An Efficient Heart Rate Measurement System Using Medical Radar and LSTM Neural Network

Abstract

This research proposes a noncontact heart rate measurement method using medical radar and artificial intelligence techniques. This technique has a significant role in the design and development of a wireless system that monitors the body’s vital signs. Firstly, based on a signal model describing chest surface movement, we propose a method to create a dataset for the training process using the long-short-term memory model. Secondly, a novel method to extract chest motion from the received radar signal is proposed. Finally, the heart rate will be estimated by using the obtained model and the received motion signal. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated through the root mean square error parameter as well as compared with other methods. Experimental results evaluated according to Bland–Altman achieved an accuracy of 96.67%.