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Goyal K, Borkholder DA, Day SW. Dependence of Skin-Electrode Contact Impedance on Material and Skin Hydration. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 22:8510. [PMID: 36366209 PMCID: PMC9656728 DOI: 10.3390/s22218510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2022] [Revised: 10/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Dry electrodes offer an accessible continuous acquisition of biopotential signals as part of current in-home monitoring systems but often face challenges of high-contact impedance that results in poor signal quality. The performance of dry electrodes could be affected by electrode material and skin hydration. Herein, we investigate these dependencies using a circuit skin-electrode interface model, varying material and hydration in controlled benchtop experiments on a biomimetic skin phantom simulating dry and hydrated skin. Results of the model demonstrate the contribution of the individual components in the circuit to total impedance and assist in understanding the role of electrode material in the mechanistic principle of dry electrodes. Validation was performed by conducting in vivo skin-electrode contact impedance measurements across ten normative human subjects. Further, the impact of the electrode on biopotential signal quality was evaluated by demonstrating an ability to capture clinically relevant electrocardiogram signals by using dry electrodes integrated into a toilet seat cardiovascular monitoring system. Titanium electrodes resulted in better signal quality than stainless steel electrodes. Results suggest that relative permittivity of native oxide of electrode material come into contact with the skin contributes to the interface impedance, and can lead to enhancement in the capacitive coupling of biopotential signals, especially in dry skin individuals.
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- Krittika Goyal
- Department of Microsystems Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA
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- Department of Microsystems Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA
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Xu X, Lian Z. Objective sleep assessments for healthy people in environmental research: A literature review. INDOOR AIR 2022; 32:e13034. [PMID: 35622713 DOI: 10.1111/ina.13034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2022] [Revised: 04/04/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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To date, although many studies had focused on the impact of environmental factors on sleep, how to choose the proper assessment method for objective sleep quality was often ignored, especially for healthy subjects in bedroom environment. In order to provide methodological guidance for future research, this paper reviewed the assessments of objective sleep quality applied in environmental researches, compared them from the perspective of accuracy and interference, and statistically analyzed the impact of experimental type and subjects' information on method selection. The review results showed that, in contrast to polysomnography (PSG), the accuracy of actigraphy (ACT), respiratory monitoring-oxygen saturation monitoring (RM-OSM), and electrocardiograph (ECG) could reach up to 97%, 80.38%, and 79.95%, respectively. In terms of sleep staging, PSG and ECG performed the best, ACT the second, and RM-OSM the worst; as compared to single methods, mix methods were more accurate and better at sleep staging. PSG interfered with sleep a great deal, while ECG and ACT could be non-contact, and thus, the least interference with sleep was present. The type of experiment significantly influenced the choice of assessment method (p < 0.001), 85.3% of researchers chose PSG in laboratory study while 82.5% ACT in field study; moreover, PSG was often used in a relatively small number of young subjects, while ACT had a wide applicable population. In general, researchers need to pay more attention at selection of assessments in future studies, and this review can be used as a reliable reference for experimental design.
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- Xinbo Xu
- School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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Rahman S, Karmakar C, Natgunanathan I, Yearwood J, Palaniswami M. Robustness of electrocardiogram signal quality indices. J R Soc Interface 2022; 19:20220012. [PMID: 35414211 PMCID: PMC9006023 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal quality indices (SQIs) are essential for improving diagnostic accuracy and reliability of ECG analysis systems. In various practical applications, the ECG signals are corrupted by different types of noise. These corrupted ECG signals often provide insufficient and incorrect information regarding a patient’s health. To solve this problem, signal quality measurements should be made before an ECG signal is used for decision-making. This paper investigates the robustness of existing popular statistical signal quality indices (SSQIs): relative power of QRS complex (SQIp), skewness (SQIskew), signal-to-noise ratio (SQIsnr), higher order statistics SQI (SQIhos) and peakedness of kurtosis (SQIkur). We analysed the robustness of these SSQIs against different window sizes across diverse datasets. Results showed that the performance of SSQIs considerably fluctuates against varying datasets, whereas the impact of varying window sizes was minimal. This fluctuation occurred due to the use of a static threshold value for classifying noise-free ECG signals from the raw ECG signals. Another drawback of these SSQIs is the bias towards noise-free ECG signals, that limits their usefulness in clinical settings. In summary, the fixed threshold-based SSQIs cannot be used as a robust noise detection system. In order to solve this fixed threshold problem, other techniques can be developed using adaptive thresholds and machine-learning mechanisms.
