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A Survey on Wearable Sensor-Based Systems for Health Monitoring and Prognosis

Pantelopoulos, A., Bourbakis, N.G.·2010·IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part C (Applications and Reviews)

Abstract

The design and development of wearable biosensor systems for health monitoring has garnered lots of attention in the scientific community and the industry during the last years. Mainly motivated by increasing healthcare costs and propelled by recent technological advances in miniature biosensing devices, smart textiles, microelectronics, and wireless communications, the continuous advance of wearable sensor-based systems will potentially transform the future of healthcare by enabling proactive personal health management and ubiquitous monitoring of a patient's health condition. These systems can comprise various types of small physiological sensors, transmission modules and processing capabilities, and can thus facilitate low-cost wearable unobtrusive solutions for continuous all-day and any-place health, mental and activity status monitoring. This paper attempts to comprehensively review the current research and development on wearable biosensor systems for health monitoring. A variety of system implementations are compared in an approach to identify the technological shortcomings of the current state-of-the-art in wearable biosensor solutions. An emphasis is given to multiparameter physiological sensing system designs, providing reliable vital signs measurements and incorporating real-time decision support for early detection of symptoms or context awareness. In order to evaluate the maturity level of the top current achievements in wearable health-monitoring systems, a set of significant features, that best describe the functionality and the characteristics of the systems, has been selected to derive a thorough study. The aim of this survey is not to criticize, but to serve as a reference for researchers and developers in this scientific area and to provide direction for future research improvements.

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  • Wearable devices can provide real-time feedback regarding a person's health conditions and thus provide an objective alternative to manage and monitor chronic disease progression in the elderly, within rehabilitation, and for those with various disabilities.

    “Wearable devices can provide real-time feedback regarding a person’s health conditions; hence, they can provide an objective alternative to manage and monitor chronic disease progression, such as with the elderly, within rehabilitation, and for those with various disabilities [1].”
  • Diagnosis/decision making is related to anomaly detection in data mining to extract useful information from sensor data such as events, outliers, and alarms meaningful for decision.

    “The diagnosis/decision making is related to the anomaly detection in data mining in order to extract useful information of sensor data such as events, outliers, and alarms which are meaningful for decision [8].”

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Authors
Pantelopoulos, A., & Bourbakis, N. G.
Affiliations
Wright State University (US)
Venue
IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part C (Applications and Reviews)
Published
2010-01
Volume
40
Issue
1
Pages
1-12
ISSN
  • 1094-6977 (ISSN-L)
  • 1558-2442
OpenAlex
W2131496831
Cited by
2,296
References
60
Citations by year
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FWCI
30.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part C (Applications and Reviews) (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Wireless Body Area Networks
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
Keywords
wearable biosensors, health monitoring, prognosis, physiological sensing, multi-parameter sensing, vital signs, real-time decision support, context awareness, smart textiles, wireless health monitoring, personal health management, early symptom detection

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