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    • Neonatal care and respiratory monitoring
    • Biomedical engineering and sensor technology
    • Medical device innovation

    Background:

    • Accurate respiration monitoring is crucial for neonatal care.
    • Conventional methods like respiratory belts and impedance pneumography can be obtrusive and prone to artifacts.
    • There is a need for non-invasive, comfortable, and reliable respiratory monitoring solutions for preterm infants.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To evaluate the feasibility of using a fiber optic pressure-sensitive mattress (FM) for detecting breathing rate (BR) in neonates.
    • To compare the BR derived from the FM with data from a patient monitor, specifically chest impedance waveform (CI-WAV) and processed parameter data (CI-PAR).
    • To assess the accuracy and potential of the FM as a non-obtrusive respiratory monitoring tool.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized a fiber optic pressure-sensitive mattress (FM) to collect respiration data from infants.
    • Compared BR data from the FM against two benchmark datasets from a patient monitor: CI-WAV and CI-PAR.
    • Calculated Mean Absolute Error (MAE) to quantify discrepancies between FM-derived BR and benchmark BRs.

    Main Results:

    • The FM successfully detected subtle pressure variations indicative of respiration.
    • Mean Absolute Error (MAE) between FM and CI-PAR was 11.83 bpm (SD 4.20 bpm).
    • MAE between FM and CI-WAV was 18.06 bpm (SD 9.16 bpm), with discrepancies attributed to waveform differences but overall correspondence observed over time.

    Conclusions:

    • The fiber optic mattress demonstrates capability in extracting respiration data through non-obtrusive pressure variation detection.
    • Its high sensitivity and non-obtrusive design present it as a promising candidate for neonatal respiratory monitoring.
    • The FM offers a potentially more comfortable and artifact-resistant alternative to current neonatal respiratory monitoring systems.