Ambient Intelligence in Health Care
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2020) | Viewed by 380
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Interests: computational medicine and biomedical engineering; computational neuroscience/brain computer interfaces; biosignal analysis/AI; graph visualization and characterization; computational oncology; digital health/ambient intelligence and smart environments
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Dear Colleagues,
The tremendous growth in the Internet of Things (IoT) in recent years has had a significant impact in the medical domain already. The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is expected to revolutionize healthcare. In marketing terms, the global IoMT is expected to reach $72.02B by 2021, reaching a CAGR of 26.2%. At the same time, Ambient Intelligence (AmI) promises the pervasive diffusion of intelligence in the surrounding environment, through various wireless technologies and intelligent sensors that grow smaller and even disappear, letting only the interface as the means of communication with the user. Such technology and intelligent environments are expected to greatly enhance healthcare delivery and even create a paradigm shift in medical decision making and current care pathways. IoMT in AmI environments connected with patients will not only reduce hospitalization costs but even more importantly benefit patients by offering faster and more-accurate diagnoses with increased prognostic value, served not only in hospitals and clinics, but also in the community and at home. This will be achieved by bringing together state-of-the-art technologies and new usage application developments dealing with machine learning, embedded artificial intelligence, clinical decision support, data analytics, patient ubiquitous monitoring, drug adherence, and rehabilitation aspects, able to empower both patients and clinicians.
We invite investigators to submit original research articles and reviews to this Special Issue demonstrating the benefits of the use of AmI in health-related environments, as well as the infrastructure and technology required. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Architecture and protocols for realizing unobstructive healthcare environments;
- Ambient assisted living and e-healthcare;
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning for AmI systems in pervasive healthcare;
- Human-centric computer interfaces for health-related AmI environments;
- Software agent and knowledge-based technologies in AmI patient-centric environments;
- Security and privacy models for healthcare AmI applications;
- Interoperability of heterogeneous network and software technologies for AmI systems in pervasive healthcare;
- Smart sensors and intelligent devices for IoMT;
- Seamless QoS-aware (mobile/ fixed) communication protocols for IoMT;
- Health data analytics and personalized models in health-related AmI environments;
- Case studies and AmI applications in the healthcare domain (i.e., supporting people with physical/mental disabilities and chronic diseases).
Dr. Vangelis Sakkalis
Guest Editor
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