On enhancing cardiac pulse measurements through thermal imaging

Final Program and Abstract Book - 9th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine, ITAB 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bourlai, Thirimachos ^a   Buddharaju, Pradeep ^b   Pavlidis, Ioannis ^b   Bass, Barbara ^c  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Pulse recovery; Thermal imaging; Tracking

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC PULSE; CLINICAL APPLICATION; COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTS; DATA SETS; HEAT TRANSFER EFFECTS; INSTANTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS; PULSE MEASUREMENTS; PULSE PROPAGATION; THERMAL IMAGING;

FOURIER SERIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 77949590223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITAB.2009.5394334     Document Type: Conference Paper

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