Biomedical Signal and Image Processing in Patient Care

In healthcare systems, medical devices help physicians and specialists in diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutics. As research shows, validation of medical devices is significantly optimized by accurate signal processing. Biomedical Signal and Image Processing in Patient Care is a pivotal reference source for progressive research on the latest development of applications and tools for healthcare systems. Featuring extensive coverage on a broad range of topics and perspectives such as telemedicine, human machine interfaces, and multimodal data fusion, this publication is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, students, and practitioners seeking current scholarly research on real-life technological inventions.

Maheshkumar H. Kolekar was born in Satara, India. He received the Ph.D. degree in electronics and electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2007. From 2008 to 2009, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. Since 2010, he has been working as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering with the Indian Institute of Technology Patna (IIT Patna), where he served as a Coordinator with the Department of Electrical Engineering, in 2013, for one year and has been a Coordinator with the Center for Advanced Systems Engineering since 2014. His research interests are in digital image and video processing, video surveillance, and medical image processing. He was a recipient of the Best Paper Award from the Computer Society of India for his research paper. In 2012, he was an Organizing Chair of the IEEE sponsored International Conference on Signal, Image and Video Processing at the IIT Patna, a Guest Editor of the Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics (American Scientific) for Special Issue on Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, a Tutorial Chair of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction, a Keynote Speaker of the International conference on Biomedical Systems, Signals and Images at the IIT Madras, an Editorial Board Member of the American Journal of Signal Processing (Scientific and Academic). In 2014, he successfully organized Special Session on Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems at the International Conference on Systems Engineering, Las Vegas, NV, USA.

Vinod Kumar was Deputy Director and Professor of Electrical Engineering at IIT Roorkee. He received his B.Tech degree from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh and M.Tech. and Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee (erstwhile University of Roorkee). He has many academic awards, distinctions and scholarships to his credit including the Khosla Research Awards of University of Roorkee, Ist IETE-R S Khandpur Medical Instrumentation Gold Medal in recognition of life time achievements and outstanding contribution in the field of Biomedical Instrumentation 2006, Railways Board Award for the best paper by IE(I) 2006, KS Krishna Memorial Award of IETE, The Brij Mohanlal Award of IE (I), The Corps of Engineers Prize of IR(I), best paper certificates of Awards of IE (I). He is the best teacher awardee of IIT Roorkee. Prof. Vinod Kumar has about 180 research papers to his credit in the area of Medical Instrumentation and Signal Processing. He has guided 28 PhD.s, more than 150 M. Tech dissertations and more than 150 B. Tech. Projects in the area of medical instrumentation and digital signal and image processing. He held many positions in IIT Roorkee administration such as Dean Faculty Affairs, Heads of Electrical Engineering Department, Continuing Education Centre, Quality Improvement Program Centre, Information Super Highway Centre and Audio Visual Centre. He was also Associate Dean Academic, Chairperson of many Committees and member of several academic committees of other educational institutions of higher learning and councils. He was National Coordinator QIP. He has widely travelled in India and abroad namely USA, UK, Germany, France, Canada, Singapore, Dubai, Thailand, Finland, Switzerland for invited key notes, research collaborations and discussions. He has taken more that 90 assignments as consultant in diverse fields which includes development of instruments, signal processing packages, residual life assessment of power plants and e-governance. He has 41 years of rich experience of teaching & research and technical education management. He is a life fellow of IETE and IE (I), member IEI UK and senior member of IEEE USA. His areas of interest are Medical Instrumentation, Digital Signal Processing, Telemedicine and e-Governance.