Non-contact physiological monitoring of preterm infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

ABSTRACT: The implementation of video-based non-contact technologies to monitor the vital signs of preterm infants in the hospital presents several challenges, such as the detection of the presence or the absence of a patient in the video frame, robustness to changes in lighting conditions, automated identification of suitable time periods and regions of interest from which vital signs can be estimated. We carried out a clinical study to evaluate the accuracy and the proportion of time that heart rate and respiratory rate can be estimated from preterm infants using only a video camera in a clinical environment, without interfering with regular patient care. A total of 426.6 h of video and reference vital signs were recorded for 90 sessions from 30 preterm infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

SUBMITTER: Villarroel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6908711 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature