Wearable and Autonomous Biomedical Devices and Systems for Smart Environment

1. Design and Integration of Fall and Mobility Monitors in Health Monitoring Platforms
Pepijn Ven, Alan Bourke, John Nelson, Hugh O’Brien

2. Smart Nano-systems for Tumour Cellular Diagnoses and Therapies
Conversano Francesco, Greco Antonio, Casciaro Sergio

3. Miniature Differential Mobility Spectrometry (DMS) Advances towards Portable Autonomous Health Diagnostic Systems
Weixiang Zhao, Abhinav Bhushan, Michael Schivo, Nicholas J. Kenyon, Cristina E. Davis

4. A Distributed Telemedical System for Monitoring of the Respiratory Mechanics by Enhanced Interrupter Technique
Ireneusz Jabłoński, Janusz Mroczka

5. Nonlinear Dynamics, Materials and Integrated Devices for Energy Harvesting in Wearable Sensors
Bruno Andò, Salvatore Baglio, Marco Ferrari, Vittorio Ferrari, Luca Gammaitoni, Carlo Trigona

6. Wearable Sensors for Foetal Movement Monitoring in Low Risk Pregnancies
Luís M. Borges, Pedro Araújo, António S. Lebres, Andreia Rente, Rita Salvado, Fernando J. Velez, J. Martinez-de-Oliveira, Norberto Barroca, João M. Ferro

7. An Embedded System for EEG Acquisition and Processing for Brain Computer Interface Applications
A. Palumbo, F. Amato, B. Calabrese, M. Cannataro, G. Cocorullo, A. Gambardella, P. H. Guzzi, M. Lanuzza, M. Sturniolo, P. Veltri, P. Vizza

8. Micro Systems for the Mechanical Characterization of Isolated Biological Cells: State-of-the-Art
Denis Desmaële, Mehdi Boukallel, Stéphane Régnier

9. On-Body Chemical Sensors for Monitoring Sweat
Shirley Coyle, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Robert Byrne, Dermot Diamond

10. A Wearable Measurement System for the Risk Assessment Due to Physical Agents: Whole Body Mechanical Vibration Injuries
Rosario Morello, Claudio Capua

11. A Measurement System Design Technique for Improving Performances and Reliability of Smart and Fault-Tolerant Biomedical Systems
Rosario Morello, Claudio Capua

12. A Self-controlled Master-Slave Robot and Its Application for Upper Limb Rehabilitation
Tao Liu, Chunguang Li, Yoshio Inoue, Kyoko Shibata

13. Advanced Wearable Sensors and Systems Enabling Personal Applications
Andreas Lymberis

14. Fall Detection of Patients Using 3-Axis Accelerometer System
Petar Mostarac, Hrvoje Hegeduš, Marko Jurčević, Roman Malarić, Aimé Lay-Ekuakille

15. Unobtrusive and Non-invasive Sensing Solutions for On-Line Physiological Parameters Monitoring
Octavian Postolache, Pedro Silva Girão, Eduardo Pinheiro, Gabriela Postolache

16. The Method of Increasing the Accuracy of Mean Opinion Score Estimation in Subjective Quality Evaluation
A. Ostaszewska, S. Żebrowska-Łucyk

17. Wearable Assistive Devices for the Blind
Ramiro Velázquez

18. Intrabody Communication in Biotelemetry
Željka Lučev, Igor Krois, Mario Cifrek

19. SPINE-HRV: A BSN-Based Toolkit for Heart Rate Variability Analysis in the Time-Domain
Alessandro Andreoli, Raffaele Gravina, Roberta Giannantonio, Paola Pierleoni, Giancarlo Fortino

20. Measuring Finger Movement in Arthritic Patients Using Wearable Glove Technology
J. Condell, K. Curran, T. Quigley, P. Gardiner, M. McNeill, J. Winder, E. Xie, Zhang Qi

Keywords: Engineering, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Robotics and Automation, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Biomedical Engineering