Biomedical Engineering Tools for Management for Patients with COVID-19

Biomedical Engineering Tools for Management of Patients with COVID-19 presents biomedical engineering tools under research (and in development) that can be used for the management of COVID-19 patients, along with BME tools in the global environment that curtail and prevent the spread of the virus. BME tools covered in the book include new disinfectants and sterilization equipment, testing devices for rapid and accurate COVID-19 diagnosis, Internet of Things applications in COVID-19 hospitals, analytics, Data Science and statistical modeling applied to COVID-19 tracking, Smart City instruments and applications, and more. Later sections discuss smart tools in telemedicine and e-health.

Biomedical engineering tools can provide engineers, computer scientists, clinicians and other policymakers with solutions for managing patient treatment, applying data analysis techniques, and applying tools to help the general population curtail spread of the virus.

Valentina Emilia Balas is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a PhD cum Laude in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the author of more than 350 research papers. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the 'International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms' and the 'International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering', an editorial board member for several other national and international publications, and an expert evaluator for national and international projects and PhD theses.

Oana Geman is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Education and Sport at the University of Suceava, Romania. She holds a PhD in Electronics and Telecommunication and a postdoc in Computer Science (2012). Over the past 5 years, she has published 6 books and more than 76 articles; her various works have been cited more than 660 times. She is a member of IEEE, has served as the chair or organizer of many international conferences, and is a reviewer for many top journals in the field.

Dr. Guojun Wang is a Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor of Higher Education in Guangdong
Province, a Vice Dean and a Doctoral Supervisor of the School of Computer Science, Guangzhou University,
China. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, at Central South University, China. He received the
2014 First Prize of the National Natural Science Award, State Council of the People's Republic of China. He was
listed in "Chinese Most Cited Researchers" (Computer Science) by Elsevier in the past five consecutive years.
He was formerly a Professor at Central South University, China; an Adjunct Professor at Temple University,
USA; a Visiting Scholar at Florida Atlantic University, USA; a Visiting Researcher at the University of Aizu,
Japan; and a Research Fellow at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK. His research interests include
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, cloud computing, mobile computing, trustworthy/dependable computing,
cyberspace security, recommendation systems, and mobile healthcare systems. He has published more than 400
technical papers and books/chapters in the above areas. His research is supported by Key Project of the National
Natural Science Foundation of China, the National High-Tech Research and Development Plan of China (863
Plan), and the Ministry of Education Fund for Doctoral Disciplines in Higher Education. He has served as an
associate editor or on the editorial board of several international journals, including IEEE Transactions on
Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Security and Communication Networks (SCN), and International
Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS). He is the Leading Steering Chair of the IEEE
International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), the
Leading Steering Chair of the International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation,
Communication and Storage (SpaCCS), and the Leading Steering Chair of the International Conference on Smart
City and Informatization (iSCI).

His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, cloud computing, and cyberspace
security, data mining, image processing, medical image processing, Privacy, Security, and E-learning. Currently,
he is working on privacy and security of vehicular networks. Previously he was a lecturer at the University of
Gujrat, Pakistan. He recently completed his Ph.D. degree from Guangzhou University, China. He is author of more
than 40 SCIE and ESCI journal publications, and more than 15 conference publications. He has more than 700
citations, according to Google Scholar. He is an Editorial Board member of International Journal of Advanced
Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE). He
is a reviewer of many well-known journals, including IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology, IOT Journal,
Plos-One, Sensors, Vehicular Communication and Journal of Network and Computer Applications.

He joined the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa/ ISCTE-IUL Lisbon in 2011, where he is Associate Professor,
Director of the Doctoral Program on Science and Information Technology and Director of Instituto de
Telecomunicações (IT-IUL) research center. His fields of interest are smart sensors for biomedical and
environmental applications, IoT for smart healthcare, wireless sensor networks, signal processing for biomedical
applications and computational intelligence with application in automated measurement systems. He is a leader and
active member of research teams involved in Portuguese and International projects such as Tailored Environments
for Smart Physiotherapy. Dr. Postolache is author and co-author of 10 patents as well as Modern Sensing
Technologies and Pervasive and Mobile Sensing and Computing for Healthcare, both from Springer. He has served
in the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society since 1999, and is also an IEEE Senior Member. He is
Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS), international chair of IEEE
IMS TC-13 Wireless and Telecommunications in Measurements, and he is current chair of IEEE IMS Portugal
Chapter. He is a member of the steering committee of Medical Measurement and Application Symposium. He was
the founder of a new international conference in the field of sensors and instrumentation for IoT technical sponsored
by Instrumentation and Measurement Society that was successfully organized in 2018 and 2019 (ISSI 2018,
Shanghai, ISSI 2019, Lisbon). He is Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors, and IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation
and Measurement.