Title
Multi-Gaussian Fitting For The Assessment Of Left Ventricular Ejection Time From The Photoplethysmogram
Abstract
The Left ventricular ejection time (LVET) is one of the primary surrogates of the left ventricular contractility and stroke volume. Its continuous monitoring is considered to be a valuable hypovolumia prognostic parameter and an important risk predictor in cardiovascular diseases such as cardiac and light chain amyloidosis. In this paper, we present a novel methodology for the assessment of LVET based the Photoplethysmographic (PPG) waveform. We propose the use of Gaussian functions to model both systolic and diastolic phases of the PPG beat and consequently determine the onset and offset of the systolic ejection from the analysis of the systolic phase 3rd derivative. The results achieved by the proposed methodology were compared with the algorithm proposed by Chan et al. [1], revealing better estimation of LVET (15.84 +/- 13.56 ms vs 23.01 +/- 14.60 ms), and similar correlation with the echocardiographic reference (0.73 vs 0.75).
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346831
2012 ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
cardiovascular system,gaussian distribution,photoplethysmography
Conference
2012
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1557-170X
5
0.83
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
R Couceiro1153.07
Paulo Carvalho225047.68
R P Paiva350.83
Jorge Henriques46313.77
M Antunes550.83
I Quintal650.83
J Muehlsteff781.21