Machine learning empowered COVID-19 patient monitoring using non-contact sensing: An extensive review

Abstract

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), which caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has affected more than 250 million people worldwide. With the recent rise of a new Delta variant, the efficacy of the vaccines has become an important question. The goal of various studies has been to limit the spread of the virus by utilizing wireless sensing technologies to prevent human-to-human interactions, particularly for healthcare workers. In this review paper, we discuss the current literature on invasive/contact and non-invasive/non-contact technologies (including Wi-Fi, RADAR, and software-defined radio) that have been effectively used to detect, diagnose, and monitor human activities and COVID-19 related symptoms, such as irregular respiration. In addition, we focused on cutting-edge machine learning algorithms (such as generative adversarial networks, random forest, multilayer perceptron, support vector machine, extremely randomized trees, and k-nearest neighbors) and their essential role in intelligent healthcare systems. Furthermore, this study highlights the limitations related to non-invasive techniques and prospective research directions.

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