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Seit mehr als 25 Jahren ist der Workshop'Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin'als erfolgreiche Veranstaltung etabliert. Ziel ist auch 2024 wieder die Darstellung aktueller Forschungsergebnisse und die Vertiefung der Gespräche zwischen Wissenschaftlern, Industrie und Anwendern. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes - viele davon in englischer Sprache - umfassen alle Bereiche der medizinischen Bildverarbeitung, insbesondere die Bildgebung und -akquisition, Segmentierung und Analyse, Visualisierung und Animation, computerunterstützte Diagnose sowie bildgestützte Therapieplanung und Therapie. Hierbei kommen Methoden des maschinelles Lernens, der biomechanischen Modellierung sowie der Validierung und Qualitätssicherung zum Einsatz.

Science-fiction author William Gibson is famously quoted as saying, “The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.” During the Covid pandemic, telehealth and remote monitoring were elevated from interesting innovations to essential tools in many healthcare systems, but not all countries had the infrastructure necessary to pivot quickly, amply demonstrating the negative consequences of the digital divide. This book presents the proceedings of MedInfo 2023, the 19th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, held from 8 – 12 July 2023 in Sydney, Australia. This series of biennial conferences provides a platform for the discussion of applied approaches to data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in health and wellness. The theme and title of MedInfo 2023 was The Future is Accessible, but the digital divide is a major concern for health and care-informatics professionals, whether because of global economic disparities, digital literacy gaps, or limited access to reliable information about health. A total of 935 submissions were received for the conference, of which 228 full papers, 43 student papers and 117 posters were accepted following a thorough peer-review process involving 279 reviewers. Topics covered include: information and knowledge management; quality, safety and outcomes; health data science; human, organizational and social aspects; and global health informatics. Significant advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, augmented reality, virtual reality, and genomics hold great hope for future healthcare planning, delivery, management, education, evaluation, and research, and this book will be of interest to all those working to not only exploit the benefits of these technologies, but also to identify ways to overcome their associated challenges.

The book is a unique collection of studies involving intelligent systems and applications of artificial intelligence in the real world to provide solutions to most vexing problems. IntelliSys received an overwhelming 605 papers which were put under strict double-blind peer-review for their novelty, originality and exhaustive research. Finally, 227 papers were sieved and chosen to be published in the proceedings.This book is a valuable collection of all the latest research in the field of artificial intelligence and smart systems. It provides a ready-made resource to all the readers keen on gaining information regarding the latest trends in intelligent systems. It also renders a sneak peek into the future world governed by artificial intelligence.

There is a global shortage of personnel in the healthcare workforce, a situation which seems unlikely to improve in the foreseeable future, and it is vital that approaches and innovations are found to mitigate the negative impact of these shortages on healthcare. The WHO has a global strategy for digital health, the success of which depends, to a great extent, on state-of-the-art health-information technology and the outcomes of health-informatics research. This book presents the proceedings of MIE2024, the 34th Medical Informatics Europe Conference, held from 25 - 29 August 2024 in Athens, Greece. The theme of MIE2024 was Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Healthcare Systems. Nearly 700 submissions were received for the conference. A thorough review process was conducted, following which a total of 341 full papers, were accepted from the 494 submitted (an acceptance rate of 69%), together with 64 short communication papers, 84 posters, 6 demonstrations, 13 panels, 12 workshops, and 2 tutorials. All accepted full papers, short communication papers and posters are included in these proceedings. Topics covered include databases, user-centred design, information systems, usability, privacy, security, secondary use of health data, data integration, interoperability, and standardisation, as well as clinical guidelines, AI and xAI, decision support, pattern recognition, medical imaging, natural language processing, deep learning, doctor-chatbot interaction, health literacy, and education. Offering a broad overview of the technology which promises to improve population health and access to healthcare delivery, the book will be of interest to healthcare professionals everywhere.

Der Stellenwert von Zentralen Notaufnahmen innerhalb der akut- und notfallmedizinischen Versorgungslandschaft ist in den letzten Jahren enorm angewachsen. Das gilt für die Zahl der Patienten ebenso wie für die Komplexität der Behandlungsfälle. Das breite Spektrum der Behandlungsanlässe erfordert die Zusammenarbeit aller medizinischen Fachdisziplinen eines Hauses. Zugleich kann eine Zentrale Notaufnahme nur dann erfolgreich arbeiten, wenn die erforderlichen organisatorischen, logistischen und personellen Voraussetzungen geschaffen und standardisierte medizinische Prozesse mit funktionierenden Schnittstellen zu den Fachabteilungen etabliert werden. Das ZNA-Buch hat sich als das Standardwerk für das Fach- und Führungspersonal der Zentralen Notaufnahme etabliert und vermittelt in der 3. Neuauflage die aktuell relevanten Management-Kenntnisse, Konzepte und Methoden sowie das konkrete Handwerkszeug für die interdisziplinäre und interprofessionelle Zusammenarbeit. Krankenhausplanern und -managern, die an Aufbau oder Weiterentwicklung einer Zentralen Notaufnahme arbeiten, bietet das Buch eine Anleitung für die Planung, Umsetzung und Optimierung einer Notaufnahme, Notfallambulanz, Rettungsstelle eines Notfallzentrums oder einer Klinik für Notfallmedizin.

