A Robust Heart Rate Monitoring Scheme Using Photoplethysmographic Signals Corrupted by Intense Motion Artifacts.
OBJECTIVE
Although photoplethysmographic (PPG) signals can monitor heart rate (HR) quite conveniently in hospital environments, trying to incorporate them during fitness programs poses a great challenge, since in these cases, the signals are heavily corrupted by motion artifacts.


METHODS
In this paper, we present a novel signal processing framework which utilizes two channel PPG signals and estimates HR in two stages. The first stage eliminates any chances of a runaway error by resorting to an absolute criterion condition based on ensemble empirical mode decomposition. This stage enables the algorithm to depend very little on the previously estimated HR values and to discard the need of an initial resting phase. The second stage, on the other hand, increases the algorithm's robustness against offtrack errors by using recursive least squares filters complemented with an additional novel technique, namely time-domain extraction.


RESULTS
Using this framework, an average absolute error of 1.02 beat per minute (BPM) and standard deviation of 1.79 BPM are recorded for 12 subjects performing a run with peak velocities reaching as high as 15 km/h.


CONCLUSIONS
The performance of this algorithm is found to be better than the other recently reported algorithms in this field such as TROIKA and JOSS.


CONCLUSIONS
This method is expected to greatly facilitate the presently available wearable gadgets in HR computation during various physical activities.
Emroz
E
Khan
Forsad
F
Al Hossain
Shiekh Zia
SZ
Uddin
S Kaisar
SK
Alam
Md Kamrul
MK
Hasan
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000465:Algorithms; D016477:Artifacts; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017156:Photoplethysmography / Q000379:methods*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D055815:Young Adult