Seamless Healthcare Monitoring
Advancements in Wearable, Attachable, and Invisible Devices
Editors: Tamura, Toshiyo, Chen, Wenxi (Eds.)
Free Preview- Defines and classifies existing monitoring modalities into three categories: wearables, attachables, and invisiblesCovers a diverse range of devices that are appropriate for chemical, pressure, temperature, motion, and nutrition monitoring
- Clarifies how each monitoring device can help support life-long healthcare from the cradle to the grave, and provides insights into future endeavors
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- About this book
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This book shares the knowledge of active and prestigious worldwide researchers and scholars in the field of healthcare monitoring as authors investigate historical developments, summarize latest advancements, and envision future prospects on wearable, attachable, and invisible devices that monitor diverse physiological information. The coverage of the book spans multiple disciplines, from biomechanics, to bioelectricity, biochemistry, biophysics and biomaterials. There is also wide coverage of various physical and chemical quantities such as electricity, pressure, flow, motion, force, temperature, gases, and biomarkers. Each chapter explores the background of a specific monitoring device, as well as its physical and chemical principles and instrumentation, signal processing and data analysis, achieved outcomes and application scenarios, and future research topics. There are chapters on:
- Electrocardiograms, electroencephalograms, and electromyograms
- Measurement of flow phenomenon
- Latest wearable technologies for the quantification of human motion
- Various forms of wearable thermometers
- Monitoring of gases and chemical substances produced during metabolism…and more!
- Electrocardiograms, electroencephalograms, and electromyograms
- About the authors
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Toshiyo Tamura is Professor at Waseda University.
Wenxi Chen is Professor at The University of Aizu.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Electrocardiogram
Pages 3-44
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Electroencephalogram
Pages 45-81
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Electromyogram
Pages 83-100
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Blood Pressure
Pages 103-126
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Ballistocardiography
Pages 127-155
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Seamless Healthcare Monitoring
- Book Subtitle
- Advancements in Wearable, Attachable, and Invisible Devices
- Editors
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- Toshiyo Tamura
- Wenxi Chen
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-69362-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-69362-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-69361-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-88764-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 469
- Number of Illustrations
- 56 b/w illustrations, 135 illustrations in colour
- Topics