Journal
MEDICAL & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTING
Volume 40, Issue 2, Pages 246-252Publisher
PETER PEREGRINUS LTD
DOI: 10.1007/BF02348132
Keywords
heart-beat; respiration; phonocardiographic sensor; unconstrained; non-invasive; home healthcare
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With the rapid growth in the number of elderly people in the population, interest in health monitoring is increasing. Therefore the development of an unconstrained and non-invasive vital signs measurement system could be important for monitoring health status at home or in hospitals or nursing facilities. A simple system is proposed for measuring heart-beat and respiration periods for home healthcare. This was achieved with a phonocardiographic (PCG) sensor set on a water-mat or air-mat. The PCG sensor was an acceleration sensor that extracted the vibration of the mat caused by heart-beat and respiration. By calculating an auto-correlation function of the fully rectified sensor output or by local pattern matching between the rectified output and a reference signal (pre-memorised for each subject), the system measured the average and instantaneous periods of both heart-beat and respiration. Results showed that these periods were measured to a similar level of accuracy as for the electrocardiogram and thermistor respiration pickup. The comparative accuracies were within the following ranges: average heartbeat 0.19% to 0.67%, instantaneous heartbeat 0.53% to 1.15%, average respiration 0.51% to 2.17%, and instantaneous respiration 2.51% to 5.20%.
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