Cognitive and functional assessment for telemedicine applications using Internet of Things

使用物联网的远程医疗应用的认知和功能评估

• 批准号: 2517850
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Heriot-Watt University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2517850
• 关键词: Cognitive; functional; assessment; telemedicine; applications

This is a PhD research project in Electrical Engineering.The goal of the project will be to enable functional and cognitive assessment in telemedicine settings, and generally facilitate remote medical visits of elderly and vulnerable people using Internet-of-Things technology.Spotting cognitive deterioration early and finding correlations between cognitive and functional ability over time are key enablers for better informing diagnosis and personalised, continuous, and pro-active interventions, ultimately leading to more successful and sustainable treatment. However, a specialist typically sees a patient every 6 months or annually , leaving large periods of time between assessments.The proposed project will investigate, sensing, signal processing and machine learning techniques for IoT-enabled assesment during tele-visits, for instance using non-intrusive wearable sensors and/or augmented reality interfaces to collect data on activities of daily living in addition to physiological data. This type of telemedicine application would be particularly relevant in situations like the one we are experiencing, when citizens can be self-isolating, statutory service capacity constrained, and when virtual visits can offer a way for containing spread of the infection at hospitals, clinics and medical offices.

这是电气工程的博士研究项目。该项目的目标是在远程医疗环境中实现功能和认知评估，并利用物联网技术为老年人和弱势群体的远程医疗访问提供普遍便利。早期发现认知退化并发现认知能力和功能能力之间的相关性是更好地为诊断提供信息和个性化、持续和主动干预的关键因素，最终导致更成功和可持续的治疗。然而，专家通常每6个月或每年看一次病人，在两次评估之间留出很长的时间。拟议的项目将调查、传感、信号处理和机器学习技术，用于远程访问期间的物联网评估，例如使用非侵入式可穿戴传感器和/或增强现实接口来收集日常生活活动的数据，以及生理数据。这种类型的远程医疗应用将特别适用于我们正在经历的情况，在这种情况下，公民可以自我隔离，法定服务能力受到限制，虚拟访问可以提供一种方法来控制感染在医院、诊所和医疗办公室的传播。