To provide basic system knowledge of wireless data communication technologies for telemedicine applications. To manage the functional blocks of a complex system of data communication, analysis, and processing. To give an overview of some typical signal and image processing methods for biomedical engineering, by a short look at fundamental methodological concepts and basic performing techniques.
teacher profile teaching materials
Medical Data Networks, Connection to/from Medical Data Center, General Remarks and Communication Items on the most used Radio Link Services (namely, Bluetooth, WiFi, and 5G mobile systems). Medical Data Access Protocols of Shared Systems, Classes of QoS in Telemedicine. Medical Data Communication Security and Integrity, Confidentiality of User Identity and Localization. Mutual authentication between user and network. Localization of Patient and his/her Wearable Radio Devices. Fusion of spatial information from mobile radio links, satellite GPS, and local WiFi access point detection.
Discrete signals, linear systems and digital filters
Operations on discrete sequences. Correlation. Convolution. Z-Transform. Continuous Fourier Transform. Discrete Fourier Transform. Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). Frequency response. Transfer function. Inverse filtering and deconvolution. Design of FIR filters. Multi-rate processing of digital sequences. Scale changes in time and space domains. Expansion. Interpolation. Decimation. Scale change with non integer factors.
Random sequences and spectral analysis.
Statistical moments of random sequences. Mean, auto-correlation and cross-correlation. Spectral moments. Statistical estimators of sequence parameters. Performance of estimators. Design of optimum FIR filters. Optimum inverse filtering. Linear prediction. Prediction error. Spectral analysis by periodogram. Averaged periodogram. Moving Average (MA) models. Auto-Regressive (AR) models. AR estimate of power spectral density.
Laboratory of numerical examples by MatLab platform.
Further details at: https://sp4te.uniroma3.it/telemedicine/
G. Giunta, Slides of Signal Processing for Biomedical Engineering, edition 2015.
TAMAL BOSE, FRANCOIS MEYER, "DIGITAL SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING", DECEMBER 2003, WILEY PUBL.
A.V. OPPENHEIM, R.W. SHAFER, J.R. BUCK, "DISCRETE-TIME SIGNAL PROCESSING", PRENTICE-HALL, UPPER SADDLE RIVER, NJ (USA), 1999.
Programme
Fundamentals of TelemedicineMedical Data Networks, Connection to/from Medical Data Center, General Remarks and Communication Items on the most used Radio Link Services (namely, Bluetooth, WiFi, and 5G mobile systems). Medical Data Access Protocols of Shared Systems, Classes of QoS in Telemedicine. Medical Data Communication Security and Integrity, Confidentiality of User Identity and Localization. Mutual authentication between user and network. Localization of Patient and his/her Wearable Radio Devices. Fusion of spatial information from mobile radio links, satellite GPS, and local WiFi access point detection.
Discrete signals, linear systems and digital filters
Operations on discrete sequences. Correlation. Convolution. Z-Transform. Continuous Fourier Transform. Discrete Fourier Transform. Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). Frequency response. Transfer function. Inverse filtering and deconvolution. Design of FIR filters. Multi-rate processing of digital sequences. Scale changes in time and space domains. Expansion. Interpolation. Decimation. Scale change with non integer factors.
Random sequences and spectral analysis.
Statistical moments of random sequences. Mean, auto-correlation and cross-correlation. Spectral moments. Statistical estimators of sequence parameters. Performance of estimators. Design of optimum FIR filters. Optimum inverse filtering. Linear prediction. Prediction error. Spectral analysis by periodogram. Averaged periodogram. Moving Average (MA) models. Auto-Regressive (AR) models. AR estimate of power spectral density.
Laboratory of numerical examples by MatLab platform.
Further details at: https://sp4te.uniroma3.it/telemedicine/
Core Documentation
G. Giunta, Slides of Part 1 of Telemedicine, 2026.G. Giunta, Slides of Signal Processing for Biomedical Engineering, edition 2015.
TAMAL BOSE, FRANCOIS MEYER, "DIGITAL SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING", DECEMBER 2003, WILEY PUBL.
A.V. OPPENHEIM, R.W. SHAFER, J.R. BUCK, "DISCRETE-TIME SIGNAL PROCESSING", PRENTICE-HALL, UPPER SADDLE RIVER, NJ (USA), 1999.
Reference Bibliography
B. Fong, A.C.M. Fong, C.K. Li, Telemedicine Technologies, Wiley, 2011.Type of delivery of the course
lectures and exercisesAttendance
optionalType of evaluation
oral with a preliminary written test