Current Accuracy and Advances in Wearable Sensors and Biosensors for Physiological Signals Measurement
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Wearable Biosensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 40381
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Interests: biomedical and mechanical engineering; wearable sensors; measurement devises and techniques; sensors
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Interests: measurements; sensors; artificial intelligence; virtual reality; robotics; biomedical engineering
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Interests: non-invasive measurement techniques; measurement procedures; measurement uncertainty; wearable sensors; physiological signals; comfort and wellbeing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to the exponential demographical growth, health providers operate under unsustainable conditions, resulting in a significant decrease in the general quality of healthcare services. The high and growing number of fragile people with chronic diseases and cognitive impairments has imposed a change in the healthcare paradigm, which should shift to preventive treatments rather than curing, preferring remote monitoring and telemedicine to outpatient visits. In this context, wearable and contactless monitoring technologies, combined with data processing Artificial-Intelligence-based algorithms, could be used to monitor the general health status of patients, keeping chronic diseases under control, detecting the onset of different pathologies in a timely manner, thus reducing hospital access, and most importantly, increasing the quality of life of people and supporting them in living at home as long as possible.
There are several biosensors for physicochemical detection and wearable technologies that range from contact to contactless systems (wearable in different locations, e.g., wrist, chest, finger), detecting a variety of physiological parameters, such as, among others, heart rate (HR) and its variability, respiratory rate, blood pressure (BP), skin temperature, stress, physical activity, energy expenditure, and sweating. Nevertheless, despite the huge variety of physiological parameters that can be acquired through sensors and biosensors, the determination of the measurement accuracy of measured data still remains a challenge. There are no widely accepted test protocols, and available data are quite inhomogeneous, making a comparison among the plethora of available devices difficult.
Thus, we invite you to submit your high-quality original research and review articles that address and explore recent advances in biosensors and wearable sensing technologies for physiological monitoring, focusing both on the biosensing technology and its application and on the accuracy evaluation or innovative strategies to mitigate potential influencing parameters.
Dr. Francesco Scardulla
Dr. Juri Taborri
Dr. Gloria Cosoli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wearable sensors
- measurement accuracy
- metrological characterization
- ECG
- PPG
- EEG
- MEMS
- FBG
- respiration rate
- blood pressure
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