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Objective
To examine the effectiveness of a noncontact vision‐based infrared respiratory monitor (IRM) in the detection of authentic respiratory motion in newborn infants.
Study Design
Observational study in a neonatal intensive care unit.
Methods
Eligible infants lay supine with torso exposed under the IRM's infrared depth‐map camera and torso images were recorded at 30 frames/s. Respiratory...
Imaging systems have applications in patient respiratory monitoring but with limited application in neonatal intensive care units (NICU). In this paper we propose an algorithm to automatically detect the torso in an image of a preterm infant during non-invasive respiratory monitoring. The algorithm uses normalised cut to segment each image into clusters, followed by two fuzzy inference systems to...
Traditional respiration sensing in neonatal intensive care often suffers from signal quality issues such as drop-out, presenting difficulties in emerging applications such as automated control of blood oxygen saturation. We are developing a non-contact vision based respiratory monitoring system, suitable for use in a neonatal intensive care unit, to monitor the presence of apnoea, and to provide estimates...
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