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Y MK, P VK. Efficient EEG motion artifact elimination framework for ambulatory epileptic seizure detection application. Biomed Phys Eng Express 2024; 10:035005. [PMID: 38437724 DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/ad2ff4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Accepted: 03/04/2024] [Indexed: 03/06/2024]
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Motion artifacts are a pervasive challenge in EEG ambulatory monitoring, often obscuring critical neurological signals and impeding accurate seizure detection. In this study, we propose a new approach of outlier based grouping of two level Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) decomposition combined with Relative Total Variation (RTV) filter for the effective removal of motion-induced noise from ambulatory EEG data. A two-stage SSA method was employed to decompose single-channel EEG signal, which had been interfered with, into various fre quency bands. The affected sub-band signal was then subjected to an RTV filter to estimate the artifact signal. Subtracting this estimated artifact signal from the contaminated sub-band signal yielded the filtered sub-band signal. Subse quently, the filtered sub-band signal was reintegrated with the other decomposed components from noise-free bands, culminating in the generation of the ultimate denoised EEG signal. Based on the comprehensive set of simulation results, it can be deduced that the algorithm described in the paper outperforms existing methods. It demonstrates superior metrics evaluation in terms of ΔSNR,η,MAE, andPSNRwhen compared to these alternatives. Our framework sig- nificantly enhances the quality of EEG data by successfully eliminating motion artifacts while preserving crucial brainwave information. To evaluate the prac tical impact of this noise reduction technique, we assess its performance in the context of seizure detection. The results reveal a substantial improvement in the accuracy and reliability of seizure detection algorithms when applied to EEG data preprocessed with proposed method.
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- Murali Krishna Y
- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, JNTUK, Kakinada, 533003, Andhra Pradesh, India
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- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, UCEK, JNTUK, Kakinada, 533003, Andhra Pradesh, India
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Mio M, Tabata N, Toyofuku T, Nakamura H. [Reduction of Motion Artifacts in Liver MRI Using Deep Learning with High-pass Filtering]. Nihon Hoshasen Gijutsu Gakkai Zasshi 2024:2024-1408. [PMID: 38462509 DOI: 10.6009/jjrt.2024-1408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/12/2024]
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PURPOSE To investigate whether deep learning with high-pass filtering can be used to effectively reduce motion artifacts in magnetic resonance (MR) images of the liver. METHODS The subjects were 69 patients who underwent liver MR examination at our hospital. Simulated motion artifact images (SMAIs) were created from non-artifact images (NAIs) and used for deep learning. Structural similarity index measure (SSIM) and contrast ratio (CR) were used to verify the effect of reducing motion artifacts in motion artifact reduction image (MARI) output from the obtained deep learning model. In the visual assessment, reduction of motion artifacts and image sharpness were evaluated between motion artifact images (MAIs) and MARIs. RESULTS The SSIM values were 0.882 on the MARIs and 0.869 on the SMAIs. There was no statistically significant difference in CR between NAIs and MARIs. The visual assessment showed that MARIs had reduced motion artifacts and improved sharpness compared to MAIs. CONCLUSION The learning model in this study is indicated to be reduced motion artifacts without decreasing the sharpness of liver MR images.
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- Motohira Mio
- Department of Radiology, Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital
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- Department of Radiology, Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital
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- Department of Radiology, Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital
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Shin JH, Choi JY, June K, Choi H, Kim TI. Polymeric Conductive Adhesive-Based Ultrathin Epidermal Electrodes for Long-Term Monitoring of Electrophysiological Signals. Adv Mater 2024:e2313157. [PMID: 38421078 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202313157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2023] [Revised: 02/08/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024]
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Electrophysiology, exploring vital electrical phenomena in living organisms, anticipates broader integration into daily life through wearable devices and epidermal electrodes. However, addressing the challenges of the electrode durability and motion artifacts is essential to enable continuous and long-term biopotential signal monitoring, presenting a hurdle for its seamless implementation in daily life. To address these challenges, an ultrathin polymeric conductive adhesive, poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene): poly(styrenesulfonate)/polyvinyl alcohol/d-sorbitol (PPd) electrode with enhanced adhesion, stretchability, and skin conformability, is presented. The skin conformability and stability of electrodes is designed by theoretical criteria obtained by mechanical analysis. Thus, impedance stability is obtained over 1-week of daily life, and the PPd electrode addresses the challenges related to durability during prolonged usage. Proving stability in electromyography (EMG) signals during high-intensity exercise, the wireless PPd measurement system exhibits high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) signals even in situations involving significant and repetitive skin deformation. Throughout continuous 1 week-long electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring in daily life, the system consistently preserves signal quality, underscoring the heightened durability and applicability of the PPd measurement system.
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- Joo Hwan Shin
- School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea
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Kang SH, Lee Y. Motion Artifact Reduction Using U-Net Model with Three-Dimensional Simulation-Based Datasets for Brain Magnetic Resonance Images. Bioengineering (Basel) 2024; 11:227. [PMID: 38534500 DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering11030227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2023] [Revised: 02/20/2024] [Accepted: 02/23/2024] [Indexed: 03/28/2024] Open
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This study aimed to remove motion artifacts from brain magnetic resonance (MR) images using a U-Net model. In addition, a simulation method was proposed to increase the size of the dataset required to train the U-Net model while avoiding the overfitting problem. The volume data were rotated and translated with random intensity and frequency, in three dimensions, and were iterated as the number of slices in the volume data. Then, for every slice, a portion of the motion-free k-space data was replaced with motion k-space data, respectively. In addition, based on the transposed k-space data, we acquired MR images with motion artifacts and residual maps and constructed datasets. For a quantitative evaluation, the root mean square error (RMSE), peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), coefficient of correlation (CC), and universal image quality index (UQI) were measured. The U-Net models for motion artifact reduction with the residual map-based dataset showed the best performance across all evaluation factors. In particular, the RMSE, PSNR, CC, and UQI improved by approximately 5.35×, 1.51×, 1.12×, and 1.01×, respectively, and the U-Net model with the residual map-based dataset was compared with the direct images. In conclusion, our simulation-based dataset demonstrates that U-Net models can be effectively trained for motion artifact reduction.
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- Seong-Hyeon Kang
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eulji University, Seongnam 13135, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiological Science, Gachon University, Incheon 21936, Republic of Korea
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Ihara R, Oura D, Ichimura W, Kobayashi K. Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography using T2 preparation pulse: quantitative and qualitative analyses. Acta Radiol 2023; 64:2969-2976. [PMID: 37807657 DOI: 10.1177/02841851231203055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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BACKGROUND Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) may exhibit ghosting and blurring artifacts due to irregular breathing cycles, which can be overcome by shortening the shot duration. T2 preparation pulse enables heavy T2 contrast even with a shorter TE by use of the shortened shot duration; therefore, a technique using T2 preparation pulse combined with 3D turbo spin-echo MRCP (TPT-MRCP) was constructed. PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical usefulness of TPT-MRCP in both navigation and breath-hold sequences compared to the conventional method. MATERIAL AND METHODS We obtained navigation MRCP, which were TPT and conventional 3D turbo spin-echo in 37 patients, and breath-hold MRCP in 31 patients, which were TPT and gradient and spin echo. The quantitative evaluation included signal-to-noise ratio, contrast ratio, contrast-to-noise ratio and sharpness of the common bile duct in all sequences. Two radiologists visually evaluated image quality using a five-point grading method, assessing overall image quality and each of the six areas: common bile duct, right hepatic duct, left hepatic duct, main pancreatic duct, cystic duct and motion artifact. RESULTS TPT-MRCP was significantly superior to conventional MRCP in all quantitative evaluations, except for signal-to-noise ratio in the navigation sequence. In the visual evaluation, TPT-MRCP provided higher image quality than the conventional technique in nearly all areas. The kappa (k) coefficient of the overall image quality was good for all sequences (κ = 0.61-0.8). CONCLUSION TPT-MRCP provides higher image quality than conventional techniques in both navigation and breath-hold sequences. The present study demonstrates the greater clinical usefulness of TPT-MRCP.
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- Riku Ihara
- Department of radiology, Otaru General Hospital, Otaru, Japan
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- Department of radiology, Otaru General Hospital, Otaru, Japan
- Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of radiology, Otaru General Hospital, Otaru, Japan
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Qin L, Wu Y, Xu K, Zhao X. [Anti- motion Artifact Performance Test System for Ambulatory ECG Monitoring Equipment]. Zhongguo Yi Liao Qi Xie Za Zhi 2023; 47:624-629. [PMID: 38086718 DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1671-7104.2023.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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Anti-motion artifact is one of the most important properties of ambulatory ECG monitoring equipment. At present, there is a lack of standardized means to test the performance of anti-motion artifact. ECG simulator and special conductive leather are used to build the simulator, it is used to simulate human skin, to generate ECG signal input for the ECG monitoring equipment attached to it. The mechanical arm and fixed support are used to build a motion simulation system to fix the conductive leather. The mechanical arm is programmed to simulate various motion states of the human body, so that the ECG monitoring equipment can produce corresponding motion artifacts. The collected ECG signals are read wirelessly, observed, analyzed and compared, and the anti-motion artifact performance of ECG monitoring equipment is evaluated. The test results show that by artificially creating the small difference between the two groups of ambulatory ECG monitoring equipment, the system can accurately test the interference signals introduced under the conditions of controlled movement such as tension and torsion, and compare the advantages and disadvantages. The research shows that the test system can provide convenient and accurate verification means for the research of optimizing anti-motion interference.
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- Liping Qin
- Zhejiang Institute of Medical Device Supervision and Testing, Hangzhou, 310018
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- NMPA Key Laboratory for Biomedical Optics, Hangzhou, 310018
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- Key Laboratory of Safety Evaluation of Medical Devices of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, 310018
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- Key Laboratory of Safety Evaluation of Medical Devices of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, 310018
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Iida S, Kawamata D, Sakano Y, Yamanaka T, Nabeyoshi S, Matsuura T, Toshida M, Baba M, Fujimori N, Basavalingappa A, Han S, Katayama H, Azami J. A 3.0 µm Pixels and 1.5 µm Pixels Combined Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Image Sensor for High Dynamic Range Vision beyond 106 dB. Sensors (Basel) 2023; 23:8998. [PMID: 37960697 PMCID: PMC10648763 DOI: 10.3390/s23218998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2023] [Revised: 10/31/2023] [Accepted: 11/03/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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We propose a new concept image sensor suitable for viewing and sensing applications. This is a report of a CMOS image sensor with a pixel architecture consisting of a 1.5 μm pixel with four-floating-diffusions-shared pixel structures and a 3.0 μm pixel with an in-pixel capacitor. These pixels are four small quadrate pixels and one big square pixel, also called quadrate-square pixels. They are arranged in a staggered pitch array. The 1.5 μm pixel pitch allows for a resolution high enough to recognize distant road signs. The 3 μm pixel with intra-pixel capacitance provides two types of signal outputs: a low-noise signal with high conversion efficiency and a highly saturated signal output, resulting in a high dynamic range (HDR). Two types of signals with long exposure times are read out from the vertical pixel, and four types of signals are read out from the horizontal pixel. In addition, two signals with short exposure times are read out again from the square pixel. A total of eight different signals are read out. This allows two rows to be read out simultaneously while reducing motion blur. This architecture achieves both an HDR of 106 dB and LED flicker mitigation (LFM), as well as being motion-artifact-free and motion-blur-less. As a result, moving subjects can be accurately recognized and detected with good color reproducibility in any lighting environment. This allows a single sensor to deliver the performance required for viewing and sensing applications.