Der Stellenwert von Zentralen Notaufnahmen innerhalb der akut- und notfallmedizinischen Versorgungslandschaft ist in den letzten Jahren enorm angewachsen. Das gilt für die Zahl der Patienten ebenso wie für die Komplexität der Behandlungsfälle. Das breite Spektrum der Behandlungsanlässe erfordert die Zusammenarbeit aller medizinischen Fachdisziplinen eines Hauses. Zugleich kann eine Zentrale Notaufnahme nur dann erfolgreich arbeiten, wenn die erforderlichen organisatorischen, logistischen und personellen Voraussetzungen geschaffen und standardisierte medizinische Prozesse mit funktionierenden Schnittstellen zu den Fachabteilungen etabliert werden. Das ZNA-Buch hat sich als das Standardwerk für das Fach- und Führungspersonal der Zentralen Notaufnahme etabliert und vermittelt in der 3. Neuauflage die aktuell relevanten Management-Kenntnisse, Konzepte und Methoden sowie das konkrete Handwerkszeug für die interdisziplinäre und interprofessionelle Zusammenarbeit. Krankenhausplanern und -managern, die an Aufbau oder Weiterentwicklung einer Zentralen Notaufnahme arbeiten, bietet das Buch eine Anleitung für die Planung, Umsetzung und Optimierung einer Notaufnahme, Notfallambulanz, Rettungsstelle eines Notfallzentrums oder einer Klinik für Notfallmedizin.

Modern information and communication technologies make it easier for individuals to be involved in their own health and social care. They also facilitate contact between individuals and service providers and deliver more efficient tools for healthcare staff. Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to bring even more benefits in the future, with more effectiveness and the provision of decision support. This book presents the proceedings of the 33rd Medical Informatics Europe Conference, MIE2023, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, from 22 to 25 May 2023. The theme of MIE2023 was ‘Caring is Sharing – Exploiting Value in Data for Health and Innovation', stressing the increasing importance of sharing digital-health data and the related challenges. The sharing of health data is developing rapidly, both in Europe and beyond, so the focus of the conference was on the enabling of trustworthy sharing of data to improve health. Topics covered include healthcare, community care, self-care, public health, and the innovation and development of future-proof digital-health solutions, and the almost 300 papers divided into 10 chapters also cover important advances in the sub domains of biomedical informatics: decision support systems, clinical information systems, clinical research informatics, knowledge management and representation, consumer health informatics, natural language processing, public health informatics, privacy, ethical and societal aspects among them. Describing innovative approaches to the collection, organization, analysis, and data-sharing related to health and wellbeing, the book contributes to the expertise required to take medical informatics to the next level, and will be of interest to all those working in the field.

The Covid-19 pandemic affected the daily lives of all of us on many levels. Epidemiology suddenly became a personal matter and general interest in many aspects of medical data science became much more widespread. And physical distance became the new normal. This book presents the full paper part of the proceedings of GMDS 2023, the 68th annual meeting of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, held from 17 to 21 September 2023 in Heilbronn, Germany. The theme of the conference was, Science. Close to People, a particularly appropriate theme for the first of these annual conferences to be held face-to-face since 2019. A total of 227 scientific contributions were submitted to GMDS 2023, including 41 full papers for this volume in Studies in HTI. Of these, 30 papers are included here, following a rigorous two-stage review process, which represents an acceptance rate of 73%. The 30 papers in this book are grouped under 8 headings: FAIRification; research software engineering for research infrastructure & study data management; human factors; data quality; clinical decision support & artificial intelligence; evaluation of healthcare IT; biosignals; and interoperability. Providing a broad overview of current developments in the disciplines of medical informatics, biometry and epidemiology, the book will be of interest to all those working in these fields.

Seit mehr als 25 Jahren ist der Workshop'Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin'als erfolgreiche Veranstaltung etabliert. Ziel ist auch 2023 wieder die Darstellung aktueller Forschungsergebnisse und die Vertiefung der Gespräche zwischen Wissenschaftlern, Industrie und Anwendern. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes - viele davon in englischer Sprache - umfassen alle Bereiche der medizinischen Bildverarbeitung, insbesondere die Bildgebung und -akquisition, Segmentierung und Analyse, Visualisierung und Animation, computerunterstützte Diagnose sowie bildgestützte Therapieplanung und Therapie. Hierbei kommen Methoden des maschinelles Lernens, der biomechanischen Modellierung sowie der Validierung und Qualitätssicherung zum Einsatz.

Biomaterialbanken in Deutschland sind international hochangesehen und wettbewerbsfähig. Das im Wissenschaftskalender etablierte Nationale Biobanken-Symposium will Synergien für den intensiven Austausch und die verstärkte Zusammenarbeit auf regionaler und überregionaler Ebene wecken. Hierzu bündelt das Symposium die Expertisen der Biobanken-Community zu Schwerpunktthemen der standortübergreifenden Standardisierung/Harmonisierung des Qualitätsmanagements, des vernetzten Daten- und Probenaustausches, der IT- und Dateninteroperabilität sowie des nachhaltigen Biobankings. Das Symposium trägt dazu bei, den Dialog mit der Industrie zu biobankrelevanten Technologien zu intensivieren und nimmt sich auch der Wahrnehmung von Biobanken in der Öffentlichkeit und unter Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern an. Es dient als eine Plattform, um die Arbeiten des „German Biobank Node“ der nationalen Biobankenlandschaft zur Diskussion zu stellen und den nationalen Brückenschlag zur europäischen Biobank-Infrastruktur BBMRI-ERIC abzustimmen.

