Non-contact respiratory rate monitoring using thermal and visible imaging: a pilot study on neonates.

ABSTRACT: Respiratory rate (RR) monitoring is essential in neonatal intensive care units. Despite its importance, RR is still monitored intermittently by manual counting instead of continuous monitoring due to the risk of skin damage with prolonged use of contact electrodes in preterm neonates and false signals due to displacement of electrodes. Thermal imaging has recently gained significance as a non-contact method for RR detection because of its many advantages. However, due to the lack of information in thermal images, the selection and tracking of the region of interest (ROI) in thermal images for neonates are challenging. This paper presents the integration of visible (RGB) and thermal (T) image sequences for the selection and tracking of ROI for breathing rate extraction. The deep-learning ba

SUBMITTER: Maurya L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10175339 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature