Wearable Electronics and Embedded Computing Systems for Biomedical Applications

Wearable electronics and embedded computing systems have been receiving a great deal of interest over the last two decades in research and commercial fields with a special focus on biomedical applications. The key benefits introduced by these systems include their small size lightweight low-power consumption and of course wearability. Major human-centered applications are related to medicine enabling outpatient care and enhancing the quality of life for chronic disease patients maybe preventing unnecessary hospitalization. These technological devices can indeed be cost effective and provide doctors with more accurate and reliable data.Exemplary engineering input has focused on developing innovative sensing platforms adaptable to different environments and user needs smart textile technology miniaturized electronics and sensors energy harvesting wireless body area networks and so on. This has provided the possibility of gathering information on several activities such as during daily activities or sleep during specific tasks at home in the lab and in the clinic in the form of physiological signals.This book includes cutting-edge research articles as well as reviews describing and assessing wearable devices or proposing novel wearable sensors computational efficient algorithms for physiological signal processing through embedded computing collection of environmental/behavioral/psychological data data fusion detection and quantification of symptoms decision support for medical doctors and communication between patient and doctor.