Non-contact breathing rate monitoring using infrared thermography and machine learning

Anadya Ghina Salsabila, Rachmad Setiawan, Nada Fitrieyatul Hikmah, Zain Budi Syulthoni

Abstract


Monitoring vital physiological parameters such as breathing rate (BR) is crucial for assessing patient health. However, current contact-based measurement methods often cause discomfort, particularly in infants or burn patients. This study aims to develop a non-contact system for monitoring BR using infrared thermography (IRT). This approach permits to detects and tracks the nose from thermal video, extracts temperature variations into a breathing signal, and processes this signal to estimate BR. The estimated BR is then classified into three health categories (bradypnea/normal/tachypnea) using k-nearest neighbors (k-NN). To evaluate system accuracy and robustness, experiments were conducted under three conditions: (i) stationary breathing, (ii) breathing with head movements, and (iii) specific breathing patterns. Results demonstrated high consistency with contact-based photoplethysmography (PPG) measurements, achieving complement of the absolute normalized difference (CAND) index values of 94.57%, 93.71%, and 96.06% across the three conditions and mean absolute BR errors of 1.045 bpm, 1.259 bpm, and 0.607 bpm. The k-NN classifier demonstrated high performance with training, validation, and testing accuracies of 100%, 100%, and 99.2%, respectively. Sensitivity, specificity, precision, and F-measure results confirm system reliability for non-contact BR monitoring in clinical and practical settings.

Keywords


Breathing rate; Health; Infrared thermography; Machine learning; Non-contact measurement

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DOI: http://doi.org/10.11591/ijeecs.v39.i1.pp669-680

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Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (IJEECS)
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