Smart Distributed Embedded Systems for Healthcare Applications
暫譯: 智慧分散式嵌入式系統在醫療應用中的應用

這本書探討了新興智慧技術在醫療領域的應用與優化。它進一步解釋了最新技術在醫療系統中的不同建模情境，並比較結果，以更好地理解人體內疾病的性質和進展，最終將有助於早期診斷以及更好的治療和治癒疾病，並利用分散式技術的幫助。

- 涵蓋使用人工智慧、機器學習和深度學習等技術的實施模型，結合分散式系統以改善疾病的診斷和治療。

- 深入回顧醫療工程領域的技術進展，如等離子傳感器、高頻識別（RFID）的使用，以及電子診斷工具。

- 討論增強現實和虛擬現實介入在醫學科學、臨床研究、心理學和神經疾病中提供獨特解決方案的可能性。

- 突出應用智慧技術（如雲計算、霧計算、物聯網和分散式計算）在醫療領域中所面臨的未來挑戰和風險。

- 提出在後Covid-19時期利用人工智慧和機器學習及相關輔助工具來振興醫療體系的建議。

書中所包含的貢獻將激勵技術開發者和研究人員在醫療領域開發新的演算法和協議。它將作為一個廣泛的平台，幫助人們獲取有關醫療服務、醫療管理、醫療治理以及使用分散式環境的健康監測方法的知識。這本書將成為電機、電子與通信、計算機及生醫等多個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 目前擔任 Bharati Vidyapeeth 工程學院的副教授，擁有超過 19 年的學術經驗。她擁有計算機科學與工程的學士學位 (B.Tech)、碩士學位 (M.Tech) 及博士學位 (PhD)。她的研究領域包括網路安全、延遲容忍網路、機器學習和深度學習。她是 ISTE 的成員，並在 SCI 索引期刊、高知名度期刊及國際會議上發表了超過 60 篇研究論文。她目前正在進行一項由政府資助的 DST 項目，專注於女性安全。她曾在多個國際會議中擔任會議主席，並被任命為多個會議和期刊的審稿人。她組織了多個教師發展計畫、工作坊、黑客松和客座講座，並在 Smart India Hackathons 中指導團隊。她是《多學科工程技術期刊》的副編輯，該期刊隸屬於 Bharati Vidyapeeth 工程學院，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 年在英國斯旺西大學獲得高級電信博士學位，並於 2005 年在美國紐約理工學院獲得電氣與計算機工程碩士學位 (榮譽)。他於 2001 年在巴基斯坦拉合爾的工程與技術大學獲得電氣工程學士學位 (榮譽)，主修電子與通信。Jafar 的研究領域涵蓋機器學習、網路詐騙的分類與檢測、物聯網、無線感測器網路、密碼學，以及在無線網路的通道編碼中使用代數幾何理論。他管理並指導了幾個由歐盟資助的項目，擁有超過十年的累積研究經驗，並在高影響力的期刊上發表了超過 60 篇論文。目前，他是 IEEE 的高級會員，擔任 IEEE Access 期刊的編輯，以及土耳其電氣工程與計算機科學期刊的無線感測器網路區域編輯。此外，他還是多個計算機工程與科學領域知名期刊的編輯委員會成員和審稿人，並管理多個高影響力期刊的特刊。

Dr. Bhawna Singla 於印度 Thapar 大學獲得博士學位，目前擔任印度 Samalkha, Panipat 的 PIET 工程與技術學院計算機科學與工程系的教授。她組織並參加了多個國家級研討會和會議，擁有超過 15 年的豐富學術經驗。她在國際期刊/會議和編輯書籍上發表了超過 25 篇研究論文。她是多個國際期刊的編輯和審稿小組成員。她組織了一個名為「行動計算與行動應用開發 (MOBAPP-2014)」的國家級研討會，專注於行動計算及其應用的前沿研究，包括服務。她參與了國際會議「新興技術 - ICET-2014」和「未來技術 (ICFT 2019)」的組織活動。

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，以及巴西塞阿拉聯邦大學電信工程研究生項目的合作者。他曾在巴西皮奧伊聯邦大學工作。Rodrigues 教授是下一代網路與應用 (NetGNA) 研究小組的負責人 (CNPq)，IEEE 傑出講者，IEEE 通訊學會在 IEEE 生物識別委員會的成員代表，以及 ParkUrbis - Covilhã 科學與技術園區的科學委員會主席。他曾擔任 IEEE 通訊學會董事會的會議發展主任、IEEE 通訊學會拉丁美洲區技術活動委員會主席、IEEE 通訊學會電子健康技術委員會的前主席、IEEE 通訊學會通信軟體技術委員會的前主席、IEEE 生命科學技術社區的指導委員會成員及出版共同主席。他是《國際電子健康與醫療通信期刊》的主編，以及多個高知名度期刊的編輯委員會成員。他曾擔任多個國際會議的總主席和技術程序委員會主席，包括 IEEE ICC、IEEE GLOBECOM、IEEE HEALTHCOM 和 IEEE LatinCom。他已在經過審核的國際期刊和會議上發表或共同發表超過 950 篇論文，出版 3 本書籍、2 項專利和 1 項 ITU-T 建議書。他曾獲得 IEEE 通訊學會頒發的多項傑出領導和傑出服務獎，以及多項最佳論文獎。Rodrigues 教授是互聯網協會的成員，是 ACM 的高級會員，也是 IEEE 的院士。

Dr. A K Verma 目前在印度旁遮普的 Thapar 工程與技術學院計算機科學與工程系擔任教授。他於 1991 年、2001 年和 2008 年分別獲得計算機科學與工程的學士、碩士和博士學位。他曾於 1991 年至 1996 年在 M.M.M. 工程學院（現為 M.M.M. 科技大學）擔任講師，自 1996 年起與 Thapar 工程與技術學院合作。他目前領導 Thapar 工程與技術學院的行動計算與通信 (MC2) 研究小組，並在國內外的經過審核的期刊和會議上發表了超過 150 篇論文。他是多個國際/國家會議的程序委員會成員，並在多個國際/國家期刊的審稿委員會中任職。他曾因學術目的訪問美國（2005 年）、南韓（2012 年）、日本（2013 年）、愛爾蘭（2015 年）和巴林（2017 年）。他是 MACM（美國）、MISCI（土耳其）、LMCSI（孟買）、GMAIMA（新德里）的成員，並且是印度政府 MoCIT 認證的軟體質量審核員。