Cited by 43Non-Invasive Vital Sign MonitoringContext-Aware Activity Recognition SystemsInfant Development and Preterm Care

A Ballistographic Approach for Continuous and Non-Obtrusive Monitoring of Movement in Neonates

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Joshi, Rohan, Bierling, Bart L., Long, Xi, Weijers, Janna, Feijs, Loe, Van Pul, Carola, Andriessen, Peter·2018·IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine

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Continuously monitoring body movement in preterm infants can have important clinical applications since changes in movement-patterns can be a significant marker for clinical deteriorations including the onset of sepsis, seizures, and apneas. This paper proposes a system and method to monitor body movement of preterm infants in a clinical environment using ballistography. The ballistographic signal (BSG) is acquired using a thin and a film-like sensor that is placed underneath an infant. Manual annotations based on video-recordings served as a reference standard for identifying movement. We investigated the performance of multiple features, constructed from the BSG waveform, to discriminate movement from no movement based on data acquired from 10 preterm infants. Since routine cardiorespiratory monitoring is prone to movement artifacts, we also compared the application of these features on the simultaneously acquired cardiorespiratory waveforms, i.e., the electrocardiogram, the chest impedance, and the photoplethysmogram. The BSG-based-features consistently outperformed those based on the routinely acquired cardiorespiratory waveforms. The best performing BSG-based feature-the signal instability index-had a mean (standard deviation) effect size of 0.90 (0.06), as measured by the area under the receiver operating curve. The proposed system for monitoring body movement is robust to noise, non-obtrusive, and has high performance in clinical settings.

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Authors
Joshi, R., Bierling, B. L., Long, X., Weijers, J., Feijs, L., Van Pul, C., & Andriessen, P.
Affiliations
  • Philips (Netherlands) (NL)
  • Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)
  • Máxima Medisch Centrum (NL)
Corresponding author
Joshi, Rohan
Venue
IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
Published
2018
Volume
6
Pages
1-10
ISSN
2168-2372 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2897425389
Cited by
43
References
45
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 5
FWCI
1.80
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Infant Development and Preterm Care
Keywords
preterm infants, non-invasive monitoring, cardiorespiratory monitoring, sepsis detection, apnea detection, seizures, photoplethysmogram, electrocardiogram

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