Peripheral vasomotor activity assessment using a continuous wavelet analysis on webcam photoplethysmographic signals
Author(s) -
Frédéric Bousefsaf,
Choubeila Maaoui,
Alain Pruski
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
bio-medical materials and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1878-3619
pISSN - 0959-2989
DOI - 10.3233/bme-161606
Subject(s) - photoplethysmogram , vasomotor , pulse (music) , wavelet , pulse wave , signal (programming language) , peripheral , acoustics , computer science , vasodilation , speech recognition , artificial intelligence , computer vision , medicine , telecommunications , physics , anesthesia , cardiology , filter (signal processing) , detector , jitter , programming language , operating system
Vasoconstriction and vasodilation phenomena reflect the relative changes in the vascular bed. They induce particular modifications in the pulse wave magnitude. Webcams correspond to remote sensors that can be employed to measure the pulse wave in order to compute the pulse frequency.
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