Overview
- Details effects of extreme environments on human physiology
- Presents human-environment interaction in different scenarios
- Overview of engineering challenges and problems in extreme environments
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Aeronautic and Space Physiology
- Bioengineering
- Decompression
- Deep Mining
- Diving Medicine
- Diving Technology
- Endurance Monitoring
- Environmental Physiology
- Extreme Terrestrial
- Extreme Environments
- Health Monitoring
- Human Physiology
- Physiological Monitoring
- Human Physiology in Space
- Space Medicine
- Wearable Devices
About this book
- Details effects of extreme environments on human physiology;
- Presents human-environment interaction in different scenarios;
- Overview of engineering challenges and problems in extreme environments.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Carolyn McGregor, AM, Ph.D. is the Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Health and Wellness and a two-time Canada Research Chair in Health Informatics at Ontario Tech University. She is the founding co-Director of the Joint Research Centre in Artificial Intelligence for Health and Wellness between Ontario Tech University and the University of Technology, Sydney. Professor McGregor AM has led pioneering research in Big Data analytics, stream computing, artificial intelligence, deep learning, the Internet of Things, temporal data mining, cloud computing, and edge computing. She now progresses this research within the context of critical care medicine, astronaut health along with firefighter and tactical officer resilience assessment and development. She is the inventor and lead on two international award-winning AI-driven Big Data analytics platforms for health and wellness, Artemis and Athena. She was awarded membership in the Order of Australia (AM) in2014 for her significant service to science and innovation through health care information systems. She is the past Chair of the Life Sciences Technical Committee, co-chairs their focus group on “Extreme Environments" and is the Vice President of Member and Student Activities of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Engineering and Medicine in Extreme Environments
Editors: Tobias Cibis, Carolyn McGregor AM
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96921-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96920-2Published: 10 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96923-3Published: 10 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96921-9Published: 09 June 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 345
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology, Human Physiology, Simulation and Modeling, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Aerospace Technology and Astronautics