Journal articles: 'Vital signs monitoring using radar'

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Kebe, Mamady, Rida Gadhafi, Baker Mohammad, Mihai Sanduleanu, Hani Saleh, and Mahmoud Al-Qutayri. "Human Vital Signs Detection Methods and Potential Using Radars: A Review." Sensors 20, no. 5 (March 6, 2020): 1454. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20051454.

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Continuous monitoring of vital signs, such as respiration and heartbeat, plays a crucial role in early detection and even prediction of conditions that may affect the wellbeing of the patient. Sensing vital signs can be categorized into: contact-based techniques and contactless based techniques. Conventional clinical methods of detecting these vital signs require the use of contact sensors, which may not be practical for long duration monitoring and less convenient for repeatable measurements. On the other hand, wireless vital signs detection using radars has the distinct advantage of not requiring the attachment of electrodes to the subject’s body and hence not constraining the movement of the person and eliminating the possibility of skin irritation. In addition, it removes the need for wires and limitation of access to patients, especially for children and the elderly. This paper presents a thorough review on the traditional methods of monitoring cardio-pulmonary rates as well as the potential of replacing these systems with radar-based techniques. The paper also highlights the challenges that radar-based vital signs monitoring methods need to overcome to gain acceptance in the healthcare field. A proof-of-concept of a radar-based vital sign detection system is presented together with promising measurement results.

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Zhang, Xinyue, Xiuzhu Yang, Yi Ding, Yili Wang, Jialin Zhou, and Lin Zhang. "Contactless Simultaneous Breathing and Heart Rate Detections in Physical Activity Using IR-UWB Radars." Sensors 21, no. 16 (August 16, 2021): 5503. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21165503.

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Vital signs monitoring in physical activity (PA) is of great significance in daily healthcare. Impulse Radio Ultra-WideBand (IR-UWB) radar provides a contactless vital signs detection approach with advantages in range resolution and penetration. Several researches have verified the feasibility of IR-UWB radar monitoring when the target keeps still. However, various body movements are induced by PA, which lead to severe signal distortion and interfere vital signs extraction. To address this challenge, a novel joint chest–abdomen cardiopulmonary signal estimation approach is proposed to detect breath and heartbeat simultaneously using IR-UWB radars. The movements of target chest and abdomen are detected by two IR-UWB radars, respectively. Considering the signal overlapping of vital signs and body motion artifacts, Empirical Wavelet Transform (EWT) is applied on received radar signals to remove clutter and mitigate movement interference. Moreover, improved EWT with frequency segmentation refinement is applied on each radar to decompose vital signals of target chest and abdomen to vital sign-related sub-signals, respectively. After that, based on the thoracoabdominal movement correlation, cross-correlation functions are calculated among chest and abdomen sub-signals to estimate breath and heartbeat. The experiments are conducted under three kinds of PA situations and two general body movements, the results of which indicate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed approach.

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Li, Zhi, Tian Jin, Yongpeng Dai, and Yongkun Song. "Through-Wall Multi-Subject Localization and Vital Signs Monitoring Using UWB MIMO Imaging Radar." Remote Sensing 13, no. 15 (July 23, 2021): 2905. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13152905.

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Radar-based non-contact vital signs monitoring has great value in through-wall detection applications. This paper presents the theoretical and experimental study of through-wall respiration and heartbeat pattern extraction from multiple subjects. To detect the vital signs of multiple subjects, we employ a low-frequency ultra-wideband (UWB) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) imaging radar and derive the relationship between radar images and vibrations caused by human cardiopulmonary movements. The derivation indicates that MIMO radar imaging with the stepped-frequency continuous-wave (SFCW) improves the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) critically by the factor of radar channel number times frequency number compared with continuous-wave (CW) Doppler radars. We also apply the three-dimensional (3-D) higher-order cumulant (HOC) to locate multiple subjects and extract the phase sequence of the radar images as the vital signs signal. To monitor the cardiopulmonary activities, we further exploit the VMD algorithm with a proposed grouping criterion to adaptively separate the respiration and heartbeat patterns. A series of experiments have validated the localization and detection of multiple subjects behind a wall. The VMD algorithm is suitable for separating the weaker heartbeat pattern from the stronger respiration pattern by the grouping criterion. Moreover, the continuous monitoring of heart rate (HR) by the MIMO radar in real scenarios shows a strong consistency with the reference electrocardiogram (ECG).

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Yoo, Young-Keun, and Hyun-Chool Shin. "Movement Compensated Driver’s Respiratory Rate Extraction." Applied Sciences 12, no. 5 (March 4, 2022): 2695. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app12052695.

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In non-contact vital sign monitoring using radar, radar signal distorted by the surrounding unspecified factors is unsuitable for monitoring vital signs. In order to monitor vital signs accurately, it is essential to compensate for distortion of radar signals caused by surrounding environmental factors. In this paper, we propose a driver vital signal compensation method in driving situations, including the driver’s movements using a frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar. Driver’s movement is quantified from the radar signal and used to set a distortion signal compensation index to compensate for the signal distortion induced in the driving situation that the driver’s movement occurs. The experimental results show that the respiration rate estimated from the radar signal compensated through the proposed method is similar to the actual respiration rate than from the signal before calibration. These results confirm the possibility of using the proposed method in a non-statistic situation and effectiveness in estimating respiration rate reflecting human movement in monitoring vital signs using FMCW radar.

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Lazaro, Antonio, David Girbau, and Ramon Villarino. "ANALYSIS OF VITAL SIGNS MONITORING USING AN IR-UWB RADAR." Progress In Electromagnetics Research 100 (2010): 265–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2528/pier09120302.

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Turppa, Emmi, Juha M. Kortelainen, Oleg Antropov, and Tero Kiuru. "Vital Sign Monitoring Using FMCW Radar in Various Sleeping Scenarios." Sensors 20, no. 22 (November 14, 2020): 6505. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20226505.

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Remote monitoring of vital signs for studying sleep is a user-friendly alternative to monitoring with sensors attached to the skin. For instance, remote monitoring can allow unconstrained movement during sleep, whereas detectors requiring a physical contact may detach and interrupt the measurement and affect sleep itself. This study evaluates the performance of a cost-effective frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar in remote monitoring of heart rate and respiration in scenarios resembling a set of normal and abnormal physiological conditions during sleep. We evaluate the vital signs of ten subjects in different lying positions during various tasks. Specifically, we aim for a broad range of both heart and respiration rates to replicate various real-life scenarios and to test the robustness of the selected vital sign extraction methods consisting of fast Fourier transform based cepstral and autocorrelation analyses. As compared to the reference signals obtained using Embla titanium, a certified medical device, we achieved an overall relative mean absolute error of 3.6% (86% correlation) and 9.1% (91% correlation) for the heart rate and respiration rate, respectively. Our results promote radar-based clinical monitoring by showing that the proposed radar technology and signal processing methods accurately capture even such alarming vital signs as minimal respiration. Furthermore, we show that common parameters for heart rate variability can also be accurately extracted from the radar signal, enabling further sleep analyses.

