Title :
Determination of locations on a tactile sensor suitable for respiration and heartbeat measurement of a person on a bed
Author :
Mukai, Toshiharu ; Matsuo, Kenshi ; Kato, Yu ; Shimizu, Atsuki ; Shijie Guo
Author_Institution :
RIKEN RTC, Nagoya, Japan
Abstract :
Sleep monitoring systems that can be used in daily life for the assessment of personal health and early detection of diseases are needed. To this end, we are developing a system for unconstrained measurement of the lying posture, respiration and heartbeat of a person on a soft rubber-based tactile sensor sheet. The respiration and heartbeat signals can be detected from only particular locations on the tactile sensor, and the locations depend on the lying location and posture of the measured person. In this paper, we describe how to determine the measurement locations on the sensor. We also report a realtime program that detects the respiration rate and the heart rate by using this method.
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; diseases; electrocardiography; medical signal detection; medical signal processing; patient monitoring; pneumodynamics; sleep; tactile sensors; disease detection; electrocardiogram; heart rate; heartbeat measurement; heartbeat signal detection; location determination; lying posture; personal health assessment; realtime program; respiration; respiration rate; sleep monitoring systems; soft rubber-based tactile sensor sheet; unconstrained measurement; Atmospheric measurements; Current measurement; Heart beat; Particle measurements; Pressure measurement; Tactile sensors; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
DOI :
10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943530
