What is it about?
Respiration rate is an important physiological measurement that is often neglected. Existing monitoring methods require devices to be attached to the body of the person thereby resulting in distress and also introducing errors as a result of movements. This method involves the use of infrared camera making it noncontact thereby eliminating distress and avoiding errors due to movement. The method was evaluated on adult subjects.
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Why is it important?
The method is real time, fast and does not rely on user intervention to function.
Perspectives
I spent three years of my PhD under experienced and dedicated supervisors with a sole aim of attaining a solution to noncontact monitoring of respiratory rate. This method is so far the most challenging alternative yet. It is my aspiration to come up with better alternatives especially for the vulnerable patients. I hope many others are also doing same.
Dr Abdulkadir H Alkali
University of Maiduguri
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This page is a summary of: Thermal image processing for real-time non-contact respiration rate monitoring, IET Circuits Devices & Systems, March 2017, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET),
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cds.2016.0143.
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