UbiMon: Ubiquitous Monitoring Environment for wearable and Implantable Sensors

Speaker:          Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang   
                  Director of the Royal Society/Wolfson Foundation 
                  Medical Image Computing Laboratory, Imperial College, 
                  UK
   

Title:            UbiMon: Ubiquitous Monitoring Environment for wearable 
                  and Implantable Sensors


Date:             Tuesday, 09 March 2004 

Time:             3:00pm - 4:00pm 

Venure:           Room 1401    


ABSTRACT: 

"Future Health - Is Pervasive Computing the answer for Hong Kong and UK?"

The UbiMon project is to investigate mobile integration issues related to
novel miniaturised low power sensor interface circuitry design and
distributed computing environment for multi-sensory data fusion and
decision support. The talk presents the project vision and the latest
technical development with specific emphasis on System architecture and
low power system design, Intelligent data acquisition and context
awareness, Multi-sensor data fusion, data mining and practical
applications.


BIOGRAPHY: 

Professor Guang-Zhong Yang received B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Imperial
College, London. He served as a senior and then the principal scientist of
the Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital
before rejoining Imperial College in 1999. He is now head of the Visual
Information Processing (VIP) research group at the Department of Computing
and Chair in Medical Image Computing. His current research focuses on
Medical Image Computing, Simulation and Augmented Reality, Computational
Vision and Image Processing, and Perceptual Intelligence. Professor Yang
received the I. I. Rabi Award from the International Society for Magnetic
Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) for his work on Cardiovascular Magnetic
Resonance Flow Imaging, and is founding Chairman of IEEE UK/RI Engineering
in Medicine and Biology. He is Director of the Royal Society/Wolfson
Foundation Medical Image Computing Laboratory at Imperial College.