Academic Press Sensors for Health Monitoring: Novel Sources for Drug Discovery: Volume 5 (Advances in ubiquitous sensing applications for healthcare, Volume 5)

Sensors for Health Monitoring discusses the characteristics of U-Healthcare systems in different domains, providing a foundation for working professionals and undergraduate and postgraduate students. The book provides information and advice on how to choose the best sensors for a U-Healthcare system, advises and guides readers on how to overcome challenges relating to data acquisition and signal processing, and presents comprehensive coverage of up-to-date requirements in hardware, communication and calculation for next-generation uHealth systems. It then compares new technological and technical trends and discusses how they address expected u-Health requirements. In addition, detailed information on system operations is presented and challenges in ubiquitous computing are highlighted. The book not only helps beginners with a holistic approach toward understanding u-Health systems, but also presents researchers with the technological trends and design challenges they may face when designing such systems. Review Covers sensor systems, data transmission and signal processing in the field of U-Healthcare From the Back Cover Sensors for Health Monitoring is concerned with supporting and enhancing the utilization of Ubiquitous Healthcare. It discusses the characteristics of U-Healthcare systems in different domains. The book is aimed at professionals, scientists, and engineers who are involved in new techniques for U-Healthcare systems. It provides a foundation for undergraduate and post-graduate students as well. For those actively working in the field or about to move into it this book provides information and advice that will help customers to choose the best sensors for their U-Healthcare system and to incorporate the sensors correctly. It also advises and guides readers on how to overcome challenges related to data acquisition and signal processing within the systems they are designing. This book presents comprehensive coverage of up-to-date requirements in hardware, communication, and calculating for next-generation uHealth systems. It compares new technological and technical trends and discusses how they address expected u-Health requirements. Detailed information on system operations is presented and challenges in ubiquitous computing are highlighted. The purpose of this book is not only to help beginners with a holistic approach toward understanding u-Health systems but also present to researchers new technological trends and design challenges they face, whilst designing such systems. About the Author Nilanjan Dey is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, JIS University, Kolkata, India. He is a visiting fellow of the University of Reading, UK. Previously, he held an honorary position of Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2012–2015). He was awarded his PhD from Jadavpur University in 2015. He has authored/edited more than 70 books with Elsevier, CRC Press, and SpringerNature, and published more than 300 papers. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IGI Global), Associated Editor of IEEE Access, and International Journal of Information Technology (Springer). He is the Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing (Springer), Series Co-Editor of Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare (Elsevier), Series Editor of Computational Intelligence in Engineering Problem Solving and Intelligent Signal Processing and Data Analysis (CRC). His main research interests include medical imaging, machine learning, computer aided diagnosis, data mining, etc. He is the Indian Ambassador of the International Federation for Information Processing―Young ICT Group and Senior member of IEEE. Jyotismita Chaki, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in School of Computer Science and Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology, V