This edited collection investigates the linguistics of globalisation, geopolitics and gender in workplace cultures in a range of different contemporary international settings. The chapters examine how issues of globalisation, gender and geopolitics affect professionals in different workplace contexts, including domestic workers; IT professionals; teachers, university staff; engineers; entrepreneurs; CEOs of different corporates including locally based businesses as well as multinationals; farmers; co-operative leaders; NGO leaders; bloggers; healthcare assistants and caregivers.Taking different sociolinguistic approaches to exploring language and the geopolitics of gender at work in Dubai, Kuwait, Kenya, Uganda, Morocco, Nigeria, Malaysia, Turkey, Belgium, Switzerland, New Zealand, Uganda, the UK and the USA, each chapter focuses on a range of salient geopolitical issues which often have global applicability, but which may also be subject to more localised socio-cultural variation. The chapters critically discuss issues of gendered language, perceptions and representations of workplace cultures, discrimination, the role of gendered stereotyping and deeply ingrained socio-cultural myths about gender and the importance of examining the intersections of identity – all of which continue to persist as barriers to equality and inclusion in workplaces worldwide.Despite the variation and diversity in professions and geopolitical contexts captured across the chapters, remarkably similar issues of gender discrimination and persisting inequalities are identified and critically discussed, thus pointing to the global nature of these issues.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Data, informatics, and technology are now among the most important aspects inspiring health professionals and informaticians to improve healthcare for the benefit of patients. This book presents the proceedings of the 19th annual International Conference on Informatics, Management, and Technology in Healthcare (ICIMTH 2021), held as a virtual event due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on 16 and 17 October 2021 in Athens, Greece. The ICIMTH conferences are a series of scientific events which bring together scientists working in the field of biomedical and health informatics from around the world. The 2021 conference examined the field of biomedical and health informatics in a very broad framework, presenting the research and application outcomes of informatics from cell to populations, and including a number of technologies such as imaging, sensors and biomedical equipment, as well as management and organizational aspects, including legal and social issues and the setting of research priorities in health informatics. A significant number of the papers included here relate to the COVID-19 pandemic. Providing an insight into the latest developments in biomedical and health informatics, the book will be of interest to all those working in the field.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare promises to improve the accuracy of diagnosis and screening, support clinical care, and assist in various public health interventions such as disease surveillance, outbreak response, and health system management. But the increasing importance of AI in healthcare means that trustworthy AI is vital to achieve the beneficial impacts on health anticipated by both health professionals and patients. This book presents the proceedings of the 32nd Medical Informatics Europe Conference (MIE2022), organized by the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and held from 27 - 30 May 2022 in Nice, France. The theme of the conference was Challenges of Trustable AI and Added-Value on Health. Over 400 submissions were received from 43 countries, and were reviewed in a thorough process by at least three reviewers before being assessed by an SPC co-chair, with papers requiring major revision undergoing further review. Included here are 147 full papers (acceptance rate 54%), 23 short papers and 79 posters from the conference. Topics covered include the usual sub-domains of biomedical informatics: decision support and clinical information systems; clinical research informatics; knowledge management and representation; consumer health informatics; natural language processing; public health informatics; and privacy, ethical and societal aspects, but also innovative approaches to the collection, such as organization and analysis of data and knowledge related to health and wellbeing, as well as theoretical and applied contributions to AI methods and algorithms. Providing an overview of the latest developments in medical informatics, the book will be of interest to all those involved in the development and provision of healthcare today.

In den letzten Jahren hat sich der Workshop'Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin'durch erfolgreiche Veranstaltungen etabliert. Ziel ist auch 2022 wieder die Darstellung aktueller Forschungsergebnisse und die Vertiefung der Gespräche zwischen Wissenschaftlern, Industrie und Anwendern. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes - einige davon in englischer Sprache - umfassen alle Bereiche der medizinischen Bildverarbeitung, insbesondere Bildgebung und -akquisition, Maschinelles Lernen, Bildsegmentierung und Bildanalyse, Visualisierung und Animation, Zeitreihenanalyse, Computerunterstützte Diagnose, Biomechanische Modellierung, Validierung und Qualitätssicherung, Bildverarbeitung in der Telemedizin u.v.m.

For over 40 years, the tech industry has been working to attract more women. Yet, women continue to be underrepresented in technology jobs compared to other professions. Worse, once hired, women leave the field mid-career twice as often as men. In 2013, Karen Holtzblatt launched The Women in Tech Retention Project at WITops.org, dedicated to understanding what helps women in tech thrive. In 2014, Nicola Marsden joined the effort, bringing her extensive knowledge and research on gender and bias for women in tech. Together with worldwide volunteers, this research identified what helps women thrive and practical interventions to improve women's experience at work. In this book, we share women's stories, our research, relevant literature, and our perspective on making change to help retain women. All the research and solutions we share are based on deep research and user-centered ideation techniques. Part I describes the @Work Experience Framework and the six key factors that help women thrive: a dynamic valuing team; stimulating projects; the push into challenges with support; local role models; nonjudgmental flexibility to manage home/work balance; and developing personal power. Employees thinking of leaving their job have significantly lower scores on these factors showing their importance for retention. Part II describes tested interventions that redesign work practices to better support women, diverse teams, and all team members. We chose these interventions guided by data from over 1,000 people from multiple genders, ethnicities, family situations, and countries. Interventions target key processes in tech: onboarding new hires; group critique meetings; and Scrum. Interventions also address managing interpersonal dynamics to increase valuing and decrease devaluing behaviors and techniques for teams to define, monitor, and continuously improve their culture. We conclude by describing our principles for redesigning processes with an eye toward issues important to women and diverse teams.

