Abstract
In neonatal care, the monitoring of temperature, heart rate, and breathing rate plays a pivotal role in determining the neonate’s health status and medical diagnosis. However, the existing contact-based methods confront challenges such as discomfort, skin infections, and altering sleep patterns. Infrared imaging is very useful in temperature-related physiological changes’ measurement with the characteristic of noncontact, nonradiative, and functional method. This chapter describes and explains infrared thermography (IRT) used in the monitoring of vital physiological parameters of neonatal. Due to its use as portable and reliable, the IRT will be easily implemented for monitoring the neonate’s body surface temperature and breathing rate. The chapter indicates IRT as a new era of research in neonate monitoring and has a broad future in medical imaging.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Applied Intelligence for Medical Image Analysis |
| Editors | Aarti, Raju Pal, Mukesh Saraswat, Himanshu Mittal |
| Publisher | Apple Academic Press |
| Chapter | 8 |
| Pages | 131-145 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003800149 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781774914762 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 2024 |