MIIRH

Workshop on Multimedia Indexing and information Retrieval for Healthcare

The worldwide increase in average life expectancy, the improvement of healthcare and the higher average age of the workforce is significantly affecting society, healthcare systems and world economies. Multimodal data is playing an increasingly significant role in healthcare, with sophisticated technologies involved in monitoring and diagnosis, the advent of smart homes enabling accurate and effective remote monitoring and care allowing elderly to live independently and remain active members of society. The processing of great quantities of multimodal data, i.e. “big data”, is regarded as a necessary complement to physicians’ diagnoses, with computers able to process vast amounts of multimodal data, statistics and the medical literature in an efficient manner, greatly supporting health professionals. Multimodal data analysis, information retrieval and indexing is thus central to health professionals, people with medical conditions and society at large, as such solutions significantly decrease the cost of healthcare, while guaranteeing comprehensive and high quality care and enabling the prolongation of independent living at home, and the good health of the ageing workforce.