Novel wearable vest for long-term lung monitoring

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Lung diseases are among the leading causes of death in the EU. Existing methods of chest disease analysis are expensive, uncomfortable, invasive, or use ionizing radiation. In response, the EU-funded WELMO consortium has developed low-cost and low-energy sensors that are integrated into a comfortable and safe vest. This allows the remote monitoring of the lungs through the collection of respiration-linked chest sounds and electrical impedance tomography signals.