title: MyHeart: fighting cardio-vascular diseases by preventive lifestyle and early diagnosis.
abstract: Cardio-vascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death. The MyHeart Project aims at empowering the citizens to fight cardio-vascular diseases by preventive lifestyle and early diagnosis. The main technical challenges in this project are the combination of novel wearable technologies (novel textile and electronic sensors, personalised algorithms, on-body computing) and user feedback and motivation concepts, in order to make a breakthrough towards new applications for prevention and early diagnose possible.
authors.affiliation: Philips Research Laboratories, Germany.
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: Josef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lauter
mesh_terms: D020811:Biomedical Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015374:Biosensing Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003020:Clothing; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000295:instrumentation; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation; D017216:Telemedicine; D013784:Textiles