Noncontact Monitoring of Respiratory Rate in Newborn Infants Using Thermal Imaging

• Published in: IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 1105 - 1114
• Main Authors: Pereira, Carina Barbosa, Teichmann, Daniel, Yu, Xinchi, Goos, Tom, Reiss, Irwin, Orlikowsky, Thorsten, Heimann, Konrad, Venema, Boudewijn, Blazek, Vladimir, Leonhardt, Steffen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.04.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Adult; Adults; Algorithms; Biomedical monitoring; Female; Ground truth; healthy subjects; Humans; Imaging; Infant, Newborn; Infants; Infrared imaging; Infrared thermography; Male; Microsoft Windows; Monitoring; Monitoring, Physiologic - methods; Neonates; Newborn babies; newborn infants; Pain; Pediatrics; Remote monitoring; Respiration; Respiratory rate; Respiratory Rate - physiology; Root-mean-square errors; Sensors; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Skin; Thermal imaging; Thermography; Thermography - methods; Videos; Young Adult

Monitoring of respiratory rate (RR) is very important for patient assessment. In fact, it is considered one of the relevant vital parameters in critical care medicine. Nowadays, standard monitoring relies on obtrusive and invasive techniques, which require adhesive electrodes or sensors to be attach...