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Contactless methods to acquire heart and respiratory signals—A review

Pushparaj Pal, Amod Kumar, Garima Saini

Abstract


The vital sign is the most important parameter for the internal health status of any subject in time. Every person is witnessed of COVID-19 global pandemic viruses. The world population has faced this problem globally. Collecting the infected person’s sample data in a contact-based approach may lead to the spreading of the disease. On the other hand, if we use a non-contact-based approach for the collection, it is somehow far better and breaks the chain of virus spreading. This radar-based technique is preferred in non-contact vital sign detection so that any person gets to their health status prior and according to that doctor can diagnose the proper treatment. The radar-based signal is targeted to the subject’s chest. Due to the chest wall displacement main vital sign parameters of the heart and respiration of the individual’s health are being captured. These captured signals are called vital signs, with this it is very helpful that the pre-diagnosis and treatment can be recommended by doctors or health service providers. Some patients due to their movement may be older or children for a long-time use skin irritation or allergy type of problems may face. On the other hand, some patients may be COVID-19 infected disease and burn patients. Hence, it is not possible to connect as both cases are unexpected for the required purpose. For constant and continuous measurement, existing contact-based methods are not fruitful hence non- contact-based approach is adopted. Non-contact-based vital sign detection is preferably due to several problems occurring. This paper presents a state-of-the-art review of recent monitoring methods and techniques for health monitoring in medical fields of operations. These methods and techniques are used as a tool to acquire, visualize and analyze the sampled data collected in any environment either indoor or outdoor.

Keywords


Healthcare; Non-contact; Doppler Radar; Continuous Wave; Techniques and Methods; Vital Sign Detection; Respiration and Heart Beat Detection

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