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Ambient Diagnostics addresses innovative methods for discovering patterns from affordable devices, such as mobile phones, watches, cameras, and game interfaces, to interpret multimedia data for personal health monitoring and diagnosis. This is the first comprehensive textbook on multidisciplinary innovations in affordable healthcarefrom sensory fusion, pattern detection, to classification.



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The material in this book combines sensing, pattern recognition, and visual design, and is divided into four parts, which cover fundamentals, multimedia intelligence, pervasive sensors, and crowdsourcing. The author describes basic pattern discovery models, sound, color, motion and video analytics, and pattern discovery from games and social networks. Each chapter contains the material's main concepts, as well as case studies, and extensive study questions.








  • Trade Review
    "... not only the first book of its kind, it's the only reference I know of that shows how designers and engineers might create a new world of ambient healthcare with non-invasive, low-cost and accessible sensors. Yang Cai's book is a very readable, extremely comprehensive collection of technologies and applications for readily accessible sensors and mobile technologies for immediate application in everyday diagnosis across the spectrum of health situations. Yang Cai's book is especially valuable as a deeply-researched and reliable source for engineers, product and medical device designers to quickly learn and adapt the emerging tools and sensors to facilitate what is so brilliantly framed as "ambient diagnostics." -Peter Jones, PhD, OCAD University, Toronto "The main contribution of this book is a comprehensive transversal approach that combines this ample background into a single matter ... a combination of diverse methodologies and strategies that are directly applicable to sense, perceive and recognize a great diversity of ambient parameters. Its easy-to-read style and its frequent references to real life examples make the book very attractive to the reader." -Julio Abascal, University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

    Table of Contents

    Part I. Fundamentals. Introduction. Transformation. Pattern Recognition. Part II. Multimedia Intelligence. Sound Recognition. Color Sensors. Kinect Sensors. Video Analytics. Fatigue Sensing. Part III. Pervasive Sensors. Mobile Sensors. Body Media. Pocket Microscopes. Personal Spectrometers. Part IV. Crowd Sourcing. Remote Sensing. Games for Diagnosis. Social Media. Problems. Sample Source Code. Further Readings. Index.

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    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
    Publication Date: 01/12/2014
    ISBN13: 9781466510418, 978-1466510418
    ISBN10: 1466510412
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    Ambient Diagnostics addresses innovative methods for discovering patterns from affordable devices, such as mobile phones, watches, cameras, and game interfaces, to interpret multimedia data for personal health monitoring and diagnosis. This is the first comprehensive textbook on multidisciplinary innovations in affordable healthcarefrom sensory fusion, pattern detection, to classification.



    Connecting the Dots



    The material in this book combines sensing, pattern recognition, and visual design, and is divided into four parts, which cover fundamentals, multimedia intelligence, pervasive sensors, and crowdsourcing. The author describes basic pattern discovery models, sound, color, motion and video analytics, and pattern discovery from games and social networks. Each chapter contains the material's main concepts, as well as case studies, and extensive study questions.








    • Trade Review
      "... not only the first book of its kind, it's the only reference I know of that shows how designers and engineers might create a new world of ambient healthcare with non-invasive, low-cost and accessible sensors. Yang Cai's book is a very readable, extremely comprehensive collection of technologies and applications for readily accessible sensors and mobile technologies for immediate application in everyday diagnosis across the spectrum of health situations. Yang Cai's book is especially valuable as a deeply-researched and reliable source for engineers, product and medical device designers to quickly learn and adapt the emerging tools and sensors to facilitate what is so brilliantly framed as "ambient diagnostics." -Peter Jones, PhD, OCAD University, Toronto "The main contribution of this book is a comprehensive transversal approach that combines this ample background into a single matter ... a combination of diverse methodologies and strategies that are directly applicable to sense, perceive and recognize a great diversity of ambient parameters. Its easy-to-read style and its frequent references to real life examples make the book very attractive to the reader." -Julio Abascal, University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

      Table of Contents

      Part I. Fundamentals. Introduction. Transformation. Pattern Recognition. Part II. Multimedia Intelligence. Sound Recognition. Color Sensors. Kinect Sensors. Video Analytics. Fatigue Sensing. Part III. Pervasive Sensors. Mobile Sensors. Body Media. Pocket Microscopes. Personal Spectrometers. Part IV. Crowd Sourcing. Remote Sensing. Games for Diagnosis. Social Media. Problems. Sample Source Code. Further Readings. Index.

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