neonatal non-contact respiratory monitoring based on real-time infrared thermography新生儿呼吸监控基于非接触式实时红外温度记录.pdfVIP

Abbas et al. BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011, 10:93 /content/10/1/93 RESEARCH Open Access Neonatal non-contact respiratory monitoring based on real-time infrared thermography 1*† 2† 2 2 1 Abbas K Abbas , Konrad Heimann , Katrin Jergus , Thorsten Orlikowsky and Steffen Leonhardt * Correspondence: abbas@hia.rwth- Abstract aachen.de 1Philips Chair for Medical Background: Monitoring of vital parameters is an important topic in neonatal daily Information Technology, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 20, care. Progress in computational intelligence and medical sensors has facilitated the 52074 Aachen, Germany development of smart bedside monitors that can integrate multiple parameters into Full list of author information is a single monitoring system. This paper describes non-contact monitoring of neonatal available at the end of the article vital signals based on infrared thermography as a new biomedical engineering application. One signal of clinical interest is the spontaneous respiration rate of the neonate. It will be shown that the respiration rate of neonates can be monitored based on analysis of the anterior naris (nostrils) temperature profile associated with the inspiration and expiration phases successively. Objective: The aim of this study is to develop and investigate a new non-contact respiration monitoring modality for neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) using infrared