Abstract:
The present invention relates to a device, system and method for determining at least one vital sign of a subject. The device (130) comprises an input interface (131) configured to obtain at least three detection signals derived from detected electromagnetic radiation transmitted through or reflected from a skin region of a subject, wherein each detection signal comprises wavelength-dependent reflection or transmission information in a different wavelength channel, a transformation unit (132) configured to transform the at least three detection signals into at least three transformed detection signals by temporally normalizing the at least three detection signals or applying a non-linear transfer function on the at least three detection signals, a projection unit (133) configured to project the at least three transformed detection signals into at least two projected signals in a subspace orthogonal to a predetermined distortion direction, and a vital sign determination unit (134) configured to determine an indicator or concentration of blood components or species as vital sign from said at least two projected signals by indirectly determining the relative strength of a pulsatile component in said at least two projected signals.
Abstract:
The application relates to camera-based vital signs monitoring using remote PPG. A Device (10) for determining a physiological parameter comprises: an interface (11) for receiving image data comprising a time-sequence of image frames; a processor (12) for processing said data and configured to perform, for each frame, the steps of: generating a set of weighting maps comprising at least a first and second weighting map for spatially weighting pixels of the frame (102); determining a first weighted image frame by spatially weighting pixels of the image frame based on the first weighting map (103); determining a corresponding second weighted image frame; determining a first statistical parameter value based on the first weighted image frame (105); determining a corresponding second statistical parameter value; concatenating said first statistical parameter values over time based on the time-sequence of the corresponding image frames to obtain a first candidate signal (107); to obtain a corespnding second candidate signal (108); extracting a physiological parameter of the subject based on said first and/or said second candidate signal (109).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a device, system and method for pulsatility detection. The proposed device comprises an input interface (30) for obtaining image data of a scene, said image data comprising a time sequence of image frames, an extraction unit (31) for extracting a time- varying signal indicative of a periodic physiological phenomenon from a region of interest of said image data, a transformation unit (32) for transforming said time- varying signal into a spectral signal, a partitioning unit (33) for partitioning the spectral signal into at least an in-band sub-signal covering a first frequency range of said spectral signal and an out-band sub-signal covering a second frequency range of said spectral signal, wherein said first frequency range comprises at least a frequency range of the periodic physiological phenomenon, an analysis unit (34) for separately deriving an in-band measure from the in-band sub-signal and an out-band measure from the out-band sub-signal, the in- band measure and the out-band measure representing a descriptor, and a classifier (35) for classifying said region of interest as a pulsatile region of a living being or as a non-pulsatile region based on the descriptor.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a device, system and a method for determining vital sign information of a subject. To provide an increased signal quality and an improved robustness of the obtained vital sign information with respect to motion and low SNR, the proposed device tries to find the linear combination of the color channels, which suppresses the distortions best in a frequency band including the pulse rate, and consequently use this same linear combination to extract the desired vital sign information (e.g. represented by a vital sign information signal such as a respiration signal or Mayer waves) in a lower frequency band.
Abstract:
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 an input interface (30) for obtaining image data of a scene, said image data comprising a time sequence of image frames, an extraction unit (31) for extracting a photoplethysmography (PPG) signal from a region of interest of said image data, a transformation unit (32) for transforming said PPG signal into a spectral signal, a sorting unit (33) for sorting said spectral signal to obtain a sorted spectral signal representing a descriptor, and a classifier (34) for classifying said region of interest as skin region of a living being or as non-skin region based on the descriptor.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to fields of medical technology and camera- based vital signs monitoring using remote photoplethysmography (rPPG). A Device (10) for determining a physiological parameter of a subject (20) is presented, the device comprising: an interface (11) for receiving image data of a scene, said image data comprising a time- sequence of image frames; and a processor (12) for processing said image data, wherein the processor is configured to perform the steps of: determining, for each of said image frames, a first statistical parameter value indicative of a statistical dispersion of pixel values of said image frame (202); concatenating said first statistical parameter values over time based on the time-sequence of the corresponding image frames to obtain a first candidate signal (203); extracting a physiological parameter of the subject based on said first candidate signal (204). The present invention further relates to a corresponding system (1) and method (200).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a device, system and method for obtaining a vital signal of a subject. To achieved increased robustness against motion, the device comprises a decomposition unit (12) for performing a spectral decomposition of at least two photoplethysmography detection signals being related to a physiological property of the subject and allowing extraction of a vital sign of the subject to obtain two or more spectral components of the detection signals. A weight is determined per spectral component based on an estimate of the relevance of the respective spectral component to the vital sign, derived from a characteristic of said spectral component. Finally, a vital sign is obtained by weighting at least part of the spectral components with the determined corresponding weight and extracting a vital sign from the weighted spectral components or by extracting two or more vital sign sub-signals from individual spectral components of the at least two detection signals and, weighting the extracted vital sign sub-signals with the determined weight of the corresponding spectral component, and extracting a vital sign from the weighted vital sign sub-signals.
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for determining a pulse signal from a video sequence, the apparatus comprising a processing unit configured to obtain a video sequence, the video sequence comprising a plurality of image frames; form a plurality of video sub-sequences, each video sub-sequence comprising a frame segment from each image frame in a subset of the image frames, wherein each image frame is divided into a plurality of frame segments; for a first video sub-sequence formed from frame segments from a first subset of image frames, comparing a representative value for the first video sub-sequence to representative values for video sub-sequences formed from frame segments from a second subset of image frames; concatenate the first video sub-sequence to a second video sub-sequence formed from frame segments from the second subset of image frames based on the comparison of representative values; and determine a pulse signal from the concatenated video sub-sequences.
Abstract:
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 obtain a video sequence, the video sequence comprising a plurality of image frames; divide each of the image frames into a first plurality of frame segments; form a first plurality of video sub-sequences, each video sub-sequence comprising a frame segment from the first plurality of frame segments for two or more of the image frames; divide each of the image frames into a second plurality of frame segments, the second plurality of frame segments comprising a greater number of frame segments than the first plurality of frame segments; form a second plurality of video sub-sequences, each video sub-sequence comprising a frame segment from the second plurality of frame segments for two or more of the image frames; analyze the video sub-sequences in the first plurality of video sub-sequences and the second plurality of video sub-sequences to determine a pulse signal for each video sub-sequence; and analyze the pulse signals to identify areas of living skin tissue in the video sequence.