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EpiCare – A home care platform based on mobile cloud computing to assist Epilepsy diagnosis

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  • @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
Daniel Callegari1,*, Endrigo Conte1, Tiago Ferreto1, Denis Fernandes2, Filipe Moraes2, Fernando Burmeister3, Romulo Severino4
  • 1: School of Informatics - PUCRS
  • 2: School of Engineering - PUCRS
  • 3: Dell Computers
  • 4: InsCer - Brain Institute - Sao Lucas Hospital
*Contact email: daniel.callegari@pucrs.br

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.