ITIS'98 Conference Programme

DAY 1 - 21st April 1998

OPENING SESSION

Use of satellite communication, Internet and digital video for the development of the information society. Roberto Viola (IT)

SESSION 1 - Chairman: Simon Smith (EC)

ITIS Opening Remarks. Andy Marsh (UK)

Virtual Medical Worlds - The foundations for a telemedical information society. Andy Marsh (UK)

Standardisation efforts for the Telemedical Information Society. Renata Heimisch (MEP)

Teaching & Learning with Virtual Reality. Helene Hoffman (USA)

An introduction to the Information Society Initiatives in Standardisation programme. Simon Smith (EC)

SESSION 2 - Chairman: Denis Mrejen (F)

Medical information networks in France for a better communication between Health Professionals. Regis Beuscart (F)

Wavelet lossless coding and progressive transmission of medical images. Adrian Munteanu (RO)

Real applications of patient-related telemedical services. Gudrun Zahlmann (DE)

Results from the EC HPCN Tender '96: Diagnostic image processing. Sanzio Bassini & Cinzia Zannoni (IT)

DAY 2 - 22nd April 1998: The ITIS Forums

SESSION 3 - Chair: Helene Hoffman (USA)

Real applications of Virtual Reality in Medicine & Biology and Medical Imaging at Mayo Clinic. Richard Robb (USA)

From Bench to Bedside and Beyond: Building a Regional Telemedicine Testbed. Sherrilynne Fuller (USA)

SESSION 4 - Chairman: Andy Marsh (UK)

FORUM 1: What facilities should be offered for the introduction of a Telemedical Information Society? Forum Chairman: Tony King (UK)

A Web-based distributed medical data system. Zoran Jovanovic (YU)

SESSION 5 - Chair: Vera Lapcevic (YU)

A Welcome to the EMBS'98 Conference. Zhang Yuan Ting (HK)

The methodology of scoring and evaluation of the quality of the Web sites in medicine. Denis Mrejen (F)

Report from the EURO-MED NET'98 Conference. George Papadopoulos (CY)

FORUM 2: Is the Web the best platform for the Telemedical Information Society? Forum Chairman: George Papadopoulos (CY)

SESSION 6 - Chairman: Andy Marsh (UK)

Telemedicine: remote monitoring of physiological parameters using wireless communication. Zhang Yuan Ting (HK)

Telemedicine around the world. Jean-Francois Moreau (F)

FORUM 3: What obstacles need to be overcome to establish a Telemedical Information Society? Forum Chairman: Jean-Francois Moreau (F)

DAY 3 - 23rd April 1998

SESSION 7 - Chairman: Massimo Luciolli (EC)

High Performance Research and Education networking in Europe - an outlook to the year 2000. Hans Peter Axmann (AT)

Telecare in a 21st century health care society. Paul Garner (UK)

A VRML-based 3D EEG visualisation and sonification environment. Emil Jovanov (YU)

SESSION 8 - Chairman: Zoran Jovanovic

Development and take-up of advanced technologies in Health care: the contribution of the European RTD programmes. Massimo Luciolli (EC)

Networking in a health environment. Tony King (UK)

Electronic biomedical library image service for Europe. Michael Adeyinka (NL)

SESSION 9 - Chairman: Michael Adeyinka (NL)

Liberation of the medical imaging market through internet technologies. Tuomo Kauranne (SF)

CAMD & Tele EEG: Software Tools for telemedicine applications. Domenico Conforti (IT)

3D Dimensional Medical Imaging and Telemedicine - yet future or already reality? George Sakas (GR)

SESSION 10 - Chairman: Andy Marsh

Securing Web applications by using Trusted Third Parties services. Despina Polemi (GR)

The creation of a Virtual Medical Worlds Community. Ad Emmen (NL)

Closing Remarks. Andy Marsh (UK)