Lidia Bajenaru

National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics- ICI Bucharest

The rapid evolution of telemedicine has necessitated the development of secure and efficient health monitoring systems, particularly for managing chronic diseases. This paper introduces the NeuroPredict platform, focusing on its advanced security mechanisms tailored for continuous and secure health data transmission. The study details an automatic...

Schizophrenia is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by disruptions in brain connectivity and cognitive functioning. Continuous monitoring of neural activity is essential, as it allows for the detection of subtle changes in brain connectivity patterns, which could provide early warnings of cognitive decline or symptom exacerbation, ul...

The research aimed to explore the potential of advanced machine learning (ML) algorithms in clinical and biomedical research. The significance of frameworks like generative adversarial networks (GANs), autoencoders, and autoregressive models in tackling the issues of representation learning and the quality of generated content is highlighted. This...

The aging population requires cutting-edge approaches to geriatric care, with digital health technologies playing a crucial part in meeting the challenging demands of healthcare. Current approaches frequently fall short of the goal of providing comprehensive, real-time monitoring and merging contextually complex information for use in the treatment...

The past two years have undoubtedly made digital health necessary, especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The integration of digital technology into the field of medicine has brought about significant advancements, particularly in the realm of neurological diseases. The key areas where digital health has made a substantial impact are represented...

Background/Objectives: Dystonia is a neurological movement disorder characterized by involuntary muscle contractions that lead to abnormal movements and postures; it has a major impact on patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The aim of this study was to examine the HRQoL of Romanian patients with dystonia using the EQ-5D-5L instrument....

E-learning platforms have become a popular solution for education, providing access to high-quality educational content from any place where there are Internet connections. However, these platforms are also the target of cyber attacks as they may contain sensitive data. Security is a critical issue, especially for highly interactive applications ba...

Human resources management is an essential condition for increasing the performance of an organization in the public or private medical sector. The need to increase the quality of the medical act in contemporary Romanian society at the level of the standards on the international level implies the improvement of the quality of the healthcare managem...

1) Objective: We explore the predictive power of a novel stream of patient data, combining wearable devices and patient reported outcomes (PROs), using an AI-first approach to classify the health status of Parkinson's disease (PD), multiple sclerosis (MS) and stroke patients (collectively named PMSS). (2) Background: Recent studies acknowledge the...

Stroke is one of the leading causes of disability and death worldwide, a severe medical condition for which new solutions for prevention, monitoring, and adequate treatment are needed. This paper proposes a SDM framework for the development of innovative and effective solutions based on artificial intelligence in the rehabilitation of stroke patien...

In the context of an increased need to develop home care systems such as health monitoring systems, this paper presents an innovative system, namely Ro-SmartAgeing. This system represents a concrete, integrative, telemedicine solution, based on the collection, remote storage, and real-time processing of medical data. The Ro-SmartAgeing system demon...

Nowadays, neurological diseases represent a medical emergency for which new prevention, monitoring and adequate treatment solutions are needed. ALAMEDA project proposes a monitoring solution for patients with Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, and Stroke, using multiple sensors and specific applications to collect information on the condition...

Ensuring a high level of security and privacy for medical data is the primary task of e-health systems. From the point of view of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, medical data is considered to be sensitive data, as they are one of the main cybercrime targets due to the concentration of confidential personal information such as identity, c...

New intelligent solutions for assisted autonomy based on emerging technologies that enable proactive and preventive approaches to maintain an active and healthy life for the older adults are a great challenge. Research has suggested that the success of innovative software applications relies on the user satisfaction and emphasized the importance of...

Central nervous system diseases (CNSDs) lead to significant disability worldwide. Mobile app interventions have recently shown the potential to facilitate monitoring and medical management of patients with CNSDs. In this direction, the characteristics of the mobile apps used in research studies and their level of clinical effectiveness need to be e...

The vINCI technology represents an innovative instrument developed specifically but not exclusively for older adults by technology researchers together with a medical team specialized in geriatrics and gerontology. It was designed to be independently and effortlessly used by older adults in the comfort and safety of their own environment. It is a m...

Digital therapy in neurological diseases involves covering many aspects of the patient's health using specific smart devices. The use of digital technologies in combination with evidence-based medicine contributes to treatment efficiency and personalized patient intervention. Among the digital devices used in the medical field, especially in the mo...

Physical activity is essential to a healthy lifestyle and influences people's health and well-being. The growing need for integrated solutions that promote active aging and independent living, with user-centred applications, leads to development projects that monitor older adults through various smart devices and dedicated applications. This paper...

Background Quality of life (QOL) is a complex concept known for being influenced by socio-demographic characteristics, individual needs, perceptions and expectations. The study investigates influences of such heterogeneous variables and aims to identify and describe subgroups of older patients who share similar response patterns for the four domain...

In the context of a globalized and digitized world, there is a growing concern of altering national identity through the loss or dilution of the cultural landmarks that are the basic pillars of each nation. Therefore, numerous initiatives to preserve cultural heritage in all its dimensions, including the literary one, have been initiated around the...

Today, the challenge in healthcare is to create personalised solutions in which existing care technologies can be better adapted to the cognitive and perceptual decline of older people. This paper presents the final digital solution vINCI, validated in the clinical environment by older adults without major health problems with the involvement of pr...

The digital solutions have become more and more implemented for decreasing the burden put on the medical systems by the aging population, COVID-19 pandemic and the growing demands for proactive and preventive healthcare patient-centered services. The use of such solutions for home care is also sustained by the link with the current and new generati...

Background: Quality of life (QOL) is a complex concept known for being influenced by socio-demographic characteristics, individual needs, perceptions and expectations. The study investigates influences of such heterogeneous variables and aims to identify and describe subgroups of older patients who share similar response patterns for the four domai...

Currently, the global population is undergoing a series of important demographic changes, which is manifested especially by the accentuated aging of the population, a process that will generate in the medium- and long-term uncertainties regarding the sustainability of the current social model. The main effect of this demographic decline is the sign...

In recent years we have seen a rapid proliferation of applications for older people as embedded information technologies have expanded into almost all sectors of the economy: government, industry, commerce, education and health. These scientific and technical advances have made usability assessment of software systems particularly important for the...

As we get older, various health-related problems appear, and it becomes more and more difficult to perform actions that once seemed simple. This paper presents a novel solution for different mobility and age-related problems, that incorporates virtual reality and video gaming features. The main feature provided by the implemented rehabilitation sys...

This paper is our survey toward a general understanding of the requirements for handling large volumes of heterogeneous data, and moreover, presents an overview of the employed computing techniques and technologies necessary for analyzing and processing those datasets. As of our attempt to picture how the data heterogeneity meets the systems hetero...

This work establishes a set of methodologies to evaluate the performance of any task scheduling policy in heterogeneous computing contexts. We formally state a scheduling model for hybrid edge–cloud computing ecosystems and conduct simulation-based experiments on large workloads. In addition to the conventional cloud datacenters, we consider edge d...

One of the most important lifestyle risk factors for many chronic conditions in the older age, low physical activity has shown to have significant impact on the sustainability of national welfare in many developed countries. Technology-based assisted living solutions can effectively be used to enable older adults to optimise their health-related qu...

The analysis of emotions is still considered a rather difficult procedure and it is constrained by the limitations related to the languages available for this analysis. The Romanian language is one of the richest and most complex languages with different dialects, regionalisms, archaisms and a powerful and expressive poetic language. Starting from...

The digitization of the Romanian cultural heritage is a basic solution for the conservation of national cultural creations. The access to representative cultural works will be a real support for the continuity of the Romanian language and traditions, it will contribute to the education support in Romania and it will facilitate the access of future...

Today, we are witnessing profound changes in the provision of healthcare services, shifting from illness-centred systems to patient-centred ones, able to deliver a personalised and integrated experience. This new approach has been generated by the tendencies of recent decades regarding the continuous increase of chronic medical conditions associate...

Monitoring systems for the activities of the older adults are increasingly desired and requested by the elderly, their families and medical professionals. This paper presents a detailed analysis of depth cameras with highlights of key features, algorithms used in the development of applications using these types of cameras, limitations and problems...

Managers need to make informed choices about what to buy in order to meet priority needs and to avoid wasting limited resources. The procurement decision is a very difficult task since there exists a great variety of brands, vendors and equipment performances. In the present paper, we have developed a decision process for equipment procurement in w...

The requirements for the development of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems are influenced by individual needs, preferences, and expectations. Due to the fact that elderly patients have different attitudes towards using new technology, their profiles may not necessarily show equal needs, interests, and preferences. To investigate this heterogenei...