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Khan, Faheem, Asim Ghaffar, Naeem Khan, and Sung Ho Cho. "An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for Remote Health Monitoring Using Impulse Radio UWB Transceiver." Sensors 20, no. 9 (April 27, 2020): 2479. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20092479.

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Non-invasive remote health monitoring plays a vital role in epidemiological situations such as SARS outbreak (2003), MERS (2015) and the recently ongoing outbreak of COVID-19 because it is extremely risky to get close to the patient due to the spread of contagious infections. Non-invasive monitoring is also extremely necessary in situations where it is difficult to use complicated wired connections, such as ECG monitoring for infants, burn victims or during rescue missions when people are buried during building collapses/earthquakes. Due to the unique characteristics such as higher penetration capabilities, extremely precise ranging, low power requirement, low cost, simple hardware and robustness to multipath interferences, Impulse Radio Ultra Wideband (IR-UWB) technology is appropriate for non-invasive medical applications. IR-UWB sensors detect the macro as well as micro movement inside the human body due to its fine range resolution. The two vital signs, i.e., respiration rate and heart rate, can be measured by IR-UWB radar by measuring the change in the magnitude of signal due to displacement caused by human lungs, heart during respiration and heart beating. This paper reviews recent advances in IR- UWB radar sensor design for healthcare, such as vital signs measurements of a stationary human, vitals of a non-stationary human, vital signs of people in a vehicle, through the wall vitals measurement, neonate’s health monitoring, fall detection, sleep monitoring and medical imaging. Although we have covered many topics related to health monitoring using IR-UWB, this paper is mainly focused on signal processing techniques for measurement of vital signs, i.e., respiration and heart rate monitoring.

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Lim, Sungmook, Gwang Soo Jang, Wonyoung Song, Baek-hyun Kim, and Dong Hyun Kim. "Non-Contact VITAL Signs Monitoring of a Patient Lying on Surgical Bed Using Beamforming FMCW Radar." Sensors 22, no. 21 (October 25, 2022): 8167. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22218167.

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Respiration and heartrates are important information for surgery. When the vital signs of the patient lying prone are monitored using radar installed on the back of the surgical bed, the surgeon’s movements reduce the accuracy of these monitored vital signs. This study proposes a method for enhancing the monitored vital sign accuracies of a patient lying on a surgical bed using a 60 GHz frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar system with beamforming. The vital sign accuracies were enhanced by applying a fast Fourier transform (FFT) for range and beamforming which suppress the noise generated at different ranges and angles from the patient’s position. The experiment was performed for a patient lying on a surgical bed with or without surgeon. Comparing a continuous-wave (CW) Doppler radar, the FMCW radar with beamforming improved almost 22 dB of signal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR) for vital signals. More than 90% accuracy of monitoring respiration and heartrates was achieved even though the surgeon was located next to the patient as an interferer. It was analyzed using a proposed vital signal model included in the radar IF equation.

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Kathuria, Nitin, and Boon-Chong Seet. "24 GHz Flexible Antenna for Doppler Radar-Based Human Vital Signs Monitoring." Sensors 21, no. 11 (May 27, 2021): 3737. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21113737.

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Noncontact monitoring of human vital signs has been an emerging research topic in recent years. A key approach to this monitoring is the use of the Doppler radar concept which enables real-time vital signs detection, resulting in a new class of radar system known as bio-radar. The antennas are a key component of any bio-radar module and their designs should meet the common requirements of bio-radar applications such as high radiation directivity and mechanical flexibility. This paper presents the design of a four-element antenna array on a flexible liquid crystal polymer (LCP) substrate of 100 μm thickness and εr of 3.35. The designed antenna array can be used with a 24 GHz bio-radar for vital signs monitoring in a non-contact manner. It features a relatively compact size of 36.5 × 53 mm2 and measured gain of 5.81 dBi. The two vital signs: breathing rate (BR) and heart rate (HR) of two human subjects are detected with relatively good accuracy using the fabricated antenna array and radio frequency (RF) output power of −3 dBm from a distance of approximately 60 cm. The effect of bending on the antenna performance is also analyzed.

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Schellenberger, Sven, Kilin Shi, Fabian Michler, Fabian Lurz, Robert Weigel, and Alexander Koelpin. "Continuous In-Bed Monitoring of Vital Signs Using a Multi Radar Setup for Freely Moving Patients." Sensors 20, no. 20 (October 15, 2020): 5827. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20205827.

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In hospitals, continuous monitoring of vital parameters can provide valuable information about the course of a patient’s illness and allows early warning of emergencies. To enable such monitoring without restricting the patient’s freedom of movement and comfort, a radar system is attached under the mattress which consists of four individual radar modules to cover the entire width of the bed. Using radar, heartbeat and respiration can be measured without contact and through clothing. By processing the raw radar data, the presence of a patient can be determined and movements are categorized into the classes “bed exit”, “bed entry”, and “on bed movement”. Using this information, the vital parameters can be assessed in sections where the patient lies calmly in bed. In the first step, the presence and movement classification is demonstrated using recorded training and test data. Next, the radar was modified to perform vital sign measurements synchronized to a gold standard device. The evaluation of the individual radar modules shows that, regardless of the lying position of the test person, at least one of the radar modules delivers accurate results for continuous monitoring.

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Hanifi, Khadija, and M. Elif Karsligil. "Elderly Fall Detection With Vital Signs Monitoring Using CW Doppler Radar." IEEE Sensors Journal 21, no. 15 (August 1, 2021): 16969–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jsen.2021.3079835.

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Alizadeh, Mostafa, George Shaker, Joao Carlos Martins De Almeida, Plinio Pelegrini Morita, and Safeddin Safavi-Naeini. "Remote Monitoring of Human Vital Signs Using mm-Wave FMCW Radar." IEEE Access 7 (2019): 54958–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2912956.

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Wang, Pengfei, Yangyang Ma, Fulai Liang, Yang Zhang, Xiao Yu, Zhao Li, Qiang An, Hao Lv, and Jianqi Wang. "Non-Contact Vital Signs Monitoring of Dog and Cat Using a UWB Radar." Animals 10, no. 2 (January 25, 2020): 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani10020205.

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As pets are considered members of the family, their health has received widespread attention. Since pets cannot talk and complain when they feel uncomfortable, monitoring vital signs becomes very helpful in disease detection, as well as observing their progression and response to treatment. In this study, we proposed an ultra-wideband radar-based, non-contact animal vital sign monitoring scheme that could monitor the breathing and heart rate of a pet in real-time. The primary advantage of the ultra-wideband radar was its ability to operate remotely without electrodes or wires and through any clothing or fur. Because of the existing noise and clutter in non-contact detection, background noise removal was applied. Furthermore, the respiration rate was directly obtained through spectrum analysis, while the heartbeat signal was extracted by the variational mode decomposition algorithm. By using electrocardiogram measurements, we verified the accuracy of the radar technology in detecting the anesthetized animals’ respiratory rate and heart rate. Besides, three beagles and five cats in a non-sedated state were measured by radar and contact pressure sensors simultaneously; the experimental results showed that radar could effectively measure the respiration of cats and dogs, and the accuracy rate was over 95%. Due to its excellent performance, the proposed method has the potential to become a new choice in application scenarios, such as pet sleep monitoring and health assessment.

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Xiang, Mingxu, Wu Ren, Weiming Li, Zhenghui Xue, and Xinyue Jiang. "High-Precision Vital Signs Monitoring Method Using a FMCW Millimeter-Wave Sensor." Sensors 22, no. 19 (October 5, 2022): 7543. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22197543.

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The method of using millimeter-wave radar sensors to detect human vital signs, namely respiration and heart rate, has received widespread attention in non-contact monitoring. These sensors are compact, lightweight, and able to sense and detect various scenarios. However, it still faces serious problems of noisy interference in hardware, which leads to a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). We used a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar sensor operating at 77 GHz in an office environment to extract the respiration and heart rate of a person accustomed to sitting in a chair. Indeed, the proposed signal processing includes novel impulse denoising operations and the spectral estimation decision method, which are unique in terms of noise reduction and accuracy improvement. In addition, the proposed method provides high-quality, repeatable respiration and heart rates with relative errors of 1.33% and 1.96% on average compared with the reference values measured by a reliable smart bracelet.

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Choi, Ho-Ik, Woo-Jin Song, Heemang Song, and Hyun-Chool Shin. "Selecting Target Range with Accurate Vital Sign Using Spatial Phase Coherency of FMCW Radar." Applied Sciences 11, no. 10 (May 15, 2021): 4514. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app11104514.

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Respiration and heartbeat are basic indicators of the physiological state of human beings. Frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar can sense micro-displacement in the human body surface without contact, and is used for vital-sign (respiration and heartbeat) monitoring. For the extraction of vital-sign, it is essential to select the target range containing vital-sign information. In this paper, we exploit the coherency of phase in different range-bins of FMCW radar to effectively select the range-bins that contain accurate signals for remote monitoring of human respiration and heartbeat. To quantify coherency, the spatial phase coherency (SPC) index is introduced. The experimental results show that the SPC can select a range-bin containing more accurate vital-sign signals than conventional methods. This result demonstrates that the proposed method is accurate for monitoring of vital signs by using FMCW radar.

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Iyer, Srikrishna, Leo Zhao, Manoj Prabhakar Mohan, Joe Jimeno, Mohammed Yakoob Siyal, Arokiaswami Alphones, and Muhammad Faeyz Karim. "mm-Wave Radar-Based Vital Signs Monitoring and Arrhythmia Detection Using Machine Learning." Sensors 22, no. 9 (April 19, 2022): 3106. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22093106.

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A non-contact, non-invasive monitoring system to measure and estimate the heart and breathing rate of humans using a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) mm-wave radar at 77 GHz is presented. A novel diagnostic system is proposed which extracts heartbeat phase signals from the FMCW radar (reconstructed using Fourier series analysis) to test a three-layer artificial neural network model to predict the presence of arrhythmia in individuals. The effect of person orientation, distance of measurement and movement was analyzed with respect to a reference device based on statistical measures that include number of outliers, mean, mean squared error (MSE), mean absolute error (MAE), median absolute error (medAE), skewness, standard deviation (SD) and R-squared values. The individual oriented in front of the radar outperformed almost all other orientations for most distances with an expected d = 90 cm and d = 120 cm. Furthermore, it was found that the heart rate that was measured while walking and the breathing rate which was measured for a motionless individual generated results with the lowest SD and MSE. An artificial neural network (ANN) was trained using the MIT-BIH database with a training accuracy of 93.9 % and an R2 value = 0.876. The diagnostic tool was tested on 15 subjects and achieved a mean test accuracy of 75%.

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Mostafanezhad, Isar, and Olga Boric-Lubecke. "Benefits of Coherent Low-IF for Vital Signs Monitoring Using Doppler Radar." IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques 62, no. 10 (October 2014): 2481–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tmtt.2014.2346151.

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Dong, Xichao, Yun Feng, Chang Cui, and Jun Lu. "CEEMDAN-ICA-Based Radar Monitoring of Adjacent Multi-Target Vital Signs." Electronics 12, no. 12 (June 19, 2023): 2732. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics12122732.

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In recent years, radar, especially frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar, has been extensively used in non-contact vital signs (NCVS) research. However, current research does not work when multiple human targets are close to each other, especially when adjacent human targets lie in the same resolution cell. In this paper, a novel method based on complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise (CEEMDAN)–independent component analysis (ICA) was proposed to obtain the vital-sign information (including respiratory rate and heart rate) of adjacent human targets by using a single FMCW radar. Firstly, the data observed at a single angle were decomposed by the CEEMDAN separation algorithm to construct virtual multi-angle observations. It can effectively transform the undetermined blind source separation (UBSS) problem into an overdetermined blind source separation (BSS) problem. Thus, a BSS algorithm based on FastICA can be used to reconstruct each person’s vital-sign signal and then calculate their respiratory rate/heart rate. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, experiments based on the measured data were conducted and the results show that the proposed method can obtain multi-target vital-sign information even when they are in the same resolution cell.

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He, Mi, Yongjian Nian, Luping Xu, Lihong Qiao, and Wenwu Wang. "Adaptive Separation of Respiratory and Heartbeat Signals among Multiple People Based on Empirical Wavelet Transform Using UWB Radar." Sensors 20, no. 17 (August 31, 2020): 4913. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20174913.

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The non-contact monitoring of vital signs by radar has great prospects in clinical monitoring. However, the accuracy of separated respiratory and heartbeat signals has not satisfied the clinical limits of agreement. This paper presents a study for automated separation of respiratory and heartbeat signals based on empirical wavelet transform (EWT) for multiple people. The initial boundary of the EWT was set according to the limited prior information of vital signs. Using the initial boundary, empirical wavelets with a tight frame were constructed to adaptively separate the respiratory signal, the heartbeat signal and interference due to unconscious body movement. To verify the validity of the proposed method, the vital signs of three volunteers were simultaneously measured by a stepped-frequency continuous wave ultra-wideband (UWB) radar and contact physiological sensors. Compared with the vital signs from contact sensors, the proposed method can separate the respiratory and heartbeat signals among multiple people and obtain the precise rate that satisfies clinical monitoring requirements using a UWB radar. The detection errors of respiratory and heartbeat rates by the proposed method were within ±0.3 bpm and ±2 bpm, respectively, which are much smaller than those obtained by the bandpass filtering, empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and wavelet transform (WT) methods. The proposed method is unsupervised and does not require reference signals. Moreover, the proposed method can obtain accurate respiratory and heartbeat signal rates even when the persons unconsciously move their bodies.

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Guo, Kai, Chang Liu, Shasha Zhao, Jingxin Lu, Senhao Zhang, and Hongbo Yang. "Design of a Millimeter-Wave Radar Remote Monitoring System for the Elderly Living Alone Using WIFI Communication." Sensors 21, no. 23 (November 26, 2021): 7893. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21237893.

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In response to the current demand for the remote monitoring of older people living alone, a non-contact human vital signs monitoring system based on millimeter wave radar has gradually become the object of research. This paper mainly carried out research regarding the detection method to obtain human breathing and heartbeat signals using a frequency modulated continuous wave system. We completed a portable millimeter-wave radar module for wireless communication. The radar module was a small size and had a WIFI communication interface, so we only needed to provide a power cord for the radar module. The breathing and heartbeat signals were detected and separated by FIR digital filter and the wavelet transform method. By building a cloud computing framework, we realized remote and senseless monitoring of the vital signs for older people living alone. Experiments were also carried out to compare the performance difference between the system and the common contact detection system. The experimental results showed that the life parameter detection system based on the millimeter wave sensor has strong real-time performance and accuracy.

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Kakouche, Ibrahim, Hamza Abadlia, Mohammed Nabil El Korso, Ammar Mesloub, Abdelmadjid Maali, and Mohamed Salah Azzaz. "Joint Vital Signs and Position Estimation of Multiple Persons Using SIMO Radar." Electronics 10, no. 22 (November 16, 2021): 2805. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics10222805.

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Respiration rate monitoring using ultra-wideband (UWB) radar is preferred because it provides contactless measurement without restricting the person’s privacy. This study considers a novel non-contact-based solution using a single-input multiple-output (SIMO) UWB impulse radar. In the proposed system, the collected radar data are converted to several narrow-band signals using the generalized Goertzel algorithm (GGA), which are used as the input of the designed phased arrays for position estimation. In this context, we introduce the incoherent signal subspace methods (ISSM) for the direction of arrivals (DOAs) and distance evaluation. Meanwhile, a beam focusing approach is used to determine each individual and estimate their breathing rate automatically based on a linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) beamformer. The experimental results prove that the proposed algorithm can achieve high estimation accuracy in a variety of test environments, with an error of 2%, 5%, and 2% for DOA, distance, and respiration rate, respectively.

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Wang, Zhang, Ma, Liang, An, Xue, Yu, Lv, and Wang. "Method for Distinguishing Humans and Animals in Vital Signs Monitoring Using IR-UWB Radar." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 22 (November 13, 2019): 4462. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16224462.

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Radar has been widely applied in many scenarios as a critical remote sensing tool for non-contact vital sign monitoring, particularly for sleep monitoring and heart rate measurement within the home environment. For non-contact monitoring with radar, interference from house pets is an important issue that has been neglected in the past. Many animals have respiratory frequencies similar to those of humans, and they are easily mistaken for human targets in non-contact monitoring, which would trigger a false alarm because of incorrect physiological parameters from the animal. In this study, humans and common pets in families, such as dogs, cats, and rabbits, were detected using an impulse radio ultrawideband (IR-UWB) radar, and the echo signals were analyzed in the time and frequency domains. Subsequently, based on the distinct in-body structure between humans and animals, we propose a parameter, the respiratory and heartbeat energy ratio (RHER), which reflects the contribution rate of breathing and heartbeat in the detected vital signs. Combining this parameter with the energy index, we developed a novel scheme to distinguish between humans and animals. In the developed scheme, after background noise removal and direct-current component suppression, an energy indicator is used to initially identify the target. The signal is then decomposed using a variational mode decomposition algorithm, and the variational intrinsic mode functions that represent human respiration and heartbeat components are obtained and utilized to calculate the RHER parameter. Finally, the RHER index is applied to rapidly distinguish between humans and animals. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach more effectively distinguishes between humans and animals in terms of monitoring vital signs than the existing methods. Furthermore, its rapidity and need for only minimal calculation resources enable it to meet the needs of real-time monitoring.

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Abouzaid, Salah H., Wael A. Ahmad, Thomas F. Eibert, and Herman Jalli Ng. "Vital signs monitoring using pseudo-random noise coded Doppler radar with Delta–Sigma modulation." IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation 14, no. 11 (November 1, 2020): 1778–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/iet-rsn.2020.0170.

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Soldovieri, Francesco, Ilaria Catapano, Lorenzo Crocco, Lesya N. Anishchenko, and Sergey I. Ivashov. "A Feasibility Study for Life Signs Monitoring via a Continuous-Wave Radar." International Journal of Antennas and Propagation 2012 (2012): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/420178.

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We present a feasibility study for life signs detection using a continuous-wave radar working in the band around 4 GHz. The data-processing is carried out by using two different data processing approaches, which are compared about the possibility to characterize the frequency behaviour of the breathing and heartbeat activity. The two approaches are used with the main aim to show the possibility of monitoring the vital signs activity in an accurate and reliable way.

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Rittiplang, Artit, Pattarapong Phasukkit, and Teerapong Orankitanun. "Optimal Central Frequency for Non-Contact Vital Sign Detection Using Monocycle UWB Radar." Sensors 20, no. 10 (May 21, 2020): 2916. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20102916.

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Ultra-wideband (UWB) radar has become a critical remote-sensing tool for non-contact vital sign detection such as emergency rescues, securities, and biomedicines. Theoretically, the magnitude of the received reflected signal is dependent on the central frequency of mono-pulse waveform used as the transmitted signal. The research is based on the hypothesis that the stronger the received reflected signals, the greater the detectability of life signals. In this paper, we derive a new formula to compute the optimal central frequency to obtain as maximum received reflect signal as possible over the frequency up to the lower range of Ka-band. The proposed formula can be applicable in the optimization of hardware for UWB life detection and non-contact monitoring of vital signs. Furthermore, the vital sign detection results obtained by the UWB radar over a range of central frequency have been compared to those of the former continuous (CW) radar to provide additional information regarding the advantages and disadvantages of each radar.

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Wang, Yong, Wen Wang, Mu Zhou, Aihu Ren, and Zengshan Tian. "Remote Monitoring of Human Vital Signs Based on 77-GHz mm-Wave FMCW Radar." Sensors 20, no. 10 (May 25, 2020): 2999. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20102999.

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In recent years, non-contact radar detection technology has been able to achieve long-term and long-range detection for the breathing and heartbeat signals. Compared with contact-based detection methods, it brings a more comfortable and a faster experience to the human body, and it has gradually received attention in the field of radar sensing. Therefore, this paper extends the application of millimeter-wave radar to the field of health care. The millimeter-wave radar first transmits the frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) and collects the echo signals of the human body. Then, the phase information of the intermediate frequency (IF) signals including the breathing and heartbeat signals are extracted, and the Direct Current (DC) offset of the phase information is corrected using the circle center dynamic tracking algorithm. The extended differential and cross-multiply (DACM) is further applied for phase unwrapping. We propose two algorithms, namely the compressive sensing based on orthogonal matching pursuit (CS-OMP) algorithm and rigrsure adaptive soft threshold noise reduction based on discrete wavelet transform (RA-DWT) algorithm, to separate and reconstruct the breathing and heartbeat signals. Then, a frequency-domain fast Fourier transform and a time-domain autocorrelation estimation algorithm are proposed to calculate the respiratory and heartbeat rates. The proposed algorithms are compared with the contact-based detection ones. The results demonstrate that the proposed algorithms effectively suppress the noise and harmonic interference, and the accuracies of the proposed algorithms for both respiratory rate and heartbeat rate reach about 93%.

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Yu, Xiao, Yue Yin, Hao Lv, Yang Zhang, Fulai Liang, Pengfei Wang, and Jianqi Wang. "NON-CONTACT DETERMINATION OF VITAL SIGNS MONITORING OF ANIMALS IN HEMORRHAGE STATES USING BIO-RADAR." Progress In Electromagnetics Research M 100 (2021): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2528/pierm20102706.

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Al Ahmad, Mahmoud, and Lillian Joyce Among Olule. "Simultaneous measurements of multiple vital signs using non-contact frequency modulated continuous wave radar monitoring." Alexandria Engineering Journal 71 (May 2023): 609–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aej.2023.03.060.

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Lv, Wenjie, Wangdong He, Xipeng Lin, and Jungang Miao. "Non-Contact Monitoring of Human Vital Signs Using FMCW Millimeter Wave Radar in the 120 GHz Band." Sensors 21, no. 8 (April 13, 2021): 2732. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21082732.

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A non-contact heartbeat/respiratory rate monitoring system was designed using narrow beam millimeter wave radar. Equipped with a special low sidelobe and small-sized antenna lens at the front end of the receiving and transmitting antennas in the 120 GHz band of frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) system, this sensor system realizes the narrow beam control of radar, reduces the interference caused by the reflection of other objects in the measurement background, improves the signal-to-clutter ratio (SCR) of the intermediate frequency signal (IF), and reduces the complexity of the subsequent signal processing. In order to solve the problem that the accuracy of heart rate is easy to be interfered with by respiratory harmonics, an adaptive notch filter was applied to filter respiratory harmonics. Meanwhile, the heart rate obtained by fast Fourier transform (FFT) was modified by using the ratio of adjacent elements, which helped to improve the accuracy of heart rate detection. The experimental results show that when the monitoring system is 1 m away from the human body, the probability of respiratory rate detection error within ±2 times for eight volunteers can reach 90.48%, and the detection accuracy of the heart rate can reach 90.54%. Finally, short-term heart rate measurement was realized by means of improved empirical mode decomposition and fast independent component analysis algorithm.

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Mercuri, Marco, Tom Torfs, Maxim Rykunov, Stefano Laureti, Marco Ricci, and Felice Crupi. "Analysis of Signal Processing Methods to Reject the DC Offset Contribution of Static Reflectors in FMCW Radar-Based Vital Signs Monitoring." Sensors 22, no. 24 (December 10, 2022): 9697. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22249697.

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Frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radars are currently being investigated for remote vital signs monitoring (measure of respiration and heart rates) as an innovative wireless solution for healthcare and ambient assisted living. However, static reflectors (furniture, objects, stationary body parts, etc.) within the range or range angular bin where the subject is present contribute in the Doppler signal to a direct current (DC) offset. The latter is added to the person’s information, containing also a useful DC component, causing signal distortion and hence reducing the accuracy in measuring the vital sign parameters. Removing the sole contribution of the unwanted DC offset is fundamental to perform proper phase demodulation, so that accurate vital signs monitoring can be achieved. In this work, we analyzed different DC offset calibration methods to determine which one achieves the highest accuracy in measuring the physiological parameters as the transmitting frequency varies. More precisely, by using two FMCW radars, operating below 10 GHz and at millimeter wave (mmWave), we applied four DC offset calibration methods to the baseband radar signals originated by the cardiopulmonary activities. We experimentally determined the accuracy of the methods by measuring the respiration and the heart rates of different subjects in an office setting. It was found that the linear demodulation outperforms the other methods if operating below 10 GHz while the geometric fitting provides the best results at mmWave.

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Toker, Onur, and Rawa Adla. "A Sub-6 GHz Vital Signs Sensor Using Software Defined Radios." Engineering Proceedings 2, no. 1 (November 14, 2020): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ecsa-7-08197.

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Recently, there has been high demand for contactless devices for monitoring vital signs, therefore developing a low-cost contactless breathing sensor would have a great benefit for many patients and healthcare workers. In this paper, we propose a contactless sub-6 GHz breathing sensor with an implementation using a low-cost universal software radio peripheral (USRP) B205-mini device. A detailed performance analysis of the proposed system with different sensor algorithms is presented. The proposed system estimates the channel phase shift and detects the presence of low frequency oscillations in the estimated phase shift. Compared to 24 or 77 GHz FMCW-radar-based systems using distance measurements, the proposed system is simpler, can be built using more economical RF components, and requires lower sampling frequencies. Another key advantage of the proposed system is that even a very narrow unused frequency band is enough for the operation of the sensor. When operated at frequencies shared by other devices, the proposed system can turn off the transmitter at randomly selected intervals to detect the presence of other transmission activities, and can then switch to a different operating frequency. We provide both Python- and Octave/MATLAB-based implementations, which are available in a public GitHub repository.

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Choi, Sang Ho, and Heenam Yoon. "Convolutional Neural Networks for the Real-Time Monitoring of Vital Signs Based on Impulse Radio Ultrawide-Band Radar during Sleep." Sensors 23, no. 6 (March 14, 2023): 3116. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23063116.

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Vital signs provide important biometric information for managing health and disease, and it is important to monitor them for a long time in a daily home environment. To this end, we developed and evaluated a deep learning framework that estimates the respiration rate (RR) and heart rate (HR) in real time from long-term data measured during sleep using a contactless impulse radio ultrawide-band (IR-UWB) radar. The clutter is removed from the measured radar signal, and the position of the subject is detected using the standard deviation of each radar signal channel. The 1D signal of the selected UWB channel index and the 2D signal applied with the continuous wavelet transform are entered as inputs into the convolutional neural-network-based model that then estimates RR and HR. From 30 recordings measured during night-time sleep, 10 were used for training, 5 for validation, and 15 for testing. The average mean absolute errors for RR and HR were 2.67 and 4.78, respectively. The performance of the proposed model was confirmed for long-term data, including static and dynamic conditions, and it is expected to be used for health management through vital-sign monitoring in the home environment.

