An ontology-based framework aiming to support personalized exercise prescription: application in cardiac rehabilitation

Konstantinos Kostopoulos*, Ioanna Chouvarda, Vassilis Koutkias, Athina Kokonozi, Mark van Gils, Nicos Maglaveras

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    Abstract

    Exercise constitutes an important intervention aiming to improve health and quality of life for several categories of patients. Personalized exercise prescription is a rather complicated issue, requiring several aspects to be taken into account, e.g. patient's medical history and response to exercise, medication treatment, personal preferences, etc. The present work proposes an ontology-based framework designed to facilitate healthcare professionals in personalized exercise prescription. The framework encapsulates the necessary domain knowledge and the appropriate inference logic, so as to generate exercise plan suggestions based on patient's profile. It also supports readjustments of a prescribed plan according to the patient's response with respect to goal achievement and changes in physical-medical status. An instantiation of the proposed framework for cardiac rehabilitation illustrates the virtue and the applicability of this work.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
    PublisherIEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
    Pages1567-1570
    Number of pages4
    ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4577-1589-1
    ISBN (Print)978-142444121-1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2011
    MoE publication typeA4 Article in a conference publication
    Event33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2011 - Boston, United States
    Duration: 30 Aug 20113 Sept 2011

    Conference

    Conference33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2011
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityBoston
    Period30/08/113/09/11

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