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- Satoko Iida
- Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Atsugi-shi 243-0014, Japan; (D.K.); (Y.S.); (T.Y.); (T.M.); (M.B.); (H.K.); (J.A.)
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- Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Atsugi-shi 243-0014, Japan; (D.K.); (Y.S.); (T.Y.); (T.M.); (M.B.); (H.K.); (J.A.)
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- Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Atsugi-shi 243-0014, Japan; (D.K.); (Y.S.); (T.Y.); (T.M.); (M.B.); (H.K.); (J.A.)
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- Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Atsugi-shi 243-0014, Japan; (D.K.); (Y.S.); (T.Y.); (T.M.); (M.B.); (H.K.); (J.A.)
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- Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, Kumamoto 860-8556, Japan; (S.N.); (N.F.)
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- Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Atsugi-shi 243-0014, Japan; (D.K.); (Y.S.); (T.Y.); (T.M.); (M.B.); (H.K.); (J.A.)
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- Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Atsugi-shi 243-0014, Japan; (D.K.); (Y.S.); (T.Y.); (T.M.); (M.B.); (H.K.); (J.A.)
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- Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Atsugi-shi 243-0014, Japan; (D.K.); (Y.S.); (T.Y.); (T.M.); (M.B.); (H.K.); (J.A.)
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- Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, Kumamoto 860-8556, Japan; (S.N.); (N.F.)
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- Sony Electronics Incorporated, Rochester, NY 14625, USA; (A.B.); (S.H.)
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- Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Atsugi-shi 243-0014, Japan; (D.K.); (Y.S.); (T.Y.); (T.M.); (M.B.); (H.K.); (J.A.)
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- Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Atsugi-shi 243-0014, Japan; (D.K.); (Y.S.); (T.Y.); (T.M.); (M.B.); (H.K.); (J.A.)
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Schmoigl-Tonis M, Schranz C, Müller-Putz GR. Methods for motion artifact reduction in online brain-computer interface experiments: a systematic review. Front Hum Neurosci 2023; 17:1251690. [PMID: 37920561 PMCID: PMC10619676 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1251690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2023] [Accepted: 09/11/2023] [Indexed: 11/04/2023] Open
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Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have emerged as a promising technology for enhancing communication between the human brain and external devices. Electroencephalography (EEG) is particularly promising in this regard because it has high temporal resolution and can be easily worn on the head in everyday life. However, motion artifacts caused by muscle activity, fasciculation, cable swings, or magnetic induction pose significant challenges in real-world BCI applications. In this paper, we present a systematic review of methods for motion artifact reduction in online BCI experiments. Using the PRISMA filter method, we conducted a comprehensive literature search on PubMed, focusing on open access publications from 1966 to 2022. We evaluated 2,333 publications based on predefined filtering rules to identify existing methods and pipelines for motion artifact reduction in EEG data. We present a lookup table of all papers that passed the defined filters, all used methods, and pipelines and compare their overall performance and suitability for online BCI experiments. We summarize suitable methods, algorithms, and concepts for motion artifact reduction in online BCI applications, highlight potential research gaps, and discuss existing community consensus. This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of the field and guide researchers in selecting appropriate methods for motion artifact reduction in online BCI experiments.
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- Mathias Schmoigl-Tonis
- Laboratory of Collaborative Robotics, Department of Human Motion Analytics, Salzburg Research GmbH, Salzburg, Austria
- Institute of Neural Engineering, Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
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- Laboratory of Collaborative Robotics, Department of Human Motion Analytics, Salzburg Research GmbH, Salzburg, Austria
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- Institute of Neural Engineering, Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
- BioTechMed Graz, Graz, Austria
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Woodhams LG, Guo J, Schuftan D, Boyle JJ, Pryse KM, Elson EL, Huebsch N, Genin GM. Virtual blebbistatin: A robust and rapid software approach to motion artifact removal in optical mapping of cardiomyocytes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2212949120. [PMID: 37695908 PMCID: PMC10515162 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2212949120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2022] [Accepted: 07/31/2023] [Indexed: 09/13/2023] Open
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Fluorescent reporters of cardiac electrophysiology provide valuable information on heart cell and tissue function. However, motion artifacts caused by cardiac muscle contraction interfere with accurate measurement of fluorescence signals. Although drugs such as blebbistatin can be applied to stop cardiac tissue from contracting by uncoupling calcium-contraction, their usage prevents the study of excitation-contraction coupling and, as we show, impacts cellular structure. We therefore developed a robust method to remove motion computationally from images of contracting cardiac muscle and to map fluorescent reporters of cardiac electrophysiological activity onto images of undeformed tissue. When validated on cardiomyocytes derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), in both monolayers and engineered tissues, the method enabled efficient and robust reduction of motion artifact. As with pharmacologic approaches using blebbistatin for motion removal, our algorithm improved the accuracy of optical mapping, as demonstrated by spatial maps of calcium transient decay. However, unlike pharmacologic motion removal, our computational approach allowed direct analysis of calcium-contraction coupling. Results revealed calcium-contraction coupling to be more uniform across cells within engineered tissues than across cells in monolayer culture. The algorithm shows promise as a robust and accurate tool for optical mapping studies of excitation-contraction coupling in heart tissue.
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- Louis G Woodhams
- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110
- NSF Science and Technology Center for Engineering Mechanobiology, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130
- NSF Science and Technology Center for Engineering Mechanobiology, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130
- NSF Science and Technology Center for Engineering Mechanobiology, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130
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Abdelkarim A, Roy SK, Kinninger A, Salek A, Baranski O, Andreini D, Pontone G, Conte E, O’Rourke R, Hamilton-Craig C, Budoff MJ. Evaluation of Image Quality for High Heart Rates for Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography with Advancement in CT Technology: The CONVERGE Registry. J Cardiovasc Dev Dis 2023; 10:404. [PMID: 37754833 PMCID: PMC10532141 DOI: 10.3390/jcdd10090404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2023] [Revised: 09/15/2023] [Accepted: 09/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/28/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE This study aims to evaluate image quality in patients with heart rates above or equal to 70 beats per minute (bpm), performed on a 16 cm scanner (256-slice General Electric Revolution) in comparison to a CT scanner with only 4 cm of coverage (64 slice Volume CT). BACKGROUND Recent advancements in image acquisition, such as whole-heart coverage in a single rotation and post-processing methods in coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA), include motion-correction algorithms, such as SnapShot Freeze (SSF), which improve temporal resolution and allow for the assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD) with lower motion scores and better image qualities. Studies from the comprehensive evaluation of high temporal- and spatial-resolution cardiac CT using a wide coverage system (CONVERGE) registry (a multicenter registry at four centers) have shown the 16 cm CT scanner having a better image quality in comparison to the 4 cm scanner. However, these studies failed to include patients with undesirable or high heart rates due to well-documented poor image acquisition on prior generations of CCTA scanners. METHODS A prospective, observational, multicenter cohort study comparing image quality, quantitively and qualitatively, on scans performed on a 16 cm CCTA in comparison to a cohort of images captured on a 4 cm CCTA at four centers. Participants were recruited based on broad inclusion criteria, and each patient in the 16 cm CCTA arm of the study received a CCTA scan using a 256-slice, whole-heart, single-beat scanner. These patients were then matched by age, gender, and heart rate to patients who underwent CCTA scans on a 4 cm CT scanner. Image quality was graded based on the signal-to-noise ratio, contrast-to-noise ratio, and on a Likert scale of 0-4: 0, very poor-4, excellent. RESULTS 104 patients were evaluated for this study. The mean heart rate was 75 ± 7 in the 4 cm scanner and 75 ± 7 in the 16 cm one (p = 0.426). The signal-to-noise and contrast-to-noise ratios were higher in the 16 cm scanner (p = 0.0001). In addition, more scans were evaluated as having an excellent quality on the 16 cm scanner than on the 4 cm scanner (p < 0.0001) based on a 4-point Likert scale. CONCLUSIONS The 16 cm scanner has a superior image quality for fast heart rates compared to the 4 cm scanner. This study shows that there is a significantly higher frequency of excellent and good studies showing better contrast-to-noise and signal-to-noise ratios with the 16 cm scanner compared to the 4 cm scanner.
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- Ayman Abdelkarim
- Department of Medicine, Lundquist Institute, Torrance, CA 90502, USA; (A.A.); (O.B.)
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- Department of Medicine, Lundquist Institute, Torrance, CA 90502, USA; (A.A.); (O.B.)
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- Department of Medicine, Lundquist Institute, Torrance, CA 90502, USA; (A.A.); (O.B.)
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- Department of Medicine, Lundquist Institute, Torrance, CA 90502, USA; (A.A.); (O.B.)
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- Department of Medicine, Lundquist Institute, Torrance, CA 90502, USA; (A.A.); (O.B.)
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- Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, 20138 Milan, Italy (G.P.)
- Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Cardiovascular Section, University of Milan, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, 20138 Milan, Italy (G.P.)
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- Department of Medical Imaging, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, 4032 QLD, Australia (C.H.-C.)
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- Department of Medical Imaging, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, 4032 QLD, Australia (C.H.-C.)
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- Department of Medicine, Lundquist Institute, Torrance, CA 90502, USA; (A.A.); (O.B.)
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Thakur S, Chao PCP, Tsai CH. Precision Heart Rate Estimation Using a PPG Sensor Patch Equipped with New Algorithms of Pre-Quality Checking and Hankel Decomposition. Sensors (Basel) 2023; 23:6180. [PMID: 37448029 DOI: 10.3390/s23136180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2023] [Revised: 06/24/2023] [Accepted: 06/28/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023]
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A new method for accurately estimating heart rates based on a single photoplethysmography (PPG) signal and accelerations is proposed in this study, considering motion artifacts due to subjects' hand motions and walking. The method comprises two sub-algorithms: pre-quality checking and motion artifact removal (MAR) via Hankel decomposition. PPGs and accelerations were collected using a wearable device equipped with a PPG sensor patch and a 3-axis accelerometer. The motion artifacts caused by hand movements and walking were effectively mitigated by the two aforementioned sub-algorithms. The first sub-algorithm utilized a new quality-assessment criterion to identify highly noise-contaminated PPG signals and exclude them from subsequent processing. The second sub-algorithm employed the Hankel matrix and singular value decomposition (SVD) to effectively identify, decompose, and remove motion artifacts. Experimental data collected during hand-moving and walking were considered for evaluation. The performance of the proposed algorithms was assessed using the datasets from the IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2015. The obtained results demonstrated an average error of merely 0.7345 ± 8.1129 beats per minute (bpm) and a mean absolute error of 1.86 bpm for walking, making it the second most accurate method to date that employs a single PPG and a 3-axis accelerometer. The proposed method also achieved the best accuracy of 3.78 bpm in mean absolute errors among all previously reported studies for hand-moving scenarios.
