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Project overview

Since there is a lack of adequately equipped hospitals and medical professionals in rural regions in Tunisia, the proposed project is aimed at investigating, developing, deploying and evaluating an e-health software system for treating patients with chronic diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular disease and asthma. The software system:

  1. Collects data of a patient via a set of wearable sensors.
  2. Analyzes incoming sensor data together with data extracted from additional sources in the World Wide Web.
  3. Automatically proposes an individual treatment plan.

A medical expert validates the treatment plan and executes it on the patient living in a rural region. The research project is based on the use of:

  1. Wearable devices for sensing data;
  2. Cloud computing for storing and processing data;
  3. Data mining in the WWW to automatically extract useful health-related information;
  4. Semantic complex event processing for semantically modeling, analyzing and correlating data;
  5. Mobile devices (e.g., tablets, smartphones) to execute and validate the treatment plan.

Objectives

  • A health monitoring system
  • A medical record approach
  • Extract relevant health knowledge and transform it into semantic analysis rules
  • Generate e-health CEP queries to detect and predict health anomalies
  • Generate an adequate treatment plan
  • Evaluate our e-health system via use cases from the university hospitals of Sfax
  • Organize training sessions for doctors and patients to demonstrate our e-health system