Plenary Lecture
Telemedicine: The Present and Its Future
Professor Evangelos A. Yfantis
Director of the ICIS Laboratory
Professor of Computer Science
Computer Science Department
Engineering College of the University of Nevada
USA
E-mail: yfantis@cs.unlv.edu
Abstract: A big part of the population in the USA, Canada, and European countries is over fifty and starts to put an increasing burden in the health care system of their countries. The number of hospital beds is not enough to provide long care to the patients. Furthermore smaller hospitals in rural areas do not have all the specialties needed. Thus doctors of needed specialties visit these hospitals on a need basis, perform the necessary procedures and monitor their patients remotely. Often times military personnel traveling overseas are in need of medical attention by specialists from large medical centers in the United States. These special medical professionals provide guidance to the operating Doctors in the overseas military hospitals, real time, and they guide them to perform the operation successfully. Telemedicine is a new way for monitoring patient’s progress, helping perform medical procedures remotely and successfully, moving patients early from the hospital back to their home and monitor their progress remotely, transmitting video audio, cardio and other needed data, obtained real time with the help of monitoring devices attached to the patient. Telemedicine has the potential to be big business, where large successful medical centers could provide their services real time to smaller hospitals, and guide the medical professionals of those smaller hospitals to successfully operate on patients with very challenging health problems.
Brief Biography of the Speaker: E. A. Yfantis, is the director of the ICIS lab, and a full professor of Computer Science, which is part of the Engineering College at the Unversity of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dr. Yfantis is the author of over 200 reseach papers and technical reports in the areas of Computer Science, Information theory, Internet Intelligence, Signal Processing, Communication, Statistical Pattern Recognition, Probability theory, Statistics, Ocean Engineering, Aerodynamics, Electrical Engineering, Medicine, Visualization, Enviromental Protection, and Chemometrics. He has been a consultant for NASA, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Sandia Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, EG&G, Naval Ocean System Center in Santiego California, Corps of Engineers U.S. Army, Lockheed Engineering and Aerospace, Northrop, NSTeC, U.S. EPA, U.S. Department of Energy, SGI, Exxon Corporation, Shell Oil Company, Bendix Corporation, Nevada Gaming Control Board, and many other companys in the US and Canada. His Education includes: Computer Science, Mathematics, Signal Processing, Statistics, Aeronautics, Ocean Engineering, and Electrical Engineering. He was educated at the Universities of: Athens Greece, Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. U.S.A., New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J., Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, N.J., U.S.A., University of Wyoming, Laramie, U.S.A., Columbia University in N.Y., N.Y., U.S.A, the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, U.S.A., School of Aeronautics in Teteboro N.J., U.S.A. He holds a Pilot’s License, and is a certified Scuba Diver by PADI. Hi current research interests are Computer-Robot Vision, Machine Vision, Machine Intelligence, Statistical Pattern Recognition, and Multimedia Communication.