Monitoring vital signs could be a question of analysing subtle changes in skin tone, according to a research team at Rice University in the US who has developed a system to do exactly that.
Changes in colour on the face that are imperceptible to the naked eye reveal changes in blood volume underneath the skin that belie pulse and breathing rate, according to the researchers.
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