A Health Care Monitoring System for Critical Patients: Design and Implementation

• Main Authors: Chia-Wei Liao, 廖家偉
• Other Authors: Yuh-Jiuan Tsay
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54492324418482444822

碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 資訊管理系所 === 100 === With the improvement in medical infrastructure and technology, the ageing phenomenon in Taiwan becomes more and more seriously. The health care issue in critical ill patients is being taken with severe attention. Because the physical condition on critical ill patients is worse than mild disease patients, they are more pressing needs for monitoring if the care staff cannot always beside of them. The patients only can use the emergency button passively to inform nursing station when they feel not good or have abnormal condition, but some critical ill patients cannot talk or their hands cannot move so that this study highlights the importance of health care support system. This study is to build a health care system for critically ill patients, and it provides two functions to user. First is abnormal function of facial expression recognition which can recognize patients’ facial expressions. When the system recognizes patient showed abnormal expression, it will send a warning message to the nursing station and record it in the database in order to do the analysis application. The second is gesture recognition for patients' needs. The system will send a message to the nursing station when the patients make a specific gesture. We can use video monitoring devices and image recognition technology to determine whether the patient is in a normal condition or not and to inform the care staff in order to reach the goal of assist the care staff and ease their burden.