Research Article
EpiCare – A home care platform based on mobile cloud computing to assist Epilepsy diagnosis
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257379, author={Daniel Callegari and Endrigo Conte and Tiago Ferreto and Denis Fernandes and Filipe Moraes and Fernando Burmeister and Romulo Severino}, title={EpiCare -- A home care platform based on mobile cloud computing to assist Epilepsy diagnosis}, proceedings={4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies"}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={MOBIHEALTH}, year={2014}, month={12}, keywords={epilepsy eeg home care signal processing mobile cloud computing}, doi={10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257379} }- Daniel Callegari
Endrigo Conte
Tiago Ferreto
Denis Fernandes
Filipe Moraes
Fernando Burmeister
Romulo Severino
Year: 2014
EpiCare – A home care platform based on mobile cloud computing to assist Epilepsy diagnosis
MOBIHEALTH
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257379
Abstract
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects a significant percentage of the population. Currently, electroencephalogram exams (EEG) are considered a valuable tool to support epilepsy diagnosis. In order to obtain a more trustworthy diagnosis, it is frequently necessary to submit patients to long monitoring periods. This fact, beyond causing discomfort to the patients and their relatives, implies high costs to the health system. This paper presents EpiCare, a platform to assist epilepsy diagnosis based on mobile cloud computing. The platform allows the continuous monitoring of the patient outside the hospital environment, capturing information of EEG recordings, detecting epileptic events and storing data to be reviewed by a specialist.
