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Robust Non-Contact Monitoring of Respiratory Rate using a Depth Camera
Paul S Addison1, André Antunes2, Dean Montgomery2
1Medtronic Patient Monitoring, Technopole Centre, Edinburgh, UK. paul.addison@medtronic.com.
Purpose:
Respiratory rate (RR) is one of the most common vital signs with numerous clinical uses. It is an important indicator of acute illness and a significant change in RR is often an early indication of a potentially serious complication or clinical event such as respiratory tract infection, respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. Early identification of changes in RR allows for prompt intervention, whereas failing to detect a change may result in poor patient outcomes. Here, we report on the performance of a depth-sensing camera system for the continuous non-contact 'touchless' monitoring of Respiratory Rate.
Methods:
Seven healthy subjects undertook a range of breathing rates from 4 to 40 breaths-per-minute (breaths/min). These were set rates of 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 breaths/min. In total, 553 separate respiratory rate recordings were captured across a range of conditions including body posture, position within the bed, lighting levels and bed coverings. Depth information was acquired from the scene using an Intel D415 RealSenseTM camera. This data was processed in real-time to extract depth changes within the subject's torso region corresponding to respiratory activity. A respiratory rate RRdepth was calculated using our latest algorithm and output once-per-second from the device and compared to a reference.
Results:
An overall RMSD accuracy of 0.69 breaths/min with a corresponding bias of -0.034 was achieved across the target RR range of 4-40 breaths/min. Bland-Altman analysis revealed limits of agreement of -1.42 to 1.36 breaths/min. Three separate sub-ranges of low, normal and high rates, corresponding to < 12, 12-20, > 20 breaths/min, were also examined separately and each found to demonstrate RMSD accuracies of less than one breath-per-minute.
Conclusions:
We have demonstrated high accuracy in performance for respiratory rate based on a depth camera system. We have shown the ability to perform well at both high and low rates which are clinically important.
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