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Challenges and opportunities in cardiovascular health informatics.

Authors :
Zhang YT
Zheng YL
Lin WH
Zhang HY
Zhou XL
Source :
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering [IEEE Trans Biomed Eng] 2013 Mar; Vol. 60 (3), pp. 633-42. Date of Electronic Publication: 2013 Feb 01.
Publication Year :
2013

Abstract

Cardiovascular health informatics is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field concerning the processing, integration/interpretation, storage, transmission, acquisition, and retrieval of information from cardiovascular systems for the early detection, early prediction, early prevention, early diagnosis, and early treatment of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Based on the first author's presentation at the first IEEE Life Sciences Grand Challenges Conference, held on October 4-5, 2012, at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, USA, this paper, focusing on coronary arteriosclerotic disease, will discuss three significant challenges of cardiovascular health informatics, including: 1) to invent unobtrusive and wearable multiparameter sensors with higher sensitivity for the real-time monitoring of physiological states; 2) to develop fast multimodal imaging technologies with higher resolution for the quantification and better understanding of structure, function, metabolism of cardiovascular systems at the different levels; and 3) to develop novel multiscale information fusion models and strategies with higher accuracy for the personalized predication of the CVDs. At the end of this paper, a summary is given to suggest open discussions on these three and more challenges that face the scientific community in this field in the future.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1558-2531
Volume :
60
Issue :
3
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
23380853
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2013.2244892