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Wideband Optical Detector of Ultrasound for Medical Imaging Applications
Published on: May 11, 2014
A new algorithm for detection of heart and respiration rate with UWB signals
Mehran Baboli1, Olga Boric-Lubecke, Victor Lubecke
1Electrical Engineering department of University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA. Baboli@Hawaii.edu
Abstract:
Proposed is a detection algorithm for physiological monitoring with Ultra Wide Band (UWB) radar. This new algorithm is based on detection of movement energy in a specified band of frequency using wavelet and filter banks. One of the advantages of this algorithm is its ability to detect heart and respiration rates of a subject in an environment containing other motion. The heart movement is detected with the accuracy of 95% and respiration with the 100%. This algorithm has a repeatability of 93% which is a significant characteristic of the method.
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