Posture tracking using machine learning and Home Hospital e-Health Centers for barrier-free and cross-border Telemedicine

Malta, June 2019. Maksym Gaiduk and Ralf Seepold presented the results from the IBH Lab running at the Lake Konstanz at the 11th International KES Conference.

Influence of Illuminance on Sleep Onset Latency in IoT based Lighting System Environment

Granada, May 2019. Maksym Gaiduk has presented the results of research on the Influence of illuminance on sleep onset latency by 7th International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering.

Sleep research presentation at German School in Moscow

Moscow, March 2019. The German School Moscow is the school of the German Embassy in Moscow. It is the unofficial center of the Germans in the metropolis, especially since many families live on the directly affiliated campus and a community is automatically created. As is customary at German schools abroad, there is a multicultural structure in which most students grow up.

International Forum on Digital Medicine

Moscow, April 12, 2019. Opening of theInternational Forum on Digital Medicine.  'The development of telemedicine in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation is the most important element of the strategy of social development', stated Senator Ildus Akhmetzyanov. 

Summerschool looks at medical informatics

Konstanz, September 29, 2018. For the first time, the computer science faculties of the HTWG and Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences have organized a German-Russian summer school together with Moscow's Sechenov University. With great success - even before its end a repetition was considered.

What developments in computer science will shape the medicine of the future? Where can it support everyday medical practice? How can diagnoses be made easier? And how do new media actually change the relationship between doctor and patient? These are just a few of the questions the German-Russian Summer School dealt with on the subject of medical informatics. For the first time, the computer science faculties of the HTWG and the Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences organized the event together with the Moscow Sechenov University. Sechenov University is the oldest Russian educational institution for health and care. It has a large medical faculty and offers further life science-oriented courses of study.

Within two weeks, eight female and two male students of the still young "General Medicine" course of study at the Russian university gained insights not only into the fields of application of modern medical informatics, but also direct experience reports from users in the German and Swiss health care system.
While the first week of the Summer School at Reutlingen University focused on the theoretical possibilities of Big Data, Blockchain, Wearables and virtual reality, the second week of the program at the HTWG in Constance focused on application. "It brought me an incredible amount of benefit that we were able to hear the experiences of practitioners in the application," said a Russian student in retrospect. The versatile programme included a guided tour of the Constance Hospital by the head of radiology, Prof. Dr. Markus Juchems, and a lecture by Dr. Sabine Schmidt-Weitmann (photo), who, as a "tele-doctor" with a team of doctors, tested online consultation hours via e-mail at the University Hospital and researched the response of patients to the offer.
Prof. Dr. Ralf Seepold, who co-initiated and organised the Summer School, led the programme in Constance. "Our goal was to show the broad spectrum of possible applications of computer science in digital medicine and to provide an insight into future trends," he said. Prof. Dr. Christian Wache from the HTWG Health Informatics course of studies addressed the compatibility of medical data in a workshop, while PhD student Maksym Gaiduk presented the possibilities of non-invasive sleep research. Two students, who had already worked in the sleep laboratory in Russia themselves, tested the new applications on their own during the summer school. "The exchange of knowledge is a great benefit. Cooperation between universities worldwide will have to become a matter of course in view of the new developments. I am delighted to be able to participate," said one student.
The mixture of lectures, laboratory visits, excursions and practical workshops was so well received that a repetition was already being considered before the end of the Summer School. (aw)

Further information about the program:
https://uc-lab.in.htwg-konstanz.de/grss.html
Link to the article in German: https://www.htwg-konstanz.de/aktuelles/news/summerschool-blickt-auf-medizininformatik/

Caption: Dr. Sabine Schmidt-Weitmann worked at the University Hospital as a "tele-doctor" with a team of doctors, testing online consultation hours by e-mail and researching the response of patients to the offer. She presented her results during the German-Russian Summer School.

The Universities HTWG Konstanz, Reutlingen University and I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University

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German-Russian Summer School (GRSS-18) on Medical Computer Science

The Universities HTWG Konstanz, Reutlingen University and I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University will hold their Summer School on September 9-23, 2018 in Germany.

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Objetive and Main Goals

The purpose of the Summer School is to learn about Information and Internet Technology in the frame of Digital Medicine. The Summer School will show a wide spectrum of theory and applications of current and future trends in medical computer science, including telemedicine, data science, cognitive systems, VR/AR, computer assisted operation rooms, medical information systems, blockchain, biotechnology, etc. The participants will a enjoy a mixture of lectures, visits to laboratories and external institutions as well as  hands-on practices.

Location

The Summer School will take place at the campus of HTWG Konstanz and Reutlingen University. 

• Part 1: September 9-16, 2018 at Reutlingen University: Building 9, Room 9-005
• Part 2: September 16-23, 2018 at HTWG Konstanz: Building O, Room O-202

Program German-Russian Summer School 2018

(Single events may change on short notice. Please check the current version on this website).

Reutlingen University (10.-14.09.)

Monday 10.09.2018

Tuesday 11.09.2018

Wednesday 12.09.2018 

Thursday 13.09.2018

Friday 14.09.2018

HTWG Konstanz (17.-21.09.)

Monday 17.09.2018

Tuesday 18.09.2018

Wednesday 19.09.2018 

Thursday 20.09.2018

Friday .09.2018

Scientific Committee

• Prof. Dr. Pavel Kozhin (Sechenov University)
• Prof. Dr. Natividad Martínez Madrid (Reutlingen University)
• Prof. Dr. Georgiy Lebedev (Sechenov University)
• Prof. Dr. Ralf Seepold (HTWG Konstanz)

Members of the Faculty

• Prof. Dr. Oliver Burgert (Reutlingen University)
• Dr. Lucien Clin (University of Tübingen)
• Prof. Dr. Debora Coll-Mayor (Reutlingen University)
• Prof. Dr. Markus Juchems (Klinikum Konstanz)
• Prof. Dr. Ralf Kemkemer (Reutlingen University)
• Prof. Dr. Uwe Kloos (Reutlingen University)
• Prof. Dr. Natividad Martínez Madrid (Reutlingen University)
• Prof. Dr. Ilia Petrov (Reutlingen University)
• Prof. Dr. Richard Schilling (Reutlingen University)
• Dr. Sabine Schmidt-Weitmann (Medical Directorate, eHealth, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland)
• Prof. Dr. Ralf Seepold (HTWG Konstanz)
• Prof. Dr. Christian Thies (Reutlingen University)
• Prof. Dr. Gabriela Tullius (Reutlingen University)
• Porf. Dr. Chirsitan Wache (HTWG Konstanz)

Further Teaching Staff and Laboratory Support

• Michael Essich (Reutlingen University)
• Maksym Gaiduk (HTWG Konstanz)
• Alexander Kirjuchin (HTWG Konstanz)
• Isabel Leber (Bosch)
• Daniel Scherz (HTWG Konstanz)
• Thomas Walzer (Reutlingen University)
• Markus Wiemuth (Reutlingen University)

Organisation Committee 

• Maksym Gaiduk (HTWG Konstanz)
• Daniel Scherz (HTWG Konstanz)
• Thomas Walzer (Reutlingen University)

Portrait of Faculty Members and Contributors to the Summer School

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Oliver Burgert (Reutlingen University)

Oliver Burgert is Professor at Reutlingen University for Medical Informatics. Currently, he is Vice Dean of the Faculty for Informatics and head of the Research Group „Computer Asssisted Medicine“. Oliver Burgert’s research interest is the intelligent operating room and optimization of the peri-operative area. In particular, he works on workflow guidance and situation awareness in the peri-operative field, modular system architectures for intra-operative systems, and application systems (surgical planning, image processing, …) built on top of those technologies. He has experience in Standardization and was responsible for several DICOM supplements.

Dr. Lucien Clin (University of Tübingen)

Recently nominated project manager for the "bwHealthCloud" project at the University of Tübingen. Before, he was a research associate in the section of Medical Informatics at Reutlingen University, with 5 years experience working on healthcare system integration projects. Primary interests are health interoperability standards and associated technologies.

Prof. Dr. Debora Coll-Mayor (Reutlingen University)

Prof. Coll-Mayor is Professor for distributed energy systems and her expertise lies on the application of new technologies in the integration of distributed generation. Prof. Coll-Mayor has a master degree in mechanical engineering and a PhD in electrical engineering. She worked as business developing manager and senior expert engineer before joining the University. Prof. Coll-Mayor has participated also in different standardization and regulation bodies in Germany in the field of integration of distributed resources in electrical grids and is active member of different committees such as the smart energy committee of the German electric and electronic commission or the  blockchain initiative of the association of energy market and communication. She has participated in numerous project for developing innovative solutions in this field.

