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Patent US10143377
Issued 2018-12-04
Single Channel Imaging Measurement Of Dynamic Changes In Heart Or Respiration Rate
Methods for remotely measuring or monitoring one or more physiological parameters in a subject, such as blood volume pulse, heart rate, respiratory wave, or respiration rate, are provided. The methods include capturing a series of images of the subject, and processing the images to obtain physiological parameters of interest. These methods can be used to analyze single channel signals, including signals obtained from active night vision cameras. As a result, these methods can be used to measure or monitor one or more physiological parameters in both daylight and low-light conditions. Also provided are methods of removing false positives. Systems for remotely measuring or monitoring one or more physiological parameters in a subject, as well as methods of using thereof, are also provided.
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- 1. A computer-implemented method for measuring one or more physiological parameters in a subject consisting of:
capturing a time series of digital single channel images of the subject with a night vision camera; establishing a common region of interest in each of the digital images; processing brightness of a common subset of pixels in each region of interest of each digital image and thereby producing a spatially averaged brightness of the common subset of pixels from each digital image; combining the average brightness obtained from each digital image and thereby constructing a combined signal of average brightness over time showing changes in intensity over time; processing the combined signal of average brightness over time using dynamical embedding and thereby constructing an embedding matrix from a series of delay vectors taken from the combined signal of average brightness over time; processing the dynamical embedding matrix using independent component analysis and thereby identifying self-repeating rhythmicity from the combined signal of average brightness over time; and calculating the frequency of the self-repeating rhythmicity to identify the one or more physiological parameters of interest, wherein the one or more physiological parameters are selected from the group consisting of heart and respiration rates.