The World Health Organization defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”, and its constitution also asserts that health for all people is “dependent on the fullest co-operation of individuals and States”. The ongoing pandemic has highlighted the power of both healthy and unhealthy information, so while healthcare and public health services have depended upon timely and accurate data and continually updated knowledge, social media has shown how unhealthy misinformation can be spread and amplified, reinforcing existing prejudices, conspiracy theories and political biases. This book presents the proceedings of MedInfo 2021, the 18th World Congress of Medical and Health Informatics, held as a virtual event from 2-4 October 2021, with pre-recorded presentations for all accepted submissions. The theme of the conference was One World, One Health – Global Partnership for Digital Innovation and submissions were requested under 5 themes: information and knowledge management; quality, safety and outcomes; health data science; human, organizational and social aspects; and global health informatics. The Programme Committee received 352 submissions from 41 countries across all IMIA regions, and 147 full papers, 60 student papers and 79 posters were accepted for presentation after review and are included in these proceedings. Providing an overview of current work in the field over a wide range of disciplines, the book will be of interest to all those whose work involves some aspect of medical or health informatics.

The aim of medical research has always been to gain scientific knowledge which will serve to improve the diagnosis, therapy and prevention of diseases. It is also becoming increasingly important to take account of the changing circumstances of medical care. Factors such as the ageing of society and the recent pandemic have not only led to greater use of medical care, but have also put the human resources and infrastructural basis of the health system under great pressure. Such developments call for science-based solutions which can better adapt medical action to the needs of patients to ensure that medicine remains affordable and accessible for all. This book is the 6th volume of the German Medical Data Science series in Studies in Health Technology and Informatics and presents the proceedings of the joint conference of the 67th Annual Meeting of the German Association of Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology (GMDS) and the 14th Annual Meeting of the Technology and Methods Platform for Networked Medical Research (TMF). The conference was entitled Medicine in Transition - More Precise, More Integrative, More Sustainable. It was due to be held from 21-25 August 2022 in Kiel, Germany, but was changed to an online event on the same dates due to an increasing surge in cases of coronavirus. The pandemic has not only disrupted the planning of many events, it has also impressively demonstrated the importance of technical and methodological aspects of digitization. The 13 papers included here address the challenges of and opportunities for the digitization so vital for the functionality of the modern healthcare system, and the book will be of interest to all those involved in the planning and delivery of healthcare.

Smart mobile systems – microsystems, smart textiles, smart implants, sensor-controlled medical devices – together with related body, local and wide-area networks up to cloud services, have become important enablers for telemedicine and the next generation of healthcare services. The multilateral benefits of pHealth technologies offer enormous potential for all stakeholder communities, not only in terms of improvements in medical quality and industrial competitiveness, but also for the management of healthcare costs and, last but not least, the improvement of patient experience. This book presents the proceedings of pHealth 2021, the 18th in a series of conferences on wearable micro and nano technologies for personalized health with personal health management systems, hosted by the University of Genoa, Italy, and held as an online event from 8 – 10 November 2021. The conference focused on digital health ecosystems in the transformation of healthcare towards personalized, participative, preventive, predictive precision medicine (5P medicine). The book contains 46 peer-reviewed papers (1 keynote, 5 invited papers, 33 full papers, and 7 poster papers). Subjects covered include the deployment of mobile technologies, micro-nano-bio smart systems, bio-data management and analytics, autonomous and intelligent systems, the Health Internet of Things (HIoT), as well as potential risks for security and privacy, and the motivation and empowerment of patients in care processes. Providing an overview of current advances in personalized health and health management, the book will be of interest to all those working in the field of healthcare today.

Medical Informatics has increasingly come into focus in the last couple of years, as the importance of managing and interpreting health data in dealing with a global pandemic has become dramatically apparent. This book presents the proceedings of the 2021 European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) Special Topic Conference (STC), originally planned as a live event in Seville, Spain, but ultimately held as a virtual event from 22 – 24 November 2021. This conference focused on applying the FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability) to accelerate health research in Europe in the post COVID-19 era. The 38 papers included here are divided into 5 sections, and topics covered include: methods for the adoption of FAIR principles; FAIR-based precision medicine; AI in FAIR data-driven health; privacy and security aspects of applying FAIR in health research; FAIR and infectious-disease research data (including Covid-19); FAIR in infrastructures and software; metadata, ontologies and terminologies to support the sharing of health research data; and paradigms for sharing health research data. Offering a state-of-the-art overview of medical informatics in the post-Covid era, the book will be of interest to all those working in the field.

In den letzten Jahren hat sich der Workshop'Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin'durch erfolgreiche Veranstaltungen etabliert. Ziel ist auch 2021 wieder die Darstellung aktueller Forschungsergebnisse und die Vertiefung der Gespräche zwischen Wissenschaftlern, Industrie und Anwendern. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes - einige davon in englischer Sprache - umfassen alle Bereiche der medizinischen Bildverarbeitung, insbesondere Bildgebung und -akquisition, Maschinelles Lernen, Bildsegmentierung und Bildanalyse, Visualisierung und Animation, Zeitreihenanalyse, Computerunterstützte Diagnose, Biomechanische Modellierung, Validierung und Qualitätssicherung, Bildverarbeitung in der Telemedizin u.v.m.

