Research in this field focuses on three aspects:
- Telemedicine is the field of science and engineering involving the design and application of methods that provide diagnosis, therapy support, medical recommendations, patient monitoring, and other health-related services using remote techniques. The goal of this research field is also to develop such methods and systems that can improve patient outcomes by increasing access to healthcare services and medical, reliable information. Examples include new algorithms for remote vital signs estimation, new medical measurement methods for personal, remote diagnosis, new methods and devices for remote rehabilitation, etc.
- Health informatics is the field that encompasses research that aims at developing methods and related technologies for the acquisition, processing, and visualization of patient monomodal or multimodal data. Examples include voice recognition for the automatic description of radiological cases, disease predictive models from medical records, models of pathological speech, etc.
- Computer-aided diagnosis and therapy is an interdisciplinary research field involving the development of methods and devices to support healthcare professionals in medical diagnosis and help patients to maximize the therapy or rehabilitation outcomes. It is also focused on the development of human-computer interaction methods and interfaces, including brain-computer interfaces. Particular research topics cover artificial intelligence methods, medical robots, and virtual reality technologies. Examples include eye-tracking interfaces for paralyzed patients, medical measurements for wearable devices, brain-computer interfaces in neural engineering, human speech and audio processing, prostheses of hearing/vision systems, etc.
- Audio signal analyzing and processing, i.e., speech processing (e.g., automatic differentiation between normal and disordered speech); perception of hearing and vision applied to bio-engineering and medical informatics; hearing and vision impairment - intelligent diagnostics, biosignals such as, e.g., EEG signal analyzing and processing; multimodal computer interfaces; application of deep learning as well as classical machine learning methods to the mentioned areas.
Research in this field is carried out in cooperation with medical institutions, rehabilitation and care institutions as well as companies producing equipment and software for telemedicine and computer-added medicine. New research topics in the presented fields are possible and can be discussed with a potential supervisor.
Keywords:
telemedicine, eHealth, medical recommendations, remote diagnostics and therapy, health informatics, computer-aided diagnosis, computer-aided therapy, brain-computer interfaces, multimodal data processing, medical robots, virtual reality in medicine, speech/audio processing, hearing/vision impairment/prostheses, multimodal processing, biosignal processing, machine learning/deep learning
