Data Analytics and Applications of Wearable Sensors in Healthcare
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 June 2022) | Viewed by 9798
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wearable devices; free-living physical activity; biostatistics; digital signal processing; gerontology
Interests: human activity recognition; physical activity; sedentary behavior; digital phenotyping; smartphone sensors
Interests: biostatistics; wearable physical activity monitors; electronic medical records; statistical software
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, we have witnessed substantial growth in popularity and application of both research- and consumer-grade wearable devices that can collect a variety of biological signals continuously over multiple days at a time. For example, large observational studies, including NHANES and UKBiobank, have already collected free-living physical activity data with wearable accelerometers on over a hundred thousand participants. As a result, there is a growing number of more focused observational studies and clinical trials also introducing accelerometry measurement protocols in their design. Additionally, rapidly advancing technology and decreasing prices have given rise to other exciting and useful types of wearables, including, among many others, ambulatory ECGs, implantable blood-glucose monitors, and personal GPS devices.
To top it all off, we are observing the accelerating migration of consumer-grade devices into clinical and research applications evidenced by the marketing of the newest Apple Watch as a physical activity and ECG monitor, or by the acquisition of Fitbit by Google and the Google Health initiative. Given the increasing acceptance of wearable technology, it is imperative to gain a better understanding of collected data and their potential and to provide a transparent and accessible analytical know-how that will help to improve the design and avoid confusion in future research utilizing wearable devices. This Special Issue will focus on novel analytical methods and original research applications that make use of data collected by a wide range of wearable sensors in medicine and epidemiology.
Dr. Jacek Urbanek
Dr. Marcin Strączkiewicz
Dr. William Fadel
Dr. Jiawei Bai
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Keywords
- Wearable computing
- Accelerometers
- Ambulatory ECG
- Implantable blood glucose monitors
- Sensor fusion
- High-density bio-signals
- Digital phenotyping
