27 August 2021
Nowadays people are mostly focused on their work while ignoring their health which in turn is creating a drastic effect on their health in the long run. Remote health monitoring through telemedicine can help people discover potential health threats i...
Functionalizing agents enhance the photophysical properties of nanomaterials, thereby broadening their applications. Among these agents, cysteamine (SH-(CH2)2-NH2) is unique because of its free thiol (-SH) and amino (-NH2) groups. The presence of fre...
Traditional training methods for first responders are often limited by time, resources, and safety constraints, which reduces their consistency and effectiveness. This study focused on two main issues: whether exposure to virtual reality training sce...
Prolonged operation of biomedical devices may compromise electronic component integrity due to cyclic thermal stress, thereby impacting both functionality and safety. Regulatory standards require regular inspections, particularly for surgical applica...
In recent years, the interest in medical monitoring for human health has been rapidly increasing due to widespread concern. Hydrogels are widely used in medical monitoring and other fields due to their excellent mechanical properties, electrical cond...
This paper presents a compact wearable patch antenna operating in the 2.4 GHz ISM band for biomedical Internet of Things (IoT)-based healthcare monitoring applications. The proposed antenna is intended for integration with wearable biomedical sensors...
Smart wearable biomedical sensors/devices provide the ability for continuous monitoring of physiological parameters in occupational settings. Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)’s integration in wearable biomedical technology presents addition...
Hydrogel-and-nanomaterial-integrated wearable biosensor networks are promising platforms for real-time biomedical monitoring because they combine soft biointerfaces, sensitive signal transduction, and wireless data connectivity. Hydrogels provide tis...
Congenital heart disease, the most frequent malformation at birth, is usually not fatal but leads to multiple hospitalisations and outpatient visits, with negative impact on the quality of life and psychological profile not only of children but also...
The reliability of biomedical devices is closely linked to the quality and long-term stability of the electronic circuits that support their operation. Printed circuit boards (PCBs), in particular, can be affected by manufacturing imperfections, ther...
Electromagnetic compatibility is the capability of electrical and electronic equipment to function properly around devices radiating electromagnetic energy, without mutual disturbance. Hospital environments contain numerous devices operating simultan...
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) technology, leveraging its single-molecule-level detection sensitivity, molecular fingerprint recognition capability, and capacity for rapid, non-destructive analysis, has emerged as a pivotal analytical tool...
The intersection of biomedical and bioengineering technologies with sports monitoring and healthcare has recently emerged as a key area of innovation and research [...]
Mercury is a very toxic element that is widely spread in the atmosphere, lithosphere, and surface water. Concentrated mercury poses serious problems to human health, as bioaccumulation of mercury within the brain and kidneys ultimately leads to neuro...
The healthcare industry is undergoing rapid transformation driven by advancements in Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, particularly in biomedical signal processing and health monitoring [...]
Nanoparticle-based biosensors are redefining the future of biomedical diagnostics and environmental monitoring [...]
Continuous respiratory monitoring is an important tool for clinical monitoring. Associated with the development of biomedical technology, it has become more and more important, especially in the measuring of gas flow and CO2 concentration, which can...
Cell monitoring is essential for understanding the physiological conditions and cell abnormalities induced by various stimuli, such as stress factors, microbial invasion, and diseases. Currently, various techniques for detecting cell abnormalities an...
Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) have emerged as versatile self-powered platforms for wearable and implantable biomedical sensing, offering an alternative to battery-dependent electronic devices. By converting biomechanical energy from physiologi...
Microwave sensing technology is rapidly advancing and increasingly finding its way into biomedical applications, promising significant improvements for medical care. Concurrently, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is enabling significant enhan...
Self-powered RF passive sensors have potential application in temperature measurements of patients with health problems. Herein, this work presents the design and implementation of a self-powered UHF passive tag prototype for biomedical temperature m...
Wearable biomedical monitoring systems increasingly demand CMOS interfaces capable of operating under stringent energy, voltage, and environmental constraints while maintaining a reliable acquisition of weak physiological signals. In this context, an...
Self-powered sensor technologies are receiving increasing attention owing to their ability to operate independently without the need for external batteries or power supplies. This autonomy enables continuous and real-time monitoring in various applic...
Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) systems are widely used for the real-time analysis of mass changes and viscoelastic properties in biological samples, enabling applications such as biomolecular interaction studies, bios...
Fabry–Perot interferometric (FPI) sensors are an accurate and well-established sensing technology that are used to monitor a wide range of parameters such as strain, temperature, and refractive index, among many others. Nevertheless, due to the...
One of the major goals of Health 4.0 is to offer personalized care to patients, also through real-time, remote monitoring of their biomedical parameters. In this regard, wearable monitoring systems are crucial to deliver continuous appropriate care....
