Sensors for Gait, Posture, Cognition and Health Monitoring
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2020) | Viewed by 4769
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Interests: technology; assessment; big data; rehabilitation; epidemiology; sports science; exercise performance
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Over the last several years, there have been major advances in the development and use of new technologies. The most important point is probably not the exponential curve of technological development, but the speed at which this technology is becoming widely available to the public. Smartphones, connected watches, motion tracking systems, and other smart clothes have turned people into connected bodies—true sensors in their own right. While these technologies are widely used by the public, they are only used in limited cases in clinics and even less during clinical trials. There is currently a significant shift in the way the patients are being assessed: from the strict and validated clinical environment (e.g., motion analysis laboratory) to real-life measurements.
This new paradigm offers new exciting perspectives both in clinics (allowing longitudinal follow-up, while currently only transverse assessments are mostly performed with only a few evaluations, ecological evaluation, cost-effective) and in research (big data, highly multidimensional analysis, etc.).
However, before being used in daily clinics, these new technologies must be validated. Besides the validation, many other questions must also be answered, such as the ethical issues related to the recording, storage, and analysis of the data using mobile sensors, the assessment of the quality of the data, the integration of those new data in the traditional clinical pipeline, the development of machine learning methods for heterogeneous big data, the cost and the integration of those evaluations in healthcare services, etc.
In this Special Issue, you are invited to submit contributions describing the development of methods, hardware or software, for optimized sensors design for functional evaluation (including but not limited to gait, balance, cognitive assessment, physical activity level), together with their application in different fields related to functional assessment and medical diagnosis.
Dr. Bruno Bonnechère
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- new technology
- development
- validation
- functional assessment
- real-world data
- big data
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