IMPROVE Project (BIOMED-1)

IMPROVE Project aims at improving control of patient status in critical care through computer analysis of the patient's vital signs. This concerted action project belongs to the BIOMED-1 program financed by the European Union and EES countries. Project coordinator was Prof. Niilo Saranummi in the subgroup of Health Care Technology of the Information Technology Laboratory in the Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT). The international participants of the project came from Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and United Kingdom.

In addition to the coordinators two laboratories participated the IMPROVE project in Tampere, Finland as accociate participants. The Institute of Signal Processing of Tampere University of Technology has long-term experience in the processing of physiological signals with nonlinear methods. The Department of Clinical Neurophysiology in Tampere University Hospital medical expertise for the project through their studies of physological signals during anaesthesia.

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