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- Saifur Rahman
- School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong 3225, Australia
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- School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong 3225, Australia
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- School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong 3225, Australia
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- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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Rozo A, Moeyersons J, Morales J, Garcia van der Westen R, Lijnen L, Smeets C, Jantzen S, Monpellier V, Ruttens D, Van Hoof C, Van Huffel S, Groenendaal W, Varon C. Data Augmentation and Transfer Learning for Data Quality Assessment in Respiratory Monitoring. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2022; 10:806761. [PMID: 35237576 PMCID: PMC8884147 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.806761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2021] [Accepted: 01/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Changes in respiratory rate have been found to be one of the early signs of health deterioration in patients. In remote environments where diagnostic tools and medical attention are scarce, such as deep space exploration, the monitoring of the respiratory signal becomes crucial to timely detect life-threatening conditions. Nowadays, this signal can be measured using wearable technology; however, the use of such technology is often hampered by the low quality of the recordings, which leads more often to wrong diagnosis and conclusions. Therefore, to apply these data in diagnosis analysis, it is important to determine which parts of the signal are of sufficient quality. In this context, this study aims to evaluate the performance of a signal quality assessment framework, where two machine learning algorithms (support vector machine-SVM, and convolutional neural network-CNN) were used. The models were pre-trained using data of patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The generalization capability of the models was evaluated by testing them on data from a different patient population, presenting normal and pathological breathing. The new patients underwent bariatric surgery and performed a controlled breathing protocol, displaying six different breathing patterns. Data augmentation (DA) and transfer learning (TL) were used to increase the size of the training set and to optimize the models for the new dataset. The effect of the different breathing patterns on the performance of the classifiers was also studied. The SVM did not improve when using DA, however, when using TL, the performance improved significantly (p < 0.05) compared to DA. The opposite effect was observed for CNN, where the biggest improvement was obtained using DA, while TL did not show a significant change. The models presented a low performance for shallow, slow and fast breathing patterns. These results suggest that it is possible to classify respiratory signals obtained with wearable technologies using pre-trained machine learning models. This will allow focusing on the relevant data and avoid misleading conclusions because of the noise, when designing bio-monitoring systems.
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- Andrea Rozo
- STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Microgravity Research Center, Service Chimie-Physique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Future Health department, Pneumology department, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, Genk, Belgium
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- Department of Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium.,Future Health department, Pneumology department, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, Genk, Belgium
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- Imec OnePlanet, Wageningen, Netherlands.,Electronic Circuits and Systems (ECS), Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Imec, Leuven, Belgium
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- STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Microgravity Research Center, Service Chimie-Physique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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Huysmans D, Castro I, Borzée P, Patel A, Torfs T, Buyse B, Testelmans D, Van Huffel S, Varon C. Capacitively-Coupled ECG and Respiration for Sleep-Wake Prediction and Risk Detection in Sleep Apnea Patients. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 21:6409. [PMID: 34640728 PMCID: PMC8512805 DOI: 10.3390/s21196409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2021] [Revised: 09/14/2021] [Accepted: 09/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients would strongly benefit from comfortable home diagnosis, during which detection of wakefulness is essential. Therefore, capacitively-coupled electrocardiogram (ccECG) and bioimpedance (ccBioZ) sensors were used to record the sleep of suspected OSA patients, in parallel with polysomnography (PSG). The three objectives were quality assessment of the unobtrusive signals during sleep, prediction of sleep-wake using ccECG and ccBioZ, and detection of high-risk OSA patients. First, signal quality indicators (SQIs) determined the data coverage of ccECG and ccBioZ. Then, a multimodal convolutional neural network (CNN) for sleep-wake prediction was tested on these preprocessed ccECG and ccBioZ data. Finally, two indices derived from this prediction detected patients at risk. The data included 187 PSG recordings of suspected OSA patients, 36 (dataset "Test") of which were recorded simultaneously with PSG, ccECG, and ccBioZ. As a result, two improvements were made compared to prior studies. First, the ccBioZ signal coverage increased significantly due to adaptation of the acquisition system. Secondly, the utility of the sleep-wake classifier increased as it became a unimodal network only requiring respiratory input. This was achieved by using data augmentation during training. Sleep-wake prediction on "Test" using PSG respiration resulted in a Cohen's kappa (κ) of 0.39 and using ccBioZ in κ = 0.23. The OSA risk model identified severe OSA patients with a κ of 0.61 for PSG respiration and κ of 0.39 using ccBioZ (accuracy of 80.6% and 69.4%, respectively). This study is one of the first to perform sleep-wake staging on capacitively-coupled respiratory signals in suspected OSA patients and to detect high risk OSA patients based on ccBioZ. The technology and the proposed framework could be applied in multi-night follow-up of OSA patients.
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- Dorien Huysmans
- STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; (S.V.H.); (C.V.)
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- Circuits and Systems for Health, Imec-Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; (I.C.); (A.P.); (T.T.)
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- Department of Pneumology, UZ Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; (P.B.); (B.B.); (D.T.)
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- Circuits and Systems for Health, Imec-Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; (I.C.); (A.P.); (T.T.)
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- Circuits and Systems for Health, Imec-Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; (I.C.); (A.P.); (T.T.)
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- Department of Pneumology, UZ Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; (P.B.); (B.B.); (D.T.)
