The transition from Intelligent Health to Digital Health Through Smart Sensors and Informatics

Introduction:

The digital era has transformed the health care sector through groundbreaking technology like sensing devices and the internet of medical things (IoMT). With such advances, we are now able to closely monitor our bodies and health from the comfort of our own homes. The implementation of chemical sensors below our skin can track long-term changes in oxygen level, blood glucose, and much more. Additionally, calorie sensors make it possible to learn the nutritional value of food items simply by scanning them.

The integration of smart sensors and informatics in the healthcare sector offers prospects for reducing mortality rates and inadequacies associated with chronic diseases. Nonetheless, potential obstacles to integrating these elements must be resolved for worldwide endorsement and acceptance. Above all, the high cost of such systems can restrict public adoption of health vigilance. Primarily, progress in wearable and implantable sensors is relatively infantile and should be advanced further. Meanwhile, as environmental sensors tend to be multidirectional, robust fusion strategies to complete analytics are required.

This special issue aims to discuss and highlight the emerging trends in machine learning, wireless sensing, environmental monitoring, wearable sensors, implantable monitors, pollution monitoring and health promotion. We invite researchers from diverse sectors to present their research work, reviews and perspectives on the Transition from Intelligent Health to Digital Health through Smart Sensors and Informatics.

Topics covered:

• Design and manufacturing of real-time wearable and implantable sensors for health tracking
• Anomaly detection: Trend in detection, normalisation, and recognition of medical anomalies from sensor derived data
• Skin-based patch sensors and printable sensors for noninvasive data collection
• Distributed and connected sensing technologies for electronic health records
• Signal processing and data curing of sensor derived data for prognosis of diseases
• Integrated monitoring of elderly patients and quality living
• Cloud/Edge enable computed environmental sensors for indoor quality monitoring of health care sectors.
• Remote monitoring of health through multimodal intelligent sensing
• Informatics analysis of human genome for personalised medicine
• AI enable sensing techniques prognosis and detection of chronic diseases
• Big data analytics enhanced the internet of medical things for next-generation sensor networks
• Analysis and Identification of therapeutic and diagnostic biomarkers for disease treatment
• Privacy and security in health care framework with intelligent sensors

Important Deadlines:

• Submission deadline: 31 Aug 2023
• Submission Instructions: Please read the Guide for Authors before submitting. All articles should be submitted online; please select “Smart Sensors and Informatics” on submission.

Guest Editors: 

• Dr. Gopal Chaudhary, VIPS-TC School of Engineering and Technology, Delhi, India. Email: gopal@vips.edu, gopal.vipstc@gmail.com
• Dr. Joao Alexandre Lobo Marques, University of Saint Joseph - Macao SAR, China. Email: alexandre.lobo@usj.edu.mo
• Dr Amena Mahmoud, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt. Email: amena_mahmoud@fci.kfs.edu.eg