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Wearable Medical Sensors and Artificial Intelligence

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Wearables".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 6989

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Leonardo D'Acquisto

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Department of Enigineering, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Piazza Marina, 61, 90133 Palermo PA, Italy
Interests: mechanical engineering; measurements

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Wearable technologies offer a convenient means of monitoring many physiological features, presenting a multitude of medical solutions. Not only are these devices easy for the consumer to use, but they offer real-time data for physicians to analyze as well. From the Apple Watch’s EKG capabilities to new continuous glucose monitoring systems, wearable medical technologies have a wide range of potential applications in healthcare. For example, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered wearable device that measures multiple vital signs has recently received FDA clearance for patients to use at home.

This Special Issue is concerned with the application of medical wearables to health monitoring, including but not limited to the following topics:

  • Intelligent medical data sensing and processing for distributed monitoring;
  • EEG/ECG sensors and brain interfacing;
  • VR/AR sensors, mixed reality, and data visualization;
  • Advances of medical sensor data fusion;
  • Internet of medical things;
  • Robot-assisted wearable sensors for healthcare;
  • Highly sensitive and specific sensor interface circuits and signal processing;
  • Artificial intelligence algorithms/circuits and for sensor reasoning, classification and decision.

Dr. Leonardo D'Acquisto
Guest Editor

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Improving EEG-Based Driver Distraction Classification Using Brain Connectivity Estimators
by Dulan Perera, Yu-Kai Wang, Chin-Teng Lin, Hung Nguyen and Rifai Chai
Sensors 2022, 22(16), 6230; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22166230 - 19 Aug 2022
Cited by 17 | Viewed by 2665
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This paper discusses a novel approach to an EEG (electroencephalogram)-based driver distraction classification by using brain connectivity estimators as features. Ten healthy volunteers with more than one year of driving experience and an average age of 24.3 participated in a virtual reality environment [...] Read more.
This paper discusses a novel approach to an EEG (electroencephalogram)-based driver distraction classification by using brain connectivity estimators as features. Ten healthy volunteers with more than one year of driving experience and an average age of 24.3 participated in a virtual reality environment with two conditions, a simple math problem-solving task and a lane-keeping task to mimic the distracted driving task and a non-distracted driving task, respectively. Independent component analysis (ICA) was conducted on the selected epochs of six selected components relevant to the frontal, central, parietal, occipital, left motor, and right motor areas. Granger–Geweke causality (GGC), directed transfer function (DTF), partial directed coherence (PDC), and generalized partial directed coherence (GPDC) brain connectivity estimators were used to calculate the connectivity matrixes. These connectivity matrixes were used as features to train the support vector machine (SVM) with the radial basis function (RBF) and classify the distracted and non-distracted driving tasks. GGC, DTF, PDC, and GPDC connectivity estimators yielded the classification accuracies of 82.27%, 70.02%, 86.19%, and 80.95%, respectively. Further analysis of the PDC connectivity estimator was conducted to determine the best window to differentiate between the distracted and non-distracted driving tasks. This study suggests that the PDC connectivity estimator can yield better classification accuracy for driver distractions. Full article
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AI Prediction of Brain Signals for Human Gait Using BCI Device and FBG Based Sensorial Platform for Plantar Pressure Measurements
by Asad Muhammad Butt, Hassan Alsaffar, Muhannad Alshareef and Khurram Karim Qureshi
Sensors 2022, 22(8), 3085; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22083085 - 18 Apr 2022
Cited by 7 | Viewed by 3627
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Artificial intelligence (AI) in developing modern solutions for biomedical problems such as the prediction of human gait for human rehabilitation is gaining ground. An attempt was made to use plantar pressure information through fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors mounted on an in-sole, in [...] Read more.
Artificial intelligence (AI) in developing modern solutions for biomedical problems such as the prediction of human gait for human rehabilitation is gaining ground. An attempt was made to use plantar pressure information through fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors mounted on an in-sole, in tandem with a brain-computer interface (BCI) device to predict brain signals corresponding to sitting, standing and walking postures of a person. Posture classification was attained with an accuracy range between 87–93% from FBG and BCI signals using machine learning models such as K-nearest neighbor (KNN), logistic regression (LR), support vector machine (SVM), and naïve Bayes (NB). These models were used to identify electrodes responding to sitting, standing and walking activities of four users from a 16 channel BCI device. Six electrode positions based on the 10–20 system for electroencephalography (EEG) were identified as the most sensitive to plantar activities and found to be consistent with clinical investigations of the sensorimotor cortex during foot movement. A prediction of brain EEG corresponding to given FBG data with lowest mean square error (MSE) values (0.065–0.109) was made with the selection of a long-short term memory (LSTM) machine learning model when compared to the recurrent neural network (RNN) and gated recurrent unit (GRU) models. Full article
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