Biophotonics in Exercise Science, Sports Medicine, Health Monitoring Technologies, and Wearables VI

The Biophotonics in Sport, Exercise, and Health Monitoring Conference offers a premier platform for the dissemination, discussion, and collaboration on cutting-edge biophotonics research related to sports performance, exercise physiology, and holistic health monitoring. As life expectancy climbs, engaging in sports and exercise is a vital pillar of wellness and graceful aging. Scientific evidence has shown the benefits of continuously measuring exercise-related and kinematic parameters, fostering health awareness across all age groups.

Static and dynamic monitoring of body performance and human physiologic parameters in sports, exercise and daily activity have evolved significantly over the past decade. This field, once considered a branch of metabolic monitoring, has now become a distinct area of science and technology, with a significant impact on health and commercial opportunities. By combining engineering techniques, exercise physiology, kinesiology, rehabilitation science and healthcare monitoring, researchers have made unprecedented progress in practical applications. The conference aims to bring together a multidisciplinary group of scientists, researchers, industry innovators and thought leaders to discuss the integration of optics and photonics in monitoring human physiology and performance, including sports, daily activities, health maintenance and disease management.

Potential topics will include, but are not limited to, the following:

Sports Monitoring for an Active and Healthy Lifestyle

• sports biophotonics
• sport performance monitoring
• exercise sensing
• wearable sporting sensors
• body movement monitoring
• wearable optical sensors and techniques
• telemetric body function monitoring
• remote body activity sensing.

Physiologic Parameter Sensing

• bio-sensing technologies
• physiologic monitoring
• telemetric organ function monitoring
• remote physiologic parameter sensing
• wearable and implantable medical devices.

Activity Monitoring

• body function monitoring
• activity monitoring
• body positioning monitoring applied in work safety and occupational medicine
• injury prevention
• military personnel.

Wearables Sensing

• wearable devices and sensors to monitor real-time physiologic and movement parameters
• positioning and performance patterns in sports, exercise, health care, work safety and military.

Health Care and Rehabilitation

• organ function monitoring
• health monitoring
• rehabilitation engineering
• cardiovascular rehabilitation
• chronic disease rehabilitation
• emergency services
• aerospace medicine
• elderly care and fall prevention
• maternity and obstetrics monitoring
• organ transplant monitoring
• telemedicine.

Bio-Signal Analysis

• physiological signal analysis
• motion data analysis
• optical algorithm development
• healthcare monitoring algorithm development
• deep learning and artificial intelligence in optical data analysis and management.

Judging and Requirements - Presentations and manuscripts will be judged based on scientific merit, novelty and impact. To publish the full manuscript in the SPIE Digital Library, an abstract must be presented at the conference (oral or poster). High-impact presentations will be encouraged to submit a manuscript to one of the SPIE journals.