Ontology-based framework for Healthcare
Dist. Prof. Hamid Mcheick
University of Quebec at Chiocoutimi, Canada
Abstract: Nowaday, ubiquitous/IoT healthcare model is reshaping the research in the medical domain due to its potential to concurrently overcome the challenges encountered in the traditional healthcare systems. Prediction of exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is considered incurable disease and the fourth difficult problem in the medical field. Many issues face researchers in the medical domain, such as modelling and representation of patient’ context (risk factors), uncertainty, accuracy of decision, and preventing exacerbations. These issues have been handled in may research projects. However, healthcare systems for COPD need to represent the complexity of medical facors and to design rules to increase the accuracy. Traditional treatment plan and non-fully automatic applications are still used and have many issues, such as accuracy and performance. The goal of this research is to build reliable mechanisms to improve life quality of COPD patients and to protect them against risk factors, as well as help the physiciens by providing recommendations. In this talk, I will present ontology-based healthcare architectural model, including context modelling, context representation and rule-based recommendations.
Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Professor Hamid Mcheick is a full professor in Computer Science department at the University of Québec at Chicoutimi, Canada. He has more than 25 years of experience in both academic and industrial area. He has done his PhD in Software Engineering and Distributed System in the University of Montreal, Canada. He is working on : designing and adaptation of smart software applications; designing healthcare frameworks for medical domain; Design smart Cloud-IoT model; and designing smart Internet of Things and edge frameworks for smart city. He has supervised many post-doctorate, PhD, master and bachelor students. He has nine book chapters, more than 60 research papers in international journals and more than 150 research papers in international/national conference and workshop proceedings in his credit. Dr. Mcheick has given many keynote speeches and tutorials in his research area. Dr. Mcheick has gotten many grants from governments, industrials and academics. He is a chief in editor, chair, co-chair, reviewer, member in many organizations (such as IEEE, ACM, Springer, Elsevier, Inderscience) around the world.