Title
Developing a novel noise artifact detection algorithm for smartphone PPG signals: Preliminary results
Abstract
Pulsatile signals recorded from a smartphone are often corrupted with noise artifacts, which hampers accuracy of the peak detection and consequently leads to inaccurate heart rate estimation. In this paper, we propose a novel approach which uses an algorithm based on variable frequency complex demodulation (VFCDM) to detect noise artifacts in the smartphone's pulsatile signal recorded from a fingertip video. The ultimate goal is to increase the accuracy of atrial fibrillation (AF) detection. In the time-frequency spectra obtained from VFCDM, thresholds are imposed on both the magnitude of the dominant frequency component at each time instant and on the successive difference of the significant frequency component in the heart rate range to enable accurate noise artifact detection. For this preliminary analysis, the performance of the proposed method has been evaluated on 200 subjects; the data were collected during a smartphone-based AF screening study in India. The proposed method is shown to detect noise artifacts in pulsatile signals with 91.16% accuracy, demonstrating the potential to reduce false alarms when only data segments identified as clean are used for AF detection.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/BHI.2018.8333374
2018 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)
Keywords
Field
DocType
smartphone-based AF,pulsatile signals,AF detection,smartphone PPG signals,inaccurate heart rate estimation,variable frequency complex demodulation,VFCDM,atrial fibrillation detection,time-frequency spectra,heart rate range,noise artifact detection
Demodulation,Dominant frequency,Pulsatile flow,Noise Artifact,Computer science,Support vector machine,Algorithm,Time–frequency analysis
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-2406-7
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
S. K. Bashar1245.25
Dong Han2149.84
Apurv Soni300.34
David D McManus410414.62
Ki H Chon536774.38