous