Objectives Residual respiratory motion degrades image quality in conventional cardiac cine
MRI (CCMRI). We evaluated whether a free-breathing (FB) radial imaging CCMRI sequence …

Currently, research and development of lifestyle support robots in daily life is being actively
conducted. Health-case is one such function robots. In this research, we develop a fatigue …

This thesis focuses on signal processing methods to identify heart rate from radial pulse
acceleration measurements collected by an accelerometer sensor. In the thesis, the theories …

Smartphones, today, come equipped with a wide variety of sensors and high-speed
processors that can capture, process, store, and communicate different types of data …

Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a very promising technique for measuring the
cardiovascular parameters. It is attracting a widespread interest due to its ability to acquire …

Determining a suitable, adaptive region of interest (ROI) automatically for extracting
information related to cardiac activity (signal-ROI/S-ROI), and another containing information …

Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a contactless method that enables the detection of
various physiological signals from facial videos. rPPG utilizes a digital camera to detect …

Aims The existing instruments for assessing heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV)
require contact area. This is difficult to obtain from specific groups of patients and from those …

This paper proposes a method of human pose recognition when the body is largely covered
by cloth-like objects such as blankets. Such a recognition is useful for robotic monitoring of …

Sensing health and well-being parameters from citizens and patients has been an
increasing concern in our society. However, since the traditional data collection methods …