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Exploratory Study to Evaluate Respiratory Rate Using a Thermal Imaging Camera
摘要： Background: Respiratory rate is a vital physiological measurement used in the immediate assessment of unwell children and adults. Convenient electronic devices exist for the measurement of pulse, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, and temperature. Although devices which measure respiratory rate exist, none have entered everyday clinical practice for acute assessment of children and adults. An accurate and practical device which has no physical contact with the patient is important to ensure readings are not affected by distress caused by the assessment method. Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of a thermal imaging method to monitor the respiratory rate in children and adults. Methods: Facial thermal images of adult volunteers and children undergoing elective polysomnography were included. Respiration was recorded for at least 2 min with the camera positioned 1 m from the subject’s face. Values obtained using the thermal imaging camera were compared with those obtained from contact methods such as the nasal thermistor, respiratory inductance plethysmography, nasal airflow, and end tidal CO2. Results: A total of 61 subjects, including 41 adults (age range 27–46 years) and 20 children (age range 0.5–18 years) were enrolled. The correlation between the respiratory rate measured using thermal imaging and the contact method was r = 0.94. Sequential refinements to the thermal imaging algorithms resulted in the ability to perform real-time measurements and an improvement of the correlation to r = 0.995. Conclusion: This exploratory study shows that thermal imaging-derived respiratory rates in children and adults correlate closely with the best performing standard method. With further refinements, this method could be implemented in both acute and chronic care in children and adults.
关键词： Respiratory rate,Thermal imaging,Vital signs
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Remote Welfare Monitoring of Rodents Using Thermal Imaging
摘要： Animal research has always played a crucial role in various medical and scientific breakthroughs. They offer, inter alia, insights into diseases mechanisms, genetic predisposition to a disease, and drug therapy. However, the use of animals for medical research is a cause of major controversies and debates in modern science. To warrant high bioethical standards, new directives have been being adopted to replace animal research whenever possible, to reduce the number of animals, and to refine the procedures to minimize stress and pain. Here, we present two new approaches, based on thermal imaging (a remote and passive technology), to assess respiratory rate (RR) as well as exploratory behavior and general activity in rodents. In animal research, these parameters are gold standards for welfare assessment. The approaches were validated in a study conducted with both rats and mice. To test the feasibility of our algorithm to estimate RR, thermal videos from anesthetized rodents were acquired. The capability of the second approach to monitor activity was tested with videos of Open Field tests. Regarding RR, a high agreement between thermal imaging and gold standard (electrocardiography-derived RR) was achieved. The mean relative error averaged 0.50 ± 0.15 breaths/min and 4.55 ± 2.94 breaths/min for rats and mice, respectively. The second approach was capable of monitoring and tracking the activity of the rodents very well. This paper demonstrates that thermal imaging is a promising and relevant alternative for monitoring of RR and activity in rodents, thus contributing to the remote assessment of animal welfare.
关键词： vital signs,infrared thermography,respiratory rate,remote monitoring,locomotor activity,motion heat maps,thermal imaging,animal research
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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[ACM Press the 5th international Workshop - Berlin, Germany (2018.09.20-2018.09.21)] Proceedings of the 5th international Workshop on Sensor-based Activity Recognition and Interaction - iWOAR '18 - Respiration Rate Estimation with Depth Cameras
摘要： Depth cameras have been known to be capable of picking up the small changes in distance from users’ torsos, to estimate respiration rate. Several studies have shown that under certain conditions, the respiration rate from a non-mobile user facing the camera can be accurately estimated from parts of the depth data. It is however to date not clear, what factors might hinder the application of this technology in any setting, what areas of the torso need to be observed, and how readings are affected for persons at larger distances from the RGB-D camera. In this paper, we present a benchmark dataset that consists of the point cloud data from a depth camera, which monitors 7 volunteers at variable distances, for variable methods to pin-point the person’s torso, and at variable breathing rates. Our findings show that the respiration signal’s signal-to-noise ratio becomes debilitating as the distance to the person approaches 4 metres, and that bigger windows over the person’s chest work particularly well. The sampling rate of the depth camera was also found to impact the signal’s quality significantly.
关键词： ToF sensing,Kinect v2,respiratory rate,respiration measurement,non-contact measurement
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Teaching a Standalone Optics and Lasers Course Using Project-Based Learning
摘要： The identification of invalid data in recordings obtained using wearable sensors is of particular importance since data obtained from mobile patients is, in general, noisier than data obtained from nonmobile patients. In this paper, we present a signal quality index (SQI), which is intended to assess whether reliable heart rates (HRs) can be obtained from electrocardiogram (ECG) and photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals collected using wearable sensors. The algorithms were validated on manually labeled data. Sensitivities and specificities of 94% and 97% were achieved for the ECG and 91% and 95% for the PPG. Additionally, we propose two applications of the SQI. First, we demonstrate that, by using the SQI as a trigger for a power-saving strategy, it is possible to reduce the recording time by up to 94% for the ECG and 93% for the PPG with only minimal loss of valid vital-sign data. Second, we demonstrate how an SQI can be used to reduce the error in the estimation of respiratory rate (RR) from the PPG. The performance of the two applications was assessed on data collected from a clinical study on hospital patients who were able to walk unassisted.
