{"id":209024,"date":"2025-03-18T13:13:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T18:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/deep-learning-system-uses-smartphone-camera-for-heart-rate-monitoring"},"modified":"2025-03-18T13:13:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T18:13:55","slug":"deep-learning-system-uses-smartphone-camera-for-heart-rate-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/deep-learning-system-uses-smartphone-camera-for-heart-rate-monitoring","title":{"rendered":"Deep-learning system uses smartphone camera for heart rate monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deep-learning-system-uses-smartphone-camera-for-heart-rate-monitoring.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of medical researchers and engineers at Google Research has developed a way to use the front-facing camera on a smartphone to monitor a patient\u2019s heart rate. The team has <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2503.03783\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> a paper on the technology on the <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server.<\/p>\n<p>Tracking a patient\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/heart+rate\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heart rate<\/a> over time can reveal clues about their cardiovascular health. The most important measurement is resting heart rate (RHR)\u2014people with an above-normal rate are at a higher risk of heart disease and\/or stroke. Persistently high rates, the researchers note, can signal a serious problem.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past several years, personal health device makers have developed wearable external heart monitors, such as necklaces or smartwatches. But these devices are expensive. The researchers have found a cheaper alternative\u2014a deep-learning system that analyzes video from the front-facing camera of a smartphone. The system is called PHRM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of medical researchers and engineers at Google Research has developed a way to use the front-facing camera on a smartphone to monitor a patient\u2019s heart rate. The team has published a paper on the technology on the arXiv preprint server. Tracking a patient\u2019s heart rate over time can reveal clues about their cardiovascular [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,1512,6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}