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- Smriti Thakur
- Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
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- Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
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- Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
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Al-Omairi HR, Fudickar S, Hein A, Rieger JW. Improved Motion Artifact Correction in fNIRS Data by Combining Wavelet and Correlation-Based Signal Improvement. Sensors (Basel) 2023; 23:3979. [PMID: 37112320 PMCID: PMC10146128 DOI: 10.3390/s23083979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Revised: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 04/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is an optical non-invasive neuroimaging technique that allows participants to move relatively freely. However, head movements frequently cause optode movements relative to the head, leading to motion artifacts (MA) in the measured signal. Here, we propose an improved algorithmic approach for MA correction that combines wavelet and correlation-based signal improvement (WCBSI). We compare its MA correction accuracy to multiple established correction approaches (spline interpolation, spline-Savitzky-Golay filter, principal component analysis, targeted principal component analysis, robust locally weighted regression smoothing filter, wavelet filter, and correlation-based signal improvement) on real data. Therefore, we measured brain activity in 20 participants performing a hand-tapping task and simultaneously moving their head to produce MAs at different levels of severity. In order to obtain a "ground truth" brain activation, we added a condition in which only the tapping task was performed. We compared the MA correction performance among the algorithms on four predefined metrics (R, RMSE, MAPE, and ΔAUC) and ranked the performances. The suggested WCBSI algorithm was the only one exceeding average performance (p < 0.001), and it had the highest probability to be the best ranked algorithm (78.8% probability). Together, our results indicate that among all algorithms tested, our suggested WCBSI approach performed consistently favorably across all measures.
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- Hayder R. Al-Omairi
- Applied Neurocognitive Psychology Lab, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, D-26129 Oldenburg, Germany
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Technology—Iraq, Baghdad 10066, Iraq
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- Assistance Systems and Medical Device Technology, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany; (S.F.); (A.H.)
- Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Lübeck, D-23538 Lübeck, Germany
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- Assistance Systems and Medical Device Technology, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany; (S.F.); (A.H.)
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- Applied Neurocognitive Psychology Lab, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, D-26129 Oldenburg, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, D-26129 Oldenburg, Germany
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Ahmed Z, Campeau D, Gong H, Rajendran K, Rajiah P, McCollough C, Leng S. High-pitch, high temporal resolution, multi-energy cardiac imaging on a dual-source photon-counting-detector CT. Med Phys 2023; 50:1428-1435. [PMID: 36427356 PMCID: PMC10033375 DOI: 10.1002/mp.16124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2022] [Revised: 11/11/2022] [Accepted: 11/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To measure the accuracy of material decomposition using a dual-source photon-counting-detector (DS-PCD) CT operated in the high-pitch helical scanning mode and compare the results against dual-source energy-integrating-detector (DS-EID) CT, which requires use of a low-pitch value in dual-energy mode. METHODS A DS-PCD CT and a DS-EID CT were used to scan a cardiac motion phantom consisting of a 3-mm diameter iodine cylinder. Iodine maps were reconstructed using DS-PCD in high-pitch mode and DS-EID in low-pitch mode. Image-based circularity, diameter, and iodine concentration of the iodine cylinder were calculated and compared between the two scanners. With institutional review board approval, in vivo exams were performed with the DS-PCD CT in high-pitch mode. Images were qualitatively compared against patients with similar heart rates that were scanned with DS-EID CT in low-pitch dual-energy mode. RESULTS On iodine maps, the mean circularity was 0.97 ± 0.02 with DS-PCD in high-pitch mode and 0.95 ± 0.06 with DS-EID in low-pitch mode. The mean diameter was 2.9 ± 0.2 mm with DS-PCD and 3.1 ± 0.2 mm with DS-EID, both of which are close to the 3 mm ground truth. For DS-PCD, the mean iodine concentration was 9.6 ± 0.8 mg/ml and this was consistent with the 9.4 ± 0.6 mg/ml value obtained with the cardiac motion disabled. For DS-EID, the concentration was 12.7 ± 1.2 mg/ml with motion enabled and 11.7 ± 0.5 mg/ml disabled. The background noise in the iodine maps was 15.1 HU with DS-PCD and 14.4 HU with DS-EID, whereas the volume CT dose index (CTDIvol ) was 3 mGy with DS-PCD and 11 mGy with DS-EID. On comparison of six patients (three on PCD, three on EID) with similar heart rates, DS-PCD provided iodine maps with well-defined coronaries even at a high heart rate of 86 beats per minute. Meanwhile, there were substantial motion artifacts in iodine maps obtained with DS-EID for patients with similar heart rates. CONCLUSION In a cardiac motion phantom, DS-PCD CT can perform accurate material decomposition in high-pitch mode, providing iodine maps with excellent geometric accuracy and robustness to motion at approximately 38% of the dose for similar noise as DS-EID CT.
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- Zaki Ahmed
- Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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Dasegowda G, Bizzo BC, Kaviani P, Karout L, Ebrahimian S, Digumarthy SR, Neumark N, Hillis JM, Kalra MK, Dreyer KJ. Auto-Detection of Motion Artifacts on CT Pulmonary Angiograms with a Physician-Trained AI Algorithm. Diagnostics (Basel) 2023; 13:778. [PMID: 36832266 PMCID: PMC9955317 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13040778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2022] [Revised: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/16/2023] [Indexed: 02/22/2023] Open
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Purpose: Motion-impaired CT images can result in limited or suboptimal diagnostic interpretation (with missed or miscalled lesions) and patient recall. We trained and tested an artificial intelligence (AI) model for identifying substantial motion artifacts on CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) that have a negative impact on diagnostic interpretation. Methods: With IRB approval and HIPAA compliance, we queried our multicenter radiology report database (mPower, Nuance) for CTPA reports between July 2015 and March 2022 for the following terms: "motion artifacts", "respiratory motion", "technically inadequate", and "suboptimal" or "limited exam". All CTPA reports were from two quaternary (Site A, n = 335; B, n = 259) and a community (C, n = 199) healthcare sites. A thoracic radiologist reviewed CT images of all positive hits for motion artifacts (present or absent) and their severity (no diagnostic effect or major diagnostic impairment). Coronal multiplanar images from 793 CTPA exams were de-identified and exported offline into an AI model building prototype (Cognex Vision Pro, Cognex Corporation) to train an AI model to perform two-class classification ("motion" or "no motion") with data from the three sites (70% training dataset, n = 554; 30% validation dataset, n = 239). Separately, data from Site A and Site C were used for training and validating; testing was performed on the Site B CTPA exams. A five-fold repeated cross-validation was performed to evaluate the model performance with accuracy and receiver operating characteristics analysis (ROC). Results: Among the CTPA images from 793 patients (mean age 63 ± 17 years; 391 males, 402 females), 372 had no motion artifacts, and 421 had substantial motion artifacts. The statistics for the average performance of the AI model after five-fold repeated cross-validation for the two-class classification included 94% sensitivity, 91% specificity, 93% accuracy, and 0.93 area under the ROC curve (AUC: 95% CI 0.89-0.97). Conclusion: The AI model used in this study can successfully identify CTPA exams with diagnostic interpretation limiting motion artifacts in multicenter training and test datasets. Clinical relevance: The AI model used in the study can help alert technologists about the presence of substantial motion artifacts on CTPA, where a repeat image acquisition can help salvage diagnostic information.
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- Giridhar Dasegowda
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
- Mass General Brigham Data Science Office, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
- Mass General Brigham Data Science Office, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
- Mass General Brigham Data Science Office, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
- Mass General Brigham Data Science Office, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Mass General Brigham Data Science Office, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
- Mass General Brigham Data Science Office, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
- Mass General Brigham Data Science Office, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
- Mass General Brigham Data Science Office, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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Ding J, Tang Y, Chang R, Li Y, Zhang L, Yan F. Reduction in the Motion Artifacts in Noncontact ECG Measurements Using a Novel Designed Electrode Structure. Sensors (Basel) 2023; 23:956. [PMID: 36679753 PMCID: PMC9863993 DOI: 10.3390/s23020956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2022] [Revised: 01/09/2023] [Accepted: 01/12/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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A noncontact ECG is applicable to wearable bioelectricity acquisition because it can provide more comfort to the patient for long-term monitoring. However, the motion artifact is a significant source of noise in an ECG recording. Adaptive noise reduction is highly effective in suppressing motion artifact, usually through the use of external sensors, thus increasing the design complexity and cost. In this paper, a novel ECG electrode structure is designed to collect ECG data and reference data simultaneously. Combined with the adaptive filter, it effectively suppresses the motion artifact in the ECG acquisition. This method adds one more signal acquisition channel based on the single-channel ECG acquisition system to acquire the reference signal without introducing other sensors. Firstly, the design of the novel ECG electrode structure is introduced based on the principle of noise reduction. Secondly, a multichannel signal acquisition circuit system and ECG electrodes are implemented. Finally, experiments under normal walking conditions are carried out, and the performance is verified by the experiment results, which shows that the proposed design effectively suppresses motion artifacts and maintains the stability of the signal quality during the noncontact ECG acquisition. The signal-to-noise ratio of the ECG signal after noise reduction is 14 dB higher than that of the original ECG signal with the motion artifact.
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Tang Y, Gitajn IL, Cao X, Han X, Elliott JT, Yu X, Bateman LM, Malskis BS, Fisher LA, Sin JM, Henderson ER, Pogue BW, Jiang S. Automated motion artifact correction for dynamic contrast-enhanced fluorescence imaging during open orthopedic surgery. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng 2023; 12361:1236104. [PMID: 37034556 PMCID: PMC10078951 DOI: 10.1117/12.2650028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/15/2023]
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Indocyanine green (ICG)-based dynamic contrast-enhanced fluorescence imaging (DCE-FI) can objectively assess bone perfusion intraoperatively. However, it is susceptible to motion artifacts due to patient's involuntary respiration during the 4.5-minute DCE-FI data acquisition. An automated motion correction approach based on mutual information (MI) frameby-frame was developed to overcome this problem. In this approach, MIs were calculated between the reference and the adjacent frame translated and the maximal MI corresponded to the optimal translation. The images obtained from eighteen amputation cases were utilized to validate the approach and the results show that this correction can significantly reduce the motion artifacts and can improve the accuracy of bone perfusion assessment.
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- Yue Tang
- Thayer school of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA 03755
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA 03756
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- Thayer school of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA 03755
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- Thayer school of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA 03755
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA 03756
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- Thayer school of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA 03755
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA 03756
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA 03756
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA 03756
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- Department of Radiology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA 03756
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA 03756
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- Thayer school of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA 03755
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- Thayer school of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA 03755
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Jang J, Chung YE, Kim S, Hwang D. Fully automatic quantification of transient severe respiratory motion artifact of gadoxetate disodium-enhanced MRI during arterial phase. Med Phys 2022; 49:7247-7261. [PMID: 35754384 DOI: 10.1002/mp.15831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2021] [Revised: 05/16/2022] [Accepted: 06/09/2022] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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PURPOSE It is important to fully automate the evaluation of gadoxetate disodium-enhanced arterial phase images because the efficient quantification of transient severe motion artifacts can be used in a variety of applications. Our study proposes a fully automatic evaluation method of motion artifacts during the arterial phase of gadoxetate disodium-enhanced MR imaging. METHODS The proposed method was based on the construction of quality-aware features to represent the motion artifact using MR image statistics and multidirectional filtered coefficients. Using the quality-aware features, the method calculated quantitative quality scores of gadoxetate disodium-enhanced images fully automatically. The performance of our proposed method, as well as two other methods, was acquired by correlating scores against subjective scores from radiologists based on the 5-point scale and binary evaluation. The subjective scores evaluated by two radiologists were severity scores of motion artifacts in the evaluation set on a scale of 1 (no motion artifacts) to 5 (severe motion artifacts). RESULTS Pearson's linear correlation coefficient (PLCC) and Spearman's rank-ordered correlation coefficient (SROCC) values of our proposed method against the subjective scores were 0.9036 and 0.9057, respectively, whereas the PLCC values of two other methods were 0.6525 and 0.8243, and the SROCC values were 0.6070 and 0.8348. Also, in terms of binary quantification of transient severe respiratory motion, the proposed method achieved 0.9310 sensitivity, 0.9048 specificity, and 0.9200 accuracy, whereas the other two methods achieved 0.7586, 0.8996 sensitivities, 0.8098, 0.8905 specificities, and 0.9200, 0.9048 accuracies CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrated the high performance of the proposed automatic quantification method in evaluating transient severe motion artifacts in arterial phase images.
