摘要:
In one embodiment, a method for monitoring a heartbeat includes receiving a heartbeat signal, the heartbeat signal including heartbeat cycles. The method also includes determining a region of interest (ROI) of the heartbeat cycles based on an identifying feature of each heartbeat cycle of the heartbeat cycles. The ROI includes a first portion of a period of a first heartbeat cycle. The method also includes sampling the first portion of the heartbeat cycle within the ROI at a first sampling rate and sampling a second portion of the heartbeat cycle outside of the ROI at a second sampling rate less than the first sample rate.
摘要:
In a method of video monitoring of a subject, for example a driver of a vehicle, the video image is motion compensated by image registration techniques so that the subject's position in each frame of the video image is stable. A region of interest is defined on the skin of the subject and used to obtain a PPG signal. To compensate for variations in illumination of the subject caused by the subject's movement in the vehicle, the parameters of the calculated motion transformation used in the image registration are used to form an illumination model representing how the illumination of the subject would have changed because of the subject's motion. The illumination model is a linear or quadratic function fitted to the image intensity in the region of interest. Residuals between the fitted model and the image intensity form an illumination-compensated signal in which the photoplethysmographic signal is more clearly present. The illumination-compensated signal is analysed to obtain a PPG signal and from this estimates of one or more vital signs such as heart rate or breathing rate are obtained.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a device, system and method for sensor position guidance to guide a user or the subject to place a wearable sensor to the optimum position at the subject's body. The device comprises an image data input (40) for obtaining image data of at least a subject's body area showing motion of said body area, an analyzer (41) for analyzing the obtained image data to determine one or more locations of the body area showing maximal movement caused by respiration and/or heart beat, and a guidance output (42) for selecting from the determined one or more locations an optimum location based on the strength of movement and for providing guidance information indicating the optimum location, at which a wearable sensor (6) for monitoring respiration and/or heart rate should be placed to said subject's body.
摘要:
According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for identifying living skin tissue in a video sequence, the apparatus comprising a processing unit configured to receive a video sequence, the video sequence comprising a plurality of image frames; divide each of the image frames into a plurality of frame segments, wherein each frame segment is a group of neighboring pixels in the image frame; form a plurality of video sub-sequences, each video sub-sequence comprising a frame segment from two or more of the plurality of image frames; analyze the plurality of video sub-sequences to determine a pulse signal for each video sub-sequence; determine a similarity matrix based on pairwise similarities for each determined pulse signal with each of the other determined pulse signals; and identify areas of living skin tissue in the video sequence from the similarity matrix.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a device, system and method for skin detection. To enable a reliable, accurate and fast detection the proposed device comprises a thermal sensor input (15) for obtaining thermal sensor data of a scene, a light sensor input (16) for obtaining light sensor data of the scene, and an evaluation unit (17) for analyzing the obtained thermal sensor data and the obtained light sensor data and for detecting skin areas within the scene based on said analysis.
摘要:
Cardiac catheterization is facilitated by generating first and second electroanatomic maps of a heart of a subject and designating common spatial locations that correspond to first electrical events on the first electroanatomic map and second electrical events on the second electroanatomic map. The common spatial locations of the first electroanatomic map and the second electroanatomic map are aligned to establish an aligned map, and using the location data on the aligned map to guide a probe to a point of interest.
摘要:
[Aim] To present a more appropriate excision method that also takes the position of an abnormal region in an organ and a positional relationship between a target organ and an organ around the target organ into consideration in a surgery assistance apparatus for presenting an excision region including the abnormal region in the organ. [Solution Means] A medical image obtainment means (11) that obtains a three-dimensional medical image of a subject to be examined, a target tissue region extraction means (12) that extracts a region of target tissue from the three-dimensional medical image obtained by the medical image obtainment means (11), an abnormal region extraction means (13) that extracts an abnormal region from the region of target tissue extracted by the target tissue region extraction means (12), an excision method obtainment means (16) that obtains, based on plural excision region determination conditions, plural excision methods in which excision regions satisfying the respective excision region determination conditions are set for the abnormal region, and an excision method presentation means (17) that presents the plural excision methods obtained by the excision method obtainment means are provided.
摘要:
A body fluid sensing device with a body fluid capture structure and a body fluid measurement sensor positioned in the body fluid capture structure. A capacitance sensor is coupled to the body fluid measurement sensor. The capacitance sensor is used to assist in the positioning of a body part relative to the body fluid capture structure.
摘要:
An electrophysiology map, for example a map of arrhythmic substrate, can be generated by acquiring both geometry information and electrophysiology information pertaining to an anatomical region, and associating the acquired geometry and electrophysiology information as a plurality of electrophysiology data points. A user can select two (or more) electrophysiological characteristics for display, and can further elect to apply various filters to the selected electrophysiological characteristics. The user can also define various relationships (e.g., Boolean ANDs, ORs, and the like) between the selected and/or filtered characteristics. The user-selected filtering criteria can be applied to the electrophysiology data points to output various subsets thereof. These subsets can then be graphically rendered using various combinations of colorscale, monochrome scale, and iconography, for example as a three-dimensional cardiac electrophysiology model.