Wearable Sensors and Portable Devices in Healthcare Application

Dear Colleagues,

With the current popularity of home healthcare, people are gradually changing their mindset from therapy to prevention. There is a prospect that detection and intervention at an early stage of the disease can significantly reduce the treatment burden. This relies on long-term monitoring of multiple physiological indicators of the human body. Potential trends through physiological signals are recognized in time before the visible evidence of condition worsening. Compared with the traditional medical model, wearable medical devices have advantages in portability, digitization, and real-time use, promising a wide range of applications.

Wearable sensors and devices such as handheld devices, head-mounted devices, smart bracelets, smart clothing, smart jewelry, and portable patch sensors ought to be comfortable, small, stable, safe, efficient, and friendly to interact with. They provide long-term self-health management, for example, through the monitoring of blood pressure, blood glucose, blood lipid, heart rate, electrocardio, electroencephalogram, electromyography, pulse, respiration, sleep rhythm, and other biomedical signals, combined with the corresponding algorithm to assess health status and medical diagnosis.

This Topic aims to provide communication on new sensor materials, measurement methods, device structures, and physiological indicator derivation algorithms for health applications. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Smart wearable devices
• Sensing mechanisms
• Algorithms for physiological indicators
• Signal processing
• Integrated applications

Dr. Weiting Liu
Prof. Dr. Dajing Chen
Prof. Dr. Lei Ren
Topic Editors