Main description:

Wearable and Implantable Medical Devices: Applications and Challenges, Fourth Edition highlights the new aspects of wearable and implanted sensors technology in the healthcare sector and monitoring systems. The book's contributions include several interdisciplinary domains, such as wearable sensors, implanted sensors devices, Internet-of-Things (IoT), security, real-time medical healthcare monitoring, WIBSN design and data management, encryption, and decision-support systems. Contributions emphasize several topics, including real-world applications and the design and implementation of wearable devices. This book demonstrates that this new field has a brilliant future in applied healthcare research and in healthcare monitoring systems.

Contents:

1. Internet of Things_triggered and power-efficient smart pedometer algorithm for intelligent wearable devices 2. Biosensors and Internet of Things in smart healthcare applications: challenges and opportunities 3. Wearable electroencephalography technologies for brain_computer interfacing 4. AdaptableSDA: secure data aggregation framework in wireless body area networks 5. Screening and early identification of microcalcifications in breast using texture-based ANFIS classification 6. Work environment and healthcare: a biometeorological approach based on wearables 7. Reading Assistant: a reciter in your pocket 8. Toward secure and privacy-preserving WIBSN-based health monitoring applications 9. Smart ambulance traffic management system (SATMS) - a support for wearable and implantable medical devices 10. Internet of things-linked wearable devices for managing food safety in the healthcare sector