Contactless Heartbeat Measurement Using Speckle Vibrometry

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2022 Jul:2022:4604-4610. doi: 10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871712.

Abstract

Monitoring of heart rate in patients in the general ward is necessary to assess the clinical situation of the patient. Currently, this is done via spot-checks on pulse rate manually or on heart rate using Electrocardiogram (ECG) by nurses. More frequent measurements would allow early detection of adverse cardiac events. In this work, we investigate a contactless measurement setup combined with a signal processing pipeline, which is based on speckle vibrometry (SV), to perform contactless heart rate monitoring of human subjects in a supine position, mimicking a resting scenario in the general ward. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of extracting heart rate with SV through varying textile thicknesses (i.e., 8 mm, 32 mm and 64 mm), with an error smaller than 3 beats per minute on average compared to the ground-truth heart rate derived from ECG.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Electrocardiography* / methods
  • Heart
  • Heart Rate / physiology
  • Humans
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / methods
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted*