Multi-Camera Infrared Thermography for Infant Respiration Monitoring

Autor: Gerard De Haan, Peter Andriessen, Carola van Pul, Mohammed Meftah, Deedee Kommers, Ilde Lorato, Sander Stuijk
Přispěvatelé: Center for Care & Cure Technology Eindhoven, Efficient Stream Processing Lab, Electronic Systems, School of Med. Physics and Eng. Eindhoven, EAISI Health, EAISI High Tech Systems, EAISI Foundational
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Biomed Opt Express
Biomedical Optics Express, 11(9), 4848-4861. Optical Society of America (OSA)
ISSN: 2156-7085
Popis: Respiration is monitored in neonatal wards using chest impedance (CI), which is obtrusive and can cause skin damage to the infants. Therefore, unobtrusive solutions based on infrared thermography are being investigated. This work proposes an algorithm to merge multiple thermal camera views and automatically detect the pixels containing respiration motion or flow using three features. The method was tested on 152 minutes of recordings acquired on seven infants. We performed a comparison with the CI respiration rate yielding a mean absolute error equal to 2.07 breaths/min. Merging the three features resulted in reducing the dependency on the window size typical of spectrum-based features.
Databáze: OpenAIRE