Prof. Dr. Uwe Kloos (Reutlingen University)

Uwe Kloos is Professor for Computer Graphics and Visualization at Reutlingen University. He is also the Dean of the School for Informatics. Before he worked a couple of years at Hewlett-Packard and was responsible for the operation of worldwide distributed IT-infrastructure. His research focus is on working with and in Collaborative Virtual Environments. Together with a colleague he is responsible for the VRlab at Reutlingen University. The lab is a member of the Virtual Dimension Center (VDC), the largest VR-network in Germany.

Prof. Dr. Ralf Kemkemer (Reutlingen University)

Professor for biophysics and biomaterials at Reutlingen University since 2012. Extensive research experience in biomaterials, cellular biophysics and biomedical sciences with co-affliation at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (Group Leader). Industry experience in photonics and developing of optical devices.

Prof. Dr. habil. Natividad Martínez Madrid (Reutlingen University)

Natividad Martínez Madrid is Director of the Laboratory Internet of Things and ot the the AAL-Living Lab at Reutlingen University. She is IEEE Member of EMC and member of the Steering Group for Smart Home&Living at the cluster lauched be the Ministry for Science, Research and Arts of Baden-Württemberg (Germany). Natividad is Vice-Dean for International Relationships of the University. She has more than 100 articles and several books published in the scientific research community. She has been coordinator of national and international research projects. Her research interests include the areas of Internet of Things, biomedical computing and Ambient Assisted Living.

Prof. Dr. Ilia Petrov (Reutlingen University)

Ilia Petrov is a Professor at Reutlingen University since 2012, where he chairs the Data Management Lab. His research focus is on high-performance data management and analytics and database systems on modern hardware technologies. He has worked on data management and Business Intelligence at SAP. Ilia Petrov holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Dr. Sabine Schmidt-Weitmann (Medical Directorate, eHealth, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland)

Consultant at the University Hospital Zurich/Switzerland, eHealth. Fifteen years of experience in telemedicine and lecturer at the University Zurich, Faculty of Medicine. Main focus of research includes the acceptance and feasibility of virtual patient consultation of different types of information and communication technologies including the telemonitoring of vital data. The evaluation of the effects on the health literacy of patients are of special interest.

Prof. Dr. Ralf Seepold (HTWG Konstanz)

Ralf Seepold is Professor for Ubiquitous Computing at HTWG Konstanz. Ralf is Director of the Ubiquitous Computing Laboratory at HTWG where the main research lines are: Biomedical Computing, Mobile Computing, Smart Home & Living and Automotive Computing. He is Member of  IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, member of the Working Group Telemedicine in the German Sleep Society (DGSM), Steering Group Member and Founding Member for the Smart Home&Living Society and Coordinator of the Working Group ‘Modularity’. Ralf is leader of the Home Health Living Lab project and scientific advisor for the Online Learning Environment for the Electronic healthcare project.

Prof. Dr. Christian Thies (Reutlingen University)

Christian Thies recieved his degree in Computer Science (Dipl.-Inform., 2001) and doctoral degree (2007) from the RWTH Aachen University. From 2006 until 2008 he worked as a research associate at the institute of neuroscience and medicine of the Jülich Research Centre. He was head of development and product management at ixmid GmbH, Cologne from 2009 until 2012. Since 2012 he is professor for medical informatics at Reutlingen University in Reutlingen.

Prof. Dr. Gabriela Tullius (Reutlingen University)

Gabriela Tullius is a Professor for Interactive and Collaborative Systems at Reutlingen University. Her interests are generally User Experience (UX) and Information Visualization. Her research focusses on collaborative systems such as working in collaborative virtual environments (CVE) and computer supported interactive learning (and teaching) environments (CSILT). Together with Uwe Kloos she is responsible for the virtual reality lab (VRlab).

Prof. Dr. Christian Wache (HTWG Konstanz) 

Christian Wache is Professor of Health Informatics with focus on Medical Informatics at the HTWG Constance, where he teaches among others "Clinical Information Systems" and "Telemedicine and eHealth". Before, he worked as a consultant at iSOFT Health GmbH and was responsible for the entire international product range as a member of management at MEIERHOFER AG. He is active in various committees, e.g. deputy head of the GMDS working group "Information Systems in Health Care (KIS)" or in the DMEA congress advisory board.

