Separating motion from cardiac signals using second order derivative of the photo-plethysmogram and fast fourier transforms
First Claim
1. A method for use in a system comprising a sensor for acquiring photo-plethysmographic data of a patient and a signal processing system for removing a plurality of motion artifacts from said photo-plethysmographic data and for obtaining a measure of at least one physiological parameter from said data, the method comprising:
- (a) acquiring said photo-plethysmographic data;
(b) transforming said data;
(c) analyzing said transformed data to locate-candidate spectral peaks;
(d) reconstructing a photo-plethysmographic signal;
(e) computing the second order derivative of said reconstructed photo-plethysmographic signal;
(f) analyzing said second order derivative photo-plethysmographic signal to determine a plurality of parameters;
(g) identifying signal representations of a plurality of motion artifacts; and
(h) selecting a candidate spectral peak from a plurality of potential cardiac spectral peaks.
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Abstract
The present invention is directed toward a pulse oximetry system for the determination of a physiological parameter capable of removing motion artifacts from physiological signals comprises a hardware subsystem and a software subsystem. The software subsystem is used in conjunction with the hardware subsystem to perform a method for removing a plurality of motion artifacts from the photo-plethysmographic data and for obtaining a measure of at least one physiological parameter from the data. The method comprises acquiring the raw photo-plethysmographic data, transforming the data into the frequency domain, analyzing the transformed data to locate a series of candidate cardiac spectral peaks (primary plus harmonics), reconstructing a photo-plethysmographic signal in the time domain with only the candidate cardiac spectral peaks (primary plus harmonics), computing the second order derivative of the reconstructed photo-plethysmographic signal, analyzing the candidate second order derivative photo-plethysmographic signal to determine the absence or presence of cardiac physiologic signal characteristics, and finally selecting the best physiologic candidate from the series of potential cardiac spectral peaks (primary plus harmonics) based upon a second derivative scoring system. This scoring system is preferentially based upon second derivative processing analysis, but can be equally applied using the first, third, fourth or other similar derivative processing analysis.
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50 Claims
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1. A method for use in a system comprising a sensor for acquiring photo-plethysmographic data of a patient and a signal processing system for removing a plurality of motion artifacts from said photo-plethysmographic data and for obtaining a measure of at least one physiological parameter from said data, the method comprising:
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(a) acquiring said photo-plethysmographic data;
(b) transforming said data;
(c) analyzing said transformed data to locate-candidate spectral peaks;
(d) reconstructing a photo-plethysmographic signal;
(e) computing the second order derivative of said reconstructed photo-plethysmographic signal;
(f) analyzing said second order derivative photo-plethysmographic signal to determine a plurality of parameters;
(g) identifying signal representations of a plurality of motion artifacts; and
(h) selecting a candidate spectral peak from a plurality of potential cardiac spectral peaks. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A pulse oximetry system for the determination of a physiological parameter capable of removing motion artifacts from physiological signals comprising a hardware subsystem and a software subsystem,
wherein said hardware subsystem comprises an optical sensor unit for providing said pulse oximetry system with a patient'"'"'s photo-plethysmographic data, wherein said sensor comprises a light emitting diode for emitting light, a photo-detector for detecting said light, wherein said detected light contains information on the photo-plethysmographic data, a processor for processing the photo-plethysmographic data, and a memory unit, wherein said memory unit is operably coupled to said processor, and wherein the software subsystem performs a method comprising the steps of: -
(a) acquiring said photo-plethysmographic data from the sensor;
(b) conditioning said photo-plethysmographic data for signal processing;
(c) transforming the conditioned data into a frequency domain;
(d) analyzing the frequency domain data to locate candidate spectral peaks;
(e) transforming the frequency domain data into a time domain (f) reconstructing the photo-plethysmographic signal;
(g) computing the second order derivative of the time domain photo-plethysmographic signal;
(h) analyzing the second order derivative time domain photo-plethysmographic signal to identify parameters;
(i) measuring said parameters;
(j) removing a motion artifact from the photo-plethysmographic signal; and
(k) computing a physiological parameter for the motion artifact independent photo-plethysmographic signal. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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