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Leveraging Advances in ICT Technologies for Life Sciences and MedTech Industries

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2023) | Viewed by 3126

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Sofoklis Kyriazakos

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BTECH, Aarhus University, 7400 Herning, Denmark
Interests: eHealth; RWD/RWE; A/ML in clinical research; AI/ML in MedTech
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Dr. Alexandru Vulpe

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Telecommunication Department, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Interests: Internet of Things; Blockchain; Security; Software Engineering; Cloud Computing; eHealth Systems
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Dr. Razvan Craciunescu

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Telecommunication Department, University Politechnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Interests: 5G; 6G; Internet of Things; wireless sensors networks; digital twin; vehicular sensor networks; Industry 4.0
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Information and computer technology has come to play an increasingly important role in medicine. Nowadays, the long-standing curative or reactive paradigm in medicine is facing a crisis due to an aging population, a significant increase in chronic diseases and the development of more expensive diagnostic tools and therapies. It is also important to recognize that ICT, generally, and new and emerging technologies such as blockchain, big data analytics, AI, algorithmic techniques, and gamification, have collectively become a general purpose technologyunderpinning most if not all innovation and development, and the life sciences and medicaldomain has not been overlooked.

In this context, in this Special Issue, we would like to pose the question of how recent emerging advances in ICT technologiescan enable future systems for Life Sciences and MedTech industriesand what are the challenges and opportunities of implementing them. Life Sciences and MedTech industriesare likely to have a major economic, environmental as well as social impact on the way patients are treated, at home and in the hospital. Life Sciences and MedTech industries will be built on disruptive and innovative technologies.
This Special Issue seeks to bring together the work of scientists, practitioners, innovators and entrepreneurs who are in a position to offer valuable perspectives to this particular research area of advances in ICT technologies for Life Sciences and MedTech industries.Topics of interest include but are not restricted to:
  • Gamification for eHealth
  • Blockchain and distributed ledger technology in eHealth
  • Cognitive computing, natural language processing, and neural networks in eHealth
  • Security, privacy, and trust in eHealth
  • Reliability and resilience of eHealth systems
  • Data science and data curation for eHealth
  • Data analytics and decision support for eHealth
  • Information and knowledge co-creation
  • Ethical and legal aspects in eHealth
  • Economic impact of deploying advanced ICT technologies in Life Sciences and medicine
  • Social impact of deploying advanced ICT technologies in Life Sciences and medicine
  • Techniques for assessing the impact of deploying advanced ICT technologies in Life Sciences and medicine
  • Disruptive Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences and MedTech
For this Special issue, we will consider research papers of scientific, practical as well as conceptual nature based on modern methodological approaches as well as reviews.
We believe that this Special Issue may help bridge the gap between the research in ICT and the industries of Life Sciences and MedTech.
 
Thank you for your contributions.

Dr. Sofoklis Kyriazakos
Dr. Alexandru Vulpe
Dr. Razvan Craciunescu 
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sensors is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • disruptive technologies
  • eHealth systems
  • socio-economic impact
  • data analytics
  • communication
  • Life Sciences

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On the Evaluation of Engagement in Immersive Applications When Users Are on the Autism Spectrum
by Laura Tarantino, Margherita Attanasio, Tania Di Mascio, Giovanni De Gasperis, Marco Valenti and Monica Mazza
Sensors 2023, 23(4), 2192; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/s23042192 - 15 Feb 2023
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Abstract
New generation wearable devices allow for the development of interactive environments tailored for Virtual Reality (VR)– and Augmented Reality (AR)–based treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Experts agree on their potential; however, there is lack of consensus on how to perform trials and [...] Read more.
New generation wearable devices allow for the development of interactive environments tailored for Virtual Reality (VR)– and Augmented Reality (AR)–based treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Experts agree on their potential; however, there is lack of consensus on how to perform trials and the need arises for evaluation frameworks, methods, and techniques appropriate for the ASD population. In this paper, we report on a study conducted with high-functioning ASD people in the 21–23 age range, with the objectives of (1) evaluating the engagement of two headsets offering distinct immersive experiences, (2) reasoning on the interpretation of engagement factors in the case of ASD people, and (3) translating results into general guidelines for the development of VR/AR-based ASD treatment. To this aim, we (1) designed two engagement evaluation frameworks based on behavioral observation measures, (2) set up two packages of reference immersive scenarios, (3) defined the association between metrics and scenarios, and (4) administered the scenarios in distinct sessions for the investigated headsets. Results show that the immersive experiences are engaging and that the apparent lack of success of some evaluation factors can become potential advantages within the framework of VR/AR-based ASD treatment design. Full article
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