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Signal Quality Assessment in Physiological Monitoring: Requirements, Practices and Future Directions

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Signal Quality Assessment in Physiological Monitoring

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The emergence of telehealth and telemedicine systems that support the continuous monitoring of patients via wearable sensors has altered the landscape of healthcare, providing solutions to many of the open challenges of disease management. Signal Quality Assessment (SQA) systems aim to improve the reliability of physiological measurements obtained from signals recorded via wearable sensors which are more prone to artefacts. This chapter begins by making the case for SQA systems, as healthcare monitoring rapidly advances towards a wireless digital future. A review of system requirements and considerations is then provided, before a discussion on the future challenges in the design of SQA systems which need to be overcome such that the performance of such systems may be improved.

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Orphanidou, C. (2018). Signal Quality Assessment in Physiological Monitoring: Requirements, Practices and Future Directions. In: Signal Quality Assessment in Physiological Monitoring. SpringerBriefs in Bioengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68415-4_1

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