Security and Sensing Devices for Healthcare Technologies
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "E:Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 24157
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nano communication; biomedical applications of millimeter and terahertz communication; wearable and flexible sensors; compact antenna design; RF design and radio propagation; antenna interaction with human body; implants; body centric wireless communication issues; wireless body sensor networks; non-invasive health care solutions; physical layer security for wearable/implant communication and multiple-input–multiple-output systems
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Interests: THz/RF sensing; radar technology; advanced signal processing; antennas and propagation; healthcare technology
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Interests: artificial intelligence; affective computing; Internet-of-Things
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Interests: 5G and Beyond networks
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Micro/nano-scaled structures, materials and devices enable the continuous monitoring of human physical activities and behaviors, as well as physiological and biochemical parameters during daily life. The most commonly measured data include vital signs such as heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature, as well as blood oxygen saturation, posture, and physical activities through the use of an electrocardiogram (ECG), ballistocardiogram (BCG) and other devices. Potentially, wearable photo or video devices could provide additional clinical information. Wearable devices can be attached to shoes, eyeglasses, earrings, clothing, gloves and watches and may evolve to be skin-attachable devices. Sensors can be embedded into the environment, such as chairs, car seats and mattresses. Healthcare is undergoing a rapid transformation from traditional hospital and specialist focused approach to a distributed patient-centric approach. Advances in several technologies fuel this rapid transformation of healthcare vertically. Among the various technologies, communication technologies have enabled us to deliver personalized and remote healthcare services.
This Special Issues invites original scientific and research articles on state-of-the-art remote patient monitoring in a safe and secure intelligent healthcare sector. Additionally, the focus of this Special Issue is to invite article/reviews in the area of cybersecurity in digital healthcare. The core idea is to provide an opportunity to academics, researchers and industry professionals to showcase their current developments and set future directions.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Micro/nano-scaled structures, materials, devices for intelligent healthcare;
- Beyond 5G communication for intelligent healthcare;
- Wearable sensors, devices, or techniques for physiological monitoring;
- Wearable sensors health applications;
- E-textiles and clothing-based wearables;
- Wearable-based virtual and augmented reality;
- Human-wearable interaction methods, designs, and evaluation;
- Data fusion for hand–eye coordination;
- Wireless implants;
- Body-centric communications;
- Implant communication;
- Software defined radios for vital signs monitoring;
- Disease detection based on handwriting using deep learning;
- Identifying disorders using eye movements;
- Heart rate monitoring techniques using machine learning;
- Gait analysis using wireless sensing;
- Emotional state identification based on social media (Facebook/Instagram, etc.);
- Ai technique in digital healthcare;
- Facial recognition for symptom detection;
- Cybersecurity in digital healthcare;
- Privacy preserved machine learning in healthcare;
- Robust and secure deep learning in healthcare;
- Use cases of blockchain in remote healthcare;
- Chaos-based cyber-secure health data management systems;
- Patient data privacy and security;
- Data authentication in healthcare domain.
Dr. Qammer Hussain Abbasi
Dr. Syed Aziz Shah
Prof. Naeem Ramzan
Prof. Muhammad Ali Imran
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- micro/nano-scaled structures, materials, devices for healthcare
- 5G sensing for remote patient monitoring
- wireless sensing system in intelligent healthcare
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