The New Medical Frontier: Real-Time Wireless Medical Data Acquisition for 21st-Century Healthcare and Data Mining Challenges

Introduction ................................................................................................... 258 Evolution of Modern Medicine: Background .............................................259 Medical Data Standards ................................................................................ 262 Data Acquisition: Medical Sensors and Body Scanners ........................... 265

Sensors ....................................................................................................... 265 Electrical (EKG, EEG) .............................................................................. 266 Pulse Oximetry ......................................................................................... 266 Medical Scanners ...................................................................................... 267

Magnetic Resonance Imagining vs. Computer Tomography (CT) ... 267 Positron Emission Tomography (PET) ............................................. 269 Computed Tomography (CT) ............................................................ 269 DICOM: Digital Imaging .....................................................................270