Touch-less heartbeat detection and cardiopulmonary modeling

This paper presents a contact-less heartbeat detection system and a cardiopulmonary modeling. Using a vector network analyzer, our proposed microwave system shows the ability of detecting the heartbeat signal at different frequencies, as well as at different output power levels. Based on parameters extracted from real measurements, a model representing the heartbeat and the respiration signals is presented. Different processing techniques are used in order to separate the heartbeat and the respiration signals. For different signal to noise ratios, wavelet filters show higher accuracy over classic filters in determining both the heartbeat rate and the heart rate variability.

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