For Heart Rate Assessments from Drone Footage in Disaster Scenarios

Autor: Lucas Mösch, Isabelle Barz, Anna Müller, Carina B. Pereira, Dieter Moormann, Michael Czaplik, Andreas Follmann
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Bioengineering, Vol 10, Iss 3, p 336 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 10030336
2306-5354
16797051
DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering10030336
Popis: The ability to use drones to obtain important vital signs could be very valuable for emergency personnel during mass-casualty incidents. The rapid and robust remote assessment of heart rates could serve as a life-saving decision aid for first-responders. With the flight sensor data of a specialized drone, a pipeline was developed to achieve a robust, non-contact assessment of heart rates through remote photoplethysmography (rPPG). This robust assessment was achieved through adaptive face-aware exposure and comprehensive de-noising of a large number of predicted noise sources. In addition, we performed a proof-of-concept study that involved 18 stationary subjects with clean skin and 36 recordings of their vital signs, using the developed pipeline in outdoor conditions. In this study, we could achieve a single-value heart-rate assessment with an overall root-mean-squared error of 14.3 beats-per-minute, demonstrating the basic feasibility of our approach. However, further research is needed to verify the applicability of our approach in actual disaster situations, where remote photoplethysmography readings could be impacted by other factors, such as blood, dirt, and body positioning.
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