The growing aging of the world's population is leading to the need to take assistance measures and prepare health care systems for the elderly. The innovative vINCI system provides technologies and uses smart devices that can non-invasively monitor the activity of elderly, to intervene in case of alerts, to prevent possible health problems, such as...

The new demographic perspectives lead to the necessity to develop new solutions based on the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, which is designed for the early identification of the health issues of the elderly people and for providing support to them so as to understand the factors that limit their Quality of Life (QoL). An adaptive technology,...

Due to the demographic changes, the demand for care services adapted to the elderly will have an unprecedented growth globally. In this situation, maintaining quality of life (QoL) and wellbeing for older adults will need support of complementary, non-traditional, ICT-based care practices. vINCI project, part of the European research effort in this...

The worldwide increasing pace of population leads to the need to prepare health and social care systems for the elderly. In this context, there are challenges to develop technologies that meet the needs of older adults, to adapt to their cognitive and perceptual decline. The vINCI project develops an integrated and validated Internet of Things (IoT...

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) aims to improve the quality of life (QoL) of people by assisting them in daily activities through the use of information technology. The quality of AAL systems can be evaluated by measuring quality in use attributes. In doing so, appropriate quality characteristics have to be defined taking into consideration the inten...

. Managers need to make informed choices about what to buy in order to meet priority needs and to avoid wasting limited resources. The procurement decision is a very difficult task since there exists a great variety of brands, vendors and equipment performances. In the present paper, we have developed a decision process for equipment procurement in...

In the context of a fast aging population, the usage of smart wearables responds to the increasing needs for healthcare and assistance in the case of older adults. The purpose of this study is to propose a conceptual model for adopting smartwatches by older adults. The proposed model includes factors that have been highlighted in prior studies, but...

This paper proposes the DANP (DEMATEL-based Analytic Network Process) method so that the factors that affect the quality of IoT (Internet of Things)-based smart wearable devices can be adequately assessed. The proposed method helps to identify and visualize the importance of certain factors (dimensions and criteria), the causal relationship among t...

The vINCI project proposes an approach for providing personalized assistance services for patients in an IoT-based ecosystem. In this context, the challenges remain to develop technologies that meet the needs of older adults, accommodate their cognitive and perceptual declines. One of the challenges to the effective design of such technologies is t...

This paper proposed the DEMATEL method to evaluate the influential factors in WHOQOL-BREF instrument. The proposed method helped to identify and visualize the importance of factors, the causal relationship among the factors, and the mutual influence between them. A numerical example was presented to illustrate the applicability of DEMATEL. The resu...

The INTELLIT project develops a virtual online museum of the Romanian literature. The sources of data made available and provided by the Romanian Academy, such as: General Dictionary of Romanian Literature, Timeline of the Romanian Literary Life and the canonical works of Romanian writers are digitized and indexed using smart text analytics. One of...

Abstract: In the field of health, many measurement scales have been developed and validated to evaluate the health status, psychological well-being and health-related quality of life. For the purpose of selecting a particular measurement scale or for developing new measurement scales (instruments), a coherent approach, including evaluation criteria...

This paper presents the latest technologies and methodologies available today with a view to creating a high performance, unique and user-experience centric platform. The Client application is a Single Page Application (SPA) and is the most complex component due to its extremely modular architecture. This is not a simple webpage but a stand-alone a...

In this paper we present a solution that represents both an open portal to the digital era and also a possible answer to the problems of preservation and conservation of Romanian literature patrimony. This solution consists in the development of a digital platform, by which literary works, manuscripts, editions of a work, bibliographies, dictionari...

Digital technology landscape is continuously improving, dragging along both the transformation of public services and new demands of citizens. Emerging new technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning or Internet of Things provide tremendous means to implement intelligent solutions for reshaping digital public services...

In recent years, quantitative methods and psychometric analyses have been an integral component in the process of developing and evaluating health measurement instruments. The objective of the present study is to demonstrate the potential and usefulness of the person-centered approach in the field of e-health by identifying groups of patients with...

Digital technology has the potential to benefit the lives of older people, enabling them to live independently and providing the support to implement preventive health care, health education and promotion measures. The ViNCI project, funded under the Ambient Assisted Living programme, aims to develop an IoT-based eco-system technology constructed t...

The continuous increase in the number of elderly people today poses important challenges for countries as they have to ensure that social and health systems are aligned with the needs of the elderly. In this paper is considered the problem of older adult health monitoring based on IoT monitoring platforms and clinical systems. A large amount of dat...

