Lecture

BioSignal Processing Aspects in eHealth

Speaker:	Ioanna Chouvarda, Lab of Medical Informatics, The Medical School, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
Date:	Wednesday, 22 July 2009
Time:	14:00-15:00
Location:	"Stelios Orphanoudakis" Seminar Room, FORTH. Heraklion, Crete
Host:	Franco Chiarugi

Abstract:

The presentation aims at elaborating on different aspects of current biomedical modeling and processing approaches, with respect to questions and answers that can be given at a certain analysis scale. In this context, different scale-specific examples are discussed with respect to cardiac and brain systems and to different levels of complexity. Ways of modelling and extraction of characteristics of the underlying processes are presented, in medically interesting conditions, from basic methods examining propagation at cellular level to overall characterization of organ function under disease or medication. Besides discussing the proposed approaches, questions are raised in each case and further perspectives are highlighted towards possible integrative approaches that would combine such multiple level methods for diagnosis and treatment enhancement.

Bio:

Ioanna Chouvarda (Elec. Eng, PhD Medical Informatics) is a research scientist at the Lab of Medical Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has expertise in biomedical signal processing, medical information management and eHealth applications, with participation in relevant EU funded projects, as well as published work. Besides R&D, she is part-time lecturing in the Msc Courses of Medical Informatics, AUTH.