Title :
CHRONIOUS: A wearable system for the management of chronic disease patients
Author :
Papadopoulos, Athanasios ; Fotiadis, Dimitrios I. ; Lawo, Michael ; Ciancitto, Fabio ; Podolak, Christian ; Dellaca, Raffaele L. ; Munaro, Giulia ; Rosso, Roberto
Author_Institution :
Biomed. Res. Inst., FORTH BRI Found. for Res. & Technol. - Hellas, Ioannina, Greece
Abstract :
CHRONIOUS project contributions supports the design and the development of an open architecture monitoring platform aiming on the detailed description of patient´s health status focusing on people with chronic diseases. Essential modules of the CHRONIOUS system are the wearable platform responsible for the collection of several vital body signs, environmental, context and patient´s activity signals. These data together with the description of patients´ drug intake and dietary habits are analyzed by the CHRONIOUS intelligent module. The patient´s history and his demographic data are processed along with the rest of the signals, concluding in the description of his recent health condition and the estimation of his severity status. As pilot studies for the development and the evaluation of the CHRONIOUS system, two of the most frequent chronic diseases have been selected: the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and the Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). The architecture of the CHRONIOUS platform as well as some of the initial results are presented in this paper.
Keywords :
Internet; biomedical telemetry; body sensor networks; diseases; drugs; kidney; lung; notebook computers; patient monitoring; CHRONIOUS intelligent module; PDA; chronic kidney disease; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; data handler; dietary habits; drug intake; home patient unit; open architecture monitoring platform; sensors; smart assistant device; vital body signs; wearable system; Biomedical imaging; Data visualization; Deformable models; Diseases; Image reconstruction; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical treatment; Pelvis; Radiography; Reconstruction algorithms; Wearable; chronic disease; monitoring;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine, 2009. ITAB 2009. 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Larnaca
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5379-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5379-5
DOI :
10.1109/ITAB.2009.5394341