Tuesday 24 August – Friday 27 August, 2010

University of Oulu

Lecturer: Professor Ryuji Kohno Finnish Distinguished Professor (FiDiPro), CWC, University of Oulu, Finland Division of Physics, Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate School of Engineering, and Director, Center of Medical Information and Communication Technology, Yokohama National University, Japan Program Coordinator, Medical ICT Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications technology (NICT), Japan

Course Description

Regional gap, high expense and sugary failure in medical health care becomes a serious social problem. Population ageing may crap social healthcare service due to exceeding expense for high cost and long treatment etc. In order to solve such a social problem, advanced information and communication technology (ICT) can improve connectivity and communications for medical healthcare among hospitals, houses and peoples in country sides and metro-cities by networking. Ultimately advanced ICT will realize “Ubiquitous Medicine,” so that medical healthcare can be served for anyone anytime and anywhere.
This course of lectures will provide demand and trend of Ubiquitous Medicine, and introduce some advanced medical healthcare systems such as body area network (BAN), medical implant communication system (MICS) etc. Moreover, the lecture will introduce technical requirements to carry out ubiquitous medicine based on such an advanced ICT that can satisfy the requirement to solve various problems. It will also discuss on subjects of research and develop for ubiquitous medicine. Furthermore, it will cover some regulation and standardization to make ubiquitous medicine attractive business and key projects for interaction at industry and academia.

Structure:

Part I:
Lectures:
Tuesday 24.8.2010	9:00-12:00
Wednesday 25.8.2010	9:00-12:00
Thursday 26.8.2010	9:00-12:00
Part II:
Student Presentations and Discussion:
Friday 27.8.2010	9:00-12:00

Course Contents:

1. Overview of Advanced Medical Healthcare Based on ICT 2. Background and Demand 3. Global Trend and Projects on Medical ICT 3.1 Ubiquitous Medicine Based on Advanced ICT 3.2 Related Projects 4. Required Wireless Technologies 4.1 Basic Communication Theory and Advanced ICT 4.2 Adaptive Array Antenna and Sensor 4.3 Space-Time Signal Processing and Communication Theory 4.4 Software Defined (Reconfigurable) Radio and Network 4.5 Cognitive Radio and Network 4.6 Spread Spectrum and Ultra Wideband (UWB) Communications and Ranging   5. Advanced Medical Healthcare Systems 5.1 Body Area Network (BAN): Wearable and Implant BANs 5.2 Medical Implant Communication System (MICS) 5.3 Others 6. Research and Develop Subjects 6.1 Channel Measurement and Modeling 6.2 Technologies in PHY and MAC Layers 6.3 Interference Mitigation for Coexistence 6.4 Security for Medical Healthcare Systems 7. International Standard and Regulation 7.1 Standardization (IEEE802) 7.2 Regulation (FCC, FDA, MIC) 7.3 Clinical Testing and Type Approval 8. Concluding Remark

Lecture Notes:

will be available in ApuMatti.

Registration:

can be done online at: http://www.webropol.com/P.aspx?id=458281&cid=106683 at the very latest until Mon 17 August 2010.

Presentation and Report Submission:

Presentation is scheduled on August 27 (Friday)
Report should be submitted to kirsi.ojutkangas@ee.oulu.fi no later than September 10 (Friday)

Requested Subject:

Students are requested to present a possible research, develop, and business theme on medical ICT stimulated by this lecture with powerpoint or pdf files.