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Liang, Qiancheng, Lisheng Xu, Nan Bao, Lin Qi, Jingjing Shi, Yicheng Yang, and Yudong Yao. "Research on Non-Contact Monitoring System for Human Physiological Signal and Body Movement." Biosensors 9, no. 2 (April 19, 2019): 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bios9020058.

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With the rapid increase in the development of miniaturized sensors and embedded devices for vital signs monitoring, personal physiological signal monitoring devices are becoming popular. However, physiological monitoring devices which are worn on the body normally affect the daily activities of people. This problem can be avoided by using a non-contact measuring device like the Doppler radar system, which is more convenient, is private compared to video monitoring, infrared monitoring and other non-contact methods. Additionally real-time physiological monitoring with the Doppler radar system can also obtain signal changes caused by motion changes. As a result, the Doppler radar system not only obtains the information of respiratory and cardiac signals, but also obtains information about body movement. The relevant RF technology could eliminate some interference from body motion with a small amplitude. However, the motion recognition method can also be used to classify related body motion signals. In this paper, a vital sign and body movement monitoring system worked at 2.4 GHz was proposed. It can measure various physiological signs of the human body in a non-contact manner. The accuracy of the non-contact physiological signal monitoring system was analyzed. First, the working distance of the system was tested. Then, the algorithm of mining collective motion signal was classified, and the accuracy was 88%, which could be further improved in the system. In addition, the mean absolute error values of heart rate and respiratory rate were 0.8 beats/min and 3.5 beats/min, respectively, and the reliability of the system was verified by comparing the respiratory waveforms with the contact equipment at different distances.

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Mercuri, Marco, Giulia Sacco, Rainer Hornung, Peng Zhang, Hubregt J. Visser, Martijn Hijdra, Yao-Hong Liu, Stefano Pisa, Barend van Liempd, and Tom Torfs. "2-D Localization, Angular Separation and Vital Signs Monitoring Using a SISO FMCW Radar for Smart Long-Term Health Monitoring Environments." IEEE Internet of Things Journal 8, no. 14 (July 15, 2021): 11065–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2021.3051580.

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Nosrati, Mehrdad, Shahram Shahsavari, Sanghoon Lee, Hua Wang, and Negar Tavassolian. "A Concurrent Dual-Beam Phased-Array Doppler Radar Using MIMO Beamforming Techniques for Short-Range Vital-Signs Monitoring." IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 67, no. 4 (April 2019): 2390–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tap.2019.2893337.

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Mingle, Solomon, Despoina Kampouridou, and Alexandros Feresidis. "Multi-Layer Beam Scanning Leaky Wave Antenna for Remote Vital Signs Detection at 60 GHz." Sensors 23, no. 8 (April 17, 2023): 4059. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23084059.

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A multi-layer beam-scanning leaky wave antenna (LWA) for remote vital sign monitoring (RVSM) at 60 GHz using a single-tone continuous-wave (CW) Doppler radar has been developed in a typical dynamic environment. The antenna’s components are: a partially reflecting surface (PRS), high-impedance surfaces (HISs), and a plain dielectric slab. A dipole antenna works as a source together with these elements to produce a gain of 24 dBi, a frequency beam scanning range of 30°, and precise remote vital sign monitoring (RVSM) up to 4 m across the operating frequency range (58–66 GHz). The antenna requirements for the DR are summarised in a typical dynamic scenario where a patient is to have continuous monitoring remotely, while sleeping. During the continuous health monitoring process, the patient has the freedom to move up to one meter away from the fixed sensor position.The proposed multi-layer LWA system was placed at a distance of 2 m and 4 m from the test subject to confirm the suitability of the developed antenna for dynamic RVSM applications. A proper setting of the operating frequency range (58 to 66 GHz) enabled the detection of both heart beats and respiration rates of the subject within a 30° angular range.

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Xu, Hongqiang, Malikeh P. Ebrahim, Kareeb Hasan, Fatemeh Heydari, Paul Howley, and Mehmet Rasit Yuce. "Accurate Heart Rate and Respiration Rate Detection Based on a Higher-Order Harmonics Peak Selection Method Using Radar Non-Contact Sensors." Sensors 22, no. 1 (December 23, 2021): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22010083.

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Vital signs such as heart rate and respiration rate are among the most important physiological signals for health monitoring and medical applications. Impulse radio (IR) ultra-wideband (UWB) radar becomes one of the essential sensors in non-contact vital signs detection. The heart pulse wave is easily corrupted by noise and respiration activity since the heartbeat signal has less power compared with the breathing signal and its harmonics. In this paper, a signal processing technique for a UWB radar system was developed to detect the heart rate and respiration rate. There are four main stages of signal processing: (1) clutter removal to reduce the static random noise from the environment; (2) independent component analysis (ICA) to do dimension reduction and remove noise; (3) using low-pass and high-pass filters to eliminate the out of band noise; (4) modified covariance method for spectrum estimation. Furthermore, higher harmonics of heart rate were used to estimate heart rate and minimize respiration interference. The experiments in this article contain different scenarios including bed angle, body position, as well as interference from the visitor near the bed and away from the bed. The results were compared with the ECG sensor and respiration belt. The average mean absolute error (MAE) of heart rate results is 1.32 for the proposed algorithm.

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Yang, Zi-Kai, Heping Shi, Sheng Zhao, and Xiang-Dong Huang. "Vital Sign Detection during Large-Scale and Fast Body Movements Based on an Adaptive Noise Cancellation Algorithm Using a Single Doppler Radar Sensor." Sensors 20, no. 15 (July 28, 2020): 4183. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20154183.

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The non-contact detection of human vital signs (i.e., respiration rate (RR) and heartbeat rate (HR)) using a continuous-wave (CW) Doppler radar sensor has great potential for intensive care monitoring, home healthcare, etc. However, large-scale and fast random body movement (RBM) has been a bottleneck for vital sign detection using a single CW Doppler radar. To break this dilemma, this study proposed a scheme combining adaptive noise cancellation (ANC) with polynomial fitting, which could retrieve the weak components of both respiration and heartbeat signals that were submerged under serious RBM interference. In addition, the new-type discrete cosine transform (N-DCT) was introduced to improve the detection accuracy. This scheme was first verified using a numerical simulation. Then, experiments utilizing a 10-GHz Doppler radar sensor that was built from general-purpose radio frequency (RF) and communication instruments were also carried out. No extra RF/microwave components and modules were needed, and neither was a printed circuit board nor an integrated-chip design required. The experimental results showed that both the RR and HR could still be extracted during large-scale and fast body movements using only a single Doppler radar sensor because the RBM noises could be greatly eliminated by utilizing the proposed ANC algorithm.

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Islam, Shekh Md Mahmudul, Olga Borić-Lubecke, Yao Zheng, and Victor M. Lubecke. "Radar-Based Non-Contact Continuous Identity Authentication." Remote Sensing 12, no. 14 (July 15, 2020): 2279. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs12142279.

