Smartphone-Based Sensors for Non-Invasive Physiological Monitoring
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2016) | Viewed by 225775
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biomedical instrumentation; signal processing; machine learning; smart health diagnostics; wearable devices
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Dear Colleagues,
Smartphones have become so ubiquitous that they are being used as virtually wearable monitors, including heart rate and activity monitoring. By taking advantage of the smartphone’s processing power, peripheral noninvasive and cost-effective sensors, and wireless communications capabilities, recent efforts have been made to create various medical applications for self-monitoring. For example, there have been some recent advances which allow measurements of respiratory rates and cardiac arrhythmia detection all directly from a video camera of a smartphone without the use of external sensors. Given the progress to date, this Special Issue aims to publish new advances in extracting physiological measurements from a smartphone with or without external sensors. Some of the physiological measurement capabilities of interest may include new advances in heart rates, respiratory rates, tidal volume, respiratory sound diagnostics, cardiac arrhythmias, and blood pressure data acquisition and processing. New algorithm development for extraction of the above-mentioned physiological measurements that can be applicable for smartphones is also of significant interest for this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Ki H. Chon
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mobile health
- smartphones
- vital signs
- wearable health monitors
- biosignal processing and diagnostics
- cardiac arrhythmia detection
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