Why multimedia and health?

Where multimedia has to offer for personal health and health care
Personal health and health care involves some of the state of the art technologies in multimedia. Multimedia technologies related to health and personal health can range from medical imaging to daily life monitoring. Medical imaging itself can range from molecular imaging that visualize biological processes, to x-ray, ultrasound, MRI scans, CAT scans etc that visualize the internal body. In recent years, the rapidly increasing use of wearable and environmental sensors is providing a rich source of data describing numerous aspects of a person’s daily life, behavior and lifestyle. Additionally, a great variety of wearable and ambient sensors have been developed and are constantly being improved and incorporated in peoples’ daily lives, measuring physiological parameters in a non-intrusive and accurate manner, and producing new types of multimedia.

Previous events in the fiel of multimedia and health
The workshop will be held the first time. It bases, however, on the research background and experience by the organizers in both multimedia and health. It is also based on previous events which have been organized by the organizers that strongly relate to multimedia and health. The organizers were and are highly involved into several multimedia related international events in the field of the workshop, for example: Measuring Behaviour 2016, PervasiveHealth 2014, SenseCam Symposium 2010, the ACM MM 2013 Workshop on Multimedia Indexing and Information Retrieval for Healthcare, the Workshop on CEA (Cooking and Eating Activities) 2014 and 2015, and the ICIP 2015 Special Session On Image/Video Indexing And Retrieval For Healthcare. With this experience the organizers are very confident that the topic of this workshop is hitting an important and evolving research area.