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- Jinseong Jang
- School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.,Department of Radiology and Center for Clinical Imaging Data Science (CCIDS), Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.,Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Yonsei University College of Dentistry, Seoul, Republic of Korea.,Center for Healthcare Robotics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Kang Y, Choi S, Koo C, Joung Y. Development and Optimization of Silicon-Dioxide-Coated Capacitive Electrode for Ambulatory ECG Measurement System. Sensors (Basel) 2022; 22:8388. [PMID: 36366085 PMCID: PMC9656767 DOI: 10.3390/s22218388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2022] [Revised: 10/28/2022] [Accepted: 10/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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This paper presents a silicon-dioxide-coated capacitive electrode system for an ambulatory electrocardiogram (ECG). The electrode was coated with a nano-leveled (287 nm) silicon dioxide layer which has a very high resistance of over 200 MΩ. Due to this high resistance, the electrode can be defined as only a capacitor without a resistive characteristic. This distinct capacitive characteristic of the electrode brings a simplified circuit analysis to achieve the development of a high-quality ambulatory ECG system. The 240 um thickness electrode was composed of a stainless-steel sheet layer for sensing, a polyimide electrical insulation layer, and a copper sheet connected with the ground to block any electrical noises generated from the back side of the structure. Six different diameter electrodes were prepared to optimize ECG signals in ambulatory environment, such as the amplitude of the QRS complex, amplitude of electromagnetic interference (EMI), and baseline wandering of the ECG signals. By combining the experimental results, optimal ambulatory ECG signals were obtained with electrodes that have a diameter from 1 to 3 cm. Moreover, we achieved high-quality ECG signals in a sweating simulation environment with 2 cm electrodes.
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Gao Y, Chao H, Cavuoto L, Yan P, Kruger U, Norfleet JE, Makled BA, Schwaitzberg S, De S, Intes X. Deep learning-based motion artifact removal in functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Neurophotonics 2022; 9:041406. [PMID: 35475257 PMCID: PMC9034734 DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.9.4.041406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2021] [Accepted: 03/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
Abstract
Significance: Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), a well-established neuroimaging technique, enables monitoring cortical activation while subjects are unconstrained. However, motion artifact is a common type of noise that can hamper the interpretation of fNIRS data. Current methods that have been proposed to mitigate motion artifacts in fNIRS data are still dependent on expert-based knowledge and the post hoc tuning of parameters. Aim: Here, we report a deep learning method that aims at motion artifact removal from fNIRS data while being assumption free. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first investigation to report on the use of a denoising autoencoder (DAE) architecture for motion artifact removal. Approach: To facilitate the training of this deep learning architecture, we (i) designed a specific loss function and (ii) generated data to mimic the properties of recorded fNIRS sequences. Results: The DAE model outperformed conventional methods in lowering residual motion artifacts, decreasing mean squared error, and increasing computational efficiency. Conclusion: Overall, this work demonstrates the potential of deep learning models for accurate and fast motion artifact removal in fNIRS data.
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- Yuanyuan Gao
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Center for Modeling, Simulation and Imaging in Medicine, Troy, New York, United States
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- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Troy, New York, United States
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- University at Buffalo, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Buffalo, New York, United States
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- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Center for Modeling, Simulation and Imaging in Medicine, Troy, New York, United States
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Troy, New York, United States
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- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Center for Modeling, Simulation and Imaging in Medicine, Troy, New York, United States
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Troy, New York, United States
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- U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command–Soldier Center, Orlando, Florida, United States
- SFC Paul Ray Smith Simulation and Training Technology Center, Orlando, Florida, United States
- Medical Simulation Research Branch, Orlando, Florida, United States
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- U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command–Soldier Center, Orlando, Florida, United States
- SFC Paul Ray Smith Simulation and Training Technology Center, Orlando, Florida, United States
- Medical Simulation Research Branch, Orlando, Florida, United States
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- University at Buffalo, Department of Surgery, Buffalo, New York, United States
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- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Center for Modeling, Simulation and Imaging in Medicine, Troy, New York, United States
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Troy, New York, United States
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- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Center for Modeling, Simulation and Imaging in Medicine, Troy, New York, United States
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Troy, New York, United States
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Hoff MN, Xiang QS, Cross NM, Hippe D, Andre JB. Motion resilience of the balanced steady-state free precession geometric solution. Magn Reson Med 2022; 89:192-204. [PMID: 36093906 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2022] [Revised: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 08/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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PURPOSE Many MRI sequences are sensitive to motion and its associated artifacts. The linearized geometric solution (LGS), a balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) off-resonance signal demodulation technique, is evaluated with respect to motion artifact resilience. THEORY AND METHODS The mechanism and extent of LGS motion artifact resilience is examined in simulated, flow phantom, and in vivo clinical imaging. Motion artifact correction capabilities are decoupled from susceptibility artifact correction when feasible to permit controlled analysis of motion artifact correction when comparing the LGS with standard and phase-cycle-averaged (complex sum) bSSFP imaging. RESULTS Simulations reveal that the LGS demonstrates motion artifact reduction capabilities similar to standard clinical bSSFP imaging techniques, with slightly greater resilience in high SNR regions and for shorter-duration motion. Flow phantom experiments assert that the LGS reduces shorter-duration motion artifact error by ∼24%-65% relative to the complex sum, whereas reconstructions exhibit similar error reduction for constant motion. In vivo analysis demonstrates that in the internal auditory canal/orbits, the LGS was deemed to have less artifact in 24%/49% and similar artifact in 76%/51% of radiological assessments relative to the complex sum, and the LGS had less artifact in 97%/81% and similar artifact in 3%/16% of assessments relative to standard bSSFP. Only 2 of 63 assessments deemed the LGS inferior to either complex sum or standard bSSFP in terms of artifact reduction. CONCLUSION The LGS provides sufficient bSSFP motion artifact resilience to permit robust elimination of susceptibility artifacts, inspiring its use in a wide variety of applications.
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- Michael N Hoff
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Clinical Biostatistics, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Studnicki A, Downey RJ, Ferris DP. Characterizing and Removing Artifacts Using Dual-Layer EEG during Table Tennis. Sensors (Basel) 2022; 22:s22155867. [PMID: 35957423 PMCID: PMC9371038 DOI: 10.3390/s22155867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2022] [Revised: 07/28/2022] [Accepted: 08/02/2022] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Researchers can improve the ecological validity of brain research by studying humans moving in real-world settings. Recent work shows that dual-layer EEG can improve the fidelity of electrocortical recordings during gait, but it is unclear whether these positive results extrapolate to non-locomotor paradigms. For our study, we recorded brain activity with dual-layer EEG while participants played table tennis, a whole-body, responsive sport that could help investigate visuomotor feedback, object interception, and performance monitoring. We characterized artifacts with time-frequency analyses and correlated scalp and reference noise data to determine how well different sensors captured artifacts. As expected, individual scalp channels correlated more with noise-matched channel time series than with head and body acceleration. We then compared artifact removal methods with and without the use of the dual-layer noise electrodes. Independent Component Analysis separated channels into components, and we counted the number of high-quality brain components based on the fit of a dipole model and using an automated labeling algorithm. We found that using noise electrodes for data processing provided cleaner brain components. These results advance technological approaches for recording high fidelity brain dynamics in human behaviors requiring whole body movement, which will be useful for brain science research.
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Wang L, Chen Z, Zhu Z, Yu X, Mo J. Compressive-sensing swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography with reduced noise. J Biophotonics 2022; 15:e202200087. [PMID: 35488181 DOI: 10.1002/jbio.202200087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2022] [Revised: 04/25/2022] [Accepted: 04/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA), as a functional extension of optical coherence tomography (OCT), has exhibited a great potential to aid in clinical diagnostics. Currently, OCTA still suffers from motion artifact and noise. Therefore, in this article, we propose to implement compressive sensing (CS) on B-scans to reduce motion artifact by increasing B-scan rate. Meanwhile, a noise reduction filter is specially designed by combining CS, Gaussian filter and median filter. Specially, CS filtering is realized by averaging multiple CS repetitions on en-face OCTA images with varied sampling functions. The method is evaluated on in vivo OCTA images of human skin. The results show that vasculature structures can be reconstructed well through CS on B-scans with a sampling rate of 70%. Moreover, the noise can be significantly eliminated by the developed filter. This implies that our method has a good potential to expedite OCTA imaging and improve the image quality.
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- Lingyun Wang
- School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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Deng F, Wan Q, Zeng Y, Shi Y, Wu H, Wu Y, Xu W, Mok GSP, Zhang X, Hu Z. Image restoration of motion artifacts in cardiac arteries and vessels based on a generative adversarial network. Quant Imaging Med Surg 2022; 12:2755-2766. [PMID: 35502383 PMCID: PMC9014156 DOI: 10.21037/qims-20-1400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2020] [Accepted: 01/14/2022] [Indexed: 10/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND When the heart rate of a patient exceeds the physical limits of a scanning device, even retrospective electrocardiography (ECG) gating technology cannot correct motion artifacts. The purpose of this study was to use deep learning methods to correct motion artifacts in coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) images acquired with retrospective ECG gating. METHODS To correct motion artifacts in CCTA images, we used a cycle Wasserstein generative adversarial network with a gradient penalty (WGAN-GP) to synthesize CCTA images without motion artifacts, and applied objective image indicators and clinical quantitative scores to evaluate the images. The objective image indicators included peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), structural similarity (SSIM), and normalized mean square error (NMSE). For clinical quantitative scoring, we randomly selected 50 sets of images from the test data set as the scoring data set. We invited 2 radiologists from Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University to score the composite images. RESULTS In the test images, the PSNR, SSIM, NMSE and clinical quantitative score were 24.96±1.54, 0.769±0.055, 0.031±0.023, and 4.12±0.61, respectively. The images synthesized by cycle WGAN-GP performed better on objective image indicators and clinical quantitative scores than those synthesized by cycle least squares generative adversarial network (LSGAN), UNet, WGAN, and cycle WGAN. CONCLUSIONS Our proposed method can effectively correct the motion artifacts of coronary arteries in CCTA images and performs better than other methods. According to the performance of the clinical score, correction of images by this method does not affect the clinical diagnosis.
