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Information Retrieval from Photoplethysmographic Sensors: A Comprehensive Comparison of Practical Interpolation and Breath-Extraction Techniques at Different Sampling Rates. SENSORS 2022; 22:s22041428. [PMID: 35214329 PMCID: PMC8877143 DOI: 10.3390/s22041428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2022] [Revised: 02/07/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
The increasingly widespread diffusion of wearable devices makes possible the continuous monitoring of vital signs, such as heart rate (HR), heart rate variability (HRV), and breath signal. However, these devices usually do not record the “gold-standard” signals, namely the electrocardiography (ECG) and respiratory activity, but a single photoplethysmographic (PPG) signal, which can be exploited to estimate HR and respiratory activity. In addition, these devices employ low sampling rates to limit power consumption. Hence, proper methods should be adopted to compensate for the resulting increased discretization error, while diverse breath-extraction algorithms may be differently sensitive to PPG sampling rate. Here, we assessed the efficacy of parabola interpolation, cubic-spline, and linear regression methods to improve the accuracy of the inter-beat intervals (IBIs) extracted from PPG sampled at decreasing rates from 64 to 8 Hz. PPG-derived IBIs and HRV indices were compared with those extracted from a standard ECG. In addition, breath signals extracted from PPG using three different techniques were compared with the gold-standard signal from a thoracic belt. Signals were recorded from eight healthy volunteers during an experimental protocol comprising sitting and standing postures and a controlled respiration task. Parabola and cubic-spline interpolation significantly increased IBIs accuracy at 32, 16, and 8 Hz sampling rates. Concerning breath signal extraction, the method holding higher accuracy was based on PPG bandpass filtering. Our results support the efficacy of parabola and spline interpolations to improve the accuracy of the IBIs obtained from low-sampling rate PPG signals, and also indicate a robust method for breath signal extraction.
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Martínez G, Howard N, Abbott D, Lim K, Ward R, Elgendi M. Can Photoplethysmography Replace Arterial Blood Pressure in the Assessment of Blood Pressure? J Clin Med 2018; 7:E316. [PMID: 30274376 PMCID: PMC6209968 DOI: 10.3390/jcm7100316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2018] [Revised: 09/19/2018] [Accepted: 09/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Arterial Blood Pressure (ABP) and photoplethysmography (PPG) are both useful techniques to monitor cardiovascular status. Though ABP monitoring is more widely employed, this procedure of signal acquisition whether done invasively or non-invasively may cause inconvenience and discomfort to the patients. PPG, however, is simple, noninvasive, and can be used for continuous measurement. This paper focuses on analyzing the similarities in time and frequency domains between ABP and PPG signals for normotensive, prehypertensive and hypertensive subjects and the feasibility of the classification of subjects considering the results of the analysis performed. From a database with 120 records of ABP and PPG, each 120 s in length, the records where separated into epochs taking into account 10 heartbeats, and the following statistical measures were performed: Correlation (r), Coherence (COH), Partial Coherence (pCOH), Partial Directed Coherence (PDC), Directed Transfer Function (DTF), Full Frequency Directed Transfer Function (ffDTF) and Direct Directed Transfer Function (dDTF). The correlation coefficient was r > 0.9 on average for all groups, indicating a strong morphology similarity. For COH and pCOH, coherence (linear correlation in frequency domain) was found with significance (p < 0.01) in differentiating between normotensive and hypertensive subjects using PPG signals. For the dataset at hand, only two synchrony measures are able to convincingly distinguish hypertensive subjects from normotensive control subjects, i.e., ffDTF and dDTF. From PDC, DTF, ffDTF, and dDTF, a consistent, a strong significant causality from ABP→PPG was found. When all synchrony measures were combined, an 87.5 % accuracy was achieved to detect hypertension using a Neural Network classifier, suggesting that PPG holds most informative features that exist in ABP.
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Affiliation(s)
- Gloria Martínez
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
- Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav), Monterrey's Unit, Apodaca N. L. 66600, México.
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- Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford 450456, UK.
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- School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
- Centre for Biomedical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V1Y 1T3, Canada.
- BC Children's & Women's Hospital, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1, Canada.
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
- Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V1Y 1T3, Canada.
- BC Children's & Women's Hospital, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1, Canada.
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