Non-contact heart vibration measurement using computer vision-based seismocardiography

Seismocardiography (SCG) is the noninvasive measurement of local vibrations of the chest wall produced by the mechanical activity of the heart and has shown promise in providing clinical information for certain cardiovascular diseases including heart failure and ischemia. Conventionally, SCG signals...

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Published inScientific reports Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 11787 - 13
Main Authors Rahman, Mohammad Muntasir, Cook, Jadyn, Taebi, Amirtahà
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Nature Publishing Group UK 21.07.2023
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ISSN2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI10.1038/s41598-023-38607-7

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Summary:Seismocardiography (SCG) is the noninvasive measurement of local vibrations of the chest wall produced by the mechanical activity of the heart and has shown promise in providing clinical information for certain cardiovascular diseases including heart failure and ischemia. Conventionally, SCG signals are recorded by placing an accelerometer on the chest. In this paper, we propose a novel contactless SCG measurement method to extract them from chest videos recorded by a smartphone. Our pipeline consists of computer vision methods including the Lucas–Kanade template tracking to track an artificial target attached to the chest, and then estimate the SCG signals from the tracked displacements. We evaluated our pipeline on 14 healthy subjects by comparing the vision-based SCG v estimations with the gold-standard SCG g measured simultaneously using accelerometers attached to the chest. The similarity between SCG g and SCG v was measured in the time and frequency domains using the Pearson correlation coefficient, a similarity index based on dynamic time warping (DTW), and wavelet coherence. The average DTW-based similarity index between the signals was 0.94 and 0.95 in the right-to-left and head-to-foot directions, respectively. Furthermore, SCG v signals were utilized to estimate the heart rate, and these results were compared to the gold-standard heart rate obtained from ECG signals. The findings indicated a good agreement between the estimated heart rate values and the gold-standard measurements (bias = 0.649 beats/min). In conclusion, this work shows promise in developing a low-cost and widely available method for remote monitoring of cardiovascular activity using smartphone videos.
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ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-023-38607-7