Title:

Development and validation of an improved smartphone heart rate acquisition system

Author:

Karapetyan Gevorg

Type:

Article

Co-author(s) :

Barseghyan Rafael ; Sarukhanyan Hakob ; Agaian Sos

Abstract:

In this paper we propose a robust system for touchless heart rate (HR) acquisition on mobile devices. The application allows monitor heart rate signal during usual mobile device usage such as video watching, games playing, article reading etc. The system is based on algorithm of acquiring heart rate via recording of skin color variations with built-in cameras of mobile device. The signal is acquired from different ROIs of human face, which make it more clear and the amplification of the signal improve the robustness in low lightening conditions. The effectiveness and robustness of the developed system has been demonstrated under different distances from camera source and illumination conditions. The experiments have been done with different mobile devices HRs were collected from 10 subjects, ages 22 to 65, by using the 3 devices. Moreover, we compared the developed method with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved sensors and related commercial applications of remote heart rate measurements on mobile devices.

Date of publication:

16.03.2015

DOI:

10.1117/12.2083381

ISSN:

0277-786X

Language:

English

Journal or Publication Title:

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume:

9399

URL:

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Affiliation:

Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems ; The University of Texas at San Antonio

Country:

Armenia ; US

Indexing:

Scopus