Title |
Remote Measurements of Heart and Respiration Rates for Telemedicine
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, October 2013
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0071384 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Fang Zhao, Meng Li, Yi Qian, Joe Z. Tsien |
Abstract |
Non-contact and low-cost measurements of heart and respiration rates are highly desirable for telemedicine. Here, we describe a novel technique to extract blood volume pulse and respiratory wave from a single channel images captured by a video camera for both day and night conditions. The principle of our technique is to uncover the temporal dynamics of heart beat and breathing rate through delay-coordinate transformation and independent component analysis-based deconstruction of the single channel images. Our method further achieves robust elimination of false positives via applying ratio-variation probability distributions filtering approaches. Moreover, it enables a much needed low-cost means for preventing sudden infant death syndrome in new born infants and detecting stroke and heart attack in elderly population in home environments. This noncontact-based method can also be applied to a variety of animal model organisms for biomedical research. |
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