Thermistor at a distance: Unobtrusive measurement of breathing

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 988-998

  Fei, Jin ^a   Pavlidis, Ioannis ^b  

^a HALLIBURTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Breath; Facial tracking; Sleep studies; Thermal imaging; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; CLINICAL APPLICATION; FACIAL TRACKING; HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS; MEASUREMENT METHODS; SLEEP STUDIES; THERMAL IMAGING; THERMAL SIGNALS; UNOBTRUSIVE MEASUREMENT; WAVE FORMS;

PUMPS; SLEEP RESEARCH; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

THERMISTORS;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BREATHING; HUMAN; IMAGING; MEASUREMENT; NOSE CAVITY; THERMISTOR; VALIDITY; WAVEFORM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NOSE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; THERMOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NOSE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RESPIRATION; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77950321911     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2032415     Document Type: Article

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