Thermal Cameras for Continuous and Contactless Respiration Monitoring
Continuous respiration monitoring is an important tool in assessing the patient’s health and diagnosing pulmonary, cardiovascular, and sleep-related breathing disorders. Various techniques and devices, both contact and contactless, can be used to monitor respiration. Each of these techniques can pro...
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| author | Raquel Alves Fokke van Meulen Sebastiaan Overeem Svitlana Zinger Sander Stuijk |
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| description | Continuous respiration monitoring is an important tool in assessing the patient’s health and diagnosing pulmonary, cardiovascular, and sleep-related breathing disorders. Various techniques and devices, both contact and contactless, can be used to monitor respiration. Each of these techniques can provide different types of information with varying accuracy. Thermal cameras have become a focal point in research due to their contactless nature, affordability, and the type of data they provide, i.e., information on respiration motion and respiration flow. Several studies have demonstrated the feasibility of this technology and developed robust algorithms to extract important information from thermal camera videos. This paper describes the current state-of-the-art in respiration monitoring using thermal cameras, dividing the system into acquiring data, defining and tracking the region of interest, and extracting the breathing signal and respiration rate. The approaches taken to address the various challenges, the limitations of these methods, and possible applications are discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f73d540fb2b74d869bf6ac6e54eb929a2024-12-27T14:53:03ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202024-12-012424811810.3390/s24248118Thermal Cameras for Continuous and Contactless Respiration MonitoringRaquel Alves0Fokke van Meulen1Sebastiaan Overeem2Svitlana Zinger3Sander Stuijk4Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The NetherlandsDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The NetherlandsDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The NetherlandsCentre for Sleep Medicine Kempenhaeghe, 5590 AB Heeze, The NetherlandsCentre for Sleep Medicine Kempenhaeghe, 5590 AB Heeze, The NetherlandsContinuous respiration monitoring is an important tool in assessing the patient’s health and diagnosing pulmonary, cardiovascular, and sleep-related breathing disorders. Various techniques and devices, both contact and contactless, can be used to monitor respiration. Each of these techniques can provide different types of information with varying accuracy. Thermal cameras have become a focal point in research due to their contactless nature, affordability, and the type of data they provide, i.e., information on respiration motion and respiration flow. Several studies have demonstrated the feasibility of this technology and developed robust algorithms to extract important information from thermal camera videos. This paper describes the current state-of-the-art in respiration monitoring using thermal cameras, dividing the system into acquiring data, defining and tracking the region of interest, and extracting the breathing signal and respiration rate. The approaches taken to address the various challenges, the limitations of these methods, and possible applications are discussed.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/24/8118thermal camerasrespiration rateremote thermographyrespiratory flowrespiration monitoring |
| spellingShingle | Raquel Alves Fokke van Meulen Sebastiaan Overeem Svitlana Zinger Sander Stuijk Thermal Cameras for Continuous and Contactless Respiration Monitoring Sensors thermal cameras respiration rate remote thermography respiratory flow respiration monitoring |
| title | Thermal Cameras for Continuous and Contactless Respiration Monitoring |
| title_full | Thermal Cameras for Continuous and Contactless Respiration Monitoring |
| title_fullStr | Thermal Cameras for Continuous and Contactless Respiration Monitoring |
| title_full_unstemmed | Thermal Cameras for Continuous and Contactless Respiration Monitoring |
| title_short | Thermal Cameras for Continuous and Contactless Respiration Monitoring |
| title_sort | thermal cameras for continuous and contactless respiration monitoring |
| topic | thermal cameras respiration rate remote thermography respiratory flow respiration monitoring |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/24/8118 |
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