Special Session - Sensors Council #2

Hospital is facing many challenges including public expenditure cuts, technological changes, and growing patient centeredness. The digital innovation on the healthcare industry, known as Healthcare 4.0, is impacting in this transformation, giving strong aids in finding a right balance among decentralized hospital services, prevention promotion, technological innovation, remote monitoring, and patient-tailored care, and support for wellbeing and active aging. Wearable systems and sensors in conjunction with cloud computing services, automation, and tools for modeling complex systems and analyzing big data are needed.

This special session is an opportunity of interaction for researchers working on the development of miniaturized sensors for wearable applications, their fabrication process, characterization and their exploitation in medical scenarios. Data management, fusion, optimization, analysis and protection for IoT systems of sensors overlapping clinical infrastructures is an open area of research and this special session aims at facilitating the discussion on these and related topics.

Papers dealing with research related to the following topics are welcome:

• Miniaturized Sensors for patients monitoring
• Sensors for physiological parameters monitoring
• Minimally invasive and non-invasive measurements techniques
• Measurements based on diagnostic imaging techniques for medical applications
• IoT and data management systems design for hospital
• Data management optimization and fusion for IoT sensors
• Techniques for data protection and encryption for IoT sensors

Luca Vollero received the M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering from University Federico II di Napoli (ITALY) in 2001, then he received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University Federico II di Napoli (ITALY) in 2005. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome (ITALY). His research interests are in the field of Embedded systems, Communication and Security in IoT systems, Signal and Image Processing. Luca Vollero is member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and Association for Computing Machinery.

Emiliano Schena received the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from the Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma in 2009. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy. He is senior member IEEE and chair of the Italy Chapter of the IEEE Sensors Council. His main research interests include wearable systems for monitoring physiological parameters, application of fiber optic sensors in medicine, and laser ablation for cancer removal.