Discovering COVID-19 early symptoms by contactless optical monitoring of cardiovascular and respiratory system via smartphone

该合作伙伴关系将开发通过智能手机使用心血管和呼吸系统参数的非接触式光学监测来发现COVID 19早期症状的技术。新的研究结果表明，在其他症状中，有3个参数作为COVID 19的早期迹象而发生变化：呼吸和心率（HR，RR）的增加以及心率变异性（HRV）的降低监测所有3个参数可以成为COVID 19发展开始的可靠警报，触发准确诊断的紧急测试请求。我们的工业合作伙伴Swift Medical寻求合作伙伴关系，以开发一种基于智能手机的远程非接触式系统，用于监测HR、RR和HRV参数，一旦参数变化超出正常范围，该系统将生成警告消息。该系统还可用于在COVID 19进展期间监测患者，收集的数据可用于开发预测重症监护或紧急呼叫时刻的预测算法。智能手机的前置和后置摄像头都可以使用：前置摄像头可以用于自我评估，后置摄像头可以用于筛选其他人。该项目的影响将为医务人员提供方便用户的设备，以便在当前和未来的大流行期间快速发现具有威胁性的心血管和呼吸道症状。在急诊室、救护车、诊所或长期护理机构管理和分类患者需要快速筛查技术，以发现具有COVID 19早期症状的个人，这可能会挽救他们的生命和周围人的生命。

This partnership will develop technology for discovering COVID19 early symptoms by using contactless optical monitoring of cardiovascular and respiratory system parameters via a smartphone. New findings show that among other symptoms, there are 3 parameters which are changing in combination as early signs of COVID19: increases of the respiratory and heart rates (HR, RR) and decrease of heart rate variability (HRV) Monitoring all 3 parameters can be a reliable alarm of the beginning of COVID19 development, triggering an urgent test request for the accurate diagnostics. Our industrial partner, Swift Medical seeks a partnership to develop a remote, contactless smartphone-based system for monitoring of HR, RR, and HRV parameters, which will be generating a warning message, once the parameters change beyond the normal range. This system can be also used for monitoring the patient during COVID19 progression, and the data collected can be used to develop a forecast algorithm predicting the moment of intensive care or emergency call. Both front and back camera of the smartphone can be employed: the front camera can be used for self-assessment and the back camera can be used for screening other people. The impact of this project will support medical personnel with user-friendly equipment for fast discovery of threatening cardiovascular and respiratory symptoms during the current pandemic as well as for the future. Managing and sorting patients at emergency, ambulance, in the clinics or long-care facilities requires a quick screening technology to discover individuals with early signs of COVID19 that may save their lives and lives of people around them.