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- Fuquan Deng
- Computer Department of North China Electric Power University, Baoding, China
- Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
- Shenzhen College of Advanced Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Computer Department of North China Electric Power University, Baoding, China
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- Biomedical Imaging Laboratory (BIG), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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Hossain MS, Chowdhury MEH, Reaz MBI, Ali SHM, Bakar AAA, Kiranyaz S, Khandakar A, Alhatou M, Habib R, Hossain MM. Motion Artifacts Correction from Single-Channel EEG and fNIRS Signals Using Novel Wavelet Packet Decomposition in Combination with Canonical Correlation Analysis. Sensors (Basel) 2022; 22:s22093169. [PMID: 35590859 DOI: 10.1109/access.2022.3159155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2022] [Revised: 03/24/2022] [Accepted: 03/25/2022] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The electroencephalogram (EEG) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) signals, highly non-stationary in nature, greatly suffers from motion artifacts while recorded using wearable sensors. Since successful detection of various neurological and neuromuscular disorders is greatly dependent upon clean EEG and fNIRS signals, it is a matter of utmost importance to remove/reduce motion artifacts from EEG and fNIRS signals using reliable and robust methods. In this regard, this paper proposes two robust methods: (i) Wavelet packet decomposition (WPD) and (ii) WPD in combination with canonical correlation analysis (WPD-CCA), for motion artifact correction from single-channel EEG and fNIRS signals. The efficacy of these proposed techniques is tested using a benchmark dataset and the performance of the proposed methods is measured using two well-established performance matrices: (i) difference in the signal to noise ratio ( ) and (ii) percentage reduction in motion artifacts ( ). The proposed WPD-based single-stage motion artifacts correction technique produces the highest average (29.44 dB) when db2 wavelet packet is incorporated whereas the greatest average (53.48%) is obtained using db1 wavelet packet for all the available 23 EEG recordings. Our proposed two-stage motion artifacts correction technique, i.e., the WPD-CCA method utilizing db1 wavelet packet has shown the best denoising performance producing an average and values of 30.76 dB and 59.51%, respectively, for all the EEG recordings. On the other hand, for the available 16 fNIRS recordings, the two-stage motion artifacts removal technique, i.e., WPD-CCA has produced the best average (16.55 dB, utilizing db1 wavelet packet) and largest average (41.40%, using fk8 wavelet packet). The highest average and using single-stage artifacts removal techniques (WPD) are found as 16.11 dB and 26.40%, respectively, for all the fNIRS signals using fk4 wavelet packet. In both EEG and fNIRS modalities, the percentage reduction in motion artifacts increases by 11.28% and 56.82%, respectively when two-stage WPD-CCA techniques are employed in comparison with the single-stage WPD method. In addition, the average also increases when WPD-CCA techniques are used instead of single-stage WPD for both EEG and fNIRS signals. The increment in both and values is a clear indication that two-stage WPD-CCA performs relatively better compared to single-stage WPD. The results reported using the proposed methods outperform most of the existing state-of-the-art techniques.
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- Md Shafayet Hossain
- Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia
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- Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia
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- Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia
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- Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar
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- Neuromuscular Division, Department of Neurology, Al-Khor Branch, Hamad General Hospital, Doha 3050, Qatar
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- Department of Neurology, BIRDEM General Hospital, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
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Hossain MS, Chowdhury MEH, Reaz MBI, Ali SHM, Bakar AAA, Kiranyaz S, Khandakar A, Alhatou M, Habib R, Hossain MM. Motion Artifacts Correction from Single-Channel EEG and fNIRS Signals Using Novel Wavelet Packet Decomposition in Combination with Canonical Correlation Analysis. Sensors (Basel) 2022; 22:s22093169. [PMID: 35590859 PMCID: PMC9102309 DOI: 10.3390/s22093169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2022] [Revised: 03/24/2022] [Accepted: 03/25/2022] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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The electroencephalogram (EEG) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) signals, highly non-stationary in nature, greatly suffers from motion artifacts while recorded using wearable sensors. Since successful detection of various neurological and neuromuscular disorders is greatly dependent upon clean EEG and fNIRS signals, it is a matter of utmost importance to remove/reduce motion artifacts from EEG and fNIRS signals using reliable and robust methods. In this regard, this paper proposes two robust methods: (i) Wavelet packet decomposition (WPD) and (ii) WPD in combination with canonical correlation analysis (WPD-CCA), for motion artifact correction from single-channel EEG and fNIRS signals. The efficacy of these proposed techniques is tested using a benchmark dataset and the performance of the proposed methods is measured using two well-established performance matrices: (i) difference in the signal to noise ratio ( ) and (ii) percentage reduction in motion artifacts ( ). The proposed WPD-based single-stage motion artifacts correction technique produces the highest average (29.44 dB) when db2 wavelet packet is incorporated whereas the greatest average (53.48%) is obtained using db1 wavelet packet for all the available 23 EEG recordings. Our proposed two-stage motion artifacts correction technique, i.e., the WPD-CCA method utilizing db1 wavelet packet has shown the best denoising performance producing an average and values of 30.76 dB and 59.51%, respectively, for all the EEG recordings. On the other hand, for the available 16 fNIRS recordings, the two-stage motion artifacts removal technique, i.e., WPD-CCA has produced the best average (16.55 dB, utilizing db1 wavelet packet) and largest average (41.40%, using fk8 wavelet packet). The highest average and using single-stage artifacts removal techniques (WPD) are found as 16.11 dB and 26.40%, respectively, for all the fNIRS signals using fk4 wavelet packet. In both EEG and fNIRS modalities, the percentage reduction in motion artifacts increases by 11.28% and 56.82%, respectively when two-stage WPD-CCA techniques are employed in comparison with the single-stage WPD method. In addition, the average also increases when WPD-CCA techniques are used instead of single-stage WPD for both EEG and fNIRS signals. The increment in both and values is a clear indication that two-stage WPD-CCA performs relatively better compared to single-stage WPD. The results reported using the proposed methods outperform most of the existing state-of-the-art techniques.
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- Md Shafayet Hossain
- Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia; (M.S.H.); (S.H.M.A.); (A.A.A.B.)
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar; (S.K.); (A.K.)
- Correspondence: (M.E.H.C.); (M.B.I.R.)
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- Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia; (M.S.H.); (S.H.M.A.); (A.A.A.B.)
- Correspondence: (M.E.H.C.); (M.B.I.R.)
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- Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia; (M.S.H.); (S.H.M.A.); (A.A.A.B.)
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- Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia; (M.S.H.); (S.H.M.A.); (A.A.A.B.)
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar; (S.K.); (A.K.)
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar; (S.K.); (A.K.)
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- Neuromuscular Division, Department of Neurology, Al-Khor Branch, Hamad General Hospital, Doha 3050, Qatar;
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- Department of Neurology, BIRDEM General Hospital, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh;
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Boehm C, Goeger-Neff M, Mulder HT, Zilles B, Lindner LH, van Rhoon GC, Karampinos DC, Wu M. Susceptibility artifact correction in MR thermometry for monitoring of mild radiofrequency hyperthermia using total field inversion. Magn Reson Med 2022; 88:120-132. [PMID: 35313384 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2021] [Revised: 01/19/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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PURPOSE MR temperature monitoring of mild radiofrequency hyperthermia (RF-HT) of cancer exploits the linear resonance frequency shift of water with temperature. Motion-induced susceptibility distribution changes cause artifacts that we correct here using the total field inversion (TFI) approach. METHODS The performance of TFI was compared to two background field removal (BFR) methods: Laplacian boundary value (LBV) and projection onto dipole fields (PDF). Data sets with spatial susceptibility change and B 0 -drift were simulated, phantom heating experiments were performed, four volunteer data sets at thermoneutral conditions as well as data from one cervical cancer, two sarcoma, and one seroma patients undergoing mild RF-HT were corrected using the proposed methods. RESULTS Simulations and phantom heating experiments revealed that using BFR or TFI preserves temperature-induced phase change, while removing susceptibility artifacts and B 0 -drift. TFI resulted in the least cumulative error for all four volunteers. Temperature probe information from four patient data sets were best depicted by TFI-corrected data in terms of accuracy and precision. TFI also performed best in case of the sarcoma treatment without temperature probe. CONCLUSION TFI outperforms previously suggested BFR methods in terms of accuracy and robustness. While PDF consistently overestimates susceptibility contribution, and LBV removes valuable pixel information, TFI is more robust and leads to more accurate temperature estimations.
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- Christof Boehm
- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Medicine III, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Medicine III, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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Gong H, Ahmed Z, Jamison TE, Fletcher JG, McCollough CH, Leng S. Improving coronary artery imaging in single source CT with cardiac motion correction using attention and spatial transformer based neural networks. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng 2022; 12031:120311E. [PMID: 35677468 PMCID: PMC9172910 DOI: 10.1117/12.2611794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Motion artifact is a major challenge in cardiac CT which hampers accurate delineation of key anatomic (e.g. coronary lumen) and pathological features (e.g. stenosis). Conventional motion correction techniques are limited on patients with high / irregular heart rate, due to simplified modeling of CT systems and cardiac motion. Emerging deep learning based cardiac motion correction techniques have demonstrated the potential of further quality improvement. Yet, many methods require CT projection data or advanced motion simulation tools that are not readily available. We aim to develop an image-domain motion-correction method, using convolutional neural network (CNN) integrated with customized attention and spatial transformer techniques. Forty cardiac CT exams acquired from a clinical dual-source CT system were retrospectively collected to generate training (n=26) and testing (n=14) sets. Dual-source data uniquely allow image reconstruction with different temporal resolutions from the same patient scan. Slow temporal resolution (140ms; equivalent to single-source CT (SSCT) half scan) and fast temporal resolution (75ms; dual source) images were reconstructed to generate paired samples of motion-corrupted and reference images. The combinations of 2 training-inference strategies and 3 CNNs were evaluated: strategy #1 - whole-heart images in training / inference; strategy #2 - vessel patches in training / inference; CNN #1 - attention only; CNN #2 - spatial-transformer (STN) only; CNN #3 - attention & STN synergy. Testing data showed that CNN #3 with strategy #2 provided relatively better performance: improving vessel delineation, increasing structural similarity index from 0.85 to 0.91, and reducing mean CT number error of lumen by 71.0%. Our method could improve the image quality in cardiac exams with SSCT.
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- Hao Gong
- Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55901
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- Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55901
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- Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55901
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Zahraei-Moghaddam SM, Haghighatafshar M, Shekoohi-Shooli F, Miladi S, Farhoudi F. Toward applying a device to reduce motion artifact during imaging: a randomized controlled trial. Expert Rev Med Devices 2022; 19:189-194. [PMID: 35081856 DOI: 10.1080/17434440.2022.2035215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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OBJECTIVE One of the most critical problems in different types of medical imaging modalities is unwanted patient movement during imaging procedures, which mainly occurs because of stress, anxiety, and restlessness in patients, resulting in poor image quality and decreased diagnostic accuracy. METHODS This prospective, randomized, double-blinded, controlled trial comprised 267 patients who underwent MPI, randomly divided into three groups; Group I: streaming music with a special binaural beat frequency (MBB); Group II: streaming simple music (SM) and Group III: control group. Anxiety level was determined by DASS (Depression Anxiety Stress-Scale) questionnaire and heart rate was monitored. RESULTS Stress and anxiety scores were significantly lower in the MBB group compared with both SM and control group (P˂0.0001). Additionally, a significant decrease in heart rate of patients who were in the MBB group in comparison with the SM (p=0.005) and control group (P=0.018) was observed. The study revealed a significant decrease in motion artifact in the MBB group compared with the SM (P=0.003) and control (P˂0.0001) groups. CONCLUSIONS Using the proposed device capable of streaming special binaural beat frequency embedded music can cause a significant reduction in anxiety level, heart rate, and consequently motion artifact. This method can be useful during the imaging procedure due to several reasons. First, this can cause a significant reduction in motion artifacts. Next, anxiety and stress can be reduced significantly due to the application of special binaural beat frequency embedded music during an imaging procedure. Then, a significant reduction in post-imaging stress and anxiety scores was achieved after using it. Finally, binaural beat frequency embedded music leads to imaging repetition avoidance.