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- Department of Pneumology, UZ Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; (P.B.); (B.B.); (D.T.)
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- STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; (S.V.H.); (C.V.)
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- STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; (S.V.H.); (C.V.)
- Service de Chimie-Physique E.P., Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
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Jayaraj R, Mohan J. Classification of Sleep Apnea Based on Sub-Band Decomposition of EEG Signals. Diagnostics (Basel) 2021; 11:diagnostics11091571. [PMID: 34573913 PMCID: PMC8467236 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics11091571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2021] [Revised: 08/17/2021] [Accepted: 08/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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To classify between normal and sleep apnea subjects based on sub-band decomposition of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. This study comprised 159 subjects obtained from the ISRUC (Institute of System and Robotics—University of Coimbra), Sleep-EDF (European Data Format), and CAP (Cyclic Alternating Pattern) Sleep database, which consists of normal and sleep apnea subjects. The wavelet packet decomposition method was incorporated to categorize the EEG signals into five frequency bands, namely, alpha, beta, delta, gamma, and theta. Entropy and energy (non-linear) for all bands was calculated and as a result, 10 features were obtained for each EEG signal. The ratio of EEG bands included four parameters, including heart rate, brain perfusion, neural activity, and synchronization. In this study, a support vector machine with kernels and random forest classifiers was used for classification. The performance measures demonstrated that the improved results were obtained from the support vector machine classifier with a kernel polynomial order 2. The accuracy (90%), sensitivity (100%), and specificity (83%) with 14 features were estimated using the data obtained from ISRUC database. The proposed study is feasible and seems to be accurate in classifying the subjects with sleep apnea based on the extracted features from EEG signals using a support vector machine classifier.
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Xie J, Peng L, Wei L, Gong Y, Zuo F, Wang J, Yin C, Li Y. A signal quality assessment-based ECG waveform delineation method used for wearable monitoring systems. Med Biol Eng Comput 2021; 59:2073-2084. [PMID: 34432182 DOI: 10.1007/s11517-021-02425-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 08/05/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Identifying transient and nonpersistent abnormal electrocardiogram (ECG) waveforms by continuously monitoring the high-risk populations is of great importance for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cardiovascular diseases. In recent years, fabric electrodes have been widely used in wearable devices because of their non-irritating properties and better comfort than traditional AgCl electrodes. However, the motion noise caused by the relative movement between the fabric electrodes and skin affects the quality of ECGs and reduces the accuracy of diagnosis. Therefore, delineating the ECG waveforms that are recorded from wearable devices with varying levels of noise is still challenging. In this study, a signal quality assessment (SQA)-based ECG waveform delineation method that is used for wearable systems was developed. The ECG signal was first preprocessed by a bandpass filter. Five indices, including the multiscale nonlinear amplitude statistical distribution (adSQI1, adSQI2), the proportion of energy-related to T wave (ptSQI), and heart rates computed from R waves and T waves (rHR and tHR, respectively), were then calculated from the preprocessed ECG signal. The signals were classified as good, acceptable, and unacceptable ECGs by combining these indices through the use of a neural network. Subsequently, the R waves or/and T waves were identified for the corresponding feature interpretations based on the SQA results. ECGs that were recorded from the chest belts from 29 volunteers at different activity statuses were divided into 4-s segments. A total of 7133 manually labeled segments were used to derive (4985 segments) and validate (2148 segments) the algorithm. The adSQI1, adSQI2, tHR, and rHR characteristics were significantly different among the good, acceptable, and unacceptable ECGs. The ptSQI value was considerably higher in the good ECGs than in the acceptable and unacceptable ECGs. The ECG segments of different quality levels were classified with an accuracy of 96.74% by using the proposed SQA method. The R waves and T waves were identified with accuracies of 99.95% and 99.57%, respectively, for segments that were classified as acceptable and/or good. The SQA-based ECG waveform delineation method can perform reliable analysis and has the potential to be applied in wearable ECG systems for the early diagnosis and prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
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- Jialing Xie
- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Medicine, Army Medical University, 30 Gaotanyan Main Street, Chongqing, 400038, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Medicine, Army Medical University, 30 Gaotanyan Main Street, Chongqing, 400038, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Medicine, Army Medical University, 30 Gaotanyan Main Street, Chongqing, 400038, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Medicine, Army Medical University, 30 Gaotanyan Main Street, Chongqing, 400038, China
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- Department of Information Technology, Southwest Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, 400038, China
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- Department of Emergency, Southwest Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, 400038, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Southwest Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, 400038, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Medicine, Army Medical University, 30 Gaotanyan Main Street, Chongqing, 400038, China.
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Noncontact ECG Monitoring by Capacitive Coupling of Textiles in a Chair. JOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING 2021; 2021:6698567. [PMID: 34221299 PMCID: PMC8225447 DOI: 10.1155/2021/6698567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2020] [Revised: 03/24/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Some patients are uncomfortable with being wired to a device to have their heart activity measured. Accordingly, this study adopts a noncontact electrocardiogram (ECG) measurement system using coupled capacitance in a conductive textile. The textiles can be placed on a chair and are able to record some of the patient's heart data. Height and distance between the conductive textile electrodes were influential when trying to obtain an optimal ECG signal. A soft and highly conductive textile was used as the electrode, and clothing was regarded as capacitance insulation. The conductive textile and body were treated as the two electrode plates. This study found that placing the two conductive textiles at the same height provided better data than different heights. The system also enabled identifying the P, Q, R, S, and T waves of the ECG signal and eliminated unnecessary noise successfully.
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Automatic Detection of Atrial Fibrillation in ECG Using Co-Occurrence Patterns of Dynamic Symbol Assignment and Machine Learning. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21103542. [PMID: 34069717 PMCID: PMC8161329 DOI: 10.3390/s21103542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2021] [Revised: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 05/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Early detection of atrial fibrillation from electrocardiography (ECG) plays a vital role in the timely prevention and diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. Various algorithms have been proposed; however, they are lacking in considering varied-length signals, morphological transitions, and abnormalities over long-term recordings. We propose dynamic symbolic assignment (DSA) to differentiate a normal sinus rhythm (SR) from paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF). We use ECG signals and their interbeat (RR) intervals from two public databases namely, AF Prediction Challenge Database (AFPDB) and AF Termination Challenge Database (AFTDB). We transform RR intervals into a symbolic representation and compute co-occurrence matrices. The DSA feature is extracted using varied symbol-length V, word-size W, and applied to five machine learning algorithms for classification. We test five hypotheses: (i) DSA captures the dynamics of the series, (ii) DSA is a reliable technique for various databases, (iii) optimal parameters improve DSA’s performance, (iv) DSA is consistent for variable signal lengths, and (v) DSA supports cross-data analysis. Our method captures the transition patterns of the RR intervals. The DSA feature exhibit a statistically significant difference in SR and PAF conditions (p < 0.005). The DSA feature with W=3 and V=3 yield maximum performance. In terms of F-measure (F), rotation forest and ensemble learning classifier are the most accurate for AFPDB (F = 94.6%) and AFTDB (F = 99.8%). Our method is effective for short-length signals and supports cross-data analysis. The DSA is capable of capturing the dynamics of varied-lengths ECG signals. Particularly, the optimal parameters-based DSA feature and ensemble learning could help to detect PAF in long-term ECG signals. Our method maps time series into a symbolic representation and identifies abnormalities in noisy, varied-length, and pathological ECG signals.
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Deviaene M, Castro ID, Borzée P, Patel A, Torfs T, Buyse B, Testelmans D, Van Huffel S, Varon C. Capacitively-coupled ECG and respiration for the unobtrusive detection of sleep apnea. Physiol Meas 2021; 42:024001. [PMID: 33482650 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/abdf3d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The performance of a novel unobtrusive system based on capacitively-coupled electrocardiography (ccECG) combined with different respiratory measurements is evaluated for the detection of sleep apnea. APPROACH A sleep apnea detection algorithm is proposed, which can be applied to electrocardiography (ECG) and ccECG, combined with different unobtrusive respiratory measurements, including ECG derived respiration (EDR), respiratory effort measured using the thoracic belt (TB) and capacitively-coupled bioimpedance (ccBioz). Several ECG, respiratory and cardiorespiratory features were defined, of which the most relevant ones were identified using a random forest based backwards wrapper. Using this relevant feature set, a least-squares support vector machine classifier was trained to decide if a one minute segment is apneic or not, based on the annotated polysomnography (PSG) data of 218 patients suspected of having sleep apnea. The obtained classifier was then tested on the PSG and capacitively-coupled data of 28 different patients. MAIN RESULTS On the PSG data, an AUC of 76.3% was obtained when the ECG was combined with the EDR. Replacing the EDR with the TB led to an AUC of 80.0%. Using the ccECG and ccBioz or the ccECG and TB resulted in similar performances as on the PSG data, while using the ccECG and ccECG-based EDR resulted in a drop in AUC to 67.4%. SIGNIFICANCE This is the first study which tests an apnea detection algorithm on capacitively-coupled ECG and bioimpedance signals and shows promising results on the capacitively-coupled data set. However, it was shown that the EDR could not be accurately estimated from the ccECG signals. Further research into the effect that respiration has on the ccECG is needed to propose alternative EDR estimates.