Human-Centered Computing

Reutlingen, May 2018. Computer science students of the University of Reutlingen in the program Human-Centered Computing organize each spring the conference "Informatics Inside", in which current and exciting work in the field of computer science as well as interdisciplinary are presented.

Challenges in smart and wearable sensor design for mobile health

Granada, April 2018. The analysis of data streams captured with biomedical sensors can be performed as an embedded procedure within the sensor or sensor network or at a later stage in a receiving system. Currently, several systems reduce the number of signals monitored via sensors (e.g. when using wearable devices) in order to save energy. In this case, the preprocessing task is embedded into the sensor or close to it. As a result, less data is transferred but pattern matching becomes more complex since cross-reference data is missing and computing power is limited. This session presents new and emerging approaches. Prof. Dr. Martïnez Madrid (Reulingen), Prof. Dr. Ortega (Sevilla), Prof. Dr. Seepold (HTWG Konstanz) openeing the scientific session at IWBBIO 2018.

Special Session Chairs: Prof. Dr. Martínez Madrid, Prof. Dr. Seepold, Prof. Dr. Ortega  (l.t.r.)

Finally, seven papers qualified for presentation after passing the blind peer-review process. The group from the Ubiquitous Comouting Lab at HTWG Konstanz successfully contributed to three papers. The scientific work is a result of the running cooperation with three well-known research partner institutions: Prof. Dr. Mikhail Kramm form the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Natitonal Research University), Prof. Dr. Simone Orcioni and Prof. Dr. Massimo Conti from the University Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona, Prof. Dr. Juan Antonio Ortega from the University of Seville and Prof. Dr. Thomas Penzel from the Sleep Medicine Center of Charité Hospital in Berlin.

Reconstruction of equivalent electrical sources on heart surface
Mikhail Kramm, Ralf Seepold, Galina Zhikhareva, Oleg Bodin, Anton Chernikov, Jana Kuprijanova and Natalija Zhuravleva

A review of health monitoring systems using sensors on bed or cushion
Simone Orcioni, Massimo Conti, Natividad Martinez Madrid, Maksym Gaiduk and Ralf Seepold

Sensor-mesh-based system with application on sleep study
Maksym Gaiduk, Bruno Vunderl, Ralf Seepold, Juan Antonio Ortega and Thomas Penzel

Maksym Gaiduk presenting the new hardware for the sensor-mesh-based system with application on sleep study

Call for participants

February, 2018. The Faculties Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Information Technology prepare a student excursion to partner institutions and companies in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The excursion will cover the domains of informatics, medicine and electrical engineering. 

Are you interested? The list will be available from 10 a.m. on February 21, 2018 at the office F-127. Please bring your valid student ID card with you for personal entry in the list of applicants.

Факультеты "Информатика" и "Электротехника и информационные технологии" планируют студенческую экскурсию в партнерские учреждения и компании в Москве и Санкт-Петербурге. Встречи в рамках экскурсии будут посвящены областям информатики, медицины и электротехники.

Вы заинтересованы? Список для записи будет доступен с 10 утра 21 февраля 2018 года в офисе F-127. Пожалуйста, не забудьте свою действительную идентификационную карточку студента для личной записи в списке претендентов.

Results from personalized and portable monitoring 

Konstanz, December 2017. The overall scientific goal of the collaboration between HTWG Konstanz (Prof. Dr. Seepold), Slovak University of Technology (Prof. Dr. Lehocki) and Reutlingen University (Prof. Dr. Martínez Madrid) is to detect and analyze a person's emotion with the help of a sensor network in order to support diagnostic decisions. In this project, emotion detection requires personalized analysis of a multi-dimensional set of parameters in real-time. The set of acquired parameters include different bio vital data (like ECG, EEG, skin conductivity, etc.) together with non- bio vital data (like location, movement/activity detection, activity in social media, etc.). These parameters are stored in a time-series of multidimensional matrices. Different parameters of both types (vital and non-vital) can be combined in subsets to perform pattern-based emotion recognition. For example, stress is associated with certain ECG-patterns (increased heart rate), and the recognized activity (for example running) can be used to strengthen or weaken (as in this case) the emotion recognition result.