Smart Materials Enabled with Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Wearables

Abstract

Contemporary medicine suffers from many shortcomings in terms of successful disease diagnosis and treatment, both of which rely on detection capacity and timing. The lack of effective, reliable, and affordable detection and real-time monitoring limits the affordability of timely diagnosis and treatment. A new frontier that overcomes these challenges relies on smart health monitoring systems that combine wearable sensors and an analytical modulus. This review presents the latest advances in smart materials for the development of multifunctional wearable sensors while providing a bird's eye-view of their characteristics, functions, and applications. The review also presents the state-of-the-art on wearables fitted with artificial intelligence (AI) and support systems for clinical decision in early detection and accurate diagnosis of disorders. The ongoing challenges and future prospects for providing personal healthcare with AI-assisted support systems relating to clinical decisions are presented and discussed.

Skin bioelectronics towards long-term, continuous health monitoring

“…In the last six years, the progressive development of novel materials, structure engineering, and fabrication techniques has led to great advances in the mechanical flexibility/stretchability in skin bioelectronics. 233,234 There are two well-known and widely used strategies to obtain the desired mechanical flexibility/stretchability for the target applications in health monitoring: intrinsically stretchable materials and structure designs. 10,154 In addition to flexible/stretchable elastomer substrates, popular intrinsically stretchable active materials include metallic/carbon-based materials, conductive polymers, organic semiconducting polymers, and nanocomposites.…”

Wearable Pressure Sensors for Pulse Wave Monitoring

“…Over the past several decades, significant advances in wearable pressure sensors have been observed, allowing them to noninvasively and continuously detect human physiological and pathological signals. [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] These biomedical metrics can then be used to evaluate cardiovascular conditions, providing a personalized health care system with better health outcomes, increased user-friendliness, greater quality, and cost-effectiveness that are essential to reducing CVD incidence and mortality. [36][37][38][39] Pulse waves are prominent component of human physiological signaling and involve abundant human-health information that can reveal individual conditions, including heart problems (such as arrhythmia), blood pressure, vascular aging, exercise, medication, and sleep status.…”

Gecko-Inspired Slant Hierarchical Microstructure-Based Ultrasensitive Iontronic Pressure Sensor for Intelligent Interaction

“…Flexible pressure sensors have attracted much attention due to the capability to sense external stimuli and provide sensory feedback for the applications of intelligent soft robot, human-machine interfaces, and wearable electronics [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Endowing these systems with perceptive ability can significantly enhance their autonomous task capabilities.…”