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- Margot Deviaene
- Department of Electrical Engineering-ESAT, STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, KU Leuven, Leuven B-3001, Belgium. Leuven. AI - KU Leuven institute for AI, B-3000, Leuven, Belgium
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Moeyersons J, Morales J, Villa A, Castro I, Testelmans D, Buyse B, Van Hoof C, Willems R, Van Huffel S, Varon C. Supervised SVM Transfer Learning for Modality-Specific Artefact Detection in ECG. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21020662. [PMID: 33477888 PMCID: PMC7833429 DOI: 10.3390/s21020662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2020] [Revised: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The electrocardiogram (ECG) is an important diagnostic tool for identifying cardiac problems. Nowadays, new ways to record ECG signals outside of the hospital are being investigated. A promising technique is capacitively coupled ECG (ccECG), which allows ECG signals to be recorded through insulating materials. However, as the ECG is no longer recorded in a controlled environment, this inevitably implies the presence of more artefacts. Artefact detection algorithms are used to detect and remove these. Typically, the training of a new algorithm requires a lot of ground truth data, which is costly to obtain. As many labelled contact ECG datasets exist, we could avoid the use of labelling new ccECG signals by making use of previous knowledge. Transfer learning can be used for this purpose. Here, we applied transfer learning to optimise the performance of an artefact detection model, trained on contact ECG, towards ccECG. We used ECG recordings from three different datasets, recorded with three recording devices. We showed that the accuracy of a contact-ECG classifier improved between 5 and 8% by means of transfer learning when tested on a ccECG dataset. Furthermore, we showed that only 20 segments of the ccECG dataset are sufficient to significantly increase the accuracy.
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- Jonathan Moeyersons
- STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; (J.M.); (A.V.); (S.V.H.); (C.V.)
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- STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; (J.M.); (A.V.); (S.V.H.); (C.V.)
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- STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; (J.M.); (A.V.); (S.V.H.); (C.V.)
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- IMEC, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; (I.C.); (C.V.H.)
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- Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism and Ageing, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; (D.T.); (B.B.)
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- Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism and Ageing, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; (D.T.); (B.B.)
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University Hospitals of Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium;
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- STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; (J.M.); (A.V.); (S.V.H.); (C.V.)
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- STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; (J.M.); (A.V.); (S.V.H.); (C.V.)
- e-Media Research Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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Saner H, Knobel SEJ, Schuetz N, Nef T. Contact-free sensor signals as a new digital biomarker for cardiovascular disease: chances and challenges. EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL. DIGITAL HEALTH 2020; 1:30-39. [PMID: 36713967 PMCID: PMC9707864 DOI: 10.1093/ehjdh/ztaa006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2020] [Revised: 09/26/2020] [Accepted: 11/18/2020] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Multiple sensor systems are used to monitor physiological parameters, activities of daily living and behaviour. Digital biomarkers can be extracted and used as indicators for health and disease. Signal acquisition is either by object sensors, wearable sensors, or contact-free sensors including cameras, pressure sensors, non-contact capacitively coupled electrocardiogram (cECG), radar, and passive infrared motion sensors. This review summarizes contemporary knowledge of the use of contact-free sensors for patients with cardiovascular disease and healthy subjects following the PRISMA declaration. Chances and challenges are discussed. Thirty-six publications were rated to be of medium (31) or high (5) relevance. Results are best for monitoring of heart rate and heart rate variability using cardiac vibration, facial camera, or cECG; for respiration using cardiac vibration, cECG, or camera; and for sleep using ballistocardiography. Early results from radar sensors to monitor vital signs are promising. Contact-free sensors are little invasive, well accepted and suitable for long-term monitoring in particular in patient's homes. A major problem are motion artefacts. Results from long-term use in larger patient cohorts are still lacking, but the technology is about to emerge the market and we can expect to see more clinical results in the near future.
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- Hugo Saner
- ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Murtenstrasse 50, CH 3008 Bern, Switzerland,Department of Preventive Cardiology, University Hospital Bern, Inselspital, Freiburgstrasse 18, CH 3010 Bern, Switzerland,Corresponding author. Tel: +41 79 209 11 82,
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- ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Murtenstrasse 50, CH 3008 Bern, Switzerland
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- ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Murtenstrasse 50, CH 3008 Bern, Switzerland
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- ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Murtenstrasse 50, CH 3008 Bern, Switzerland,Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bern, Inselspital, Freiburgstrasse 18, CH 3010 Bern, Switzerland
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Jang Y, Kim S, Kim K, Yoo DS. A Study of Sofa-Type Capacitive Coupling Electrocardiograph System to Measure Stress Relief for Sleeping or Resting with Oxygen Taking. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2020; 2020:4547-4550. [PMID: 33019005 DOI: 10.1109/embc44109.2020.9176113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Non-contact electrode type electrocardiograph system was researched in various fields, but few products are commercially available. In this study, we proposed a sofa-type capacitive coupling electrocardiograph which has possibilities to be commercialized. The base system is a commercially available oval shape sofa that provides oxygen. We developed a capacitive coupling electrocardiograph and embedded it into the base system. The system gives feedback by measuring the ECG signal on stress relief during resting with taking oxygen provided by the sofa. In the capacitive coupling electrocardiograph, it is inevitable to develop a suitable active electrode for the target system, so we developed that comprised of a surface electrode, electronics, and metal case. The surface electrode was made of PCB with two layers of copper plate: the top layer is for coupling function (coated with AU), and the bottom layer plays a role as a shield. The fabricated active electrode module is embedded into the sofa. The purpose of the developed electrocardiograph is to measure HRV of sofa users. The measured HRV was compared with that from a reference system by various coupling distances (cotton cloth thickness) to guarantee the quality of measured signals. The comparison result shows that RRI correlation was mostly over 0.99, SDNN variation rate was mostly under 1%, and LF/HF variation rate was less than 1% in the tested thicknesses.
