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    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Medical Imaging
    • Physiology

    Background:

    • Pulmonary function testing (PFT) is crucial for diagnosing respiratory diseases.
    • Traditional PFT methods can be limited by motion artifacts and require direct contact.
    • Remote, non-contact methods for PFT are needed to overcome these limitations.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop and evaluate a novel depth-based photoplethysmography (dPPG) approach for accurate remote PFT.
    • To reduce motion artifacts in respiratory volume-time data.
    • To improve the accuracy of remote PFT measures.

    Main Methods:

    • Spatial and temporal calibration of RGB-D sensors to create a dynamic 3D model.
    • Decoupling trunk movements from respiratory motions using the 3D model.
    • Retrieving, calibrating, and computing 11 clinical PFT measures from depth-based volume-time data.

    Main Results:

    • The dPPG method demonstrated superior accuracy compared to the single Kinect approach in Bland-Altman analysis and similarity measures.
    • Error mean and standard deviation for key PFT measures (FEF, IC, ERV) were halved.
    • The approach showed significant improvements in tidal volume and main effort scaling factors.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed depth-based whole body photoplethysmography approach effectively reduces motion artifacts.
    • It significantly improves the accuracy of computed depth-based PFT measures.
    • This method holds potential for unconstrained remote respiratory monitoring and diagnosis.