Healthcare sensor networks
Subtitle: challenges toward practical implementation
By: edited by Daniel Tze Huei Lai, Rezaul Begg, Marimuthu Palaniswami
Publisher: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781439821817
Subjects: Instrumentation; Methods; Biotelemetry; Biosensors; Equipment Design; Telemetry; Biosensing Techniques; Ambulatory Monitoring; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Wireless sensor networks
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sensor networks in healthcare : a new paradigm for improving future global health / Daniel T.H. Lai ... [et al.]; title: Healthcare and accelerometry : applications for activity monitoring, recognition, and functional assessment / Andrea Mannini and Angelo Maria Sabatini; title: Intra-body communication using contact electrodes in low-frequency bands / Ken Sasaki, Fukuro Koshiji, and Shudo Takenaka; title: The prospect of energy harvesting technologies for healthcare wireless sensor networks / Tan Yen Kheng; title: Addressing security, privacy, and efficiency issues in healthcare systems / Kalvinder Singh and Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy; title: Flexible and wearable chemical sensors for non-invasive biomonitoring / Hiroyuki Kudo and Kohji Mitsubayashi; title: Monitoring walking in health and disease / Richard Baker; title: Motion sensors in osteoarthritis prospects and issues / Tim Wrigley; title: The challenges of monitoring physical activity in children with wearable sensor technologies / Gita Pendhakar ... [et al.]; title: Ambulatory and remote monitoring of Parkinson's disease motor symptoms / Joseph P. Giuffrida and Edward J. Rapp; title: Nocturnal sensing and intervention for assisted living of people with dementia / Paul J. McCullagh ... [et al.]; title: Experiences in developing a wearable gait assistant for Parkinson's disease patients / Marc Bächlin ... [et al.]; title: Designing low cost ECG sensor and monitor : practical considerations and measures / Ahsan H. Khandoker and Brian A. Walker; title: Sensors, monitoring, and model-based data analysis in sports, exercise, and rehabilitation / Jurgen Perl ... [et al.]; title: Robust monitoring of sport and exercise / Andrew J. Wixted.