Monitoring Patients in Hospital Beds Using Unobtrusive Depth Sensors
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2014
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Abstract
We present an approach for patient activity recognition in hospital rooms using depth data collected using a Kinect sensor. Depth sensors such as the Kinect ensure that activity segmentation is possible during day time as well as night while addressing the privacy concerns of patients. It also provides a technique to remotely monitor patients in a non-intrusive manner. An existing fall detection algorithm is currently generating fall alerts in several rooms in the University of Missouri Hospital (MUH). In this paper we describe a technique to reduce false alerts such as pillows falling off the bed or equipment movement. We do so by detecting the presence of the patient in the bed for the times when the fall alert is generated. We test our algorithm on 96 hours obtained in two hospital rooms from MUH.
Repository Citation
Banerjee, T.,
Enayati, M.,
Keller, J. M.,
Skubic, M.,
Popescu, M.,
& Rantz, M. J.
(2014). Monitoring Patients in Hospital Beds Using Unobtrusive Depth Sensors. 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 5904-5907.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/knoesis/1106
DOI
10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944972
Comments
Presented at the 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Chicago, IL, August 26-30, 2014.