Non-contact pulse measurement for use in smart room applications.

Electrical engineering;Computer engineering

Nicholas R. Blumenthal

University:University of Louisville

Department:Electrical and Computer Engineering

关键词: Electrical engineering;    Computer engineering;   

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美国|英语

来源: The Universite of Louisville's Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

The past decade has brought about major advances in the realms of bothhealthcare and biometrics. New technologies and techniques in the field of biometricshas allowed for the quick and efficient identification of people, while new healthcaretechnologies are allowing for less invasive monitoring of a person’s physiological stateindicators. The combination of these two fields has allowed for a whole new frontier ofscience to be explored in the form of smart rooms.Smart rooms use the fusion of biometrics and healthcare monitoring to provide asolution to the problem of how best to monitor a patient to ensure their best possiblehealth, safety, and comfort. This work attempts to push the boundaries of the field bycreating a smart room technology that can provide nonintrusive monitoring of patientheart rate. This type of room could be used to revolutionize patient monitoring in termsof both comfort and safety.In this thesis, the culmination of several technological advances in the ComputerVision and Image Processing Lab were utilized to develop a methodology for the noncontactdetection of a subject's pulse. The algorithms and methodology employed in thisthesis resulted in a system that was able to identify a subject's pulse with 91.2% accuracy in a partially automated system. This demonstrates the proof of concept and shows awide new range of possibilities for the world of medicine and patient monitoring.