Preface; About the Book; Contents; 1 Introduction to Large-Scale Distributed Computing in Smart Healthcare; 1 Background Information; 2 New Research Methods to Integrate the Smart Healthcare and Large-Scale and Distributed Computing Paradigm; 3 Perspective on Future Research Directions; References; High Performance Computing and Large-Scale Healthcare Architectures; Big Healthcare Data Analytics: Challenges and Applications; 1 Introduction; 2 Challenges; 2.1 High-Dimensionality; 2.2 Irregularity; 2.3 Missing Data and Data Sparsity; 2.4 Noise; 2.5 Bias; 2.6 Knowledge Base

3 Key Steps for Processing3.1 Data Annotation; 3.2 Data Cleansing; 3.3 Data Integration; 3.4 Data Analytics and Modelling; 4 Healthcare Applications; 4.1 Applications for EMR Data; 4.2 Applications for Sensor Data; 4.3 Healthcare Systems; 5 Summary and Discussions; References; 3 Process Streaming Healthcare Data with Adaptive MapReduce Framework; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Related Work and Our Unique Approach; 2.1 Related Work; 2.2 Our Unique Approach; 3 Problem Formulation of a Real-Life Healthcare Application; 4 Task-Level Adaptive MapReduce Framework

4.1 Preliminary of Hadoop MapReduce Framework4.2 Task-Level Adaptive MapReduce Framework; 4.3 Adaptive Input Data Split Feeding; 4.4 Adaptive Map Task Provisioning; 4.5 Adaptive Reduce Task Provisioning; 5 Experimental Studies; 5.1 Workload Prediction Methods; 5.2 Experimental Settings; 5.3 Experimental Results; 6 Conclusions and Future Work; 6.1 Conclusions; 6.2 Future Work; Acknowledgements; References; 4 High-Performance Monte Carlo Simulations for Photon Migration and Applications in Optical Brain Functional Imaging; 1 Introduction; 2 Background; 2.1 NVIDIA GPUs; 2.2 AMD GPUs

3 GPU-Accelerated Monte Carlo Photon Transport Simulator for 3D Turbid Media3.1 Optimization of GPU-Accelerated Monte Carlo Simulations for NVIDIA GPUs; 3.1.1 Optimization of Thread and Block Configurations; 3.1.2 Optimizing Register and Shared-Memory Utility; 3.1.3 Customized NVIDIA Math Library Function and Reduction of Division Operations; 3.1.4 More Efficient Random Number Generation; 3.2 MCXCL; 4 Applications; 4.1 Quantification of Sensitivity of Cerebral Cortex; 4.2 Atlas-Based Brain Functional Imaging; 4.3 Brain Cancer Imaging; 5 Conclusions and Future Works; References

5 Building Automation and Control Systems for Healthcare in Smart HomesAbstract; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Large-Scale Distributed Computing and Building Control Systems; 1.2 Architecture of Building Control Systems; 1.3 Computation and Communication Methods; 2 Classification of Health Related Applications Using Building Automation Networks; 2.1 Passive Healthcare Applications; 2.1.1 Activity Recognition and Inhabitant Monitoring; 2.1.2 Safety; 2.2 Active Healthcare Applications; 2.2.1 Active Ventilation Control; 2.2.2 Active Heating Control; 2.2.3 Active Lighting Control