Smartphone-Based Device for Non-Invasive Heart-Rate Measurement of Chicken Embryos.

ABSTRACT: Heart rate (HR) is an important parameter in the study of the developmental physiology of chicken embryos and a crucial indicator of dead or live embryo grading in artificial incubation processes. A non-invasive HR measurement technique is required for long-term and routine HR assessment with minimal influence on embryo development. Accordingly, in this study, a non-invasive HR measurement technique of chicken embryos using a smartphone is demonstrated. The detection method of the proposed device is based on the photoplethysmography principle in which a smartphone camera is used for video recording, and the chicken embryonic HR is obtained from the recorded video images using a custom Android application. We used a smartphone to measure the embryonic HR of 60 native chicken eggs and found

SUBMITTER: Phuphanin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6891743 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature