Moderator: Shubha Prithviraj, HP
Presenters: Payal Keswarpu and Pallavi Vajinepalli, Phillips
Abstract:
If there is any field where research and innovation have made the greatest impact, it is healthcare in terms of lives saved. Bench to bedside is tedious, time consuming and requires enormous patience with technical, regulatory and validation hurdles. However, it can be very rewarding. This session will focus on various healthcare needs and relevant technologies to cater to these needs. The requirements from technology perspective are very different for different geographies. In developed countries decision support systems could be a requirement based on reducing medical errors where as in low resource settings it is needed to provide a tool for the less skilled worker enabling maximal care.
CDS systems are an emerging field in healthcare research which is designed to link health observations with health knowledge to influence health choices by clinicians for improved health care. CDS systems encompass coordinated efforts of medical professional, computer scientists, software engineers and statisticians. In an age of cloud computing, mobile phones and wireless networks the dependence on clinical decision support systems is ever increasing. If not already, the likelihood of obtaining accurate deterministic advice from these systems is becoming critical especially in countries like India where the doctor to patient ratio is as low as 1:10,000.
This talk will further present a CDS system for screening/diagnosis of cervical cancer through development of an image analysis algorithm that automatically identifies the abnormal/affected zone in the cervix collected from a sequence of cervical images and provides objective assessment of the severity of the cancer.