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Electrode Humidification Design for Artifact Reduction in Capacitive ECG Measurements. SENSORS 2020; 20:s20123449. [PMID: 32570924 PMCID: PMC7349487 DOI: 10.3390/s20123449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2020] [Revised: 06/09/2020] [Accepted: 06/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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For wearable capacitive electrocardiogram (ECG) acquisition, capacitive electrodes may cause severe motion artifacts due to the relatively large friction between the electrodes and the dielectrics. In some studies, water can effectively suppress motion artifacts, but these studies lack a complete analysis of how water can suppress motion artifacts. In this paper, the effect of water on charge decay of textile electrode is studied systematically, and an electrode controllable humidification design using ultrasonic atomization is proposed to suppress motion artifacts. Compared with the existing electrode humidification designs, the proposed electrode humidification design can be controlled by a program to suppress motion artifacts at different ambient humidity, and can be highly integrated for wearable application. Firstly, the charge decay mode of the textile electrode is given and it is found that the process of free water evaporation at an appropriate free water content can be the dominant way of triboelectric charge dissipation. Secondly, theoretical analysis and experiment verification both illustrate that water contained in electrodes can accelerate the decay of triboelectric charge through the free water evaporation path. Finally, a capacitive electrode controllable humidification design is proposed by applying integrated ultrasonic atomization to generate atomized drops and spray them onto textile electrodes to accelerate the decay of triboelectric charge and suppress motion artifacts. The performance of the proposed design is verified by the experiment results, which shows that the proposed design can effectively suppress motion artifacts and maintain the stability of signal quality at both low and high ambient humidity. The signal-to-noise ratio of the proposed design is 33.32 dB higher than that of the non-humidified design at 25% relative humidity and is 22.67 dB higher than that of non-humidified electrodes at 65% relative humidity.
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Geertsema EE, Visser GH, Sander JW, Kalitzin SN. Automated non-contact detection of central apneas using video. Biomed Signal Process Control 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2019.101658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Physiological Driver Monitoring Using Capacitively Coupled and Radar Sensors. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/app9193994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Unobtrusive monitoring of drivers’ physiological parameters is a topic gaining interest, potentially allowing to improve the performance of safety systems to prevent accidents, as well as to improve the driver’s experience or provide health-related services. In this article, two unobtrusive sensing techniques are evaluated: capacitively coupled sensing of the electrocardiogram and respiration, and radar-based sensing of heartbeat and respiration. A challenge for use of these techniques in vehicles are the vibrations and other disturbances that occur in vehicles to which they are inherently more sensitive than contact-based sensors. In this work, optimized sensor architectures and signal processing techniques are proposed that significantly improve the robustness to artefacts. Experimental results, conducted under real driving conditions on public roads, demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach. R peak sensitivities and positive predictivities higher than 98% both in highway and city traffic, heart rate mean absolute error of 1.02 bpm resp. 2.06 bpm in highway and city traffic and individual beat R-R interval 95% percentile error within ±27.3 ms are demonstrated. The radar experimental results show that respiration can be measured while driving and heartbeat can be recovered from vibration noise using an accelerometer-based motion reduction algorithm.
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Peng S, Xu K, Chen W. Comparison of Active Electrode Materials for Non-Contact ECG Measurement. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2019; 19:E3585. [PMID: 31426518 PMCID: PMC6720752 DOI: 10.3390/s19163585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2019] [Revised: 08/11/2019] [Accepted: 08/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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For long-term and more convenience electrocardiograph (ECG) monitoring, an active- electrode-based ECG monitoring system, which can measure ECG through clothes, is proposed in this paper. The hardware of the system includes active electrodes, signal processing and data transmission modules and the software mainly includes a denoising algorithm based on empirical mode decomposition (EMD). Then the proposed system was verified using the comparison of the ECG signals measured synchronously by active electrodes and Ag/AgCl electrodes. In addition, three flexible materials, including conductive textile, copper foil tape and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) are developed for the sensing layer with active electrodes. To compare the performance of these three materials for the sensing layer, the ECG signals of 10 subjects were measured by different materials in three postures and several indexes for quality evaluation were calculated. Results show that effective and clear ECG waveforms can be measured by all three kinds of materials and the quality of ECG signals measured by FPC is the best by conducting a significant t-test for signal quality indexes of three materials.