This paper proposed an ultra-miniaturized four-port dual-band multi-input multi-output (MIMO) antenna designed for wireless biomedical implantable devices, including wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) and cardiac leadless pacemakers. The antenna suppor...
Epigenomic regulation, particularly DNA methylation, plays a critical role in gene expression control and has emerged as an important source of biomarkers for disease diagnosis, risk prediction, and longitudinal health monitoring. As high-throughput...
Monitoring physical activity in medical and clinical rehabilitation, in sports environments or as a wellness indicator is helpful to measure, analyze and evaluate physiological parameters involving the correct subject’s movements. Thanks to integrate...
This paper presents a new remote healthcare model, which, exploiting wireless biomedical sensors, an embedded local unit (gateway) for sensor data acquisition-processing-communication, and a remote e-Health service center, can be scaled in different...
Recently, significant developments have been achieved in the field of artificial intelligence, in particular the introduction of deep learning technology that has improved the learning and prediction accuracy to unpresented levels, especially when de...
Real-time biomedical monitoring systems generate continuous streams of physiological data that must be integrated into analytical repositories with minimal latency. Traditional Extract–Transform–Load (ETL) pipelines used in healthcare inf...
Intelligent sensing is drastically changing our everyday life including healthcare by biomedical signal monitoring, collection, and analytics. However, long-term healthcare monitoring generates tremendous data volume and demands significant wireless...
The continuous real-time monitoring of human health using biomedical sensing devices has recently become a promising approach to the realization of distant health monitoring. In this paper, the piezoelectric characteristics of the silk fibroin (SF) n...
Nanozymes, a kind of nanoparticles with enzyme-mimicking activities, have attracted considerable attention due to their robust catalytic properties, ease of preparation, and resistance to harsh conditions. By combining nanozymes with surface-enhanced...
Bragg gratings in etched polymer fibres and their unique properties and characteristics are discussed in this paper. Due to the change in material and mechanical properties of the polymer fibre through etching, Bragg gratings inscribed in such fibres...
Capacitive proximity sensing is widespread in our everyday life, but no sensor for biomedical optics takes advantage of this technology to monitor the probe attachment to the subject’s skin. In particular, when using optical monitoring devices,...
This study proposes a unified multimodal temporal motion state perception framework for optical imaging-oriented biomedical applications, integrating visual skeleton sequences, inertial measurement unit (IMU) signals, and surface electromyography (EM...
This paper presents a Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) and Internet of Things (IoT)-based eHealth monitoring system called LI-Care to facilitate the diagnosis of the health condition cost-effectively. The system measures...
Overweight and obesity are affecting productivity and quality of life worldwide. The Internet of Things (IoT) makes it possible to interconnect, detect, identify, and process data between objects or services to fulfill a common objective. The main ad...
A passive and wireless sensor was developed for monitoring pressure in vivo. Structurally, the pressure sensor, referred to as the magneto-harmonic pressure sensor, is an airtight chamber sealed with an elastic pressure membrane. A strip of magnetica...
This manuscript explores the transformative potential of swellable microneedles (MNs) in drug delivery and diagnostics, addressing critical needs in medical treatment and monitoring. Innovations in hydrogel-integrated MN arrays facilitate controlled...
This review aims to elucidate recent developments in electrochemical sensors that use functionalized carbon electrodes with molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) for the selective detection of organic compounds in diverse fields including pharmacy, f...
Magnetic nanoparticles combine unique magnetic properties that can be used in a variety of biomedical applications for therapy and diagnostics. These applications place high demands on the magnetic properties of nanoparticles. Thus, research, develop...
Magnetoresistance (MR) is the variation of a material’s resistivity under the presence of external magnetic fields. Reading heads in hard disk drives (HDDs) are the most common applications of MR sensors. Since the discovery of giant magnetoresistanc...
Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors have become an important sensing technology owing to their high sensitivity, multiplexing capability, and ability to operate in demanding environments. Despite extensive research activity, the transition of FBG sensi...
The Monit4Healthy system is an IoT-enabled health monitoring solution designed to address critical challenges in real-time biomedical signal processing, energy efficiency, and data transmission. The system’s modular design merges wireless commu...
This narrative review aims to analyze and highlight the potential of piezoelectric biomedical devices for actuation and sensing tasks, enabling reliable, high-precision results in innovative applications driven by smart digital tools. This encompasse...
Close monitoring of vital physiological parameters is often key in following the evolution of certain medical conditions (e.g., diabetes, infections, post-operative status or post-traumatic injury). The allocation of trained medical staff and special...
This review explores the transformative potential of graphene-based, non-invasive biochemical sensors in the context of real-time health monitoring and personalised medicine. Traditional diagnostic methods often involve invasive procedures that can b...
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