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Review
. 2021 Dec 3;11(12):2263.
doi: 10.3390/diagnostics11122263.

The E-Textile for Biomedical Applications: A Systematic Review of Literature

Giuseppe Cesarelli  1   2 , Leandro Donisi  2   3 , Armando Coccia  2   4 , Federica Amitrano  2   4 , Giovanni D'Addio  2 , Carlo Ricciardi  2   4
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The E-Textile for Biomedical Applications: A Systematic Review of Literature

Giuseppe Cesarelli et al. Diagnostics (Basel). .

Abstract

The use of e-textile technologies spread out in the scientific research with several applications in both medical and nonmedical world. In particular, wearable technologies and miniature electronics devices were implemented and tested for medical research purposes. In this paper, a systematic review regarding the use of e-textile for clinical applications was conducted: the Scopus and Pubmed databases were investigate by considering research studies from 2010 to 2020. Overall, 262 papers were found, and 71 of them were included in the systematic review. Of the included studies, 63.4% focused on information and communication technology studies, while the other 36.6% focused on industrial bioengineering applications. Overall, 56.3% of the research was published as an article, while the remainder were conference papers. Papers included in the review were grouped by main aim into cardiological, muscular, physical medicine and orthopaedic, respiratory, and miscellaneous applications. The systematic review showed that there are several types of applications regarding e-textile in medicine and several devices were implemented as well; nevertheless, there is still a lack of validation studies on larger cohorts of subjects since the majority of the research only focuses on developing and testing the new device without considering a further extended validation.

Keywords: ECG; IMUs; biomedical engineering; diagnosis; e-textile; health monitoring; motion analysis; sEMG; smart garments; wearable.

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Flow chart for selecting papers from Scopus and Pubmed databases.
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Distribution of papers according to ICT and IB categories, conference papers, and articles.
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