Healthcare and accelerometry: Applications for activity monitoring, recognition, and functional assessment

Healthcare Sensor Networks: Challenges Toward Practical Implementation

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 21-49

  Mannini, Andrea ^a   Sabatini, Angelo Maria ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ACCELEROMETRY; ACTIVITY MONITORING;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 84997572886     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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