呼吸活动是生命的重要生命体征,可以指示健康状况。支气管炎等疾病,肺气肿,肺炎和冠状病毒引起影响呼吸系统的呼吸系统疾病。通常,使用听诊器进行肺部听诊有助于这些疾病的诊断。我们提出了一种新的尝试,开发一种轻量级的,全面的可穿戴传感器系统使用多传感器方法监测呼吸。我们采用了新的可穿戴传感器技术,使用声学和生物电位的新颖集成来监测两名志愿者的各种生命体征。在这项研究中,一种监测肺功能的新方法,如呼吸率和潮气量,使用多传感器方法进行了介绍。使用新的传感器,我们得到了肺音,心电图(ECG),在500mL的呼吸周期中,在肋间肌(EIM)和隔膜处进行肌电图(EMG)测量,625mL,750mL,875mL,和1000毫升潮气量。用肺活量计控制潮气量。每个呼吸周期的持续时间为8s,并使用节拍器计时。对于每种不同的潮气量,将EMG数据对时间作图,并计算曲线下面积(AUC).从在隔膜和EIM处获得的EMG数据计算的AUC分别表示隔膜和EIM的膨胀。与在EIM处监测的那些相比,从在隔膜处收集的EMG数据获得的AUC具有每潮气量样品之间的较低方差。使用三次样条插值,我们建立了一个模型,用于根据膈肌肌电图数据计算潮气量.我们的发现表明,新的传感器可用于测量呼吸速率及其变化,并具有从隔膜获得的EMG测量值估算潮气肺量的潜力。
Respiratory activity is an important vital sign of life that can indicate health status. Diseases such as bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia and coronavirus cause respiratory disorders that affect the respiratory systems. Typically, the diagnosis of these diseases is facilitated by pulmonary auscultation using a stethoscope. We present a new attempt to develop a lightweight, comprehensive wearable sensor system to monitor respiration using a multi-sensor approach. We employed new wearable sensor technology using a novel integration of acoustics and biopotentials to monitor various vital signs on two volunteers. In this study, a new method to monitor lung function, such as respiration rate and tidal volume, is presented using the multi-sensor approach. Using the new sensor, we obtained lung sound, electrocardiogram (ECG), and electromyogram (EMG) measurements at the external intercostal muscles (EIM) and at the diaphragm during breathing cycles with 500 mL, 625 mL, 750 mL, 875 mL, and 1000 mL tidal volume. The tidal volumes were controlled with a spirometer. The duration of each breathing cycle was 8 s and was timed using a metronome. For each of the different tidal volumes, the EMG data was plotted against time and the area under the curve (AUC) was calculated. The AUC calculated from EMG data obtained at the diaphragm and EIM represent the expansion of the diaphragm and EIM respectively. AUC obtained from EMG data collected at the diaphragm had a lower variance between samples per tidal volume compared to those monitored at the EIM. Using cubic spline interpolation, we built a model for computing tidal volume from EMG data at the diaphragm. Our findings show that the new sensor can be used to measure respiration rate and variations thereof and holds potential to estimate tidal lung volume from EMG measurements obtained from the diaphragm.