Contactless Vital Signs Monitoring

Vital  signs, such as heart rate and respiration rate, are useful to health  monitoring because they can provide important physiological insights for  medical diagnosis and well-being management. Most traditional methods  for measuring vital signs require a person to wear biomedical devices,  such as a capnometer, a pulse oximeter, or an electrocardiogram sensor.  These contact-based technologies are inconvenient, cumbersome, and  uncomfortable to use. There is a compelling need for technologies that  enable contact-free, easily deployable, and long-term monitoring of  vital signs for healthcare.

Contactless Vital Signs Monitoring presents a systematic and in-depth review on the principles,  methodologies, and opportunities of using different wavelengths of an  electromagnetic spectrum to measure vital signs from the human face and  body contactlessly. The volume brings together pioneering researchers  active in the field to report the latest progress made, in an intensive  and structured way. It also presents various healthcare applications  using camera and radio frequency-based monitoring, from clinical care to  home care, to sport training and automotive, such as patient/neonatal  monitoring in intensive care units, general wards, emergency department  triage, MR/CT cardiac and respiratory gating, sleep centers,  baby/elderly care, fitness cardio training, driver monitoring in  automotive settings, and more.

This book will be an  important educational source for biomedical researchers, AI healthcare  researchers, computer vision researchers, wireless-sensing researchers,  doctors/clinicians, physicians/psychologists, and medical equipment  manufacturers.

• Includes  various contactless vital signs monitoring techniques, such as  optical-based, radar-based, WiFi-based, RFID-based, and acoustic-based  methods.
• Presents a  thorough introduction to the measurement principles, methodologies,  healthcare applications, hardware set-ups, and systems for contactless  measurement of vital signs using camera or RF sensors.
• Presents the opportunities for the fusion of camera and RF sensors for contactless vital signs monitoring and healthcare.