Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major cause of chronic morbidity and mortality throughout the world. In 2001 COPD was the fifth leading cause of death in high income countries, and was also estimated to be a leading cause of...
The main goal is to improve the clinical understanding of relationships between clinical/radiological characteristics, disease courses and treatment responses in brain tumor patients. This will enable improved classification and improve patient...
SINTEF and St. Olavs hospital/NTNU are developing new technology for planning and guiding of bronchoscopy. We do this through several different sub-projects in USIGT-Lung.
The Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil has developed a new concept for a remotely operated oil & gas platform located offshore. Robots operating the platform requires multiple sensors to provide the information required for operation planning and...
The overarching aim of the REFINEMENT project is to look at the relationship between different models of health care financing systems and the extent to which mental health care services can meet the goals of high quality, equity, efficiency and...
Norwegian national advisory unit for Ultrasound and image-guided therapy (USIGT) has expertise in ultrasound and image-guided treatment. This includes ultrasound in neurosurgery, ultrasound in laparoscopy, ultrasound in endovascular treatment of eg...
This project aims to halve the energy consumption in new hospital buildings in Norway. It is a four-year, user-driven innovation project supported by the Norwegian Research Council.
The vision of SOCIETIES is to develop a complete, integrated Community Smart Space (CSS), which extends pervasive systems beyond the individual to dynamic communities of users. CSSs will embrace on-line community services, such as Social Networking...
UbiCompForAll is about providing software development tools to users so they can easily tailor and compose services in ubiquitous environments. The main challenge of UbiCompForAll is to come up with solutions that both handle the engineering aspects...