Unobtrusive sensing and wearable devices for health informatics.
Unobtrusive sensing and wearable devices for health informatics.
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DOI：
10.1109/tbme.2014.2309951
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发表时间：
2014-05
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Zhang YT
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作者：
Zheng YL;Ding XR;Poon CC;Lo BP;Zhang H;Zhou XL;Yang GZ;Zhao N;Zhang YT
人口老龄化、慢性病流行和传染病爆发是当今社会面临的一些主要挑战。为了解决这些未满足的医疗保健需求，特别是重大疾病的早期预测和治疗，涉及健康信息的获取、传输、处理、存储、检索和使用的健康信息学已成为跨学科研究的活跃领域。特别是，通过不显眼的传感和可穿戴技术获取健康相关信息被认为是健康信息学的基石。传感器可以编织或集成到服装、配饰和生活环境中，从而在日常生活中无缝、普遍地获取健康信息。传感器甚至可以设计为粘贴式电子纹身或直接印刷到人体皮肤上，以实现长期健康监测。本文旨在概述四种新兴的不显眼和可穿戴技术，这些技术对于实现普遍的健康信息获取至关重要，包括：1）不显眼的传感方法，2）智能纺织技术，3）柔性可拉伸可印刷电子产品和4）传感器融合，然后确定一些未来的研究方向。
The aging population, prevalence of chronic diseases, and outbreaks of infectious diseases are some of the major challenges of our present-day society. To address these unmet healthcare needs, especially for the early prediction and treatment of major diseases, health informatics, which deals with the acquisition, transmission, processing, storage, retrieval, and use of health information, has emerged as an active area of interdisciplinary research. In particular, acquisition of health-related information by unobtrusive sensing and wearable technologies is considered as a cornerstone in health informatics. Sensors can be weaved or integrated into clothing, accessories, and the living environment, such that health information can be acquired seamlessly and pervasively in daily living. Sensors can even be designed as stick-on electronic tattoos or directly printed onto human skin to enable long-term health monitoring. This paper aims to provide an overview of four emerging unobtrusive and wearable technologies, which are essential to the realization of pervasive health information acquisition, including: 1) unobtrusive sensing methods, 2) smart textile technology, 3) flexible-stretchable-printable electronics, and 4) sensor fusion, and then to identify some future directions of research.