Wearable and Autonomous Biomedical Devices and Systems for Smart Environment: Issues and Characterization

Front Matter....Pages -
Design and Integration of Fall and Mobility Monitors in Health Monitoring Platforms....Pages 1-29
Smart Nano-systems for Tumour Cellular Diagnoses and Therapies....Pages 31-54
Miniature Differential Mobility Spectrometry (DMS) Advances towards Portable Autonomous Health Diagnostic Systems....Pages 55-73
A Distributed Telemedical System for Monitoring of the Respiratory Mechanics by Enhanced Interrupter Technique....Pages 75-95
Nonlinear Dynamics, Materials and Integrated Devices for Energy Harvesting in Wearable Sensors....Pages 97-113
Wearable Sensors for Foetal Movement Monitoring in Low Risk Pregnancies....Pages 115-136
An Embedded System for EEG Acquisition and Processing for Brain Computer Interface Applications....Pages 137-154
Micro Systems for the Mechanical Characterization of Isolated Biological Cells: State-of-the-Art....Pages 155-175
On-Body Chemical Sensors for Monitoring Sweat....Pages 177-193
A Wearable Measurement System for the Risk Assessment Due to Physical Agents: Whole Body Mechanical Vibration Injuries....Pages 195-206
A Measurement System Design Technique for Improving Performances and Reliability of Smart and Fault-Tolerant Biomedical Systems....Pages 207-217
A Self-controlled Master-Slave Robot and Its Application for Upper Limb Rehabilitation....Pages 219-235
Advanced Wearable Sensors and Systems Enabling Personal Applications....Pages 237-257
Fall Detection of Patients Using 3-Axis Accelerometer System....Pages 259-275
Unobtrusive and Non-invasive Sensing Solutions for On-Line Physiological Parameters Monitoring....Pages 277-314
The Method of Increasing the Accuracy of Mean Opinion Score Estimation in Subjective Quality Evaluation....Pages 315-329
Wearable Assistive Devices for the Blind....Pages 331-349
Intrabody Communication in Biotelemetry....Pages 351-368
SPINE-HRV: A BSN-Based Toolkit for Heart Rate Variability Analysis in the Time-Domain....Pages 369-389
Measuring Finger Movement in Arthritic Patients Using Wearable Glove Technology....Pages 391-406
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