Ballistocardiography - Accelerometer Aided Cardiography

Project Description

On this project high-sensitive 3D-accelerometers will measure the pulse generated by the heartbeat. Thus, the pumping or ejection forces (ballistic force, Greek “ballein” = "throw") of systolic and diastolic heart activities can be calculated and a conclusion about cardiac functions can be drawn. With such a system patients can be supported in everyday life after a long confinement to bed or with a myocardial failure. Within the mobilization process medical professionals can monitor heart function parameters while the patients are in their own homes.

Duration: since 2014

Project Partner

• Peter L. Reichertz Institut für Medizinische Informatik (PLRI)
• Institut für Klinische Pharmakologie der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover (MHH)
• Partially also in cooperation with the Ambient Intelligence work group at Aalto University

Project members at IBR

Theses

if you are interested in writing a thesis regarding this project, please feel free to contact Prof. Dr. Felix Büsching.

Publications

• Ngu Nguyen, Nico Jaehne-Raden, Ulf Kulau and Stephan Sigg: Representation Learning for Sensor-based Device Pairing, in Proceedings of PerCom Work in Progress on Pervasive Computing and Communications 2018, PerCom WiP 2018, Athens, Greece, March 2018 (KulauNguyen:PerCom2018, BibTeX)
• Nico Jähne-Raden, Ulf Kulau, Lars Wolf and Michael Marschollek: Poster Abstract: HeartBeat the Odds - A Novel Digital Ballistocardiographic Sensor System, in Proceedings of the 15th annual international conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Delft, The Netherlands, ACM, November 2017 (kulau:2017:BallistoPoster, BibTeX)