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Non-contact vital signs monitoring using microwave Doppler radar has shown great promise in healthcare applications. Recently, this unobtrusive form of physiological sensing has also been gaining attention for its potential for continuous identity authentication, which can reduce the vulnerability of traditional one-pass validation authentication systems. Physiological Doppler radar is an attractive approach for continuous identity authentication as it requires neither contact nor line-of-sight and does not give rise to privacy concerns associated with video imaging. This paper presents a review of recent advances in radar-based identity authentication systems. It includes an evaluation of the applicability of different research efforts in authentication using respiratory patterns and heart-based dynamics. It also identifies aspects of future research required to address remaining challenges in applying unobtrusive respiration-based or heart-based identity authentication to practical systems. With the advancement of machine learning and artificial intelligence, radar-based continuous authentication can grow to serve a wide range of valuable functions in society.

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Chen, Xiao, and Xuxiang Ni. "Noncontact Sleeping Heartrate Monitoring Method Using Continuous-Wave Doppler Radar Based on the Difference Quadratic Sum Demodulation and Search Algorithm." Sensors 22, no. 19 (October 9, 2022): 7646. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22197646.

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Continuous-wave doppler radar, which has the advantages of simple structure, low cost, and low power consumption, has attracted extensive attention in the detection of human vital signs. However, while respiration and heartbeat signals are mixed in the echo phase, the amplitude difference between the two signals is so large that it becomes difficult to measure the heartrate (HR) from the interference of respiration stably and accurately. In this paper, the difference quadratic sum demodulation method is proposed. According to the mixed characteristics of respiration and heartbeat after demodulation, the heartbeat features can be extracted with the help of the easy-to-detect breathing signal; combined with the constrained nearest neighbor search algorithm, it can realize sleeping HR monitoring overnight without body movements restraint. Considering the differences in vital-sign characteristics of different individuals and the irregularity of sleep movements, 54 h of sleep data for nine nights were collected from three subjects, and then compared with ECG-based HR reference equipment. After excluding the periods of body turning over, the HR error was within 10% for more than 70% of the time. Experiments confirmed that this method, as a tool for long-term HR monitoring, can play an important role in sleeping monitoring, smart elderly care, and smart homes.

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Lee, Hyunjae, Byung-Hyun Kim, Jin-Kwan Park, Sung Woo Kim, and Jong-Gwan Yook. "A Resolution Enhancement Technique for Remote Monitoring of the Vital Signs of Multiple Subjects Using a 24 Ghz Bandwidth-Limited FMCW Radar." IEEE Access 8 (2020): 1240–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2961130.

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Iwata, Yuki, Han Trong Thanh, Guanghao Sun, and Koichiro Ishibashi. "High Accuracy Heartbeat Detection from CW-Doppler Radar Using Singular Value Decomposition and Matched Filter." Sensors 21, no. 11 (May 21, 2021): 3588. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21113588.

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Heart rate measurement using a continuous wave Doppler radar sensor (CW-DRS) has been applied to cases where non-contact detection is required, such as the monitoring of vital signs in home healthcare. However, as a CW-DRS measures the speed of movement of the chest surface, which comprises cardiac and respiratory signals by body motion, extracting cardiac information from the superimposed signal is difficult. Therefore, it is challenging to extract cardiac information from superimposed signals. Herein, we propose a novel method based on a matched filter to solve this problem. The method comprises two processes: adaptive generation of a template via singular value decomposition of a trajectory matrix formed from the measurement signals, and reconstruction by convolution of the generated template and measurement signals. The method is validated using a dataset obtained in two different experiments, i.e., experiments involving supine and seated subject postures. Absolute errors in heart rate and standard deviation of heartbeat interval with references were calculated as 1.93±1.76bpm and 57.0±28.1s for the lying posture, and 9.72±7.86bpm and 81.3±24.3s for the sitting posture.

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Liu, Yang, Clint Sweeney, Jill C. Mayeda, Jerry Lopez, Paul E. Lie, Tam Q. Nguyen, and Donald Y. C. Lie. "A Feasibility Study of Remote Non-Contact Vital Signs (NCVS) Monitoring in a Clinic Using a Novel Sensor Realized by Software-Defined Radio (SDR)." Biosensors 13, no. 2 (January 27, 2023): 191. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bios13020191.

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The COVID-19 outbreak has caused panic around the world as it is highly infectious and has caused about 5 million deaths globally. A robust wireless non-contact vital signs (NCVS) sensor system that can continuously monitor the respiration rate (RR) and heart rate (HR) of patients clinically and remotely with high accuracy can be very attractive to healthcare workers (HCWs), as such a system can not only avoid HCWs’ close contact with people with COVID-19 to reduce the infection rate, but also be used on patients quarantined at home for telemedicine and wireless acute-care. Therefore, we developed a custom Doppler-based NCVS radar sensor system operating at 2.4 GHz using a software-defined radio (SDR) technology, and the novel biosensor system has achieved impressive real-time RR/HR monitoring accuracies within approximately 0.5/3 breath/beat per minute (BPM) on student volunteers tested in our engineering labs. To further test the sensor system’s feasibility for clinical use, we applied and obtained an Internal Review Board (IRB) approval from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) and have used this NCVS monitoring system in a doctor’s clinic at TTUHSC; following testing on 20 actual patients for a small-scale clinical trial, we have found that the system was still able to achieve good NCVS monitoring accuracies within ~ 0.5/10 BPM across 20 patients of various weight, height and age. These results suggest our custom-designed NCVS monitoring system may be feasible for future clinical use to help combatting COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.

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Saner, Hugo, Samuel Elia Johannes Knobel, Narayan Schuetz, and Tobias Nef. "Contact-free sensor signals as a new digital biomarker for cardiovascular disease: chances and challenges." European Heart Journal - Digital Health 1, no. 1 (November 1, 2020): 30–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehjdh/ztaa006.

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Abstract Multiple sensor systems are used to monitor physiological parameters, activities of daily living and behaviour. Digital biomarkers can be extracted and used as indicators for health and disease. Signal acquisition is either by object sensors, wearable sensors, or contact-free sensors including cameras, pressure sensors, non-contact capacitively coupled electrocardiogram (cECG), radar, and passive infrared motion sensors. This review summarizes contemporary knowledge of the use of contact-free sensors for patients with cardiovascular disease and healthy subjects following the PRISMA declaration. Chances and challenges are discussed. Thirty-six publications were rated to be of medium (31) or high (5) relevance. Results are best for monitoring of heart rate and heart rate variability using cardiac vibration, facial camera, or cECG; for respiration using cardiac vibration, cECG, or camera; and for sleep using ballistocardiography. Early results from radar sensors to monitor vital signs are promising. Contact-free sensors are little invasive, well accepted and suitable for long-term monitoring in particular in patient’s homes. A major problem are motion artefacts. Results from long-term use in larger patient cohorts are still lacking, but the technology is about to emerge the market and we can expect to see more clinical results in the near future.

