Combined thermal infrared and visual spectrum imaging novel methodology for astronauts' psychophysiological assessment. Verification for respiration rate determination

摘要

In the context of non-contact, non-invasive, non-obtrusive health related assessment methods required by the space field, this research presents a novel psychophysiological assessment methodology based on combined thermal infrared and visual spectrum imaging technologies for determining vital parameters. The proposed methodology, whose distinctive capability regards humans' assessment in motion, targets the evolution in time of the temperature measured on relevant areas, implicitly with the purpose to determine certain vital parameters which are of paramount importance in predicting and assessing both physiological changes, but especially psychological states in critical moments during space missions. Furthermore, the proposed methodology was verified in terms of respiration rate detection, implicitly a specific respiration rate application and its corresponding experimental setup were implemented and described.