Inertial Sensors for Patient Monitoring and Rehabilitation
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 2589
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue of Sensors entitled “Inertial Sensors for Patient Monitoring and Rehabilitation”. The use of disruptive innovative devices in rehabilitation is revolutionizing the way we manage, monitor, diagnose, and treat patients with motor disorders. Inertial sensors, in particular, are making a breakthrough in medical practice by helping healthcare professionals to engage individuals as active members in self-care, shifting the focus from hospital-oriented to domestic-centered care. This digital transformation is leveraging on standalone systems and inertial data sampled from smartphone or wearable sensors, increasingly allowing remote monitoring of patients’ physical conditions and progress and running of rehabilitation sessions. The implementation of tutoring mobile apps in the form of virtual therapists or of biofeedback-based solutions will strongly promote and encourage adherence to rehabilitation programs, especially in complex social or environmental situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic, where the possibility of patients reaching therapeutic centers is severely limited.
We invite high-quality research papers as well as review articles that describe current and expected challenges, along with potential solutions for patient monitoring and rehabilitation using inertial sensors.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
Health monitoring:
- New concepts in health sensing technology (e.g., mobile, wearable, sensor fusion);
- Biomedical signal processing methods to improve the reliability of motion data;
- Technological solutions to quantify individual motor conditions;
- Digital approaches for health and disease surveillance;
- Technological approaches to treat and rehabilitate motor functions;
- Interventions based on mobile apps including approaches with virtual therapists;
- User experience—how patients or clinicians consume health data.
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Health enhancement
- Inertial sensors
- Sensor fusion
- Domestic-centered care
- Motion capture
- Movement analysis
- Health monitoring
- Biomedical signal processing and algorithms
