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In light of the rising cost of healthcare and the overall challenges associated with delivering quality care to patients across regions, scientists and pharmacists are exploring new initiatives in drug discovery and design. One such initiative is the adoption of information technology and software...

The role of technology in the medical field has resulted in significant developments within the pharmaceutical industry. Computational approaches have emerged as a crucial method in further advancing drug design and development. Methods and Algorithms for Molecular Docking-Based Drug Design and...

There has been a growing concern for the improvement of pharmaceutical services provided by healthcare institutions. This concern is also shared by other stakeholders including patients, regulatory organizations, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, and research institutions. Advancing...

As the pharmaceutical industry continues to advance, new techniques in drug design are emerging. In order to deliver optimum care to patients, the development of innovative pharmacological techniques has become a widely studied topic. Applied Case Studies and Solutions in Molecular Docking-Based Drug...

Recent advances in eye tracking technology will allow for a proliferation of new applications. Improvements in interactive methods using eye movement and gaze control could result in faster and more efficient human computer interfaces, benefitting users with and without disabilities. Gaze Interaction...

Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering is one of the most advanced fields in science and technology worldwide. It has spurred advancements in medicine and biology. The Handbook of Research on Biomedical Engineering Education and Advanced Bioengineering Learning: Interdisciplinary Concepts explores...

Neonatal monitoring refers to the monitoring of vital physiological parameters of premature infants and full-term infants that are critically ill. In the last decades, several important treatment modalities emerged that had a substantial impact on the mortality of prematurely born infants. However...

The multidisciplinary field of biomedical engineering is critical to the advancement and continual evolution of medical tools and technologies. Bridging the disciplines of engineering and medicine, Biomedical Engineering and Information Systems: Technologies, Tools and Applications , informs...

The Journal of Nanotoxicology and Nanomedicine (JNN) publishes key research that addresses the potential opportunities, hazards, and risks associated with human and environmental exposure to micro-scale materials in natural as well as medicinal settings. Focusing on both theoretical and experimental...

The International Journal of Biomedical and Clinical Engineering (IJBCE) emphasizes the importance of cutting-edge research by narrowing the gap between engineering and medicine through new technological innovations. The journal covers a wide spectrum of innovations, including biosensors, medical...

The overall process of getting a drug to the market is a long one and takes 10-15 years and costing close to a billion dollar. The success rate as the compound travels from the initial discovery phase to clinical and then through to the market is about 1 in 10,000. The two key phases which together...

This chapter talks about metadata repository, and master data management in clinical trial and drug safety. The chapter begins with the definition of metadata repository and gives an explanation around the same, It talks about a well designed metadata repository and the characteristics associated with...

The current chapter introduces different aspects of molecular docking technique in order to give an overview to the readers about the topics which will be dealt with throughout this volume. Like many other fields of science, molecular docking studies has experienced a lagging period of slow and steady...

Molecular docking is a key tool in structural biology and computer-assisted drug design. Molecular docking is a method which predicts the preferred orientation of a ligand when bound in an active site to form a stable complex. It is the most common method used as a structure-based drug design. Here...

Molecular Docking is widely used in CADD (Computer-Aided Drug Designing), SBDD (Structure-Based Drug Designing) and LBDD (Ligand-Based Drug Designing). It is a method used to predict the binding orientation of one molecule with the other and used for any kind of molecule based on the interaction like...

Today, the development of new drugs is a challenging task of science. Researchers already applied molecular docking in the drug design field to simulate ligand- receptor interactions. Docking is a term used for computational schemes that attempt to find the “best” matching between two molecules in a...

Most of the developed kinase inhibitor drugs are ATP competitive and suffer from drawbacks such as off-target kinase activity, development of resistance due to mutation in the ATP binding pocket and unfavorable intellectual property situations. Besides the ATP binding pocket, protein kinases have...

Most of the studies presented in this book use camera-based gaze trackers, used to monitor where the user is looking on screen or in the 3D environment. While a gaze tracker may resemble a blackbox device that miraculously determines the point of gaze, it actually consists of several hardware and...

Severely disabled people will often spend a significant part of their waking day using gaze control. Technology has a positive impact on many areas of their life. What simple features do people who have severe and complex disabilities need to use gaze control technology? In this chapter, we consider...

This chapter reviews the challenges and requirements in taking gaze-based interaction beyond communication and control, such as environmental control and mobility by gaze. The chapter is divided into two sections: the first section is devoted to environment control and the second to mobility control....

Understanding users’ behaviour is one of the most crucial aspects in successful design of human–computer interaction. Experiments with prototypes of gaze interaction systems provide valuable quantitative measurement of performances in terms of such factors as speed, error, and accuracy, in addition to...

The interdisciplinary fields of Assistive Technology and Rehabilitation Engineering focus on understanding the impact of disability, seeking to ameliorate the impact through the employment of appropriate technology. Aided by numerous illustrations, tables, and charts, this chapter provides the reader...

Bioelectromagnetism covers a number of sub-disciplines, but is firstly concerned with the ability of living systems to generate electrical currents and magnetic fields. Secondly, it covers the susceptibility of tissue to be stimulated by these currents or fields, and the ability of some organisms to...

Clinical engineering supports and advances patient care by applying engineering and managerial skills to healthcare technology. Since the 1970s, as medical device technologies have proliferated, increasingly impacting the cost and quality of healthcare, the clinical engineering profession has matured...

The World Wide Web has made available a large variety of medical information and education resources only dreamed of two decades ago. This review discusses a number of Web-based e-Medical education concepts and resources likely to be of interest to the medical education community as well as a number of...