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You can get to know the operations of the Health Tech Lab and the research group in more detail at https://healthtech.turkuamk.fi/

We produce research, development and innovation services for the needs of health technology. The aim of the research group is to be an active expert partner of health technology product developers and enable more high-quality products and solutions for the field.
The themes of our research and development projects include:

Health technology product development – from idea to practice, by taking the medical device regulations into account
Information management
AI applications and robotics
Development of service related to health and well-being

We offer our cooperation partners both Test Bed activities at the Health Tech Lab and user-oriented product development and testing, conducted in living lab environments.

Members

Teppo Saarenpää
Reetta Raitoharju
Jaana Heinonen
Olli Ojala
Mika Luimula
Taisto Suominen
Marika Säisä
Tiina Ferm
Paula Pitkäkangas
Harri Jalonen
Jarkko Paavola
Johanna Krappe
Hanna Ahtosalo
Balsam Almurrani

Health Technology

Research group leader

Ms Elina Kontio

Ph.D, Principal Lecturer

+358 44 907 2088

firstname.lastname@turkuamk.fi

elina.kontio@turkuamk.fi

Ongoing projects

EOSC-ENTRUST: A European Network of TRUSTed research environments (EOSC-ENTRUST)

Medallion – Medical AI and Immersion

MaMaCo – Material Management in Shipbuilding Ecosystem Co-Creation

PHASE IV AI – Privacy compliant health data as a service for AI development

SYNDATE - Test platform for synthetic health data

AIIS - Artificial Intelligence, Innovation & Society, the future of medicine

EntreFox

PRIVASA - Privacy Preserving AI for Synthetic and Anonymous Health Data

PELIMO – Possibilities of gamification in multicultural education

REDI SOTE – Resource-wise digital social and health services

Digisosku HEALTH-X – Health and social service providers as health tech accelerators

Most recent publications and products

Lahtiranta, J., Reunanen, T., Kontio, E. (2022). Co-creation services boosting health technology potential – the case of Turku Finland. In: Evangelos Markopoulos, Ravindra S. Goonetilleke and Yan Luximon (eds) Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. AHFE (2022) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 31. AHFE International, USA.
http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001515

Abdulhamit Subasi, Elina Kontio, Mojtaba Jafaritadi 2022: Chapter 7 - Deep learning approaches for the cardiovascular disease diagnosis using smartphone. In: 5G IoT and Edge Computing for Smart Healthcare Intelligent Data-Centric Systems 2022, Pages 163-193. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90548-0.00010-3

Khan, M.I., Jafaritadi, M., Alhoniemi, E., Kontio, E., Khan, S.A. (2022). Adaptive Weight Aggregation in Federated Learning for Brain Tumor Segmentation. In: Crimi, A., Bakas, S. (eds) Brainlesion: Glioma, Multiple Sclerosis, Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injuries. BrainLes 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12963. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09002-8_40

Huhtanen, J.T., Nyman, M., Doncenco, D. et al. Deep learning accurately classifies elbow joint effusion in adult and pediatric radiographs. Sci Rep 12, 11803 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16154-x

White paper: Khan I. (2022). White paper on the Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Neuroscience.

Kontio, E. (2019). eHealth2019: The 24th Finnish National Conference on Telemedicine and eHealth : Data-Driven Health. Suomen telelääketieteen ja e-Health seura ry.

Heikkinen, K., & Raitoharju, R. (2019). Promoting health and well-being of entrepreneurs with health technology. 5th CARPE Conference: HORIZON EUROPE AND BEYOND, p. 213.

Tarkkanen, K., Luimula, M., Katajapuu, N., Saarenpää, T., & Ravyse, W. (2018). Applying personas in designing exergames for knee arthrosis. 2018 IEEE 6th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH).

Kontio, E., Kouri, P., & Ahonen, O. (2018). Telemedicine and eHealth in Finland : On the Way to Digitalization: From Individual TeleHealth Applications to Connected Health. A Century of Telemedicine : Curatio Sine Distantia et Tempora : A World Wide Overview – Part II, p. 29.

Kontio, E. (2018). eHealth2018: The 23rd Finnish National Conference on Telemedicine and eHealth : The 23rd ISfTeH International Conference : Health communities facing cyber transformation. Suomen telelääketieteen ja e-Health seura ry.

Jafari Tadi, M., Saraste, A., & Teräs, M. (2018). Multidimensional Embedded MEMS Motion Detectors for Wearable Mechanocardiography and 4D Medical Imaging.

Kontio, E., & Kouri, P. (2018). eHealth2018: Special issue on "Health communities facing cyber transformation".

Luimula, M., & Saarenpää, T. (2017). Lessons Learned from the Gamified Solutions in Healthcare Project: Usability Studies of Digital Game-based Physical Exercises for Elderly People. European Alliance for Innovation, EAI.

Pyae, A., Smed, J., Joelsson, T., Kattimeri, C., Luimula, M., Granholm, P., . . . Saarenpää, T. (2017). Lessons Learned from Two Usability Studies of Digital Skiing Game with Elderly People in Finland and Japan.

Seppälä, K., Grönlund, M., Ranti, T., & Raitoharju, R. (2017). Suomen terveysteknologia-alan nykytila ja haasteet.

Raitoharju, R., Ranti, T. & Grönlund, M. (2017) Healthcare as a business environment - analysing the Finnish health technology industry. International Journal of Telemedicine and Clinical Practices, 2017 Vol.2 No.4, pp.362-379

Kontio, E., Kontio, J., Saarenpää, T., & Helo, T. (2017). Students' role in design-implement experiences: Case: Health informatics project. The 13th International CDIO Conference Proceedings : Full Papers, p. 245.

Kontio, E. (2017). XXII Kansallinen telelääketieteen ja eHealth seminaari: "win-win-win, voittaako kansalainen, ammattilainen ja yhteiskunta?" . Suomen telelääketieteen ja e-Health seura ry.

Jafari Tadi, M., & Koivisto, T. (2017). Design and Implementation of a Non-invasive and Cuff-less Arterial Blood Pressure Monitoring System. Computing in Cardiology.