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- Seyed Mohsen Zahraei-Moghaddam
- Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Research Center, School of Medicine, Namazi Teaching Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Research Center, School of Medicine, Namazi Teaching Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Research Center, School of Medicine, Namazi Teaching Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.,Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, 66100, Chieti, Italy
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- Clinical Research Development Center, Namazi Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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Muro I, Shimizu S, Tsukamoto H. [Improvement of Motion Artifacts in Brain MRI Using Deep Learning by Simulation Training Data]. Nihon Hoshasen Gijutsu Gakkai Zasshi 2022; 78:13-22. [PMID: 35046218 DOI: 10.6009/jjrt.780108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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PURPOSE To test whether deep learning can be used to effectively reduce artifacts in MR images of the brain. METHODS In this study, a large set of images with and without motion artifacts is needed for training. It is difficult to collect training data from clinical images because it requires a lot of effort and time. We have created motion artifact images of the brain by computer simulation. As an experimental study, we obtained original images for deep learning from 20 volunteers. These original images were used to create various images of different artifacts by computer simulation and these were used the input images for deep learning. The same method was used to create test images and these images were used to compare the structural similarity (SSIM) index and peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) between the input images and output images using the three denoising methods. The network models used were U-shaped fully convolutional network (U-Net), denoising convolutional neural network (DnCNN) and wide inference network and 5 layers Residual learning and batch normalization (Win5RB). RESULTS U-Net was the most effective model for reducing motion artifacts. The SSIM and PSNR were 0.978 and 32.5 dB. CONCLUSION This is an effective method to reduce artifacts without degrading the image quality of brain MRI images.
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- Isao Muro
- Division of Radiology, Department of Clinical Technology, Tokai University Hospital
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- Division of Radiology, Department of Clinical Technology, Tokai University Hospital
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- Division of Radiology, Department of Clinical Technology, Tokai University Hospital
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Kim M, Lee S, Dan I, Tak S. A deep convolutional neural network for estimating hemodynamic response function with reduction of motion artifacts in fNIRS. J Neural Eng 2022; 19. [PMID: 35038682 DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ac4bfc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a neuroimaging technique for monitoring hemoglobin concentration changes in a non-invasive manner. However, subject movements are often significant sources of artifacts. While several methods have been developed for suppressing this confounding noise, the conventional techniques have limitations on optimal selections of model parameters across participants or brain regions. To address this shortcoming, we aim to propose a method based on a deep convolutional neural network (CNN). APPROACH The U-net is employed as a CNN architecture. Specifically, large-scale training and testing data are generated by combining variants of hemodynamic response function (HRF) with experimental measurements of motion noises. The neural network is then trained to reconstruct hemodynamic response coupled to neuronal activity with a reduction of motion artifacts. MAIN RESULTS Using extensive analysis, we show that the proposed method estimates the task-related HRF more accurately than the existing methods of wavelet decomposition and autoregressive models. Specifically, the mean squared error and variance of HRF estimates, based on the CNN, are the smallest among all methods considered in this study. These results are more prominent when the semi-simulated data contains variants of shapes and amplitudes of HRF. SIGNIFICANCE The proposed CNN method allows for accurately estimating amplitude and shape of HRF with significant reduction of motion artifacts. This method may have a great potential for monitoring HRF changes in real-life settings that involve excessive motion artifacts.
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- MinWoo Kim
- School of Biomedical Convergence Engineering, Pusan National University, 49 Busandaehak-ro, Mulgeum-eup, Yangsan-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, Yangsan, 50612, Korea (the Republic of)
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- Research Center for Bioconvergence Analysis, Korea Basic Science Institute, 162 Yeongudanji-ro, Cheongwon-gu, Ochang-eup, Cheongju, 28119, Korea (the Republic of)
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- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, Tama Campus 742-1 Higashinakano Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, 192-0393, JAPAN
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- Research Center for Bioconvergence Analysis, Korea Basic Science Institute, 162 Yeongudanji-ro, Cheongwon-gu, Ochang-eup, Cheongju, 28119, Korea (the Republic of)
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Wang IJ, Chang WT, Wu WH, Lin BS. Applying Noncontact Sensing Technology in the Customized Product Design of Smart Clothes Based on Anthropometry. Sensors (Basel) 2021; 21:7978. [PMID: 34883982 DOI: 10.3390/s21237978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2021] [Revised: 11/27/2021] [Accepted: 11/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Electrocardiograms (ECGs) provide important information for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases. In clinical practice, the conventional Ag/AgCl electrode is generally used; however, it is not suitable for long-term ECG measurement because of the risk of allergic reactions on the skin and the dying issue of electrolytic gels. In previous studies, several dry electrodes have been proposed to address these issues. However, most dry electrodes, which are the mode of conductive materials, have to contact the skin well and are easily affected by motion artifacts in daily life. In the smart clothes developed in this study, a noncontact electrode was used to assess the biopotential across the clothes to prevent skin irritation and discomfort. Moreover, a three-dimensional parametric model based on anthropometric data was built, and the technique of customized product design was introduced into the smart clothes development process to reduce the influence of motion artifacts. The experimental results show that the proposed smart clothes can maintain a good ECG signal quality stably under motion from different activities.
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Kirkpatrick IDC. Reducing Motion Artifacts in Pelvic Oncologic Magnetic Resonance Imaging: The Quest for the Free Lunch. Can Assoc Radiol J 2021; 73:287-288. [PMID: 34482748 DOI: 10.1177/08465371211039193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- Iain D C Kirkpatrick
- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Manitoba, St. Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Tivnan P, Winant AJ, Johnston PR, Plut D, Smith K, MacCallum G, Lee EY. Thoracic CTA in infants and young children: Image quality of dual-source CT (DSCT) with high-pitch spiral scan mode (turbo flash spiral mode) with or without general anesthesia with free-breathing technique. Pediatr Pulmonol 2021; 56:2660-2667. [PMID: 33914408 DOI: 10.1002/ppul.25446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2021] [Revised: 04/05/2021] [Accepted: 04/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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PURPOSE To determine whether diagnostic quality thoracic computed tomography angiography (CTA) studies can be obtained without general anesthesia (GA) in infants and young children using dual-source computed tomography (DSCT) with turbo flash spiral mode (TFSM) and free-breathing technique. MATERIALS AND METHODS All consecutive infants and young children (≤ 6 years old) who underwent thoracic CTA studies from January 2018 to October 2020 for suspected congenital thoracic disorders were categorized into two groups: with GA (Group 1) and without GA (Group 2). All thoracic CTA studies were performed on a DSCT scanner using TFSM and free-breathing technique. Two pediatric thoracic radiologists independently evaluated motion artifact in three lung zones (upper, mid, and lower). Degree of motion artifact was graded 0-3 (0, none; 1, mild; 2, moderate; and 3, severe). Logistic models adjusted for age and gender were used to compare the degree of motion artifact between lung zones. Interobserver agreement between reviewers was evaluated with kappa statistics. RESULTS There were a total of 73 pediatric patients (43 males (59%) and 30 females (41%); mean age, 1.4 years; range, 0-5.9 years). Among these 73 patients, 42 patients (58%) underwent thoracic CTA studies with GA (Group 1) and the remaining 31 patients (42%) underwent thoracic CTA studies without GA (Group 2). Overall, the degree of motion artifact was higher for Group 2 (without GA). However, only a very small minority (1/31, 3%) of Group 2 (without GA) thoracic CTA studies had severe motion artifact. There was no significant difference between the two groups with respect to the presence of severe motion artifact (odds ratio [OR] = 6, p = .222). When two groups were compared with respect to the presence of motion artifact for individual lung zones, motion artifact was significantly higher in the upper lung zone for Group 2 (without GA) (OR = 20, p = .043). Interobserver agreement for motion artifact was high, the average Kappa being 0.81 for Group 1 and 0.95 for Group 2. CONCLUSION Although the degree of motion artifact was higher in the group without GA, only a small minority (3%) of thoracic CTA studies performed without GA had severe motion artifact, rendering the study nondiagnostic. Therefore, the results of this study support the use of thoracic CTA without GA using DSCT with TFSM and free-breathing in infants and young children. In addition, given that motion artifact was significantly higher in the upper lung zone without GA, increased stabilization in the upper chest and extremities should be considered.
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- Patrick Tivnan
- Department of Radiology, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Radiology, Clinical Radiology Institute, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Bradke BS, Miller TA, Everman B. Photoplethysmography behind the Ear Outperforms Electrocardiogram for Cardiovascular Monitoring in Dynamic Environments. Sensors (Basel) 2021; 21:4543. [PMID: 34283086 DOI: 10.3390/s21134543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2021] [Revised: 06/15/2021] [Accepted: 06/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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An increasing proportion of occupational mishaps in dynamic, high-risk operational environments have been attributed to human error, yet there are currently no devices to routinely provide accurate physiological data for insights into underlying contributing factors. This is most commonly due to limitations of commercial and clinical devices for collecting physiological data in environments of high motion. Herein, a novel Photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor device was tested, called SPYDR (Standalone Performance Yielding Deliberate Risk), reading from a behind-the-ear location, specifically designed for high-fidelity data collection in highly dynamic high-motion, high-pressure, low-oxygen, and high-G-force environments. For this study, SPYDR was installed as a functional ear-cup replacement in flight helmets worn by rated US Navy aircrew. Subjects were exposed to reduced atmospheric pressure using a hypobaric chamber to simulated altitudes of 25,000 feet and high G-forces in a human-rated centrifuge up to 9 G acceleration. Data were compared to control devices, finger and forehead PPG sensors, and a chest-mounted 12-lead ECG. SPYDR produced high-fidelity data compared to controls with little motion-artifact controls in the no-motion environment of the hypobaric chamber. However, in the high-motion, high-force environment of the centrifuge, SPYDR recorded consistent, accurate data, whereas PPG controls and ECG data were unusable due to a high-degree-motion artifacts. The data demonstrate that SPYDR provides an accurate and reliable system for continuous physiological monitoring in high-motion, high-risk environments, yielding a novel method for collecting low-artifact cardiovascular assessment data important for investigating currently inaccessible parameters of human physiology.
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PURPOSE We focused on deep learning for a reduction of motion artifacts in MRI. It is difficult to collect a large number of images with and without motion artifacts from clinical images. The purpose of this study was to create motion artifact images in MRI by simulation. METHODS We created motion artifact images by computer simulation. First, 20 different types of vertical pixel-shifted images were created with different shifts, and the amount of pixel shift was set from -10 to 10 pixels. The same method was used to create pixel-shifted images for horizontal shift, diagonal shift, and rotational shift, and a total of 80 types of pixel-shifted images were prepared. These images were Fourier transformed to create 80 types of k-space data. Then, phase encodings in these k-space data were randomly sampled and Fourier transformed to create artifact images. The reproducibility of the simulation images was verified using the deep learning network model of U-net. In this study, the evaluation indices used were the structural similarity index measure (SSIM) and peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR). RESULTS The average SSIM and PSNR for the simulation images were 0.95 and 31.5, respectively; those for the clinical images were 0.96 and 31.1, respectively. CONCLUSION Our simulation method enables us to create a large number of artifact images in a short time, equivalent to clinical artifact images.
