Biophone: Physiology monitoring from peripheral smartphone motions
Name
Picard_Biophone.pdf
Size
1.26 MB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum (MD5)
18cc8091aefed3923bc0a746828e262c
Author(s)
Hernandez Rivera, Javier
McDuff, Daniel Jonathan
Picard, Rosalind W.
Date Issued
August 2015
Journal
2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Citation
Hernandez, Javier, Daniel J. McDuff, and Rosalind W. Picard. “Biophone: Physiology Monitoring from Peripheral Smartphone Motions.” 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (August 2015), Milan, Italy, 25-29 Aug. 2015. pp.7180-7183.
Version
Author's final manuscript
Abstract
The large-scale adoption of smartphones during recent years has created many opportunities to improve health monitoring and care delivery. In this work, we demonstrate that motion sensors available in off-the-shelf smartphones can capture physiological parameters of a person during stationary postures, even while being carried in a bag or a pocket. In particular, we develop methods to extract heart and breathing rates from accelerometer data and compare them with measurements obtained with FDA-cleared sensors. We evaluated their accuracy on 12 people across different still body postures (pre- and post- exercise) and were able to reach mean absolute errors of 1.16 beats per minute (STD: 3) and 0.26 breaths per minute (STD: 0.5) when considering different conditions. Furthermore, we evaluated the same methods during regular phone activities, such as when watching a video or listening to a conversation, yielding increased but still comparable error rates for some conditions.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
Terms of Use
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
Persistent DSpace Link
DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2015.7320048