For several years now, both eHealth applications and digitalization have been seen as fundamental to the new era of health informatics and public health. The current pandemic situation has also highlighted the importance of medical informatics for the scientific process of evidence-based reasoning and decision making at all levels of healthcare. This book presents the accepted full papers, short papers, and poster papers delivered as part of the 31st Medical Informatics in Europe Conference (MIE 2021), held virtually from 29-31 May 2021. MIE 2021 was originally due to be held in Athens, Greece, but due to the continuing pandemic situation, the conference was held as a virtual event. The 261 papers included here are grouped into 7 chapters: biomedical data, tools and methods; supporting care delivery; health and prevention; precision medicine and public health; human factors and citizen centered digital health; ethics, legal and societal aspects; and posters. Providing a state-of-the-art overview of medical informatics from around the world, the book will be of interest to all those working with eHealth applications and digitalization to improve the delivery of healthcare today.

Roadmap to Successful Digital Health Ecosystems: A Global Perspective presents evidence-based solutions found on adopting open platforms, standard information models, technology neutral data repositories, and computable clinical data and knowledge (ontologies, terminologies, content models, process models, and guidelines), resulting in improved patient, organizational, and global health outcomes. The book helps engaging countries and stakeholders take action and commit to a digital health strategy, create a global environment and processes that will facilitate and induce collaboration, develop processes for monitoring and evaluating national digital health strategies, and enable learnings to be shared in support of WHO's global strategy for digital health. The book explains different perspectives and local environments for digital health implementation, including data/information and technology governance, secondary data use, need for effective data interpretation, costly adverse events, models of care, HR management, workforce planning, system connectivity, data sharing and linking, small and big data, change management, and future vision. All proposed solutions are based on real-world scientific, social, and political evidence. - Provides a roadmap, based on examples already in place, to develop and implement digital health systems on a large-scale that are easily reproducible in different environments - Addresses World Health Organization (WHO)-identified research gaps associated with the feasibility and effectiveness of various digital health interventions - Helps readers improve future decision-making within a digital environment by detailing insights into the complexities of the health system - Presents evidence from real-world case studies from multiple countries to discuss new skills that suit new paradigms

Digitization offers great potential – especially in medicine. Cross-domain and cross-institutional linkage, big data, artificial intelligence and robotics can all help to improve research and care, but they also pose new challenges to all those involved. This book presents the joint proceedings of the GMDS (German Medical Data Sciences) and TMF (its Technology, Methodology and Infrastructure platform), held entirely online from 26 – 30 September 2021 as a result of restrictions due to the Coronavirus pandemic. This joint event addresses the opportunities and risks of using new information technologies in medicine, as well as the resulting requirements for data protection, data security and ethics. Methodological challenges associated with the preparation, evaluation and interpretation of data volumes which constantly increase in type and scope in the course of digitization are also examined in detail. The 25 papers included here are divided into 5 sections: editorials; artificial intelligence and clinical decision support systems (CDSS); data integration and interoperability; human computer interaction; and software systems and frameworks, and the topics covered are very diverse, ranging from disease detection using retinal imaging, through data management and sharing, to interactive web applications. Providing an overview of regional research and developments in the field, the book will be of interest to all those working in health technology and medical informatics; researchers and practitioners alike.

Das Handbuch erörtert umfassend das komplexe Gebiet der sozialwissenschaftlichen Innovationsforschung. Es ordnet die Innovationsforschung geschichtlich, begrifflich und vom Gegenstand her ein. Es präsentiert etablierte und sich neu herausbildende theoretische Ansätze der sozialwissenschaftlichen Innovationsforschung. Und es informiert über empirische Befunde und Entwicklungen aus einer Vielzahl von Bereichen und Feldern der Innovation.

This book constitutes extended and revised versions of the selected papers from the 13th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2020, held in Valletta, Malta, in February 2020.The 29 revised and extended full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 363 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on biomedical electronics and devices; bioimaging; bioinformatics models, methods and algorithms; bio-inspired systems and signal processing; health informatic

In den letzten Jahren hat sich der Workshop'Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin'durch erfolgreiche Veranstaltungen etabliert. Ziel ist auch 2020 wieder die Darstellung aktueller Forschungsergebnisse und die Vertiefung der Gespräche zwischen Wissenschaftlern, Industrie und Anwendern. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes - einige davon in englischer Sprache - umfassen alle Bereiche der medizinischen Bildverarbeitung, insbesondere Bildgebung und -akquisition, Maschinelles Lernen, Bildsegmentierung und Bildanalyse, Visualisierung und Animation, Zeitreihenanalyse, Computerunterstützte Diagnose, Biomechanische Modellierung, Validierung und Qualitätssicherung, Bildverarbeitung in der Telemedizin u.v.m.

This book constitutes extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from the 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2019, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in February 2019.The 22 revised and extended full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 271 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on biomedical electronics and devices; bioimaging; bioinformatics models, methods and algorithms; bio-inspired systems and signal processing; health informatics.

Im aktuellen Gesundheitsmarkt entstehen vielfältige innovative Produkte und Dienstleistungen, die dazu beitragen, die Qualität und Sicherheit der medizinischen Versorgung weiter zu steigern. Voraussetzung für die Entstehung von Innovationen sind Akteure, die Potenziale und Lösungswege aufspüren und den Mut haben kreative Ideen in die Tat umzusetzen sowie ein innovationsfreundliches Klima in Unternehmen. Dazu gehören Handlungsspielräume zum Ausprobieren, Erproben und Experimentieren für Mitarbeiter und auf der Führungsebene eine Akzeptanz für ein gewisses Maß an Fehlschlägen, die bei der Suche nach Lösungen entstehen. Nur so können Innovationen den Ausgangspunkt für den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg von Unternehmen bilden und zur treibenden Kraft in der Gesundheitswirtschaft werden.Dieses Buch stellt Best-Practice-Beispiele vor und zeigt dabei auf, welche Ansätze, Vorgehensweisen und Methoden sich für das Erreichen von unternehmerischen Innovationszielen besonders gut eignen.Zugleich bietet es einen ganzheitlichen Ansatz von Innovationsmanagement für Entscheidungsträger, Praktiker und Wissenschaftler.