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- Hikari Tsukamoto
- Radiological Technology Department, Clinical Technology Division, Tokai University Hospital
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- Radiological Technology Department, Clinical Technology Division, Tokai University Hospital
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Du J, Sun Z. [Progress of motion artifact correction in photoacoustic microscopy and photoacoustic tomography]. Sheng Wu Yi Xue Gong Cheng Xue Za Zhi 2021; 38:369-378. [PMID: 33913298 DOI: 10.7507/1001-5515.202009062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a rapidly developing hybrid biomedical imaging technology, which is capable of providing structural and functional information of biological tissues. Due to inevitable motion of the imaging object, such as respiration, heartbeat or eye rotation, motion artifacts are observed in the reconstructed images, which reduce the imaging resolution and increase the difficulty of obtaining high-quality images. This paper summarizes current methods for correcting and compensating motion artifacts in photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) and photoacoustic tomography (PAT), discusses their advantages and limits and forecasts possible future work.
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- Jiejie Du
- Department of Electronic and Communication Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, Hebei 071003, P.R.China
- Hebei Key Laboratory of Power Internet of Things Technology, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, Hebei 071003, P.R.China
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- Department of Electronic and Communication Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, Hebei 071003, P.R.China
- Hebei Key Laboratory of Power Internet of Things Technology, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, Hebei 071003, P.R.China
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Cheng Y, Chu Z, Wang RK. Robust three-dimensional registration on optical coherence tomography angiography for speckle reduction and visualization. Quant Imaging Med Surg 2021; 11:879-894. [PMID: 33654662 PMCID: PMC7829160 DOI: 10.21037/qims-20-751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2020] [Accepted: 08/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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BACKGROUND In the clinical applications of optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA), the repeated scanning and averaging method can provide better contrast with reduced speckle noises in the final results, which are useful for visualizing and quantifying vascular components with high accuracy, reproducibility, and reliability. However, the inevitable patient motion presents a challenge to this method. The objective of this study is to meet this challenge by introducing a 3D registration method to register optical coherence tomography (OCT)/OCTA scans for precise volume averaging of multiple scans to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and increase quantification accuracy. METHODS The proposed method utilized both rigid affine transformation and non-rigid B-spline transformation in which their parameters were optimized and calculated by the average stochastic gradient descent on OCT structural images. In addition, we also introduced a multi-level resolution approach to further improve the robustness and computational speed of our proposed method. The imaging performance was tested on in vivo imaging of human skin and eye and assessed by SNR, peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and normalized correlation coefficient (NCC). RESULTS Five subjects were enrolled in this study for obtaining in vivo images of skin and retina. The proposed registration and averaging method provided substantial improvements of the imaging performance in terms of vessel connectivity and signal to noise ratio. The increase of repeated volume numbers in the averaging improves all the metrics assessed, i.e., SNR, PSNR and NCC. An improvement of the SNR from 10 to 40 dB after 10 repeated volumetric averaging was achieved. CONCLUSIONS The proposed 3D registration and averaging method is effective in reducing speckle noises and suppressing motion artifacts, thereby improving SNR, PSNR and NCC metrics for final averaged images. It is expected that the proposed algorithm would be practically useful in better visualization and more reliable quantification of in vivo OCT and OCTA data, which would be beneficial to OCT clinical applications.
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- Yuxuan Cheng
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Sherafati A, Snyder AZ, Eggebrecht AT, Bergonzi KM, Burns-Yocum TM, Lugar HM, Ferradal SL, Robichaux-Viehoever A, Smyser CD, Palanca BJ, Hershey T, Culver JP. Global motion detection and censoring in high-density diffuse optical tomography. Hum Brain Mapp 2020; 41:4093-4112. [PMID: 32648643 PMCID: PMC8022277 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2020] [Revised: 06/05/2020] [Accepted: 06/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Motion‐induced artifacts can significantly corrupt optical neuroimaging, as in most neuroimaging modalities. For high‐density diffuse optical tomography (HD‐DOT) with hundreds to thousands of source‐detector pair measurements, motion detection methods are underdeveloped relative to both functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and standard functional near‐infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). This limitation restricts the application of HD‐DOT in many challenging imaging situations and subject populations (e.g., bedside monitoring and children). Here, we evaluated a new motion detection method for multi‐channel optical imaging systems that leverages spatial patterns across measurement channels. Specifically, we introduced a global variance of temporal derivatives (GVTD) metric as a motion detection index. We showed that GVTD strongly correlates with external measures of motion and has high sensitivity and specificity to instructed motion—with an area under the receiver operator characteristic curve of 0.88, calculated based on five different types of instructed motion. Additionally, we showed that applying GVTD‐based motion censoring on both hearing words task and resting state HD‐DOT data with natural head motion results in an improved spatial similarity to fMRI mapping. We then compared the GVTD similarity scores with several commonly used motion correction methods described in the fNIRS literature, including correlation‐based signal improvement (CBSI), temporal derivative distribution repair (TDDR), wavelet filtering, and targeted principal component analysis (tPCA). We find that GVTD motion censoring on HD‐DOT data outperforms other methods and results in spatial maps more similar to those of matched fMRI data.
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- Arefeh Sherafati
- Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,Department of Neurology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University School in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department Of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,Department of Neurology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University School in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Tang Y, Chang R, Zhang L, Yan F, Ma H, Bu X. Electrode Humidification Design for Artifact Reduction in Capacitive ECG Measurements. Sensors (Basel) 2020; 20:E3449. [PMID: 32570924 DOI: 10.3390/s20123449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [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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Alpert BS, Quinn DE, Friedman BC, Matsumura PM, Dart RA, Donehoo RF. Evaluating the impact of motion artifact on noninvasive blood pressure devices. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 2020; 22:585-589. [PMID: 32248602 DOI: 10.1111/jch.13851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2020] [Revised: 02/24/2020] [Accepted: 03/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Most automated sphygmomanometers use oscillometric algorithms. Motion, either patient-based or environmental, will affect the ability of a device to record an accurate blood pressure (BP). Members of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) Sphygmomanometer Committee have been studying this problem for more than a decade. The AAMI TIR44 was the first publication to address the challenges of motion tolerance. The concepts described in TIR44 have led to the development of a draft of ISO 81060-4, a new standard for testing devices for which the manufacturer wishes to claim motion tolerance. The current ISO 81060-2 addresses both stress testing and 24-hour ambulatory BP monitoring. Recent publications have reported on testing of devices in response to voluntary and involuntary patient motion. The ISO 81060-4 will address testing in the presence of patient transport by ground, fixed-wing, and rotary (helicopter) ambulances. The protocol will utilize noise profiles recorded under those three conditions. The profiles will be digitally stored on a library with free access. The proposed testing will be performed using patient simulators introducing the noise library files into known BP oscillometric envelopes. The specifications of the data capture and playback devices are specified, as is the evaluation statistical testing. The authors expect that the final draft will be published in 2020.
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- Bruce S Alpert
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center (Retired), Memphis, TN, USA
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- Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI, USA
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Yu S, Liu S. A Novel Adaptive Recursive Least Squares Filter to Remove the Motion Artifact in Seismocardiography. Sensors (Basel) 2020; 20:E1596. [PMID: 32182977 PMCID: PMC7146394 DOI: 10.3390/s20061596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2020] [Revised: 03/05/2020] [Accepted: 03/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This paper presents a novel adaptive recursive least squares filter (ARLSF) for motion artifact removal in the field of seismocardiography (SCG). This algorithm was tested with a consumer-grade accelerometer. This accelerometer was placed on the chest wall of 16 subjects whose ages ranged from 24 to 35 years. We recorded the SCG signal and the standard electrocardiogram (ECG) lead I signal by placing one electrode on the right arm (RA) and another on the left arm (LA) of the subjects. These subjects were asked to perform standing and walking movements on a treadmill. ARLSF was developed in MATLAB to process the collected SCG and ECG signals simultaneously. The SCG peaks and heart rate signals were extracted from the output of ARLSF. The results indicate a heartbeat detection accuracy of up to 98%. The heart rates estimated from SCG and ECG are similar under both standing and walking conditions. This observation shows that the proposed ARLSF could be an effective method to remove motion artifact from recorded SCG signals.
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- Shuai Yu
- School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, China;
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- School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, China;
- Key Lab for Hydropower Transients of Ministry of Education, School of Power and Mechanical Engineering, Wuhan University, 8 East Lake South Road, Wuhan 430072, China
- Institute of Technological Sciences, Wuhan University, 8 East Lake South Road, Wuhan 430072, China
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Lee J, Kim M, Park HK, Kim IY. Motion Artifact Reduction in Wearable Photoplethysmography Based on Multi-Channel Sensors with Multiple Wavelengths. Sensors (Basel) 2020; 20:E1493. [PMID: 32182772 DOI: 10.3390/s20051493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2020] [Revised: 03/02/2020] [Accepted: 03/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Photoplethysmography (PPG) is an easy and convenient method by which to measure heart rate (HR). However, PPG signals that optically measure volumetric changes in blood are not robust to motion artifacts. In this paper, we develop a PPG measuring system based on multi-channel sensors with multiple wavelengths and propose a motion artifact reduction algorithm using independent component analysis (ICA). We also propose a truncated singular value decomposition for 12-channel PPG signals, which contain direction and depth information measured using the developed multi-channel PPG measurement system. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated against the R-peaks of an electrocardiogram in terms of sensitivity (Se), positive predictive value (PPV), and failed detection rate (FDR). The experimental results show that Se, PPV, and FDR were 99%, 99.55%, and 0.45% for walking, 96.28%, 99.24%, and 0.77% for fast walking, and 82.49%, 99.83%, and 0.17% for running, respectively. The evaluation shows that the proposed method is effective in reducing errors in HR estimation from PPG signals with motion artifacts in intensive motion situations such as fast walking and running.
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Yoshimura Y, Suzuki D, Miyahara K. [Usefulness of Respiratory Suppression for Abdominal Using EPI Sequences]. Nihon Hoshasen Gijutsu Gakkai Zasshi 2020; 76:385-393. [PMID: 32307366 DOI: 10.6009/jjrt.2020_jsrt_76.4.385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The upper abdomen was imaged with diffusion weighted images for free breathing and respiratory suppression using single shot-echo planar imaging (SS-EPI) and readout segmented-EPI (RS-EPI). We examined the usefulness of respiratory suppression imaging for the subject of healthy volunteers. Motion artifacts, apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values, and organs movement distances were evaluated. As a result, motion artifacts and organs movement distances were reduced in respiratory suppression than free breathing. The ADC values did not change. Respiratory suppression was simple and useful. In addition, it was found that RS-EPI imaging could be used for imaging the upper abdomen in the same way as SS-EPI by respiratory suppression.
