Paper Info
Title
Comparison between Electrocardiographic and Earlobe Pulse Photoplethysmographic Detection for Evaluating Heart Rate Variability in Healthy Subjects in Short- and Long-Term Recordings.
Abstract
Heart rate variability (HRV) is commonly used to assess autonomic functions and responses to environmental stimuli. It is usually derived from electrocardiographic signals; however, in the last few years, photoplethysmography has been successfully used to evaluate beat-to-beat time intervals and to assess changes in the human heart rate under several conditions. The present work describes a simple design of a photoplethysmograph, using a wearable earlobe sensor. Beat-to-beat time intervals were evaluated as the time between subsequent pulses, thus generating a signal representative of heart rate variability, which was compared to RR intervals from classic electrocardiography. Twenty-minute pulse photoplethysmography and ECG recordings were taken simultaneously from 10 healthy individuals. Ten additional subjects were recorded for 24 h. Comparisons were made of raw signals and on time-domain and frequency-domain HRV parameters. There were small differences between the inter-beat intervals evaluated with the two techniques. The current findings suggest that our wearable earlobe pulse photoplethysmograph may be suitable for short and long-term home measuring and monitoring of HRV parameters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/s18030844
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
electrocardiography,heart rate variability,photoplethysmography,pulse-to-pulse intervals
Internal medicine,Heart rate variability,Photoplethysmogram,Cardiology,Autonomic functions,Pulse (signal processing),Electronic engineering,Earlobe,Engineering,Electrocardiography,Human heart
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
18
3.0
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Basilio Vescio120.48
Maria Salsone220.48
Antonio Gambardella3262.05
Aldo Quattrone4123.83