Smart Sensors and Sensing Technologies for Biomedical Engineering
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 14
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomedical experimentation; instrumentation measurements; smart sensors; biomedical measurements; thermo-mechanical sensing; sensor calibration; infrared thermography; measurement uncertainty
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the role of smart sensors and sensing technologies in biomedical engineering has grown significantly, driven by the increasing demand for reliable, non-invasive, and continuous monitoring of physiological, thermal, and biomechanical parameters.
Advances in sensors miniaturization, low-power electronics, wireless communication, IoT architectures, signal processing techniques, and machine learning methods are opening new possibilities for patient monitoring beyond traditional clinical settings, supporting outpatient care, long-term observation, and personalized healthcare strategies.
At the same time, the use of sensing systems in real-world biomedical monitoring brings significant challenges related to measurement accuracy, signal quality, artifacts, and environmental interference. Effectively addressing these challenges requires integrated work that combines advanced sensing technologies with rigorous measurement methodologies, including characterization, calibration, validation, uncertainty analysis, and reliable signal interpretation, often through multimodal and multichannel approaches.
This Special Issue aims to bring together original research contributions and in-depth reviews focusing on smart sensors and sensing technologies applied to biomedical engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, sensor and transduction mechanism design, biosensors, wearable and flexible sensing systems, thermal and thermomechanical measurements, infrared thermography, non-contact sensing techniques, biomedical signal processing, and sensor networks for healthcare monitoring and clinical support.
Particular attention is devoted to thermo-mechanical, thermal, electrical, optical, and multi-physics sensing techniques, as well as to smart sensor architectures integrating embedded intelligence for adaptive measurement and self-calibration.
Dr. Antonio Cannuli
Prof. Dr. Roberto Montanini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart sensors
- biomedical engineering
- biosensors
- wearable sensors
- flexible electronics
- thermo-mechanical sensing
- infrared thermography
- sensor calibration
- signal processing
- healthcare monitoring, and data quality assessment, including uncertainty analysis and validation protocols
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