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- Yuuki Yoshimura
- Department of Radiology Diagnosis, Okayama Saiseikai General Hospital
- Graduate School of Health Sciences, Okayama University
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- Department of Radiology Diagnosis, Okayama Saiseikai General Hospital
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- Department of Radiology Diagnosis, Okayama Saiseikai General Hospital
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Wang S, Liu J, Li Y, Chen J, Guan Y, Zhu L. Jitter correction for transmission X-ray microscopy via measurement of geometric moments. J Synchrotron Radiat 2019; 26:1808-1814. [PMID: 31490173 DOI: 10.1107/s1600577519008865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2018] [Accepted: 06/21/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Transmission X-ray microscopes (TXMs) have become one of the most powerful tools for imaging 3D structures of nano-scale samples using the computed tomography (CT) principle. As a major error source, sample jitter caused by mechanical instability of the rotation stage produces shifted 2D projections, from which reconstructed images contain severe motion artifacts. In this paper, a jitter correction algorithm is proposed, that has high accuracy and computational efficiency for TXM experiments with or without nano-particle markers. Geometric moments (GMs) are measured on segmented projections for each angle and fitted to sinusoidal curves in the angular direction. Sample jitter is estimated from the difference between the measured and the fitted GMs for image correction. On a digital phantom, the proposed method removes jitter errors at different noise levels. Physical experiments on chlorella cells show that the proposed GM method achieves better spatial resolution and higher computational efficiency than the re-projection method, a state-of-the-art algorithm using iterative correction. It even outperforms the approach of manual alignment, the current gold standard, on faithfully maintaining fine structures on the CT images. Our method is practically attractive in that it is computationally efficient and lowers experimental costs in current TXM studies without using expensive nano-particles markers.
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- Shengxiang Wang
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People's Republic of China
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- School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People's Republic of China
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- School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People's Republic of China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People's Republic of China
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- School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People's Republic of China
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Tamada D, Kromrey ML, Ichikawa S, Onishi H, Motosugi U. Motion Artifact Reduction Using a Convolutional Neural Network for Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MR Imaging of the Liver. Magn Reson Med Sci 2019; 19:64-76. [PMID: 31061259 PMCID: PMC7067907 DOI: 10.2463/mrms.mp.2018-0156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Purpose: To improve the quality of images obtained via dynamic contrast enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI), which contain motion artifacts and blurring using a deep learning approach. Materials and Methods: A multi-channel convolutional neural network-based method is proposed for reducing the motion artifacts and blurring caused by respiratory motion in images obtained via DCE-MRI of the liver. The training datasets for the neural network included images with and without respiration-induced motion artifacts or blurring, and the distortions were generated by simulating the phase error in k-space. Patient studies were conducted using a multi-phase T1-weighted spoiled gradient echo sequence for the liver, which contained breath-hold failures occurring during data acquisition. The trained network was applied to the acquired images to analyze the filtering performance, and the intensities and contrast ratios before and after denoising were compared via Bland–Altman plots. Results: The proposed network was found to be significantly reducing the magnitude of the artifacts and blurring induced by respiratory motion, and the contrast ratios of the images after processing via the network were consistent with those of the unprocessed images. Conclusion: A deep learning-based method for removing motion artifacts in images obtained via DCE-MRI of the liver was demonstrated and validated.
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- Daiki Tamada
- Department of Radiology, University of Yamanashi
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OBJECTIVE Due to its high temporal resolution, electroencephalography (EEG) has become a promising tool for quantifying cortical dynamics and effective connectivity in a mobile setting. While many connectivity estimators are available, the efficacy of these measures has not been rigorously validated in real-world scenarios. The goal of this study was to quantify the accuracy of independent component analysis and multiple connectivity measures on ground-truth connections while exposed real-world volume conduction and head motion. APPROACH We collected high-density EEG from a phantom head with embedded antennae, using neural mass models to generate transiently interconnected signals. The head was mounted upon a motion platform that mimicked recorded human head motion at various walking speeds. We used cross-correlation and signal to noise ratio to determine how well independent component analysis recovered the original antenna signals. For connectivity measures, we computed the average and standard deviation across frequency of each estimated connectivity peak. MAIN RESULTS Independent component analysis recovered most antenna signals, as evidenced by cross-correlations primarily above 0.8, and maintained consistent signal to noise ratio values near 10 dB across walking speeds compared to scalp channel data, which had decreased signal to noise ratios of ~2 dB at fast walking speeds. The connectivity measures used were generally able to identify the true interconnections, but some measures were susceptible to spurious high-frequency connections inducing large standard deviations of ~10 Hz. SIGNIFICANCE Our results indicate that independent component analysis and some connectivity measures can be effective at recovering underlying connections among brain areas. These results highlight the utility of validating EEG processing techniques with a combination of complex signals, phantom head use, and realistic head motion.
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- Steven M. Peterson
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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陈 美, 黄 毅, 陈 武, 陈 歆, 张 华. [High-quality reconstruction of four-dimensional cone beam CT from motion registration prior image]. Nan Fang Yi Ke Da Xue Xue Bao 2019; 39:201-206. [PMID: 30890509 PMCID: PMC6765641 DOI: 10.12122/j.issn.1673-4254.2019.02.12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Four-dimensional cone beam CT (4D-CBCT) imaging can provide accurate location information of real-time breathing for imaging-guided radiotherapy. How to improve the accuracy of 4D-CBCT reconstruction image is a hot topic in current studies. PICCS algorithm performs remarkably in all 4D-CBCT reconstruction algorithms based on CS theory. The improved PICCS algorithm proposed in this paper improves the prior image on the basis of the traditional PICCS algorithm. According to the location information of each phase, the corresponding prior image is constructed, which completely eliminates the motion blur of the reconstructed image caused by the mismatch of the projection data. Meanwhile, the data fidelity model of the proposed method is consistent with the traditional PICCS algorithm. The experimental results showed that the reconstructed image using the proposed method had a clearer organization boundary compared with that of images reconstructed using the traditional PICCS algorithm. This proposed method significantly reduced the motion artifact and improved the image resolution.
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- 美玲 陈
- 重庆医科大学第二附属医院设备处, 重庆 400010Equipment Department, Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400010, China
- 南方医科大学生物医学工程学院-广东省医学图像处理重点实验室, 广东 广州 510515Department of Biomedical Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Image Processing, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- 重庆医科大学第二附属医院设备处, 重庆 400010Equipment Department, Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400010, China
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- 南方医科大学生物医学工程学院-广东省医学图像处理重点实验室, 广东 广州 510515Department of Biomedical Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Image Processing, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- 重庆医科大学第二附属医院设备处, 重庆 400010Equipment Department, Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400010, China
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- 南方医科大学生物医学工程学院-广东省医学图像处理重点实验室, 广东 广州 510515Department of Biomedical Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Image Processing, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
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Yang Z, Zhuang X, Sreenivasan K, Mishra V, Cordes D. Robust Motion Regression of Resting-State Data Using a Convolutional Neural Network Model. Front Neurosci 2019; 13:169. [PMID: 31057348 PMCID: PMC6482337 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2018] [Accepted: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) based on the blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal has been widely used in healthy individuals and patients to investigate brain functions when the subjects are in a resting or task-negative state. Head motion considerably confounds the interpretation of rs-fMRI data. Nuisance regression is commonly used to reduce motion-related artifacts with six motion parameters estimated from rigid-body realignment as regressors. To further compensate for the effect of head movement, the first-order temporal derivatives of motion parameters and squared motion parameters were proposed previously as possible motion regressors. However, these additional regressors may not be sufficient to model the impact of head motion because of the complexity of motion artifacts. In addition, while using more motion-related regressors could explain more variance in the data, the neural signal may also be removed with increasing number of motion regressors. To better model how in-scanner motion affects rs-fMRI data, a robust and automated convolutional neural network (CNN) model is developed in this study to obtain optimal motion regressors. The CNN network consists of two temporal convolutional layers and the output from the network are the derived motion regressors used in the following nuisance regression. The temporal convolutional layer in the network can non-parametrically model the prolonged effect of head motion. The set of regressors derived from the neural network is compared with the same number of regressors used in a traditional nuisance regression approach. It is demonstrated that the CNN-derived regressors can more effectively reduce motion-related artifacts.
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- Zhengshi Yang
- Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV, United States
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- Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV, United States
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- Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV, United States
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- Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV, United States
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- Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV, United States.,Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
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Zhang H, Yu H, Walcott GP, Paskaranandavadivel N, Cheng LK, O’Grady G, Rogers JM. High-resolution optical mapping of gastric slow wave propagation. Neurogastroenterol Motil 2019; 31:e13449. [PMID: 30129082 PMCID: PMC6724537 DOI: 10.1111/nmo.13449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2018] [Revised: 06/20/2018] [Accepted: 07/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Improved understanding of the details of gastric slow wave propagation could potentially inform new diagnosis and treatment options for stomach motility disorders. Optical mapping has been used extensively in cardiac electrophysiology. Although optical mapping has a number of advantages relative to electrical mapping, optical signals are highly sensitive to motion artifact. We recently introduced a novel cardiac optical mapping method that corrects motion artifact and enables optical mapping to be performed in beating hearts. Here, we reengineer the method as an experimental tool to map gastric slow waves. METHODS The method was developed and tested in 12 domestic farm pigs. Stomachs were exposed by laparotomy and stained with the voltage-sensitive fluorescence dye di-4-ANEPPS through a catheter placed in the gastroepiploic artery. Fiducial markers for motion tracking were attached to the serosa. The dye was excited by 450 or 505 nm light on alternate frames of an imaging camera running at 300 Hz. Emitted fluorescence was imaged between 607 and 695 nm. The optical slow wave signal was reconstructed using a combination of motion tracking and excitation ratiometry to suppress motion artifact. Optical slow wave signals were compared with simultaneously recorded bipolar electrograms and suction electrode signals, which approximate membrane potential. KEY RESULTS The morphology of optical slow waves was consistent with previously published microelectrode recordings and simultaneously recorded suction electrode signals. The timing of the optical slow wave signals was consistent with the bipolar electrograms. CONCLUSIONS AND INFERENCES Optical mapping of slow wave propagation in the stomach is feasible.
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- Hanyu Zhang
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States,Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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- Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand,Department of Surgery, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand,Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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- Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand,Department of Surgery, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States,Corresponding author: 1670 University Blvd, Volker Hall B140, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA, (205) 975-2102,
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Iakovlev D, Hu S, Dwyer V. Frame Registration for Motion Compensation in Imaging Photoplethysmography. Sensors (Basel) 2018; 18:s18124340. [PMID: 30544812 PMCID: PMC6308702 DOI: 10.3390/s18124340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2018] [Revised: 12/05/2018] [Accepted: 12/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Imaging photoplethysmography (iPPG) is an emerging technology used to assess microcirculation and cardiovascular signs by collecting backscattered light from illuminated tissue using optical imaging sensors. An engineering approach is used to evaluate whether a silicone cast of a human palm might be effectively utilized to predict the results of image registration schemes for motion compensation prior to their application on live human tissue. This allows us to establish a performance baseline for each of the algorithms and to isolate performance and noise fluctuations due to the induced motion from the temporally changing physiological signs. A multi-stage evaluation model is developed to qualitatively assess the influence of the region of interest (ROI), system resolution and distance, reference frame selection, and signal normalization on extracted iPPG waveforms from live tissue. We conclude that the application of image registration is able to deliver up to 75% signal-to-noise (SNR) improvement (4.75 to 8.34) over an uncompensated iPPG signal by employing an intensity-based algorithm with a moving reference frame.
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- Dmitry Iakovlev
- Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK.
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- Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK.
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- Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK.
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