Der Begriff Grenzen markiert ein Spannungsfeld der anwendungsorientierten Forschung. Einerseits erweitern Wissenschaftler_innen durch ihre Entwicklungs-, Innovations- und Transferleistungen die Nutzungs- und Verwertungspotentiale, andererseits stoßen sie dabei an Grenzen: an Grenzen des technisch Machbaren, des Finanzierbaren, des gesellschaftlich Akzeptierten und des ethisch Vertretbaren. °°Die Publikation „Grenzen in Zeiten technologischer und sozialer Disruption“ lenkt den Blick auf diese Dialektik. Die Autor_innen greifen das Thema aus verschiedenen fachlichen Perspektiven auf und geben dadurch Impulse zum Nachdenken und zur Diskussion. Sie beschäftigen sich in ihren Beiträgen mit den Megatrends Digitale Transformation, Klimawandel, Globalisierung, demografischer Wandel, Urbanisierung und Migration. Dabei bedienen sie sich verschiedener methodischer Ansätze, etwa der Nutzung von Big Data, Künstlicher Intelligenz und Robotik.

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is used in healthcare and health science research in application domains such as clinical trials and the development of drug and medical devices, as well as in translational medicine, with the aim of improving prevention, diagnosis, and interventions in health and care. This book presents accepted papers from the 2019 European Federation of Medical Informatics conference (EFMI STC 2019), held in Hanover, Germany, from 7 – 10 April 2019. More than 90 submissions were received, from which, after review, the Scientific Program Committee (SPC) accepted 50 full papers to be included in this volume of proceedings. In addition, 16 poster presentations were accepted. This year, ICT for Health Science Research was selected as the focus topic, and the conference also honors Prof. Peter Leo Reichertz (1930 – 1987), one of the founding fathers of ICT healthcare and an originator of the term Medical Informatics. The conference focuses on recent research & development supporting information systems in biomedical, translational and clinical research, as well as semantic interoperability across such systems for the purpose of data sharing and the analytics of cross-system integrated data. Papers are divided into 12 categories covering topics including digitization; data privacy; interoperability; data-driven decision support; mobile data capture; and ICT for clinical trials. The book will be of interest to all healthcare researchers and practitioners whose work involves the use of ICT.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2018, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in January 2018.The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 299 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on biomedical electronics and devices; bioimaging; bioinformatics models, methods and algorithms; health informatics.

Biomedical engineering and health informatics are closely related to each other, and it is often difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins, but ICT systems in healthcare and biomedical systems and devices are already becoming increasingly interconnected, and share the common entity of data. This is something which is set to become even more prevalent in future, and will complete the chain and flow of information from the sensor, via processing, to the actuator, which may be anyone or anything from a human healthcare professional to a robot. Methods for automating the processing of information, such as signal processing, machine learning, predictive analytics and decision support, are increasingly important for providing actionable information and supporting personalized and preventive healthcare protocols in both biomedical and digital healthcare systems and applications. This book of proceedings presents 50 papers from the 12th eHealth conference, eHealth2018, held in Vienna, Austria, in May 2018. The theme of this year's conference is Biomedical Meets eHealth – From Sensors to Decisions, and the papers included here cover a wide range of topics from the field of eHealth. The book will be of interest to all those working to design and implement healthcare today.

The domain of eHealth faces ongoing challenges to deliver 21st century healthcare. Digitalization, capacity building and user engagement with truly interdisciplinary and cross-domain collaboration are just a few of the areas which must be addressed. This book presents 190 full papers from the Medical Informatics Europe (MIE 2018) conference, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in April 2018. The MIE conferences aim to enable close interaction and networking between an international audience of academics, health professionals, patients and industry partners. The title of this year's conference is: Building Continents of Knowledge in Oceans of Data – The Future of Co-Created eHealth, and contributions cover a broad range of topics related to the digitalization of healthcare, citizen participation, data science, and changing health systems, addressed from the perspectives of citizens, patients and their families, healthcare professionals, service providers, developers and policy makers. The second part of the title in particular has attracted a large number of papers describing strategies to create, evaluate, adjust or deliver tools and services for improvements in healthcare organizations or to enable citizens to respond to the challenges of dealing with health systems. Papers are grouped under the headings: standards and interoperability, implementation and evaluation, knowledge management, decision support, modeling and analytics, health informatics education and learning systems, and patient-centered services. Attention is also given to development for sustainable use, educational strategies and workforce development, and the book will be of interest to both developers and practitioners of healthcare services.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in February 2017.The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 297 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on biomedical electronics and devices; bioimaging; bioinformatics models, methods and algorithms; bio-inspired systems and signal processing; and health informatics.

