Beyond Pathogen Filtration: Possibility of Smart Masks as Wearable Devices for Personal and Group Health and Safety Management

Peter Lee   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Heepyung Kim   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Yongshin Kim   ² , BA ;   Woohyeok Choi   ³ , PhD ;   M Sami Zitouni   ^{4, 5} , PhD ;   Ahsan Khandoker   ^{4, 5} , PhD ;   Herbert F Jelinek   ^{4, 5} , PhD ;   Leontios Hadjileontiadis   ^{4, 5, 6} , PhD ;   Uichin Lee   ^{1, 7} , PhD ;   Yong Jeong   ^{1, 8} , MD, PhD

¹ KAIST Institute for Health Science and Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

² Graduate School of Data Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

³ Information & Electronics Research Institute, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

⁴ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

⁵ Healthcare Engineering Innovation Center, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

⁶ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

⁷ School of Computing, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

⁸ Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

*these authors contributed equally