Wearable and autonomous biomedical devices and systems for smart environment : issues and characterization

This book is dedicated to wearable and autonomous systems, including devices, offers to variety of users, namely, master degree students, researchers and practitioners, An opportunity of a dedicated and a deep approach in order to improve their knowledge in this specific field. The book draws the attention about interesting aspects, as for instance, advanced wearable sensors for enabling applications, solutions for arthritic patients in their limited and conditioned movements, wearable gate analysis, energy harvesting, physiological parameter monitoring, communication, pathology detection , etc..

Pepijn van de Ven and Alan Bourke and John Nelson and Hugh O'BrienConversano Francesco and Greco Antonio and Casciaro SergioWeixiang Zhao and Abhinav Bhushan and Michael Schivo and Nicholas J. Kenyon and Cristina E. DavisIreneusz Jablonski and Janusz MroczkaBruno Andò and Salvatore Baglio and Marco Ferrari and Vittorio Ferrari and Luca Gammaitoni and Carlo TrigonaA. Palumbo and F. Amato and B. Calabrese and M. Cannataro and G. Cocorulio and A. Gambardella and P.M. Guzzi and M. Lanuzza and M. Sturniolo and P. Veltri and P. VizzaDenis Desmaële and Mehdi Boukallel and Stéphane RégnierShirley Coyle and Fernando Benito-Lopez and Robert Byrne and Dermot DiamondRosario Morello and Claudio De CapuaRosario Morello and Claudio De CapuaTao Liu and Chunguang Li and Yoshio Inoue and Kyoko ShibataAndreas LymberisPetar Mostarac and Hrvoje Hegeduš and Marko Jurcevic and Roman Malaric and Aimé Lay-EkuakilleOctavian Postolache and Pedro Silva Girão and Eduardo Pinheiro and Gabriela PostolacheA. Ostaszewska and S. Zebrowska-LucykRamiro VelázquezZeljka Lucev and Igor Krois and Mario CifrekAlessandro Andreoli and Raffaele Gravina and Roberta Giannantonio and Paola Pierleoni and Giancarlo FortinoJ. Condell and K. Curran and T. Quigley and P. Gardiner and M. McNeill and J. Winder and E. Xie and Zhang Qi

Design and Integration of Fall and Mobility Monitors in Health Monitoring Platforms	p. 1
Smart Nano-systems for Tumour Cellular Diagnoses and Therapies	p. 31
Miniature Differential Mobility Spectrometry (DMS) Advances towards Portable Autonomous Health Diagnostic Systems	p. 55
A Distributed Telemedical System for Monitoring of the Respiratory Mechanics by Enhanced Interrupter Technique	p. 75
Nonlinear Dynamics, Materials and Integrated Devices for Energy Harvesting in Wearable Sensors	p. 97
Wearable Sensors for Foetal Movement Monitoring in Low Risk PregnanciesLuís M. Borges and Pedro Araújo and António S. Lebres and Andreia Rente
An Embedded System for EEG Acquisition and Processing for Brain Computer Interface Applications	p. 137
Micro Systems for the Mechanical Characterization of Isolated Biological Cells: State-of-the-Art	p. 155
On-Body Chemical Sensors for Monitoring Sweat	p. 177
A Wearable Measurement System for the Risk Assessment Due to Physical Agents: Whole Body Mechanical Vibration Injuries	p. 195
A Measurement System Design Technique for Improving Performances and Reliability of Smart and Fault-Tolerant Biomedical Systems	p. 207
A Self-controlled Master-Slave Robot and Its Application for Upper Limb Rehabilitation	p. 219
Advanced Wearable Sensors and Systems Enabling Personal Applications	p. 237
Fall Detection of Patients Using 3-Axis Accelerometer System	p. 259
Unobtrusive and Non-invasive Sensing Solutions for On-Line Physiological Parameters Monitoring	p. 277
The Method of Increasing the Accuracy of Mean Opinion Score Estimation in Subjective Quality Evaluation	p. 315
Wearable Assistive Devices for the Blind	p. 331
Intrabody Communication in Biotelemetry	p. 351
SPINE-HRV: A BSN-Based Toolkit for Heart Rate Variability Analysis in the Time-Domain	p. 369
Measuring Finger Movement in Arthritic Patients Using Wearable Glove Technology	p. 391
Author Index	p. 407

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