Application of Wearables in Digital Medicine
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Wearables".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 68975
Special Issue Editors
Interests: signal processing; machine learning; biomechanics; computational dynamics; development of digital biomarkers, phenotypes, and therapeutics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The emerging field of digital medicine leverages advances in wearable and mobile technology to have a direct impact on diagnosing, preventing, monitoring, and treating disease. The critical need for these technologies has been emphasized in recent months with the COVID-19 pandemic and associated physical distancing measures preventing many in-person healthcare visits. This crisis has highlighted the opportunity that digital medicine provides for improving access and quality of care. However, before this vision can be realized, it is critical that the novel wearable and mobile health technologies underpinning digital medicine undergo rigorous validation. Despite this need, validation efforts are fractured, with recent calls for a structured process for the validation of these technologies that encompasses technical, clinical, and system-level considerations.
This Special Issue will gather novel developments in the use of wearable sensors for digital medicine and particularly efforts to validate their use in human subjects. Studies that highlight novel hardware and/or methodological developments, validation of these approaches in human subjects, and systematic reviews of the literature in a particular subarea of digital medicine are encouraged. Approaches that discuss approaches for collecting and analyzing multi-modal data are of particular interest. Where appropriate, we strongly encourage authors to deposit their source code and data in a public repository (e.g., GitHub) to help accelerate progress in this field. Topics include but are not limited to the following topics.
Topics:
- Wearable sensors
- Sensor fusion algorithms
- Machine learning applied to wearable sensor data
- Multi-modal sensing
- Digital biomarkers
- Digital phenotypes
- Mental health
- Neurological disorders
- Physical rehabilitation
- Older adults
- Digital medicine
Dr. Ryan S. McGinnis
Dr. Ellen W. McGinnis
Guest Editors
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