Ob in Technik, Wirtschaft, Ökologie oder Wissenschaft: Innovation braucht Kreativität. Zündende Ideen, smarte Lösungen und Erfindungen sind aber meist kein Zufallsergebnis. Oft entsteht die nötige Inspiration erst beim Wechsel der Perspektive, in der Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Disziplinen, mit Hilfe digitaler Techniken oder beim Blick durch die Künstlerbrille. °°In der Publikation „Innovation + X = Kreativität“ geben Wissenschaftler_innen der Berliner Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW Berlin) einen Überblick über die Bandbreite ihrer interdisziplinären „kreativen“ Forschung. Sie präsentieren vielfältige Kreativmethoden aus Design, Marketing und Innovationsmanagement und beleuchten die kreativen Potentiale von Virtual Reality, Big Data und künstlicher Intelligenz. Vorgestellt werden unterschiedliche Anwendungsbeispiele für kreative Forschung, vom Schlafgütesensor und Wearable Technologies bis zum aufblasbaren Leichtfahrzeug.°°

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in February 2016. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 321 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on biomedical electronics and devices; bioimaging; bioinformatics models, methods and algorithms; bio-inspired systems and signal processing; health informatics.

Over recent years there has been major investment in research infrastructure to harness the potential of routinely collected health data. In 2013, The Farr Institute for Health Informatics Research was established in the UK, undertaking health informatics research to enhance patient and public health by the analysis of data from multiple sources and unleashing the value of vast sources of clinical, biological, population and environmental data for public benefit. The Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) conference is already established as a key event in the calendar of the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI); The Farr Institute has been establishing a conference series. For 2017, the decision was made to combine the power and established reputational excellence of EFMI with the emerging and innovative research of The Farr Institute community to create ‘Informatics for Health 2017', a joint conference that creates a scientific forum allowing these two communities to share knowledge, insights and experience, advance cross-disciplinary thinking, and stimulate creativity. This book presents the 116 full papers presented at that conference, held in Manchester, UK in April 2017. The papers are grouped under five headings: connected and digital health; health data science; human, organisational, and social aspects; knowledge management; and quality, safety, and patient outcomes, and the book will be of interest to all those whose work involves the analysis and use of data to support more effective delivery of healthcare.

Ineffective discharge management can jeopardize the successful completion of hospital treatment; but a well managed transition from hospital care to care at home depends on the efficient exchange of information with out-patient healthcare providers and professionals. This is just one way in which ICT can support healthcare and provide tools which help health professions to identify and communicate relevant data. Such tools will be increasingly important in future healthcare systems, and indeed a Europe-wide ICT infrastructure for information and data exchange may do much to revolutionize the quality of healthcare. It is therefore essential that infrastructures build on well-established standards such as Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), even if this initially takes longer to implement. This book presents the proceedings of the annual Health Informatics meets eHealth conference, held in Vienna, Austria, in May 2017. The special topic chosen for eHealth2017 is Digital Insight – Information-Driven Health & Care, and the conference addressed the increasingly international focus of eHealth and the importance of cross-border health ICT. The papers presented here cover many eHealth topics, from maternity records to rehabilitation and from staff training to information exchange. Future ICT systems will inevitably involve machine learning and predictive analytics in order to provide actionable information to health professionals and support preventive healthcare concepts, and this book provides an insight into current research in health informatics and eHealth, addressing many issues central to the future of health and care. The book will be of interest to all healthcare researchers and practitioners.

Intelligente, digital vernetzte Systeme und Produktionsprozesse sind weltweit auf dem Vormarsch. Sie lassen alte Industrien und Geschäftsmodelle verschwinden und neue entstehen – mit Folgen für die Entwicklung, den Wohlstand und die Lebensqualität ganzer Regionen. Wissenschaftler_innen der Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (HTW Berlin) und Ihre Koautor_innen gehen der Frage nach, wie sich die Arbeitswelt mit dem Voranschreiten der Digitalisierung verändern wird. Sie geben Einblicke in digitale Geschäftsprozesse, Lösungen für die Smart Factory, e-Health oder Probleme der Cybersicherheit und werfen so einen Blick auf die Industrie von morgen.°°Die HTW Berlin hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren des Themas Digitalisierung sowohl in der Forschung als auch in der Lehre angenommen. Mit vielfältigen Forschungsansätzen und Perspektiven, in diversen Forschungsprojekten und Unternehmenskooperationen sowie neu konzipierten Studienprogrammen verfügt sie inzwischen über eine eindrucksvolle Kompetenz in diesem Bereich.°°

Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a medical imaging technique that combines magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with mechanical vibrations to generate maps of viscoelastic properties of biological tissue. It serves as a non-invasive tool to detect and quantify mechanical changes in tissue structure, which can be symptoms or causes of various diseases. Clinical and research applications of MRE include staging of liver fibrosis, assessment of tumor stiffness and investigation of neurodegenerative diseases. The first part of this book is dedicated to the physical and technological principles underlying MRE, with an introduction to MRI physics, viscoelasticity theory and classical waves, as well as vibration generation, image acquisition and viscoelastic parameter reconstruction. The second part of the book focuses on clinical applications of MRE to various organs. Each section starts with a discussion of the specific properties of the organ, followed by an extensive overview of clinical and preclinical studies that have been performed, tabulating reference values from published literature. The book is completed by a chapter discussing technical aspects of elastography methods based on ultrasound.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2014, held in Angers, France, in March 2014. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 362 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics and are organized in topical sections on biomedical electronics and devices; bioimaging; bioinformatics models, methods and algorithms; bio-inspired systems and signal processing; health informatics.

