Communications Challenges in Health and Well-Being, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Improved living conditions and the availability of quality healthcare have increased life expectancy and the share of the aging population. According to the latest World Population Prospects, 16% of the population will be over the age of 65 by 2050, in contrast to the current 10%. This will be one of the sources of increased incidence of chronic disease and disability. The recent global COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that existing healthcare systems can hardly cope with unpredictable events. This requires the adoption of new approaches. This call is dedicated to research on intelligent architectures, processing, applications, and systems in healthcare that combine various wireless devices and tools ranging from deep learning to high-performance computing, with the goal of bringing benefits to all individuals.

This multidisciplinary topic covers, but is not restricted to, the following:

• Remote health monitoring (applications for both humans and animals);
• RF propagation in body area networks;
• Application of machine learning and artificial intelligence in health data processing;
• Improved imaging and 1D processing techniques;
• Technologies for public health and emergencies;
• Activity monitoring for diagnosis or rehabilitation;
• IoT/IoE in healthcare;
• Privacy and security in health data transmission or processing;
• Nano-networks;
• Crowdsensing/crowdsourcing;
• Information theory aspects of biomedical signals.

Prof. Dr. Dragana Bajic
Dr. Konstantinos Katzis
Prof. Dr. Gordana Gardasevic
Topic Editors