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- Shun Peng
- Center for Intelligent Medical Electronics, School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Center for Intelligent Medical Electronics, School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Center for Intelligent Medical Electronics, School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
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Castro ID, Patel A, Torfs T, Puers R, Van Hoof C. Capacitive multi-electrode array with real-time electrode selection for unobtrusive ECG & BIOZ monitoring. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2019; 2019:5621-5624. [PMID: 31947128 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2019.8857150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Capacitively-coupled ECG (ccECG) and bioimpedance (ccBIOZ) measurements are highly sensitive to motion artefacts. This limits their use in real-life situations. This work presents an array-based system for the simultaneous acquisition of ccECG and ccBIOZ, together with a quality-based electrode scanning approach for ccECG. This allows to increase the time coverage of contactless measurements in real-life situations and reduces the impact of artefacts. This solution was evaluated on a car seat and a mattress prototype. Results show the benefit of this combined array and algorithm approach: for every body position the algorithm was able to find more than one electrode combination providing high-quality ccECG. Night-long recordings were also performed, resulting in a mean time coverage of 72.5%.
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Yu X, Neu W, Vetter P, Bollheimer LC, Leonhardt S, Teichmann D, Antink CH. A Multi-Modal Sensor for a Bed-Integrated Unobtrusive Vital Signs Sensing Array. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS 2019; 13:529-539. [PMID: 30990438 DOI: 10.1109/tbcas.2019.2911199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In this paper, we present a novel unobtrusive multi-modal sensor for monitoring of physiological parameters featuring capacitive electrocardiogram (cECG), reflective photoplethysmogram (rPPG), and magnetic induction monitoring (MI) in a single sensor. The sensor system comprises sensor nodes designed and optimized for integration into a grid-like array of multiple sensors in a bed and a central controller box for data collection and processing. Hence, it is highly versatile in application and suitable for unobtrusive monitoring of vital signs, both in a professional setting and a home-care environment. The presented hardware design takes both inter-modal interference between cECG and MI into account as well as intra-modal interference due to cross talk between two MI sensors in close vicinity. In a lab study, we evaluated a prototype of our new multi-modal sensor with two sensor nodes on four healthy subjects. The subjects were lying on the sensors and exercising with a hand grip in order to increase heart rate and thus evaluate our sensor both during changing physiological parameters as well as a wider range of those. Heart beat intervals and heart rate variability were derived from both cECG and rPPG. Breathing intervals were derived from the MI sensor. For heart beat intervals, we achieved an RMSE of 2.3 ms and a correlation of 0.99 using cECG. Similarly, using rPPG, an RMSE of 18.9 ms with a correlation of 0.99 was achieved. With regard to breathing intervals derived from MI, we achieved an RMSE of 1.12 s and a correlation of 0.90.
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Kido K, Tamura T, Ono N, Altaf-Ul-Amin MD, Sekine M, Kanaya S, Huang M. A Novel CNN-Based Framework for Classification of Signal Quality and Sleep Position from a Capacitive ECG Measurement. SENSORS 2019; 19:s19071731. [PMID: 30978955 PMCID: PMC6480172 DOI: 10.3390/s19071731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2019] [Revised: 03/27/2019] [Accepted: 04/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The further exploration of the capacitive ECG (cECG) is hindered by frequent fluctuations in signal quality from body movement and changes in sleep position. The processing framework must be fundamentally adapted to make full use of this signal. Therefore, we propose a new signal-processing framework that determines the signal quality for short signal segments (2 and 4 seconds) using a multi-class classification model (qua_model) based on a convolutional neural network (CNN). We built another independent deep CNN classifier (pos_model) to classify the sleep position. In the validation, 12 subjects were recruited for a 30-minute experiment, which required the subjects to lie on a bed in different sleeping positions. The short segments, classified as clear (C1 class) by the qua_model, were used to determine sleep positions with the pos_model. In 10-fold cross-validation, the qua_model for signals of 4-second length could recognize the signal of the C1 class at a 0.99 precision and a 0.99 recall; the pos_model could recognize the supine sleep position, the left, and right lateral sleep positions at a 0.99 averaged precision and a 0.99 averaged recall. Given the amount of data accumulated per night and the instability in the signal quality, this fully automatic processing framework is indispensable for a personal healthcare system. Therefore, this study could serve as an important step for cECG technique trying to explore the cECG for unconstrained heart monitoring.
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- Koshiro Kido
- Division of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma 630-0192, Japan.
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- Future Robotics Organization, Waseda University, Tokorozawa 359-1192, Japan.
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- Division of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma 630-0192, Japan.
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- Division of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma 630-0192, Japan.
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- Department of Medical care Technology, Tsukuba International University, Tsuchiura 300-0051, Japan.
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- Division of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma 630-0192, Japan.
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- Division of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma 630-0192, Japan.
