Chest compression rate measurement from smartphone video

Chest compression rate measurement from smartphone video

BACKGROUND Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a life threatening situation where the first person performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) most often is a bystander without medical training. Some existing smartphone apps can call the emergency number and provide for example global positioning system (GPS) location like Hjelp 113-GPS App by the Norwegian air ambulance. We propose to extend ...

Analysis of smartphone video footage classifies chest compression rate during simulated CPR.

Editorial Chest Compression Rate

The first description of modern cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) included the instruction to compress the chest “about 60 times per minute”1; however, the optimal compression rate was unknown. Franz Koenig is credited with describing the original technique for external cardiac massage, which included a compression rate of 30 to 40 per minute.2 But in the first published description of extern...

Foveated video compression with optimal rate control

Previously, fovcated video compression algorithms have been proposed which, in certain applications, deliver high-quality video at reduced bit rates by seeking to match the nonuniform sampling of the human retina. We describe such a framework here where foveated video is created by a nonuniform filtering scheme that increases the compressibility of the video stream. We maximize a new foveal vis...

Rate Scalable Image and Video Compression Techniques

In this talk we will describe embedded image and video compression techniques. We describe an embedded zero tree-like approach that exploits the interdependency between color components that is known as Color Embedded Zero Tree Wavelet (CEZW). We will also present a video compression technique, Scalable Adaptive Motion Compensated Wavelet (SAMCoW) compression, that uses the CEZW data structure ...