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Tri-Spectral PPG: Robust Reflective Photoplethysmography by Fusing Multiple Wavelengths for Cardiac Monitoring
Signal Processing · Submitted 23 Dec 2024 · Published version
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The authors' main claim Using the fusion PPG signal our method recovered, participants' heart rates can be calculated with a mean error of 4.5\,bpm (23\% lower than from green PPG signals at 5.9\,bpm).
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Multi-channel photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors have found widespread adoption in wearable devices for monitoring cardiac health. Channels thereby serve different functions -- whereas green is commonly used for metrics such as heart rate and heart rate variability, red and infrared are commonly used for pulse oximetry. In this paper, we introduce a novel method that simultaneously fuses multi-channel PPG signals into a single recovered PPG signal that can be input to further processing. Via signal fusion, our learning-based method compensates for the artifacts that affect wavelengths to different extents, such as motion and ambient light changes. We evaluate our method on a novel dataset of multi-channel PPG recordings and electrocardiogram recordings for reference from 10 participants over the course of 13 hours during real-world activities outside the laboratory. Using the fusion PPG signal our method recovered, participants' heart rates can be calculated with a mean error of 4.5\,bpm (23\% lower than from green PPG signals at 5.9\,bpm).
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| s0 | Multi-channel photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors have found widespread adoption in wearable devices for monitoring cardiac health. | background 1.00 | 0.05 | 0.02 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | Channels thereby serve different functions -- whereas green is commonly used for metrics such as heart rate and heart rate variability, red and infrared are commonly used for pulse oximetry. | background 1.00 | 0.05 | 0.02 | asserted 0.97 |
| s2 | In this paper, we introduce a novel method that simultaneously fuses multi-channel PPG signals into a single recovered PPG signal that can be input to further processing. | contribution 0.99 | 0.92 | 0.12 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | Via signal fusion, our learning-based method compensates for the artifacts that affect wavelengths to different extents, such as motion and ambient light changes. | method 0.89 | 0.79 | 0.10 | asserted 1.00 |
| s4 | We evaluate our method on a novel dataset of multi-channel PPG recordings and electrocardiogram recordings for reference from 10 participants over the course of 13 hours during real-world activities outside the laboratory. | method 0.92 | 0.96 | 0.04 | asserted 0.99 |
| s5 | Using the fusion PPG signal our method recovered, participants' heart rates can be calculated with a mean error of 4.5\,bpm (23\% lower than from green PPG signals at 5.9\,bpm). | result 1.00 | 0.97 | 0.65 | asserted 0.97 |
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Multi-channel photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors have found widespread adoption in wearable devices for monitoring cardiac health. Channels thereby serve different functions -- whereas green is commonly used for metrics such as heart rate and heart rate variability, red and infrared are commonly used for pulse oximetry. In this paper, we introduce a novel method that simultaneously fuses multi-channel PPG signals into a single recovered PPG signal that can be input to further processing. Via signal fusion, our learning-based method compensates for the artifacts that affect wavelengths to different extents, such as motion and ambient light changes. We evaluate our method on a novel dataset of multi-channel PPG recordings and electrocardiogram recordings for reference from 10 participants over the course of 13 hours during real-world activities outside the laboratory. Using the fusion PPG signal our method recovered, participants' heart rates can be calculated with a mean error of 4.5\,bpm (23\% lower than from green PPG signals at 5.9\,bpm).
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For the task of signal recovery, our method adapts a U-Net architecture [ref] , using a three-channel PPG signal as input and generating a fused PPG signal as output.
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