Ballistocardiography and Seismocardiography: A Review of Recent Advances

In the past decade, there has been a resurgence in the field of unobtrusive cardiomechanical assessment, through advancing methods for measuring and interpreting ballistocardiogram (BCG) and seismocardiogram (SCG) signals. Novel instrumentation solutions have enabled BCG and SCG measurement outside of clinical settings, in the home, in the field, and even in microgravity. Customized signal processing algorithms have led to reduced measurement noise, clinically relevant feature extraction, and signal modeling. Finally, human subjects physiology studies have been conducted using these novel instruments and signal processing tools with promising results. This paper reviews the recent advances in these areas of…

• NA
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Award: NCC9-58
• GI
  Georgia Institute of Technology
• NS
  National Space Biomedical Research Institute

  Awards: NASA NCC9-58, NCC9-58, NASA NCC9–58
• A
  Acceleron
• ES
  European Space Agency

  Award: ILSRA-2009–0729
• SN
  Seoul National University
• BF
  Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
• RA
  Russian Academy of Sciences