November 12, 2011: National ICT R&D Fund, funded project, titled
“Arrhythmia and Sudden Death Syndrome Detection Hybrid Network
Based Telemedicine System” clinched Gold medal in the e-health
category at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) 2011, held at
Pattaya, Thailand. The project is being developed under the
directions of Dr. Zaheer Ahmed and Dr. Shoab Ahmed Khan under
the umbrella of Center for Advanced Research in Engineering
(CARE).
The project
proposes to develop a prototype system to demonstrate
geographically distributed installation of network enabled ECG
recording and analysis stations with normal and High Resolution
digital ECG machines capable of self diagnosing a patient for
different arrhythmic abnormalities as well as early detection of
risks associated with fatal arrhythmias which can lead to sudden
cardiac death by running state of the art signal processing
algorithm.
Research Teams
from Pakistan won two gold and five silver medals. Pakistan was
amongst the leaders at the APICTA event this year alongside Hong
Kong, Australia and Malaysia, which are major contributors in
the ICT sector in the Asia Pacific region.
National ICT
R&D Fund congratulates Dr. Zaheer & Dr. Shoab and also their
project team. The Fund also congratulates all the 18
participating team from Pakistan.
Detail on this
and other technical R&D projects funded by the company is
available
here.
Dr. Shoab, Dr. Zaheer & Dr. Mohsin Receiving Award as the Top
Project in the E-Health Category
