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  • Title: Photoplethysmography beat detection and pulse morphology quality assessment for signal reliability estimation.
    Author: Papini GB, Fonseca P, Aubert XL, Overeem S, Bergmans JWM, Vullings R.
    Journal: Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc; 2017 Jul; 2017():117-120. PubMed ID: 29059824.
    Abstract:
    Photoplethysmography (PPG) is one of the key technologies for unobtrusive physiological monitoring, with ongoing attempts to use it in several medical fields, ranging from night to night sleep analysis to continuous cardiac arrhythmia monitoring. However, the PPG signals are susceptible to be corrupted by noise and artifacts, caused, e.g., by limb or sensor movement. These artifacts affect the morphology of PPG waves and prevent the accurate detection and localization of beats and subsequent cardiovascular feature extraction. In this paper a new algorithm for beat detection and pulse quality assessment is described. The algorithm segments the PPG signal in pulses, localizes each beat and grades each segment with a quality index. The obtained index results from a comparison between each pulse and a template derived from the surrounding pulses, by mean of dynamic time warping barycenter averaging. The quality index is used to discard corrupted pulse beats. The algorithm is evaluated by comparing the detected beats with annotated PPG signals and the results are published over the same data. The described method achieves an improved sensitivity and a higher predictive value.
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