Guest Editorial Cardiovascular Health Informatics: Risk Screening and Intervention

Despite enormous efforts to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the past, it remains the leading cause of death in most countries worldwide. Around two-thirds of these deaths are due to acute events, which frequently occur suddenly and are often fatal beforemedical care can be given. New strategies for screening and early intervening CVD, in addition to the conventional methods, are therefore needed in order to provide personalized and pervasive healthcare. In this special issue, selected emerging technologies in health informatics for screening and intervening CVDs are reported. These papers include reviews or original contributions on 1) new potential genetic biomarkers for screening CVD outcomes and high-throughput techniques for mining genomic data; 2) new imaging techniques for obtaining faster and higher resolution images of cardiovascular imaging biomarkers such as the cardiac chambers and atherosclerotic plaques in coronary arteries, as well as possible automatic segmentation, identification, or fusion algorithms; 3) new physiological biomarkers and novel wearable and home healthcare technologies for monitoring them in daily lives; 4) new personalized prediction models of plaque formation and progression or CVD outcomes; and 5) quantifiable indices and wearable systems to measure them for early intervention of CVD through lifestyle changes. It is hoped that the proposed technologies and systems covered in this special issue can result in improved CVD management and treatment at the point of need, offering a better quality of life to the patient

Motion compensation of tendon-sheath driven continuum manipulator for endoscopic surgery

10.1051/matecconf/20153204007MATEC Web of Conferences32400

A Secure Cross-layer Protocol for Multi-hop Wireless Body Area Networks

Abstract. The development of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) for wireless sensing and monitoring of a person’s vital functions, is an enabler in providing better personal health care whilst enhancing the quality of life. A critical factor in the acceptance of WBANs is providing appropriate security and privacy protection of the wireless communication. This paper first describes a general health care platform and pinpoints the security challenges and requirements. Further it proposes and analyzes the CICADA-S protocol, a secure cross-layer protocol for WBANs. It is an extension of CICADA, which is a cross-layer protocol that handles both medium access and the routing of data in WBANs. The CICADA-S protocol is the first integrated solution that copes with threats that occur in this mobile medical monitoring scenario. It is shown that the integration of key management and secure, privacy preserving communication techniques within the CICADA-S protocol has low impact on the power consumption and throughput.

Das Prytaneion in Ephesos. Forschungen in Ephesos|Das Prytaneion in Ephesos Forschungen in Ephesos Band IX/4|

The Handbook of Information and Communication Security covers some of the latest advances in fundamentals, cryptography, intrusion detection, access control, networking (including extensive sections on optics and wireless systems), software, forensics, and legal issues. The editors¿ intention, with respect to the presentation and sequencing of the chapters, was to create a reasonably natural flow between the various sub-topics. This handbook will be useful to researchers and graduate students in academia, as well as being an invaluable resource for university instructors who are searching for new material to cover in their security courses. In addition, the topics in this volume are highly relevant to the real world practice of information security, which should make this book a valuable resource for working IT professionals. This handbook will be a valuable resource for a diverse audience for many years to come

Janus kinase 3-activating mutations identifi ed in natural killer/T-cell lymphoma

10.1158/2159-8290.CD-12-0028Cancer Discovery27591-59