by Wenjin Wang, Xuyu Wang
Vital
signs, such as heart rate and respiration rate, are useful to health
monitoring because they can provide important physiological insights for
medical diagnosis and well-being management. Most traditional methods
for measuring vital signs require a person to wear biomedical devices,
such as a capnometer, a pulse oximeter, or an electrocardiogram sensor.
These contact-based technologies are inconvenient, cumbersome, and
uncomfortable to use. There is a compelling need for technologies that
enable contact-free, easily deployable, and long-term monitoring of
vital signs for healthcare.
Contactless Vital Signs Monitoring
presents a systematic and in-depth review on the principles,
methodologies, and opportunities of using different wavelengths of an
electromagnetic spectrum to measure vital signs from the human face and
body contactlessly. The volume brings together pioneering researchers
active in the field to report the latest progress made, in an intensive
and structured way. It also presents various healthcare applications
using camera and radio frequency-based monitoring, from clinical care to
home care, to sport training and automotive, such as patient/neonatal
monitoring in intensive care units, general wards, emergency department
triage, MR/CT cardiac and respiratory gating, sleep centers,
baby/elderly care, fitness cardio training, driver monitoring in
automotive settings, and more.
This book will be an
important educational source for biomedical researchers, AI healthcare
researchers, computer vision researchers, wireless-sensing researchers,
doctors/clinicians, physicians/psychologists, and medical equipment
manufacturers.
- Includes
various contactless vital signs monitoring techniques, such as
optical-based, radar-based, WiFi-based, RFID-based, and acoustic-based
methods.
- Presents a
thorough introduction to the measurement principles, methodologies,
healthcare applications, hardware set-ups, and systems for contactless
measurement of vital signs using camera or RF sensors.
- Presents the opportunities for the fusion of camera and RF sensors for contactless vital signs monitoring and healthcare.
