Contact-free measurement of cardiac pulse based on the analysis of thermal imagery

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1418-1426

  Garbey, Marc ^a   Sun, Nanfei ^a   Merla, Arcangelo ^b   Pavlidis, Ioannis ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive filtering; Cardiac pulse; Fast Fourier transform (FFT); Medical imaging; Thermal imaging

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY OF MODULATION; PULSATIVE BLOOD FLOW; THERMAL PROPAGATION; THERMAL SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; BLOOD VESSELS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED IMAGING; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PULSATILE FLOW; PULSE RATE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34447529106     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.891930     Document Type: Article

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