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According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 235 million people suffer from respiratory illnesses and four million people die annually due to air pollution. Regular lung health monitoring can lead to prognoses about deteriorating lung…

This study proposes a data fusion method for multiradar systems to enable measurement of the respiration of multiple people located at arbitrary positions. Using the proposed method, the individual respiration rates of multiple people can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Shunsuke Iwata , Takato Koda , Takuya Sakamoto

Auscultation plays a pivotal role in early respiratory and pulmonary disease diagnosis. Despite the emergence of deep learning-based methods for automatic respiratory sound classification post-Covid-19, limited datasets impede performance…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yun Chu , Qiuhao Wang , Enze Zhou , Ling Fu , Qian Liu , Gang Zheng

Camera-based physiological measurement is a fast growing field of computer vision. Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) utilizes imaging devices (e.g., cameras) to measure the peripheral blood volume pulse (BVP) via photoplethysmography, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xin Liu , Girish Narayanswamy , Akshay Paruchuri , Xiaoyu Zhang , Jiankai Tang , Yuzhe Zhang , Soumyadip Sengupta , Shwetak Patel , Yuntao Wang , Daniel McDuff

Approximately 10\% of newborns require assistance to initiate breathing at birth, and around 5\% need ventilation support. Fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring plays a crucial role in assessing fetal well-being during prenatal care, enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Kjersti Engan , Neel Kanwal , Anita Yeconia , Ladislaus Blacy , Yuda Munyaw , Estomih Mduma , Hege Ersdal

Today's diagnostics include devices such as pulse oximeters, blood pressure monitors, and temperature measurements. These devices provide vital information to medical personnel when making treatment decisions. Drawing inspiration from the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-26 Akhil Kallepalli , David B James , Mark A Richardson

The health effects of air pollution have been subject to intense study in recent decades. Exposure to pollutants such as airborne particulate matter and ozone has been associated with increases in morbidity and mortality, especially with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Nitish Nag , Vaibhav Pandey , Likhita Navali , Prateek Mohan , Ramesh Jain

Video-based heart and respiratory rate measurements using facial videos are more useful and user-friendly than traditional contact-based sensors. However, most of the current deep learning approaches require ground-truth pulse and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Yusuke Akamatsu , Terumi Umematsu , Hitoshi Imaoka

The paper analyses the possibility to recover different biomedical signals if limited number of samples is available. Having in mind that monitoring of health condition is done by measuring and observing key parameters such as heart…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-02 Ivan Martinovic , Vesna Mandic

Respiratory rate (RR) is an important biomarker as RR changes can reflect severe medical events such as heart disease, lung disease, and sleep disorders. Unfortunately, standard manual RR counting is prone to human error and cannot be…

Air pollution is a major driver of climate change. Anthropogenic emissions from the burning of fossil fuels for transportation and power generation emit large amounts of problematic air pollutants, including Greenhouse Gases (GHGs). Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Linus Scheibenreif , Michael Mommert , Damian Borth

Cardiovascular activities are directly related to the response of a body in a stressed condition. Stress, based on its intensity, can be divided into two types i.e. Acute stress (short-term stress) and Chronic stress (long-term stress).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Talha Iqbal , Adnan Elahi , Atif Shahzad , William Wijns

Energy efficiency of buildings is considered to be one of the major means of achieving the net-zero carbon goal around the world. The big part of the energy savings are supposed to be coming from optimizing the operation of the building…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Amir-Mohammad Esmaieeli-Sikaroudi , Boris Goikhman , Dmitri Chubarov , Hung Dinh Nguyen , Michael Chertkov , Petr Vorobev

Respiratory-gated radiation therapy (RGRT) has been used to minimize the dose to normal tissue in lung-cancer radiotherapy. The present research aims to improve the regularity of respiration in RGRT using a video coached respiration guiding…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Hyun Jeong Lee , Ji Woon Yea , Se An Oh

Wearable sensors inWireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) provide health and physical activity monitoring. Modern communication systems have extended this monitoring remotely. In this survey, various types of wearable sensors discussed, their…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-15 A. Rehman , M. Mustafa , N. Javaid , U. Qasim , Z. A. Khan

Hypertension is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The ability to diagnose and treat hypertension in the ambulatory population is hindered by limited access and poor adherence to current methods of monitoring blood…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Theodore Curran , Chengqian Ma , Xin Liu , Daniel McDuff , Girish Narayanswamy , George Stergiou , Shwetak Patel , Eugene Yang

Respiratory sound classification (RSC) is challenging due to varied acoustic signatures, primarily influenced by patient demographics and recording environments. To address this issue, we introduce a text-audio multimodal model that…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-17 June-Woo Kim , Miika Toikkanen , Yera Choi , Seoung-Eun Moon , Ho-Young Jung

Thispaper presents the design and realization of a context-aware wireless health monitoring system for recording the heartbeat (HR) and respiration (RR) rate based on an indirect measurement approach. The system consists of a contact-less…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Amir Javadpour , HamidrezaMemarzadeh-Tehran

For the one billion sufferers of respiratory disease, managing their disease with inhalers crucially influences their quality of life. Generic treatment plans could be improved with the aid of computational models that account for…

The seemingly simple process of inhalation relies on a complex interplay between muscular contraction in the thorax, elasto-capillary interactions in individual lung branches, propagation of air between different connected branches, and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Jean-François Louf , Felix Kratz , Sujit S. Datta