关键词： Battery life,wearable sensors,respiratory rate (RR),electrocardiogram (ECG),signal quality,telemonitoring,photoplethysmogram (PPG)
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Estimation of respiratory rate using infrared video in an inpatient population: an observational study
摘要： Respiratory rate (RR) is one of the most sensitive markers of a deteriorating patient. Despite this, there is significant inter-observer discrepancy when measured by clinical staff, and modalities used in clinical practice such as ECG bioimpedance are prone to error. This study utilized infrared thermography (IRT) to measure RR in a critically ill population in the Intensive Care Unit. This study was carried out in a Single Hospital Centre. Respiratory rate in 27 extubated ICU patients was counted by two observers and compared to ECG Bioimpedance and IRT-derived RR at distances of 0.4–0.6 m and > 1 m respectively. IRT-derived RR using two separate computer vision algorithms outperformed ECG derived RR at distances of 0.4–0.6 m. Using an Autocorrelation estimator, mean bias was ? 0.667 breaths/min. Using a Fast Fourier Transform estimator, mean bias was ? 1.000 breaths/min. At distances greater than 1 m no statistically significant signal could be obtained. Over all frequencies, there was a significant relationship between the RR estimated using IRT and via manual counting, with Pearson correlation coefficients between 0.796 and 0.943 (p < 0.001). Correlation between counting and ECG-derived RR demonstrated significance only at > 19 bpm (r = 0.562, p = 0.029). Overall agreement between IRT-derived RR at distances of 0.4–0.6 m and gold standard counting was satisfactory, and outperformed ECG derived bioimpedance. Contactless IRT derived RR may be feasible as a routine monitoring modality in wards and subacute inpatient settings.
关键词： Monitoring,Critical care,Respiratory rate,Infrared,Contactless
更新于2025-09-12 10:27:22
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A Signal Processing Method for Respiratory Rate Estimation through Photoplethysmography
摘要： Monitoring of respiration is crucial for determining a patient′s health status, specially previously and after an operation. However, many conventional methods are difficult to use in a spontaneously ventilating patient. This paper presents a method for estimating respiratory rate from the signal of a photoplethysmograph. This is a non-invasive sensor that can be used to obtain an estimation of beats per minute of a given patient by measuring light reflection on the patient’s blood vessel and counting changes in blood flow. The PPG signal also offers information about respiration, so respiratory rate can be obtained through signal processing. The proposed method based on digital filtering was implemented in a wearable device and tested on 30 volunteers, and the results were compared with the ones measured by traditional ways. The results show that there is no statistically significant difference between the data measured by the device and the traditional method.
关键词： biomedical signal processing,telemedicine,photoplethysmography,respiratory rate
更新于2025-09-11 14:15:04
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[IEEE 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom) - Ostrava, Czech Republic (2018.9.17-2018.9.20)] 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom) - SMART medical polydimethylsiloxane for monitoring vital signs of the human body
摘要： This paper focuses on current trends in non-invasive monitoring of vital functions of the human body using SMART sensors. It describes a sensor pad made of a thin layer of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) with one symmetrically positioned fibre Bragg grating (FBG). The PDMS material is immune to electromagnetic interferences (EMI) and inert to human skin. By combining fibre-optic technology and PDMS, the SMART PAD sensor is formed which is used not only for classical hospital environments, but also for electromagnetically interfered environments, for example magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The basic monitored parameters described are the respiratory rate (RR) and heart rate (HR) of the human body. The results were obtained in a laboratory environment in a group of 10 volunteers upon their written consent. The acquired results were compared by the Bland-Altman (B-A) method, which belongs to the group of statistical methods in biomedical research.
关键词： heart rate,respiratory rate,fiber Bragg grating,vital sign monitoring,polydimethylsiloxane
更新于2025-09-10 09:29:36
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[IEEE 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) - Honolulu, HI, USA (2018.7.18-2018.7.21)] 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) - Respiratory Rate Derived from Pulse Photoplethysmographic Signal by Pulse Decomposition Analysis
摘要： A novel technique to derive respiratory rate from pulse photoplethysmographic (PPG) signals is presented. It exploits some morphological features of the PPG pulse that are known to be modulated by respiration: amplitude, slope transit time, and width of the main wave, and time to the first reflected wave. A pulse decomposition analysis technique is proposed to measure these features. This technique allows to decompose the PPG pulse into its main wave and its subsequent reflected waves, improving the robustness against noise and morphological changes that usually occur in long-term recordings. Proposed methods were evaluated with a database containing PPG and plethysmography-based respiratory signals simultaneously recorded during a paced-breathing experiment. Results suggest that normal ranges of spontaneous respiratory rate (0.1-0.5 Hz) can be accurately estimated (median and interquartile range of relative error less than 5%) from PPG signals by using the studied features.
关键词： pulse photoplethysmographic (PPG) signals,respiratory rate,pulse decomposition analysis,plethysmography,morphological features
更新于2025-09-10 09:29:36
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Noninvasive Measurement of Heart Rate and Respiratory Rate for Perioperative Infants
摘要： A novel fiber optic sensor is designed with mesh microbenders for simultaneous perioperative measurement of heart rate (HR) and respiratory rate (RR) for infants. The feasibility of the mesh microbend fiber sensor was evaluated in 10 infants, ranging from 1 to 12 months in a prospective cross-sectional observational study with the sensor placed under the subjects in the perioperative period. All study subjects received standard intraoperative physiological monitoring of their vital signs. The high order harmonic sensing signals associated with other filtering methods are used for the removal of motion noise. The study results showed good agreement in the measurement of HR and RR between the proposed microbend fiber sensor and the current standard physiological monitoring used in medical settings.
关键词： heart rate (HR),perioperative infant monitoring,respiratory rate (RR),Microbend optical fiber
更新于2025-09-09 09:28:46