Revolutionizing smartphone gyrocardiography for heart rate monitoring: overcoming clinical validation hurdles [PDF]
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023 Accurate heart rate (HR) measurement is crucial for optimal cardiac health, and while conventional methods such as electrocardiography and photoplethysmography are widely used for continuous daily monitoring, they may face practical limitations due to ...
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ECG-Free Heartbeat Detection in Seismocardiography and Gyrocardiography Signals Provides Acceptable Heart Rate Variability Indices in Healthy and Pathological Subjects [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 Cardio-mechanical monitoring techniques, such as Seismocardiography (SCG) and Gyrocardiography (GCG), have received an ever-growing interest in recent years as potential alternatives to Electrocardiography (ECG) for heart rate monitoring.
Salvatore Parlato +4 more
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Gyrocardiography: A Review of the Definition, History, Waveform Description, and Applications [PDF]
Sensors, 2020 Gyrocardiography (GCG) is a non-invasive technique of analyzing cardiac vibrations by a MEMS (microelectromechanical system) gyroscope placed on a chest wall.
Szymon Sieciński +2 more
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Detection of heart rate using smartphone gyroscope data: a scoping review [PDF]
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023 Heart rate (HR) is closely related to heart rhythm patterns, and its irregularity can imply serious health problems. Therefore, HR is used in the diagnosis of many health conditions. Traditionally, HR has been measured through an electrocardiograph (ECG),
Wenshan Wu +7 more
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Heart Rate Variability Analysis on Electrocardiograms, Seismocardiograms and Gyrocardiograms of Healthy Volunteers and Patients with Valvular Heart Diseases [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 Heart rate variability (HRV) is the physiological variation in the intervals between consecutive heartbeats that reflects the activity of the autonomic nervous system.
Szymon Sieciński +2 more
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Mechanocardiography-Based Measurement System Indicating Changes in Heart Failure Patients during Hospital Admission and Discharge [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 Heart failure (HF) is a disease related to impaired performance of the heart and is a significant cause of mortality and treatment costs in the world. During its progression, HF causes worsening (decompensation) periods which generally require hospital ...
Tero Koivisto +8 more
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Heartbeat Detection in Gyrocardiography Signals without Concurrent ECG Tracings [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 A heartbeat generates tiny mechanical vibrations, mainly due to the opening and closing of heart valves. These vibrations can be recorded by accelerometers and gyroscopes applied on a subject’s chest.
Salvatore Parlato +4 more
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Heart Rate Variability Analysis on Electrocardiograms, Seismocardiograms and Gyrocardiograms on Healthy Volunteers [PDF]
Sensors, 2020 Physiological variation of the interval between consecutive heartbeats is known as the heart rate variability (HRV). HRV analysis is traditionally performed on electrocardiograms (ECG signals) and has become a useful tool in the diagnosis of different ...
Szymon Sieciński +2 more
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Detecting Coronary Artery Disease Using Rest Seismocardiography and Gyrocardiography [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2021 In this study, we present a non-invasive solution to identify patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) defined as ⩾50% stenosis in at least one coronary artery.
Parastoo Dehkordi +6 more
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Precordial Vibrations: A Review of Wearable Systems, Signal Processing Techniques, and Main Applications [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 Recently, the ever-growing interest in the continuous monitoring of heart function in out-of-laboratory settings for an early diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases has led to the investigation of innovative methods for cardiac monitoring.
Francesca Santucci +4 more
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