EMBalance

A Decision Support System incorporating a validated patient-specific, multi-scale Balance Hypermodel towards early diagnostic Evaluation and efficient Management plan formulation of Balance Disorders

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON    more  Organization address address: Torrington Place 1-19 city: London contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Amelie Cognome: Guisseau Email: send email Telefono: +44 20 7679 8329 Fax: 442031000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	4˙740˙776 €
EC contributo	3˙523˙000 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2013-10
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-12-01   -   2016-11-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON  Organization address address: Torrington Place 1-19 city: London contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Amelie Cognome: Guisseau Email: send email Telefono: +44 20 7679 8329 Fax: 442031000000	UK (London)	coordinator	0.00
2	BioIRC d.o.o. Kragujevac  Organization address address: Sretenjskog ustava city: Kragujevac contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Nenad Cognome: Filipovic Email: send email Telefono: +38 134500088 Fax: 38134500089	RS (Kragujevac)	participant	0.00
3	ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA  Organization address address: Via San Martino Della Battaglia city: ROMA contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Matteo Cognome: Melideo Email: send email Telefono: +39 3355728374	IT (ROMA)	participant	0.00
4	INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS  Organization address address: Patission Str. city: ATHINA contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Dimitris Cognome: Koutsouris Email: send email Telefono: +30 2107723926 Fax: +30 2107722431	EL (ATHINA)	participant	0.00
5	NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS  Organization address address: CHRISTOU LADA city: ATHENS contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Efstathia Cognome: Kafentzi Email: send email Telefono: +30 2103689194 Fax: +30 2103689008	EL (ATHENS)	participant	0.00
6	TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT  Organization address address: Stevinweg city: DELFT contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Lily Cognome: Tunggal Email: send email Telefono: +31 152788684	NL (DELFT)	participant	0.00
7	THE CITY UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: NORTHAMPTON SQUARE city: LONDON contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Dilly Cognome: Tawakkul Email: send email Telefono: 442070000000 Fax: 442070000000	UK (LONDON)	participant	0.00
8	UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM FREIBURG  Organization address address: HUGSTETTER STRASSE city: FREIBURG contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Gerhard Cognome: Henninger Email: send email Telefono: +49 761 270 19200 Fax: +49 761 270 18890	DE (FREIBURG)	participant	0.00
9	UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN  Organization address address: PRINSSTRAAT city: ANTWERPEN contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Anne Cognome: Adams Email: send email Telefono: +32 32653028 Fax: +32 32653011	BE (ANTWERPEN)	participant	0.00
10	UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE  Organization address address: DRIENERLOLAAN city: ENSCHEDE contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Jacoba Cognome: Houten-Vos Email: send email Telefono: 31534892444 Fax: +31 53 4892621	NL (ENSCHEDE)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

Human balance is achieved and maintained by a complex set of sensorimotor systems that include sensory input from vision, proprioception and the vestibular system (motion, equilibrium, spatial orientation); integration of the sensory input; and motor output to the muscles of the eye and body. Failure at the level of the sensory inputs or at the integration of the sensory information by the central nervous system may lead to a variety of age spanning diseases which affect balance. This complexity leads to undiagnosed or under-treated patients with balance disorders for long periods and results in large socio-economic costs.The EMBalance project aims to extend existing but generic and currently uncoupled balance modelling activities leading to a multi-scale and patient-specific balance Hypermodel, which will be incorporated to a Decision Support System, towards the early diagnosis, prediction and the efficient treatment planning of balance disorders. Various data will feed the intelligent system increasing the dimensionality and personalization of the system. Human Computer Interaction techniques will be utilized in order to develop the required interfaces in a user-intuitive and efficient way, while interoperable web-services will enhance the accessibility and acceptance of the system. The vision extends to the experimental and clinical validation of the project outcomes with existing and newly acquired data (by conducting small scale clinical trials), and includes showcases in balance disorders diagnosis, prediction, treatment and follow-up in normal and micro-gravity environments.The final outcome will be a powerful web-based platform provided to primary and secondary care physicians across specialties, levels of training and geographical boundaries, targeting wider clinical acceptance as well as the increased confidence in the developed DSS towards the early diagnostic evaluation, behaviour prediction and effective management planning of balance problems.