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Design of a Wearable 12-Lead Noncontact Electrocardiogram Monitoring System. SENSORS 2019; 19:s19071509. [PMID: 30925752 PMCID: PMC6480574 DOI: 10.3390/s19071509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2019] [Revised: 03/24/2019] [Accepted: 03/25/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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A standard 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is an important tool in the diagnosis of heart diseases. Here, Ag/AgCl electrodes with conductive gels are usually used in a 12-lead ECG system to access biopotentials. However, using Ag/AgCl electrodes with conductive gels might be inconvenient in a prehospital setting. In previous studies, several dry electrodes have been developed to improve this issue. However, these dry electrodes have contact with the skin directly, and they might be still unsuitable for patients with wounds. In this study, a wearable 12-lead electrocardiogram monitoring system was proposed to improve the above issue. Here, novel noncontact electrodes were also designed to access biopotentials without contact with the skin directly. Moreover, by using the mechanical design, this system allows the user to easily wear and take off the device and to adjust the locations of the noncontact electrodes. The experimental results showed that the proposed system could exactly provide a good ECG signal quality even while walking and could detect the ECG features of the patients with myocardial ischemia, installation pacemaker, and ventricular premature contraction.
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Sharma M, Raval M, Acharya UR. A new approach to identify obstructive sleep apnea using an optimal orthogonal wavelet filter bank with ECG signals. INFORMATICS IN MEDICINE UNLOCKED 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.imu.2019.100170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Seo M, Choi M, Lee JS, Kim SW. Adaptive Noise Reduction Algorithm to Improve R Peak Detection in ECG Measured by Capacitive ECG Sensors. SENSORS 2018; 18:s18072086. [PMID: 29966231 PMCID: PMC6069047 DOI: 10.3390/s18072086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2018] [Revised: 06/16/2018] [Accepted: 06/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Electrocardiograms (ECGs) can be conveniently obtained using capacitive ECG sensors. However, motion noise in measured ECGs can degrade R peak detection. To reduce noise, properties of reference signal and ECG measured by the sensors are analyzed and a new method of active noise cancellation (ANC) is proposed in this study. In the proposed algorithm, the original ECG signal at QRS interval is regarded as impulsive noise because the adaptive filter updates its weight as if impulsive noise is added. As the proposed algorithm does not affect impulsive noise, the original signal is not reduced during ANC. Therefore, the proposed algorithm can conserve the power of the original signal within the QRS interval and reduce only the power of noise at other intervals. The proposed algorithm was verified through comparisons with recent research using data from both indoor and outdoor experiments. The proposed algorithm will benefit a noise reduction of noisy biomedical signal measured from sensors.
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- Minseok Seo
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 37673, Korea.
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- Department of Creative IT Engineering and Future IT Innovation Laboratory, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 37673, Korea.
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 37673, Korea.
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 37673, Korea.
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Sharma M, Agarwal S, Acharya UR. Application of an optimal class of antisymmetric wavelet filter banks for obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis using ECG signals. Comput Biol Med 2018; 100:100-113. [PMID: 29990643 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2018.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2018] [Revised: 06/11/2018] [Accepted: 06/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a sleep disorder caused due to interruption of breathing resulting in insufficient oxygen to the human body and brain. If the OSA is detected and treated at an early stage the possibility of severe health impairment can be mitigated. Therefore, an accurate automated OSA detection system is indispensable. Generally, OSA based computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system employs multi-channel, multi-signal physiological signals. However, there is a great need for single-channel bio-signal based low-power, a portable OSA-CAD system which can be used at home. In this study, we propose single-channel electrocardiogram (ECG) based OSA-CAD system using a new class of optimal biorthogonal antisymmetric wavelet filter bank (BAWFB). In this class of filter bank, all filters are of even length. The filter bank design problem is transformed into a constrained optimization problem wherein the objective is to minimize either frequency-spread for the given time-spread or time-spread for the given frequency-spread. The optimization problem is formulated as a semi-definite programming (SDP) problem. In the SDP problem, the objective function (time-spread or frequency-spread), constraints of perfect reconstruction (PR) and zero moment (ZM) are incorporated in their time domain matrix formulations. The global solution for SDP is obtained using interior point algorithm. The newly designed BAWFB is used for the classification of OSA using ECG signals taken from the physionet's Apnea-ECG database. The ECG segments of 1 min duration are decomposed into six wavelet subbands (WSBs) by employing the proposed BAWFB. Then, the fuzzy entropy (FE) and log-energy (LE) features are computed from all six WSBs. The FE and LE features are classified into normal and OSA groups using least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) with 35-fold cross-validation strategy. The proposed OSA detection model achieved the average classification accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and F-score of 90.11%, 90.87% 88.88% and 0.92, respectively. The performance of the model is found to be better than the existing works in detecting OSA using the same database. Thus, the proposed automated OSA detection system is accurate, cost-effective and ready to be tested with a huge database.
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- Manish Sharma
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management, Ahmedabad, India.
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management, Ahmedabad, India.
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- Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore 599489, Singapore; Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Science and Technology, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
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