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Lyu, Jialin (author)According to the World Health Organization, approximately 15 million neonates are born prematurely each year, which is more than 1 in 10 newborns. Premature birth disrupts the normal development of the neonate in the womb, which can result in various complications and health issues, necessitating continuous monitoring of vital signs to assess...master thesis 2023
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Meester, Anne (author)Introduction: Critically ill children admitted to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) have a high risk of disruption of their normal sleep rhythm, which is associated with disturbances in physiology and negative effects on psychological and cognitive functioning. There is a need for real-time, automatic sleep monitoring to minimise...master thesis 2023
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Fioranelli, F. (author), Guendel, Ronny (author), Kruse, N.C. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Driven by its contactless sensing capabilities and the lack of optical images being recorded, radar technology has been recently investigated in the context of human healthcare. This includes a broad range of applications, such as human activity classification, fall detection, gait and mobility analysis, and monitoring of vital signs such as...conference paper 2023
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den Hoedt, Dirk (author)When a patient is in a hospital, it is very important to monitor their vital signs. Doctors and nurses use this information to assess the condition of the patient. Most of the existing vital signs measurement devices need physical contact with the patient. This thesis focuses on a non-contact vital signs estimation method. Using a mmWave radar,...master thesis 2022
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Rufas Talamàs, Bet (author)In the Roadmap of 2025, EURO NCAP has announced that it will reward car manufacturers that include Child Presence Detection (CPD) technologies in their vehicles starting from 2022. Additionally, seat belt detectors are currently based on pressure sensors which can be falsely triggered with large objects placed on the seats. By basing the...master thesis 2022
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Kerssemakers, Tom (author)With over 75,000 attributed deaths in 2020, opioid overdose is now the leading cause of death amongst Americans under the age of 50. With record-breaking increases in fatalities for the past 10 years, fentanyl in particular has many experts worried about the future of the opioid epidemic. To reverse opioid overdose there exists a drug called...master thesis 2022
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Han, Y. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Fioranelli, F. (author)This research aims to develop a contactless, radar-based sleep apnea detection method. A novel identification approach for this is proposed, based on the envelope of UWB radar spectrograms and machine learning. The envelope of the spectrogram is extracted by an image-based method, followed by signal smoothing via variational mode decomposition ...conference paper 2022
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Mercuri, Marco (author), Lu, Yiting (author), Polito, Salvatore (author), Wieringa, Fokko (author), van der Veen, A.J. (author), Van Hoof, Chris (author), Torfs, Tom (author)Objective: Over the last two decades, radar-based contactless monitoring of vital signs (heartbeat and respiration rate) has raised increasing interest as an emerging and added value to health care. However, until now, the flaws caused by indoor multipath propagation formed a fundamental hurdle for the adoption of such technology in practical...journal article 2021
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Su, Guigeng (author), Petrov, N. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)In this paper, we propose a method for continuous monitoring of vital signs-in particular, respiration frequency-with a commercial mm-wave radar. The nearly constant frequency (NCF) model is adopted to represent chest displacement due to respiration and simulate radar response. Based on this model, an extended Kalman filter (EKF) based...conference paper 2021
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Ramsey, Caitlin (author)Neonates are among the most fragile in the human population. Even more so when born prematurely. Their loss of development time in the womb disrupts their growth, and the neonatal intensive care unit environment can add multiple stresses that hinder their development. This can partly be attributed to the intrusive environment of a neonatal...master thesis 2020
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Wan, Lin (author)In the last two decades, radar-based contactless vital signs monitoring (heartbeat and respiration rate) has raised increasing interest as an emerging approach for healthcare and complementary for other more established technologies. Heartbeat and respiration induce only very subtle rhythmic changes in the reflected radar signature, whereas the...master thesis 2020
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Li, Y. (author)There is an ever-growing demand for vital signs monitoring for a variety of occasions. Non-contact vital signs monitoring can be achieved by detecting the displacement of the human chest using Doppler radar. This method is non-invasive, environment-independent and suitable for long-term monitoring. However, the real-time detection of...master thesis 2020
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Hsiao, C. (author), Achinuhu, A.C.I. (author)In this thesis signal processing techniques for the Ultra-wide-band impulse radar (UWB-IR) radar are dis-cussed. To context wherein these algorithms are used is in a car, with the aim of detecting a child left behind in the car. This thesis also touches on algorithms to obtain vital information of the child inside the car. To this end a...bachelor thesis 2020
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Neji, Saliha (author), Kooij, Roeland (author)This thesis analyses different radar systems for sensing chest movement to detect human presence inside a car. The detection in this thesis is limited to sensing breathing rate, although heartbeat detection is considered a possibility. A comparison is made between CW-, FMCW-, pulsed- and UWB pulsed radar. UWB pulsed radar was chosen to be a...bachelor thesis 2020
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Massey, Jasper (author), van Veldhuijzen, Emiel (author)This thesis compares several technologies to detect human vital signs in cars, in particular respiration and heartbeat, to avoid babies from being left behind in the car. The thesis starts with imposing mandatory and trade-off requirements. The thesis continues with a global overview of the possible technologies based on a literature study. The...bachelor thesis 2020
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Su, Guigeng (author)With an LFMCW automotive radar operating at its center frequency of 77GHz, the sequential estimation of frequency and amplitude for vital signs, namely, respiration and heartbeat, are considered. The radar response of vital signs is described and analyzed. With extraction of the phase history, extended Kalman filter and particle filter are...master thesis 2019
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Aydin, Mucahit (author)This project is an initiative of the Department of Surgery in Maasstad Ziekenhuis. In the department, two types of patients undergo abdominal surgery: 1) mobile obese patients and, 2) patients with cancer. These types of patients need personal contact and guidance, especially patients with cancer. However, nurses are overwhelmed with work and...master thesis 2019
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Sunil Sheelavant, Sunil (author)While there are many technologies and electronic systems used to detect the human vital signs by monitoring the heart beat rate & respiration rate, all these systems rely on physical contact with the human body. Furthermore, each measuring system can only be used for a single person thus increasing the cost and complexity of integrated...master thesis 2018
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