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Video based non-contact monitoring of respiratory rate and chest indrawing in children with pneumonia

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Objective. Pneumonia is the single largest cause of death in children worldwide due to infectious diseases. According to WHO guidelines, fast breathing and chest indrawing are the key indicators of… Click to show full abstract

Objective. Pneumonia is the single largest cause of death in children worldwide due to infectious diseases. According to WHO guidelines, fast breathing and chest indrawing are the key indicators of pneumonia in children requiring antibiotic treatments. The aim of this study was to develop a video based novel method for simultaneous monitoring of respiratory rate and chest indrawing without upsetting babies. Approach. Respiratory signals, corresponding to periodic movements of chest-abdominal walls during breathing, were extracted by analyzing RGB (red, green, blue) components in video frames captured by a smartphone camera. Respiratory rate was then obtained by applying fast Fourier transform on the de-noised respiratory signal. Chest indrawing was detected by analysing relative phases of regional chest-abdominal wall mobility. The performance of the developed algorithm was evaluated on both healthy and pneumonia children. Main results. The proposed method can measure respiratory rate with an overall mean absolute error of 1.8 bpm in the range 18–105 bpm. Phase difference between regional chest wall movements in the chest indrawing (pneumonia) cases was found to be 143 ± 23.9 degrees, which was significantly higher than that in the healthy cases 52.3 ± 32.6 degrees (p < 0.001). Significance. Being non-intrusive and non-subjective, this computer-aided method can be useful in the monitoring for respiratory rate and chest indrawing for the diagnosis of pneumonia and its severity in children.

Keywords: rate chest; respiratory rate; chest indrawing; monitoring respiratory

Journal Title: Physiological Measurement
Year Published: 2021

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