International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications (IJISA)
IJISA Vol. 10, No. 12, 8 Dec. 2018
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Doppler Ultrasound Based Non-Invasive Heart Rate Telemonitoring System for Wellbeing Assessment
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Author(s)
Abdullah Bin Queyam
1,*
Sharvan Kumar Pahuja
1
Dilbag Singh
1
Index Terms
Heart sound, Doppler ultrasound, ECG, heart rate, heart rate variability, electronic stethoscope, LabVIEW
Abstract
Telemonitoring in the field of healthcare has vastly improved the quality of clinical diagnosis and disease prevention by providing timely medical consultation to people living in rural and remote areas. To monitor the health state of a patient certain vital physiological parameter like electrocardiogram (ECG), respiration rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, etc. are acquired and analyzed. Listening to the heart sounds (auscultation) is also a quick method to monitor the health state of the patient’s heart. In this paper, we propose the use of a portable Doppler ultrasound sensor for measuring the heart sounds reliably and to transmit the data for further clinical telemonitoring. We have developed an ultrasound-based hardware prototype which is non-invasive in nature and easy to operate. Its portability, high accuracy, low cost, and wireless nature make this device suitable for home-based self-diagnostic applications. The developed prototype was successfully able to capture both fundamental heart sounds S1 and S2 reliably and transfer the signal wirelessly to the LabVIEW-based monitoring and data logging unit. This unit extracts clinically useful health information like heart rate (HR), R-R interval and heart rate variability (HRV) using signal processing algorithms. Health information is then transmitted via the Internet to a distant hospital for further improved clinical diagnosis and consultancy. The prototype was validated on 40 healthy males in the age group of 25-35 years, and the results show an overall accuracy of 96.74% in HR detection when compared with an ECG sensor, a photoplethysmograph (PPG) sensor, a pulse oximeter device and manual auscultation.
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Abdullah Bin Queyam, Sharvan Kumar Pahuja, Dilbag Singh, "Doppler Ultrasound Based Non-Invasive Heart Rate Telemonitoring System for Wellbeing Assessment", International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications(IJISA), Vol.10, No.12, pp.69-79, 2018. DOI:10.5815/ijisa.2018.12.07
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