Contactless Sensors for Healthcare

Dear Colleagues,

Monitoring based on contactless sensing is an emerging research topic with numerous biomedical and healthcare applications. For instance, it could potentially help to control pandemics like COVID-19.

Various contactless sensors, such as remote optical (RGB, Infrared, Terahertz cameras), radio frequency (radar, WiFi), acoustic, capacitive, and magnetic sensors, can be exploited to measure physiological signals (e.g., heart rate, respiration rate, blood oxygen saturation, blood pressure, skin temperature) and activity signals (e.g., movement, emotion, context) from a human body to assess health conditions. The fusion of different sensor streams is a source of new insights into health informatics. Further development of these technologies will lead to a rich set of compelling health applications to improve quality of life, care experience, and clinical workflow, ranging from hospital care units to ordinary homes.

This Special Issue will highlight, but is not limited to, the following directions:

• Innovative or improved sensors and sensor fusion for contactless health monitoring;
• Novel approaches (methodologies or algorithms) for processing the sensory information (e.g., signal/image processing, data analysis, AI);
• New applications and studies for contactless health monitoring (e.g., clinical trials, use cases in combating COVID-19).

We look forward to receiving your high-quality and original research work and welcome your participation in this Special Issue.

Dr. Wenjin Wang
Prof. Steffen Leonhardt
Prof. Daqing Zhang
Dr. Bert den Brinker
Guest Editors

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