Contactless monitoring of the newborn’s Heart Rate

The clinical needs underlying the project are mainly two: on one hand, starting from the previously work carried out on the assessment of pain in newborns [12], the objective of this work is to make the measurement of the physiological parameters that contribute to it automatic and objective; on the other hand, it was decided to make non-invasive the measurement of one of the most indicative vital parameters among those continuously monitored in the intensive care unit: the Heart Rate.