The Cardiology Channel
October 3, 2013 • Cardiology, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Medical Informatics
Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a program that can amplify standard videos to detect miniscule changes in motion by temporal filtering of the video frames. The technology reveals things imperceptible to the naked eye, such as a person’s pulse, which is measured by amplifying the frames showing the flow of blood as it fills the face.