Sensors for Breathing Monitoring—2nd Edition
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2026 | Viewed by 16
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bioengineering of the respiratory system; physiological measurements; biomedical instrumentation and sensors and functional lung imaging
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Interests: control of breathing; especially; rhythm generation; pattern formation; coordination between swallowing and breathing
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Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to participate in the Special Issue “Sensors for Breathing Monitoring—2nd Edition”. Breathing monitoring is essential to detecting apnea, hypopnea, and other respiratory abnormalities in clinical settings. Further, respiratory fluctuation presents valuable information that can be used in clinical practice for diagnosis, emotion recognition, and mental conditioning. The recent advancement of sensor technology in combination with machine learning and information theory-based techniques has enabled us to extract hidden information from respiratory fluctuation and translate it into usable forms.
In recent decades, various sensors for breathing monitoring have been developed, which can be classified as 1. airflow-based sensors (e.g., pneumotachograph, thermistor, capnometer, acoustic sensors, etc.); 2. chest wall motion-based sensors (e.g., magnetometer, inductive plethysmography, impedance pneumography, piezoelectric sensors, accelerometer, optical sensors, radio frequency-based methods, etc.); and 3. methods based on respiratory modulation of other physiological signals such as electrocardiograms, arterial pulse wave transit time, photoplethysmograms (PPGs), and imaging PPG.
One of the key issues is establishing an appropriate method for a specific purpose. To accomplish this, we must know the characteristics (accuracy, stability, and restrictions) of these sensors, on the one hand, and the requirements needed to meet the specific purpose, on the other hand.
Contributions to this Special Issue may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Novel sensing techniques for breathing monitoring;
- Practical sensor implementations for diagnosis, emotion recognition, and mental conditioning;
- New insights into breathing complexity that provide methods to extract useful information.
Prof. Dr. Andrea Aliverti
Prof. Dr. Yoshitaka Oku
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- breath monitoring
- apnea detecting
- wearable sensors
- gas sensors
- physiological signals
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- Sensors for Breathing Monitoring in Sensors (10 articles)