Due to the increased rhythm of aging population at world level, all countries need to prepare for this challenge their healthcare and social systems for the elderly. Thus, it appears the need of monitoring the older adults in order to increase their Quality of life (QoL) and wellbeing, this conducting to the development of ICT-based systems to solv...

Drop Computing is a network paradigm that aims to address the issues of the mobile cloud computing model, which has started to show limitations especially since the advent of the Internet of Things and the increase in the number of connected devices. In Drop Computing, nodes are able to offload data and computations to the cloud, to edge devices, o...

Because the number of elderly people is predicted to increase quickly in the upcoming years, “aging in place” (which refers to living at home regardless of age and other factors) is becoming an important topic in the area of ambient assisted living. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a human physical activity recognition system based on data coll...

When it comes to scientific and technological developments of any kind, the first step in producing them consists of research. It is the only possibility to understand a problem and to develop a solution. As the number and percentage of publications available in a digital format keep increasing, research is bound to become easier and more organized...

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) deals with technological solutions that help older adults to maintain their independence (or perceived self-esteem, life quality expectations in terms of social inclusion, depression or simply fraility) for longer periods of time than expected under nosupport assumptions. Although such a definition is clear, we witness...

The demographic change of the worldwide population has made the healthcare and social systems some of the most disturbed domains because of the costs induced by the increased incidence of multiple chronic diseases associated with ageing, but also by the growing number of the elderly and escalating life expectancy. Healthcare expenditure is furtherm...

Articolul evidenţiază aportul adus de Biblioteca Naţională de Programe (BNP) în creşterea competitivităţii mediului de afaceri, crearea de soluţii inovatoare pentru sectorul public, în conformitate cu tendinţele noii societăţi informaţionale. Sistemul Bibliotecii Naţionale de Programe (BNP) îşi propune să răspundă prin conţinut şi servicii oferite,...

Apariţia Web-ului semantic şi a tehnologiilor sale au deschis calea, în ultimul deceniu, pentru dezvoltarea ontologiilor și a sistemelor care utilizează ontologii în diverse domenii, inclusiv domeniul e-learning. În acest articol sunt prezentate elemente ce fundamentează realizarea unui sistem de e-learning în domeniul Managementului de Resurse Uma...

În această carte este prezentat un mediu de e-learning bazat pe tehnologii noi semantice, capabil să conducă procesul de construire a unui conţinut educaţional personalizat, cu scopul formării managerilor dintr-un spital universitar din România. Având în vedere nevoia creşterii calităţii actului medical în societatea românească contemporană la nive...

Smart Devices provide a variety of specific computing and connection features that influence user quality needs. In some cases, mobile applications have user interfaces and features that do not fully meet user requirements. An important area of research is the identification of those key elements that can be characterize the quality of a mobile app...

The health human resources are the most important and most expensive in the health system, and their management is considered a basic component of the health institutions success. The integration of semantic web technologies in knowledge management and e-learning structure, assure the semantic interoperability. This paper proposes an environment of...

This paper presents a modality to use learning styles as the main parameter in determining individual differences in an ontology-based personalised e-learning system. The learning style is one of the ways to identify the student’s preferences which, along with other criteria, such as: student’s level of knowledge, learning style, and level of educa...

In the last years, there is an increasing demand to develop a national repository for software programs, especially in the area of public administration. This kind of e-service is required both by vendors interested in promoting their products and funding institutions, interested to estimate the costs and to improve the cost/benefit ratio. The Nati...

In this paper an e-learning personalised model using ontologies is proposed; it is addressed to managers working in medical institutions in Romania. The educational content offered to the members of the target group is adapted to their profile, level of education, learning style and needs. The aim of the system is to offer a competitive training co...

: Internetul lucrurilor (Internet of Things - IoT) este o tehnologie în curs de dezvoltare, care tinde spre a face parte din viaţa cotidiană din ce în ce mai mult. Multiplele aspecte ale IoT, precum şi numărul din ce în ce mare de dispozitive, tehnologii şi platforme în acest domeniu, au condus ca IoT să fie o tehnologie extinsă în multe domenii. I...

Articolul prezintă procesul de reproiectare a sistemului prototip al Bibliotecii Naţionale de Programe luându-se în considerare tendinţele noii societăţi informaţionale şi a noilor tehnologii, precum şi rolul lor în apariţia şi dezvoltarea de noi servicii electronice, de stimulare a inovării. Reproiectarea sistemului se efectuează după modelul depo...