Wearable and Implantable Medical Devices. Applications and Challenges. Advances in ubiquitous sensing applications for healthcare

Authors

Nilanjan Dey Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad JIS University, Agarpara, Kolkata, India.. Nilanjan Dey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, JIS University, Kolkata, India. He is a visiting fellow of the University of Reading, UK, and also holds the position of Adjunct Professor at Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Previously, he held the honorary position of Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2012-2015). He got his PhD from Jadavpur University in 2015. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, IGI Global, USA. He is the Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing (Springer Nature), Data-Intensive Research (Springer Nature), Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare (Elsevier). He is an associate editor of IET Image Processing (Wiley) and an editorial board member of Complex & Intelligent Systems (Springer Nature), Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier), and more. He has written 110 books and over 300 other publications in the areas of medical imaging, machine learning, computer aided diagnosis, data mining, etc. His works have been cited over 15,000 times. He is India's Ambassador to the International Federation for Information Processing-Young ICT Group and a senior member of IEEE. Amira S. Ashour Assistant Professor and Head of Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt. Amira S. Ashour is an Assistant Professor and Head of Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt. She is a member in the Research and Development Unit, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt. She received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt in 1997, M.Sc. in Image Processing in 2001 and Ph.D. in Smart Antenna in 2005 from Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt. Ashour has been the Vice Chair of Computer Engineering Department, Computers and Information Technology College, Taif University, KSA for one year from 2015. She has been the vice chair of CS department, CIT college, Taif University, KSA for 5 years. Her research interests are Smart antenna, Direction of arrival estimation, Targets tracking, Image processing, Medical imaging, Machine learning, Biomedical Systems, Pattern recognition, Image analysis, Computer vision, Computer-aided detection and diagnosis systems, Optimization, and Neutrosophic theory. She has 15 books and about 150 published journal papers. She is an Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE), IGI Global, US. Simon James Fong Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science Data Analytics and Collaborative Computing Laboratory, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau SAR. Simon Fong graduated from La Trobe University, Australia, with a 1st Class Honours BEng, Computer Systems degree and a PhD, Computer Science degree in 1993 and 1998 respectively. Simon is now working as an Associate Professor at the Computer and Information Science Department of the University of Macau. He is a co-founder of the Data Analytics and Collaborative Computing Research Group in the Faculty of Science and Technology. Prior to his academic career, Simon took up various managerial and technical posts, such as systems engineer, IT consultant and e-commerce director in Australia and Asia. Dr. Fong has published over 373 international conference and peer-reviewed journal papers, mostly in the areas of data mining, data stream mining, big data analytics, meta-heuristics optimization algorithms, and their applications. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Network and Computer Applications of Elsevier, IEEE IT Professional Magazine, and various special issues of SCIE-indexed journals. Chintan Bhatt Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Charotar University of Science And Technology, Gujarat, India. Chintan Bhatt is an Assistant Professor of U & P U Patel Department of Computer Engineering at Charotar University of Science And Technology. His PhD is in Computer Science. He has done M.Tech. in Computer Engineering, Dharmsinh Desai University, 2009 - 2011, B.E. in Computer Engineering, Gujarat University (Charotar Institute of Technology), 2005 - 2009. His research interests include Data Mining, Software Engineering, Networking, Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile Computing. He received an award on 2015, Paper Publication at International Conference Award and Faculty with Maximum Publication in CSIC Award during CSI Annual Convention, New Delhi. He had organized special sessions on Internet of Things (IoT), CSNT, Gwalior during 4-6 April, 2015 and on Internet of Things (IoT) and big data in IoT , ICTCS, at Udaipur during 14-16 November, 2014. He is an active reviewer in the Wireless Communications, IEEE and Internet of Things Journal, IEEE, as well as Mobile Networks and Applications, Springer. He has several publications in repute journals. He has edited 4 books in IGI Global and Springer and he is currently editing 2books under Elsevier.