
Contactless Vital Signs Monitoring
- 1st Edition - September 20, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Wenjin Wang, Xuyu Wang
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 2 8 1 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 2 8 2 - 9
Vital signs, such as heart rate and respiration rate, are useful to health monitoring because they can provide important physiological insights for medical diagnosis and we… Read more
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Vital signs, such as heart rate and respiration rate, are useful to health monitoring because they can provide important physiological insights for medical diagnosis and well-being management. Most traditional methods for measuring vital signs require a person to wear biomedical devices, such as a capnometer, a pulse oximeter, or an electrocardiogram sensor. These contact-based technologies are inconvenient, cumbersome, and uncomfortable to use. There is a compelling need for technologies that enable contact-free, easily deployable, and long-term monitoring of vital signs for healthcare.
Contactless Vital Signs Monitoring presents a systematic and in-depth review on the principles, methodologies, and opportunities of using different wavelengths of an electromagnetic spectrum to measure vital signs from the human face and body contactlessly. The volume brings together pioneering researchers active in the field to report the latest progress made, in an intensive and structured way. It also presents various healthcare applications using camera and radio frequency-based monitoring, from clinical care to home care, to sport training and automotive, such as patient/neonatal monitoring in intensive care units, general wards, emergency department triage, MR/CT cardiac and respiratory gating, sleep centers, baby/elderly care, fitness cardio training, driver monitoring in automotive settings, and more.
This book will be an important educational source for biomedical researchers, AI healthcare researchers, computer vision researchers, wireless-sensing researchers, doctors/clinicians, physicians/psychologists, and medical equipment manufacturers.
- Includes various contactless vital signs monitoring techniques, such as optical-based, radar-based, WiFi-based, RFID-based, and acoustic-based methods.
- Presents a thorough introduction to the measurement principles, methodologies, healthcare applications, hardware set-ups, and systems for contactless measurement of vital signs using camera or RF sensors.
- Presents the opportunities for the fusion of camera and RF sensors for contactless vital signs monitoring and healthcare.
Researchers, scientists, engineers, technicians in the healthcare industry, especially those working on health monitoring technologies or AI healthcare solutions. Professors, Post-Doc, PhD, MSc students and researchers in academia, working on healthcare-related research topics/projects and neighboring fields, such as computer vision, image/signal processing, biomedical engineering, wireless sensing, and the likes.
1. Human physiology and contactless vital signs monitoring using camera and wireless signals
Xuyu Wang and Dangdang Shao
Part I: Camera-based vital signs monitoring
2. Physiological origin of camera-based PPG imaging
Alexei A. Kamshilin and Oleg V. Mamontov
3. Model-based camera-PPG: pulse rate monitoring in fitness
Albertus C. den Brinker and Wenjin Wang
4. Camera-based respiration monitoring: motion and PPG-based measurement
Wenjin Wang and Albertus C. den Brinker
5. Camera-based blood oxygen measurement
Izumi Nishidate
6. Camera-based blood pressure monitoring
Keerthana Natarajan, Mohammad Yavarimanesh, Wenjin Wang, and Ramakrishna Mukkamala
7. Clinical applications for imaging photoplethysmography
Sebastian Zaunseder and Stefan Rasche
8. Applications of camera-based physiological measurement beyond healthcare
Daniel McDuff
Part II: Wireless sensor-based vital signs monitoring
9. Radar-based vital signs monitoring
Jingtao Liu, Yuchen Li, and Changzhan Gu
10. Received power-based vital signs monitoring
Jie Wang, Alemayehu Solomon Abrar, and Neal Patwari
11. WiFi CSI-based vital signs monitoring
Daqing Zhang, Youwei Zeng, Fusang Zhang, and Jie Xiong
12. RFID-based vital signs monitoring
Yuanqing Zheng and Yanwen Wang
13. Acoustic-based vital signs monitoring
Xuyu Wang and Shiwen Mao
14. RF and camera-based vital signs monitoring applications
Li Zhang, Changhong Fu, Changzhi Li, and Hong Hong
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 20, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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Wenjin Wang
Dr. Wenjin Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at SUSTech, a PhD advisor, and the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Contactless Healthcare Lab. His research focuses on contactless health monitoring using camera sensors. Before joining SUSTech, he was an Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and a Scientist at Philips Research Eindhoven. He earned his PhD from TU/e in 2017 and his MSc from the University of Amsterdam in 2013 (recipient of the Amsterdam Merit Scholarship, Top 5%). Upon returning to China, he was awarded the National Excellent Young Scholars (Overseas) in 2022.
Dr. Wang is recognized on the Stanford Top 2% Scientists List. In 2023, he was named one of the Top 20 Young Scientists in China by the Journal of Scientific Chinese. In 2024, he received the Young Scientist Innovation Prize from the Guangdong Provincial Government. He has authored 110 SCI journal articles and international conference papers (including IEEE-TBME/JBHI/IOTJ/TIM), accumulating over 4,100 Google Scholar citations. He has received the IEEE-EMBS Prize Paper Award, published 2 Elsevier books, and holds 20 granted US/EP/JP patents and 15 Chinese patents.
His research has been supported by prestigious national and industrial grants, including the National Key R&D Program of China; Original Research Program of Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); General Research Program of NSFC; General Program of Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation; General Program of Shenzhen Science and Technology Foundation; Peacock Team Program of Shenzhen; Shenzhen Enterprise Research Program; etc.
An active contributor to the academic community, Dr. Wang co-founded the CVPM Workshop and has organized it annually at CVPR/ICCV. He has been invited to deliver tutorials at CVPR every year from 2019 to 2025. He serves as a Guest Associate Editor for IEEE-JBHI.
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