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Rahman, MuhibUr, Mahdi NaghshvarianJahromi, Seyed Mirjavadi, and Abdel Hamouda. "Bandwidth Enhancement and Frequency Scanning Array Antenna Using Novel UWB Filter Integration Technique for OFDM UWB Radar Applications in Wireless Vital Signs Monitoring." Sensors 18, no. 9 (September 19, 2018): 3155. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18093155.

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This paper presents the bandwidth enhancement and frequency scanning for fan beam array antenna utilizing novel technique of band-pass filter integration for wireless vital signs monitoring and vehicle navigation sensors. First, a fan beam array antenna comprising of a grounded coplanar waveguide (GCPW) radiating element, CPW fed line, and the grounded reflector is introduced which operate at a frequency band of 3.30 GHz and 3.50 GHz for WiMAX (World-wide Interoperability for Microwave Access) applications. An advantageous beam pattern is generated by the combination of a CPW feed network, non-parasitic grounded reflector, and non-planar GCPW array monopole antenna. Secondly, a miniaturized wide-band bandpass filter is developed using SCSRR (Semi-Complementary Split Ring Resonator) and DGS (Defective Ground Structures) operating at 3–8 GHz frequency band. Finally, the designed filter is integrated within the frequency scanning beam array antenna in a novel way to increase the impedance bandwidth as well as frequency scanning. The new frequency beam array antenna with integrated band-pass filter operate at 2.8 GHz to 6 GHz with a wide frequency scanning from the 50 to 125-degree range.

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Biró, Attila, Sándor Miklós Szilágyi, László Szilágyi, Jaime Martín-Martín, and Antonio Ignacio Cuesta-Vargas. "Machine Learning on Prediction of Relative Physical Activity Intensity Using Medical Radar Sensor and 3D Accelerometer." Sensors 23, no. 7 (March 30, 2023): 3595. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23073595.

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Background: One of the most critical topics in sports safety today is the reduction in injury risks through controlled fatigue using non-invasive athlete monitoring. Due to the risk of injuries, it is prohibited to use accelerometer-based smart trackers, activity measurement bracelets, and smart watches for recording health parameters during performance sports activities. This study analyzes the synergy feasibility of medical radar sensors and tri-axial acceleration sensor data to predict physical activity key performance indexes in performance sports by using machine learning (ML). The novelty of this method is that it uses a 24 GHz Doppler radar sensor to detect vital signs such as the heartbeat and breathing without touching the person and to predict the intensity of physical activity, combined with the acceleration data from 3D accelerometers. Methods: This study is based on the data collected from professional athletes and freely available datasets created for research purposes. A combination of sensor data management was used: a medical radar sensor with no-contact remote sensing to measure the heart rate (HR) and 3D acceleration to measure the velocity of the activity. Various advanced ML methods and models were employed on the top of sensors to analyze the vital parameters and predict the health activity key performance indexes. three-axial acceleration, heart rate data, age, as well as activity level variances. Results: The ML models recognized the physical activity intensity and estimated the energy expenditure on a realistic level. Leave-one-out (LOO) cross-validation (CV), as well as out-of-sample testing (OST) methods, have been used to evaluate the level of accuracy in activity intensity prediction. The energy expenditure prediction with three-axial accelerometer sensors by using linear regression provided 97–99% accuracy on selected sports (cycling, running, and soccer). The ML-based RPE results using medical radar sensors on a time-series heart rate (HR) dataset varied between 90 and 96% accuracy. The expected level of accuracy was examined with different models. The average accuracy for all the models (RPE and METs) and setups was higher than 90%. Conclusions: The ML models that classify the rating of the perceived exertion and the metabolic equivalent of tasks perform consistently.

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Rahman, MuhibUr, Mahdi NaghshvarianJahromi, Seyed Sajad Mirjavadi, and Abdel Magid Hamouda. "Resonator Based Switching Technique between Ultra Wide Band (UWB) and Single/Dual Continuously Tunable-Notch Behaviors in UWB Radar for Wireless Vital Signs Monitoring." Sensors 18, no. 10 (October 4, 2018): 3330. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18103330.

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This paper presents a novel resonator that can switch and create three important behaviors within the same antenna using miniaturized capacitors. The resonator was integrated into conventional Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) antenna to achieve UWB and Single/Dual continuously tunable-notch behaviors. The Single/Dual notched was continuously tuned to our desired frequency band by changing the value of the capacitors. The antenna designed and fabricated to validate these behaviors had a compact size of 24 × 30.5 mm2, including the ground plane. The radiation patterns were very clean due to the placement of the proposed resonator in the special ground plane. Moreover, the presented novel resonator and switching technique was compared with the recently proposed resonators and their switching techniques. The prototype for the antenna was also developed in order to validate its performance in wireless vital signs monitoring. The presented miniaturized resonator based antenna was utilized for tumor sensing and simulations were provided in this regard. Moreover, the deployment of the proposed resonator based UWB antenna sensor in Pipeline Integrity Monitoring system was also investigated and discussed.

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Edanami, Keisuke, Masaki Kurosawa, Hoang Thi Yen, Takeru Kanazawa, Yoshifusa Abe, Tetsuo Kirimoto, Yu Yao, Takemi Matsui, and Guanghao Sun. "Remote sensing of vital signs by medical radar time-series signal using cardiac peak extraction and adaptive peak detection algorithm: Performance validation on healthy adults and application to neonatal monitoring at an NICU." Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 226 (November 2022): 107163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2022.107163.

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Li, Changzhi, Julie Cummings, Jeffrey Lam, Eric Graves, and Wenhsing Wu. "Radar remote monitoring of vital signs." IEEE Microwave Magazine 10, no. 1 (February 2009): 47–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mmm.2008.930675.

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Yoo, Sungwon, Shahzad Ahmed, Sun Kang, Duhyun Hwang, Jungjun Lee, Jungduck Son, and Sung Ho Cho. "Radar Recorded Child Vital Sign Public Dataset and Deep Learning-Based Age Group Classification Framework for Vehicular Application." Sensors 21, no. 7 (March 31, 2021): 2412. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21072412.

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The ongoing intense development of short-range radar systems and their improved capability of measuring small movements make these systems reliable solutions for the extraction of human vital signs in a contactless fashion. The continuous contactless monitoring of vital signs can be considered in a wide range of applications, such as remote healthcare solutions and context-aware smart sensor development. Currently, the provision of radar-recorded datasets of human vital signs is still an open issue. In this paper, we present a new frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar-recorded vital sign dataset for 50 children aged less than 13 years. A clinically approved vital sign monitoring sensor was also deployed as a reference, and data from both sensors were time-synchronized. With the presented dataset, a new child age-group classification system based on GoogLeNet is proposed to develop a child safety sensor for smart vehicles. The radar-recorded vital signs of children are divided into several age groups, and the GoogLeNet framework is trained to predict the age of unknown human test subjects.

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