Special issue on bio-medical signal processing for smarter mobile healthcare using big data analytics

Introduction to the issue on signal processing for big data

Special Issue on Mobile Big Data Management and Innovative Applications

WITH the rapid growth in popularity of smart phone and the development of wireless technology,mobile applications in the world are continuously expanding, and the proliferation of mobile devices and their enhanced onboard sensing capabilities are playing increasingly important role in the explosion of mobile data. Furthermore, advances in social networking and cyber-physical systems are making ...

Big Data Analytics in Healthcare

The rapidly expanding field of big data analytics has started to play a pivotal role in the evolution of healthcare practices and research. It has provided tools to accumulate, manage, analyze, and assimilate large volumes of disparate, structured, and unstructured data produced by current healthcare systems. Big data analytics has been recently applied towards aiding the process of care delive...

Internet-of-Things and big data for smarter healthcare: From device to architecture, applications and analytics

The technology and healthcare industries have been deeply intertwined for quite some time. New opportunities, however, are now arising as a result of fast-paced expansion in the areas of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data. In addition, as people across the globe have begun to adopt wearable biosensors, new applications for individualized eHealth and mHealth technologies have emerged. The...

A Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach for Big Data Analytics Platform Selection

Big data sizes are constantly increasing. Big data analytics is where advanced analytic techniques are applied on big data sets. Analytics based on large data samples reveals and leverages business change. The popularity of big data analytics platforms, which are often available as open-source, has not remained unnoticed by big companies. Google uses MapReduce for PageRank and inverted indexes....