Smart Distributed Embedded Systems for Healthcare Applications

This book discusses the applications and optimization of emerging smart technologies in the field of healthcare. It further explains different modeling scenarios of the latest technologies in the healthcare system and compares the results to better understand the nature and progress of diseases in the human body, which would ultimately lead to early diagnosis and better treatment and cure of diseases with the help of distributed technology.

• Covers the implementation models using technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning with distributed systems for better diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
• Gives in-depth review of technological advancements like advanced sensing technologies such as plasmonic sensors, usage of RFIDs, and electronic diagnostic tools in the field of healthcare engineering.
• Discusses possibilities of augmented reality and virtual reality interventions for providing unique solutions in medical science, clinical research, psychology, and neurological disorders.
• Highlights the future challenges and risks involved in the application of smart technologies such as cloud computing, fog computing, IOT, and distributed computing in healthcare.
• Confers to utilize the AI and ML and associated aids in healthcare sectors in the post-Covid 19 period to revitalize the medical setup.

Contributions included in the book will motivate technological developers and researchers to develop new algorithms and protocols in the healthcare field. It will serve as a vast platform for gaining knowledge regarding healthcare delivery, health- care management, healthcare in governance, and health monitoring approaches using distributed environments. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and researchers in diverse engineering fields including electrical, electronics and communication, computer, and biomedical fields.

本書討論了新興智慧科技在醫療領域的應用和優化。它進一步解釋了醫療系統中最新技術的不同建模場景，並將結果進行比較，以更好地了解人體疾病的性質和進展，從而最終實現早期診斷和更好的治療和治愈疾病。

本書涵蓋了使用人工智能、機器學習和深度學習等技術以及分散系統進行更好的疾病診斷和治療的實施模型。

本書深入評估了在醫療工程領域中先進感測技術（如等離子感測器）、RFID和電子診斷工具等技術的技術進展。

本書討論了擴增實境和虛擬實境介入在醫學科學、臨床研究、心理學和神經疾病領域提供獨特解決方案的可能性。

本書強調了在醫療領域應用智慧技術（如雲計算、雾計算、物聯網和分散計算）所涉及的未來挑戰和風險。

本書提出了在後COVID-19時期利用人工智能、機器學習和相關輔助工具來振興醫療體系的建議。

本書的貢獻將激勵技術開發人員和研究人員在醫療領域開發新的算法和協議。它將作為一個廣泛的平台，用於獲取有關醫療交付、醫療管理、醫療治理以及使用分散環境進行健康監測方法的知識。它將成為電氣、電子與通信、計算機和生物醫學等不同工程領域的研究生和研究人員的理想參考書。

Dr. Preeti Nagrath is working as an Associate Professor in Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering. She has more than 19 years of Academic Experience. She is B.Tech (Computer Science and Engineering), M.Tech (Computer Science and Engineering) and PhD (Computer Science and Engineering). Her areas of research are Network security, Delay Tolerant networks, Machine learning and deep learning. She is the member of ISTE. She has more than 60 research papers in SCI- indexed journals, high reputed journals and international conferences. She is working on Government funded DST project on Women security. She has chaired many sessions in international conferences. She is appointed as a reviewer in many conferences and journals. She has organized many faculty development programs, workshops, hackathons and Guest lectures. She has mentored teams in Smart India Hackathons. She is Associate Editor of Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Technologies, Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering, New Delhi.

Jafar A. Alzubi is an Associate Professor at Al-Balqa Applied University, School of Engineering, Jordan. Received Ph.D. degree in Advanced Telecommunications from Swansea University, Swansea - UK (2012). Master of Science degree (Hons.) in electrical and computer engineering from New York Institute of Technology, New York - USA (2005). And Bachelor of Science degree (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering, majoring in Electronics and Communications, from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore - Pakistan (2001). Jafar works and researches in multi and interdisciplinary environment involving Machine Learning, classifications and detection of Web scams, Internet of Things, Wireless Sensor Networks, Cryptography, and using Algebraic-Geometric theory in channel coding for wireless networks. He managed and directed few projects funded by the European Union. A cumulative research experience for over ten years, resulted in publishing more than Sixty papers in highly impacted journals. Currently, he is senior IEEE member and serving as an editor for IEEE Access Journal, and Wireless Sensor Networks area editor for Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. In addition, he is editorial board member and reviewer in many other prestigious journals in computer engineering and science field. He is also managing several special issues in high impacted journals.

Dr. Bhawna Singla has received her doctorate degree from Thapar University, Patiala, India. She is currently working as Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Department, PIET College of Engineering and Technology, Samalkha, Panipat, India. She organized and participated in several national level seminars and conferences. She has more than 15 years of rich academic experience. She has published more than 25 research papers in International Journals/Conferences and edited Books. She is in editorial and in the review panel of many International Journals. She organized a National Level Seminar on "Mobile Computing and Mobile Applications Development (MOBAPP-2014) which is dedicated to state of the art research on mobile computing and its application including services. She participated in the organizing activities of an International Conference on Emerging Technologies - ICET-2014, Futuristic Technologies (ICFT 2019).

Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues [S'01, M'06, SM'06, F'20] is a professor at College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), senior researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal; and collaborator of the Post-Graduation Program on Teleinformatics Engineering at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Brazil. He also worked at the Federal University of Piauí, Brazil. Prof. Rodrigues is the leader of the Next Generation Networks and Applications (NetGNA) research group (CNPq), an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Member Representative of the IEEE Communications Society on the IEEE Biometrics Council, and the President of the scientific council at ParkUrbis - Covilhã Science and Technology Park. He was Director for Conference Development - IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors, Technical Activities Committee Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Latin America Region Board, a Past-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on eHealth, a Past-chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Communications Software, a Steering Committee member of the IEEE Life Sciences Technical Community and Publications co-Chair. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications and editorial board member of several high-reputed journals. He has been general chair and TPC Chair of many international conferences, including IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE HEALTHCOM, and IEEE LatinCom. He has authored or coauthored over 950 papers in refereed international journals and conferences, 3 books, 2 patents, and 1 ITU-T Recommendation. He had been awarded several Outstanding Leadership and Outstanding Service Awards by IEEE Communications Society and several best papers awards. Prof. Rodrigues is a member of the Internet Society, a senior member ACM, and Fellow of IEEE.

Dr. A K Verma is currently working as Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala in Punjab (INDIA). He received his B.E., M.E. and PhD. in 1991, 2001 and 2008 respectively, majoring in Computer Science and Engineering. He has worked as Lecturer at M.M.M. Engg. College, Gorakhpur (now, M.M.M. University of Technology) from 1991 to 1996. Onwards 1996 he is associated with Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology. He is leading the research group on Mobile Computing and Communication (MC2) at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology. He has published over 150 papers in refereed journals and conferences (India and Abroad). He is member of various program committees for different International/National Conferences and is on the review board of various International/National journals. He has visited - USA (2005), South Korea(2012), Japan(2013), Ireland(2015) and Bahrain(2017) for academic purpose. He is a MACM (USA), MISCI (Turkey), LMCSI (Mumbai), GMAIMA (New Delhi). He is a certified software quality auditor by MoCIT, Govt. of India.

Dr. Preeti Nagrath在Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering擔任副教授。她擁有超過19年的學術經驗。她擁有計算機科學和工程的學士學位、計算機科學和工程的碩士學位以及計算機科學和工程的博士學位。她的研究領域包括網絡安全、延遲容忍網絡、機器學習和深度學習。她是ISTE的成員。她在SCI索引期刊、高聲譽期刊和國際會議上發表了60多篇研究論文。她正在從事政府資助的關於婦女安全的DST項目。她主持了許多國際會議的會議。她被任命為許多會議和期刊的審稿人。她組織了許多教師發展計劃、研討會、黑客松和客座講座。她指導了智能印度黑客松的團隊。她是《多學科工程技術期刊》的副編輯，該期刊屬於Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering，位於新德里。

Jafar A. Alzubi是約旦Al-Balqa應用大學工程學院的副教授。他於2012年從斯旺西大學獲得先進電信學博士學位。他於2005年從紐約理工學院獲得電氣和計算機工程的碩士學位。他於2001年從拉合爾工程和技術大學獲得電氣工程的學士學位，專攻電子和通信。Jafar在多學科環境中工作和研究，涉及機器學習、網絡詐騙的分類和檢測、物聯網、無線傳感器網絡、密碼學以及在無線網絡的信道編碼中使用代數幾何理論。他管理和指導了幾個由歐洲聯盟資助的項目。他累積了超過十年的研究經驗，發表了六十多篇在高影響力期刊上的論文。目前，他是高級IEEE會員，擔任IEEE Access Journal的編輯，以及土耳其電氣工程和計算機科學期刊的無線傳感器網絡領域編輯。此外，他還是許多其他知名計算機工程和科學領域期刊的編輯委員會成員和審稿人。他還管理著幾個高影響力期刊的特刊。

Dr. Bhawna Singla在印度帕蒂亞拉的Thapar大學獲得博士學位。她目前在印度帕尼帕特的PIET College of Engineering and Technology的計算機科學和工程系擔任教授。她組織並參加了多個國家級研討會和會議。她擁有超過15年豐富的學術經驗。她在國際期刊/會議上發表了25多篇研究論文，並編輯了書籍。她是許多國際期刊的編輯和審稿人。她組織了一個國家級關於“移動計算和移動應用開發（MOBAPP-2014）”的研討會，該研討會致力於移動計算及其應用，包括服務的最新研究。她參與了一個國際會議的組織活動，該會議是關於新興技術的國際會議-ICET-2014，未來技術（ICFT 2019）。

Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues [S'01, M'06, SM'06, F'20]是中國石油大學（華東）計算機科學與技術學院的教授，葡萄牙電信研究所的高級研究員，巴西Ceará聯邦大學（UFC）電信工程研究生課程的合作人。他還曾在巴西皮奧伊聯邦大學工作。Rodrigues教授是Next Generation Networks and Applications (NetGNA)研究小組（CNPq）的負責人，是IEEE傑出講師，是IEEE通信學會在IEEE Biomet上的成員代表。他是著名期刊IEEE Access Journal的編輯，以及土耳其電氣工程和計算機科學期刊的無線傳感器網絡領域編輯。此外，他還是許多其他知名計算機工程和科學領域期刊的編輯委員會成員和審稿人。他還管理著幾個高影響力期刊的特刊。