Abstract
1 Smart Media and Intelligent Life Excellence (SMILE) Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan 2Remote Sensing Signal and Image Processing Laboratory (RSSIPL), Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA 3Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249-1644, USA 4Department of Communications Engineering, Yuan Ze University, 135 Yuan-Tung Road, Chungli 320, Taiwan
Highlights
The cost of healthcare has been skyrocketing over the past decades
The technologies for healthcare have run an impressive evolution in signal/image processing, computers, and network communications and have facilitated the development of effective signal/image processing techniques in consumer electronics
While many excellent papers were left out, 16 papers selected by guest editors to be published in this special issue that cover a wide variety of healthcare applications ranging from medical signal/image processing to system design and development of hardware devices, each of which can be briefly summarized as follows
Summary
The cost of healthcare has been skyrocketing over the past decades. This is mainly due to the rapid growth of aging population. The quality of community and home healthcare has been significantly improved and many portable devices have been developed for a wide variety of applications where signal processing-based software plays a pivotal role in their success.
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