New Frontiers in Medical Biometrics, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics: Biofield Analysis and Medical Body Area Networks

Medical Biometrics is the field of automated medical diagnosis of the human organism based on personal features to gauge human health and address any health issues. The field of Medical Body Area Networks (MBANs) is an emerging field for health diagnosis based upon inputs received from sensors and devices installed inside, on, or around the human body. Biofield analysis (BA), on the other hand, is another independently developed field of research for diagnostics and therapeutics of human health. This paper surveys various BA-based techniques that are apt candidates for medical biometrics that can be implemented using MBANs. The paper further presents various implementation scenarios of the same. This paper thus presents various new frontiers, devices, and application scenarios that will bring the two fields together. Also, there are questions posed regarding how the BA can improve with better industrial and research support and how it can be implemented using MBANs.