IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering contains basic and applied papers dealing with biomedical engineering. Papers range from engineering development in methods and techniques with biomedical applications to experimental and clinical investigations with engineering contributions.
Jenny Margarito was born in Bollate, Italy, in 1989. She received the M.Sc. degree in biomedical engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy,with a graduation project on activity recognition based on motion data detected with wearable sensors.
Since 2014, she has been a Research Scientist with Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Her research interests include signal processing, machine learning, biosensors, and bioelectronics. She is currently working on automatic detection of cardiac arrhythmias and assessment of cardiorespiratory fitness.
A sedentary lifestyle is a major risk factor for chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus and osteoporosis. Many studies reported that physical activity can prevent such pathologies. Thus, measuring physical activity has become increasingly important to conduct research...
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