Review and evaluation of heart rate monitoring based vital signs, a case Study: Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The monitoring of vital signs is essential in the clinical setting, including temperature, respiratory, and heart rates. Remote monitoring devices, systems, and services are emerging as vital signs monitoring must be performed daily. Different types of sensors can be used to monitor breathing patterns and frequency. However, the respiratory rate remains the least measured vital sign in many scenarios due to the intrusiveness of most of the sensors adopted. This is not the case with Covid-19, which directly infects the respiratory system. In this paper, we present a state of the art on the different applications that monitor temperature, heart rate, and restorative rate, as well as the evaluation of an algorithm that extracts the heart rate from an RGB camera.