**Contents**


## **About the Special Issue Editors**

**R. Simon Sherratt** (Professor) received a B.Eng. degree in electronic systems and control engineering from Sheffield City Polytechnic, Sheffield, U.K., in 1992, a M.S. degree in data telecommunications, and a Ph.D. degree in video signal processing from the University of Salford, Salford, U.K., in 1994 and 1996, respectively. In 1996, he was appointed as a lecturer in electronic engineering in the University of Reading, Reading, U.K., where he is currently Professor of biosensors and leads the wearable devices research activities. His research interests include signal processing and personal communications in consumer devices focusing on wearable devices and healthcare, primarily for the residential managemen<sup>t</sup> of Parkinson's disease and the automatic detection of human emotion. He is a Fellow of the IET and a Fellow of the IEEE.

**Nilanjan Dey** is Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology at Techno International New Town (formerly known as Techno India College of Technology), Kolkata, India. He has also served as honorary Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2012–2015). He was awarded his Ph.D. from Jadavpur University in 2015. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, IGI Global. He is the Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing, Springer Nature; Series Co-Editor of Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare, Elsevier; and Series Editor of Computational Intelligence in Engineering Problem Solving and Intelligent Signal processing and data analysis, CRC. He has authored/edited more than 50 books with Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, and CRC Press and published more than 300 peer-reviewed research papers. His main research interests include medical imaging, machine learning, computer-aided diagnosis, data mining, etc. He is the Indian Ambassador of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)—Young ICT Group.