Digitalisierung ist längst ein Phänomen, dem sich alle Wissenschaften und auch (fast) alle Lebensbereiche stellen müssen.°°°°Wissenschaftler_innen der Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (HTW Berlin) und ihre Koautor_innen beleuchten in dieser Publikation wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Aspekte ebenso wie informationstechnologische und ingenieurwissenschaftliche, erörtern aber auch die kultur- und kommunikationswissenschaftliche Relevanz der Digitalisierung. Das Spektrum der Beiträge umfasst Digital Business und Economy, Marketing und Media, eHealth und eCulture sowie Green by IT und reicht bis hin zu eProduction, Smart City und Building Information Modeling.°°°°Die HTW Berlin hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren dem Thema Digitalisierung sowohl in der Forschung als auch in der Lehre angenommen. Mit vielfältigen Forschungsansätzen und Perspektiven, mehreren öffentlich geförderten Forschungsprojekten und Unternehmenskooperationen sowie neu konzipierten Studienangeboten stellt sie ihre Kompetenz in diesem Bereich eindrucksvoll unter Beweis.°°

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in January 2015.The 27 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 375 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics and are organized in four general topical sections on biomedical electronics and devices; bioimaging; bioinformatics models, methods and algorithms; bio-inspired systems and signal processing; health informatics.

The five-volume set LNCS 9786-9790 constitutes the refereed proceedingsof the 16th International Conference on Computational Science and ItsApplications, ICCSA 2016, held in Beijing, China, in July 2016.The 239 revised full papers and 14 short papers presented at 33 workshops were carefully reviewed and selected from 849 submissions. They are organized in five thematical tracks: computational methods, algorithms and scientific applications; high performance computing and networks; geometric modeling, graphics and visualization; advanced and emerging applications; and information systems and technologies.

The field of health is an increasingly complex and technical one; and an area in which a more multidisciplinary approach would undoubtedly be beneficial in many ways. This book presents papers from the conference ‘Health – Exploring Complexity: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach', held in Munich, Germany, from August 28th to September 2nd 2016. This joint conference unites the conferences of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), the German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi), the International Epidemiological Association - European Region, and the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI). These societies already have long-standing experience of integrating the disciplines of medical informatics, biometry, epidemiology and health data management. The book contains over 160 papers, and is divided into 14 sections covering subject areas such as: health and clinical information systems; eHealth and telemedicine; big data and advanced analytics; and evidence-based health informatics, evaluation and education, among many others. The book will be of value to all those working in the field of health and interested in finding new ways to enable the collaboration of different scientific disciplines and the establishment of comprehensive methodological approaches.

It is generally accepted that information and communication technology has the potential to support high quality, high-tech medicine, but up to now healthcare has lagged behind other sectors, such as service industries, in the implementation of such technology. Medicine is now beginning to catch up, however, and the Austrian government recently agreed on the nationwide implementation of an Electronic Health Record (Elektronische Gesundheitsakte (ELGA)). This book presents the proceedings of the 8th scientific eHealth conference, which is being held in Vienna, Austria, in the context of the eHealth Summit Austria, in April 2014. The theme of the conference is'Outcomes Research: The Benefit of Health-IT', addressing the challenges which will inevitably accompany the new opportunities offered by the increased use of ICT in healthcare. The history of technologies making the transition from the laboratory into practice is one of mixed success. It is vital to understand what makes such an implementation a positive one, and factors such as the needs, fears, and context of potential users are as important as a sound technical implementation. Priorities may need to be rethought and new dimensions added. The book will be of interest to all those considering the effect of new technologies and eHealth on the provision of healthcare systems, and seeking to achieve services which are both technically and organizationally sound and which will also efficiently deliver noticeable benefits for users.

Mit dem Projekt „IGaDtools4MINT“ wurde angestrebt, die Interdisziplinarität, die Anwendungsbezogenheit und die große Bedeutung der Informatik für Entwicklungen, von denen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt profitieren können, stärker in die Curricula zu integrieren, um die Wichtigkeit der Teilhabe an diesen Entwicklungen zu demonstrieren sowie die Attraktivität des Studienfachs für verschiedenste Studierende weiter zu steigern. Zudem soll durch gezielte Maßnahmenentwicklung der Anteil von Frauen und anderen bislang unterrepräsentierten Gruppen in der Informatik erhöht und die Studienabbruchquoten nachhaltig gesenkt werden. Langfristig soll dadurch eine Öffnung der Fachkultur Informatik erreicht werden.

Nonlinear Physics of Ecosystems introduces the concepts and tools of pattern formation theory and demonstrates their utility in ecological research using problems from spatial ecology. Written in language understandable to both physicists and ecologists in most parts, the book reveals the mechanisms of pattern formation and pattern dynamics. It als

The integration of grid, cloud and other e-infrastructures into the fields of biology, bioinformatics, biomedicine, and healthcare are crucial if optimum use is to be made of the latest high-performance and distributed computer technology in these areas. Science gateways are concerned with offering intuitive graphical user interfaces to applications, data, and tools on distributed computing infrastructures. This book presents the joint proceedings of the Tenth HealthGrid Conference and the Fourth International Workshop on Science Gateways for Life Sciences (IWSG-Life), held in Amsterdam, Netherlands in May 2012. The HealthGrid conference promotes the exchange and debate of ideas, technologies and solutions likely to promote the integration of grids into biomedical research and health in the broadest sense. The IWSG-Life workshop series is a forum that brings together scientists from the field of life sciences, bioinformatics, and computer science to advance computational biology and chemistry in the context of science gateways. These events have been jointly organized to maximize the benefit from synergies and stimulate the forging of further links in joint research areas. The book is divided into three parts. Part I includes contributions accepted to the HealthGrid conference; Part II contains the papers about various aspects of the development and usage of science gateways for life sciences. The joint session is recorded in Part III, and addresses the topic of science gateways for biomedical research. The book will provide insights and new perspectives for all those involved in the research and use of infrastructures and technology for healthcare and life sciences.