Human Vital Signs Monitoring 2022 : Bioengineering Special Issue: Contactless Technologies for Human Vital Signs Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

Over the past two decades contactless technologies for the monitoring of vital signs have demonstrated their potential to revolutionize healthcare. More and more parameters can be measured, often enabled by AI, and the increasing quality as well as the decreasing costs of the hardware widen the scope of applications, from in-hospital to telehealth. The first commercial products have entered the market and have been adopted by users and healthcare providers. This trend is expected to accelerate further and improve access to care, clinical workflow and patient comfort because of the changes in healthcare systems worldwide.

This Special Issue of Bioengineering on “Contactless Technologies for Human Vital Signs Monitoring” welcomes both original research papers and comprehensive reviews covering advancements in and applications of contactless vital-sign-monitoring technologies. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

Novel methods/algorithms for the contactless measurement of physiological signals and parameters, including heart/pulse rate (variability), respiration, blood oxygen saturation, blood pressure, pulse transit time, body temperature, tissue perfusion, etc.
Novel systems/devices for the contactless sensing of physiological signals, including time of flight, thermal, VR/AR, multispectral, smartphone, radar, WiFi, passive infrared, audio, etc. Contributions related to multimodal signal fusion and the fusion of signals from contact (e.g., wearables) and contactless devices will also be welcomed.
Clinical trials and studies focused on the validation of contactless vital-sign-monitoring technologies in the domains of (neonatal) intensive care units, general wards, sleep monitoring (e.g., apnea detection), gating for CT/MRI, etc.
Application of contactless vital-sign-monitoring technologies for telehealth (and at stand-off distances), screening, home monitoring, affective computing, security (e.g., antispoofing), etc.
New public benchmarks, datasets and literature reviews for contactless technologies for human vital sign monitoring.

We look forward to receiving your contributions to this Special Issue.

Please contact Sophie Wang ([email protected]) if you have any questions.

Dr. Mark van Gastel
Dr. Osama Mazhar
Dr. Wim Verkruysse
Guest Editors