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. 2021 Oct 14;21(20):6828. doi: 10.3390/s21206828
cm centimeter
4G Fourth-generation cellular networks
5G Fifth-generation cellular networks
6G Sixth-generation cellular network
AAMI Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
API Application Programming Interface
A/V Audio/Video
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
AI Artificial Intelligence
ANSI American National Standards Institute
AR Augmented Reality
BAN Body Area Network
BCI Brain-Computer Interfaces
BLE Bluetooth Low Energy
CARES U.S. Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act
CCD Charged Coupled Device
CLSI Clinical & Laboratory Standards Institute
CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
CNN Convolutional Neural Network
COVID-19 Coronavirus Disease 2019
DApps Distributed Apps
DDoS Distributed Denial of Service
DL Deep Learning
DNN Deep Neural Network
DNS Domain Name System
DoS Denial of Service
DVR Digital Video Recorder
ECG Electrocardiography
EEG Electroencephalography
EHR Electronic Health Record
EJ Exajoule
EU European Union
FDA Food and Drug Administration
FL Federated Learning
GDPR General Data Protection Regulation
GLONASS Global Navigation Satellite System
GMM Gaussian Mixture Model
GPS Global Positioning System
GPU Graphical Processing Unit
GSR Galvanic Skin Response
HCS Human-Centric Sensing
HDFS Hadoop Distributed File System
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Ac
HITECH Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IoT Internet of Things
IT Information Technology
IR InfraRed
ISA International Society of Automation
ISO International Organization for Standardization
LAN Local Area Network
LBS Location-Based Services
LiDAR Light Detection And Ranging
LSTM Long Short-Term Memory
MAC Medium Access Control
MANET Mobile Adhoc NETworks
MEMS Microelectromechanical Systems
m-Health Mobile Health
MITM Man In the Middle
ML Machine Learning
MRF Markov Random Field
NFC Near-Field Communication
NN Neural Network
OS Operating System
PA-DSS Payment Application Data Security Standard
PAN Personal Area Network
PB Petabytes
PCA Principal Component Analysis
PCM Phase-Change Memory
PPG Photoplethysmography
PS/CS Participatory/Crowdsensing Systems
PV Photovoltaic
RF Radiofrequency
RFID Radiofrequency Identification
SARS-CoV-2 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2
SQL Structured Query Language
SVM Support Vector Machine
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TWS True Wireless Stereo
UL UL Incorporated, previously known as Underwriters Laboratories
USD US Dollars
USFDA US Food and Drug Administration
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
WSN Wireless Sensor Network
WWAN Wireless Wide Area Network