Distributed big data techniques for health sensor information processing

Abstract

Recent advances in wireless sensors technology applied to e-health allow the development of “personal medicine” concept, whose main goal is to identify specific therapies that make safe and effective individualized treatment of patients based, for example, in health status remote monitoring. Also the existence of multiple sensor devices in Hospital Units like ICUs (Intensive Care Units) constitute a big source of data, increasing the volume of health information to be analyzed in order to detect or predict abnormal situations in patients. In order to process this huge volume of information it is necessary to use Big Data and IoT technologies. In this paper, we present a general approach for sensor’s information processing and analysis based on Big Data concepts and to describe the use of common tools and techniques for storing, filtering and processing data coming from sensors in an ICU using a distributed architecture based on cloud computing. The proposed system has been developed around Big Data paradigms using biosignals sensors information and machine learning algorithms for prediction of outcomes.