IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Advanced Information Sensing and Learning Technologies for Data-Centric Smart Health Applications

Smart health is bringing vast and promising possibilities on the road to comprehensive health management. Smart health applications are strongly data-centric and, thus, empowered by two key factors: information sensing and information learning. In a smart health system, it is crucial to effectively sense individuals’ health information and intelligently learn from its high-level health insights. These two factors are also closely coupled. For example, to enhance the signal quality, a sensing array requires advanced information learning techniques to fuse the information, and to enrich medical insights in mobile health monitoring, we need to combine “multimodal signal processing and machine learning techniques” and “nonintrusive multimodality sensing methods.” In new smart health application exploration, challenges arise in both information sensing and learning, especially their areas of interaction

IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Smart Health Sensing and Computational Intelligence: From Big Data to Big Impacts

Smart health big data is paving a promising way for ubiquitous health management, leveraging exciting advances in biomedical engineering technologies, such as convenient bio-sensing, health monitoring, in-home monitoring, biomedical signal processing, data mining, health trend tracking, and evidence-based medical decision support. To build and utilize the smart health big data, advanced data sensing and data mining technologies are closely coupled key enabling factors. In smart health big data innovations, challenges arise in how to informatively and robustly build the big data with advanced sensing technologies, and how to automatically and effectively decode patterns from the big data with intelligent computational methods. More specifically, advanced sensing techniques should be able to capture more modalities that can reflect rich physiological and behavioral states of humans, and enhance the signal robustness in daily wearable applications. In addition, intelligent computational techniques are required to unveil patterns deeply hidden in the data and nonlinearly convert the patterns to high-level medical insights