Sensors Applied in Multimodal Systems—Selected Papers from the Second Ecuador Technical Chapters Meeting (IEEE-ETCM)

Dear Colleagues,

In the last few years, rehabilitation treatments in patients with neurological disorders have been combined with the use of multimodal systems. Customizable technology systems are a good complement in the rehabilitation process of motor disorders.

Sensor technologies, together with virtual environments in these therapeutic sessions, have shown great benefit in the improvements of motor and cognitive illnesses. The combination of a multi-disciplinary research lines composed of sensors, multimodal systems, medical systems, communication aids, and training products for rehabilitation can improve the healthcare of patients with motor and cognitive injuries.

Improvements using sensors technologies, together with adaptive design, based on virtual rehabilitation, in these types of pathologies can serve to enrich the quality of life and motivation of these patients. These types of personalized treatments are employed in the most recent processes today.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to invite authors to publish their latest novel solutions based on multimodal systems, together with sensors design, for the treatments of patients with motor and cognitive disorders, with contributions that include original research papers, review papers, as well as case reports. Topics of this Special Issue can include:

• Sensor systems to track and analyze motor disorders.
• Multimodal systems to analyze of kinematic and kinetic parameters.
• Novel prototypes in health treatments for improving quality of life.
• Wearable technologies for improving patient rehabilitation.
• Healthcare solutions using virtual rehabilitation.
• Models and algorithms to manage sensors systems in rehabilitation processes.
• Virtual humans focused on neurological disorders.
• Training technologies in neurodegenerative disorders.
• Virtual cues in the rehabilitation process.

This Special Issue will select extended manuscripts according to the topics of the second Ecuador Technical Chapters Meeting (IEEE-ETCM), which will be held 16–20 October, 2017, in Salinas, Ecuador.

Dr. Sergio Albiol-Pérez
Dr. Mónica Huerta
Dr. César A. Collazos
Prof. Dr. Habib M. Fardoun
Guest Editors

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