The short paper "Efficient, Reliable and Secure Framework for the 5G Virtualization of the Ultrasound Medical System" by our colleagues Alessandro Carrega (UNIGE, Italy); Antonio Passalacqua (Esaote S.p.A., Italy); Raffaele Bolla (University of Genoa, Italy); Roberto Bruschi (CNIT, Italy) with acknowledgement to NEPHELE was accepted at IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services that took place on 18–20 November 2024 in Nara, Japan.
IEEE Healthcom 2024 aimed at bringing together interested parties (universities, research centers, industries and stakeholders) from around the world working in the healthcare field to exchange opinions, discuss brand-new ideas, developing innovative and emerging solutions, and establishing new collaborations.
Healthcare is one of the largest industries with 5-18% of GDPs spent on health and Care globally. While the demographic shifts in the populations display significant socio-economic challenges they trigger more and more opportunities for innovators in the areas of sensor technology, the Internet of Things, Robotics, e-health, m-Health, Cloud Computing and emerging technologies such as 5G, Big Data, SDNs, NFV, Precision and Personalized Medicine. Social technological alignment and societal acceptance of technology requires sound solutions with regards to ethical, legal, social and security challenges.
Abstract of this NEPHELE paper: The virtualization of UltraSound (US) medical imaging systems through cloud-edge computing offers a transformative approach to healthcare, overcoming limitations of traditional on-premises systems. By dematerializing US system functions and migrating them to the cloud, barriers related to hardware and localization are eliminated, enabling a more agile and scalable approach to medical imaging. This paradigm shift leverages virtual objects and composite virtual objects to intelligently manage and orchestrate physical and virtual components, optimizing system performance and meeting service requirements.
The paper has been published in the conference proceedings.