The detection of vital parameters with traditional approaches, as the electrocardiograph, requires to appropriately place electrodes in direct contact with patients’ skin, often causing irritation. On the other hand, contactless measurement of physiological parameters provides an unobtrusive and comfortable instrument for subjects’ conditions monitoring, with application to home monitoring of aging people and in particular to those suffering of heart disease. In this paper two contactless techniques are proposed, based on radar technology and on video processing from an RGB camera. In order to validate their precision, the proposed methods are compared with three wearable low cost devices, taken as a reference for the outcomes. The developed approaches prove to achieve excellent performances, with an estimated mean relative error of 0.55% with respect to a commercial cardiac strap device.
Contactless Heart Rate Measurements using RGB-camera and Radar / Senigagliesi, Linda; Gambi, Ennio; De Santis, Adelmo; Ciattaglia, Gianluca; Ricciuti, Manola. - ELETTRONICO. - 1: ICT4AWE:(2020), pp. 121-129. (Intervento presentato al convegno 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health) [10.5220/0009793201210129].
Contactless Heart Rate Measurements using RGB-camera and Radar
Senigagliesi, Linda;Gambi, Ennio;De Santis, Adelmo;Ciattaglia, Gianluca;Ricciuti, Manola
2020-01-01
Abstract
The detection of vital parameters with traditional approaches, as the electrocardiograph, requires to appropriately place electrodes in direct contact with patients’ skin, often causing irritation. On the other hand, contactless measurement of physiological parameters provides an unobtrusive and comfortable instrument for subjects’ conditions monitoring, with application to home monitoring of aging people and in particular to those suffering of heart disease. In this paper two contactless techniques are proposed, based on radar technology and on video processing from an RGB camera. In order to validate their precision, the proposed methods are compared with three wearable low cost devices, taken as a reference for the outcomes. The developed approaches prove to achieve excellent performances, with an estimated mean relative error of 0.55% with respect to a commercial cardiac strap device.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
