Method and apparatus for eliminating motion artifacts of bio signal using personalized bio signal pattern

• US 8,798,726 B2
• Filed: 10/09/2012
• Issued: 08/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kang, Jae-min, Park, Kun-kook, Shin, Kun-soo
• Primary Examiner(s): MANUEL, GEORGE C
• Application Number:
  US13/648,054
• Publication Number:
  US 20130211271A1
• Time in Patent Office: 665 Days
• Field of Search: 600/509
• US Class Current: 600/509
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/35 by template matching
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/721 using a separate sensor to detect motion or using motion information derived from signals other than the physiological signal to be measured

Abstract

An apparatus for eliminating motion artifacts in a bio signal includes a bio signal acquisition unit configured to acquire a bio signal from a patient; a reconstruction signal generator configured to generate a reconstruction signal of the acquired bio signal based on a result of comparing the acquired bio signal with a bio signal pattern of the patient generated using a bio signal measured from the patient before acquiring the bio signal from the patient; and a motion artifact elimination unit configured to eliminate motion artifacts in the acquired bio signal based on a difference between the reconstruction signal and the acquired bio signal.

Claims

1. A method of eliminating motion artifacts in a bio signal, the method comprising:

acquiring a bio signal from a patient;

generating a reconstruction signal of the acquired bio signal by successively connecting bio signal patterns of the patient with each other so that locations of peaks in the bio signal patterns of the patient correspond to locations of peaks in the acquired bio signal; and

eliminating motion artifacts in the acquired bio signal based on a difference between the reconstruction signal and the acquired bio signal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the bio signal patterns of the patient are a pattern that is periodically repeated in a bio signal measured from the patient.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

dividing the acquired bio signal into a plurality of periods to obtain divided bio signals; and

averaging a predetermined number of the divided bio signals having a predetermined degree of similarity to each other to generate a bio signal pattern of the patient;

wherein the successively connecting of the bio signal patterns of the patient with each other comprises successively connecting a plurality of the generated bio signal pattern of the patient with each other so that locations of peaks in the plurality of the generated bio signal pattern of the patient correspond to the locations of peaks in the acquired bio signal.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising selecting the predetermined number of the divided bio signals having the predetermined similarity to each other based on correlation values between the divided bio signals.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating of the reconstruction signal further comprises estimating the locations of the peaks in the acquired bio signal;

and

the successively connecting of the bio signal patterns of the patient with each other comprises successively connecting the bio signal patterns of the patient so that the locations of the peaks in the bio signal patterns of the patient coincide with the estimated locations of the peaks in the acquired bio signal.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the eliminating of the motion artifacts comprises performing adaptive filtering using the reconstruction signal as a target signal and the acquired bio signal as an input signal.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the performing of the adaptive filtering comprises performing the adaptive filtering using a least means square (LMS) filter.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the acquired bio signal is an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program for controlling a computer to perform the method of claim 1.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the successively connecting of the bio signal patterns of the patient with each other comprises adjusting respective widths of the bio signal patterns so that each bio signal pattern ends where a next bio pattern signal begins in the bio signal patterns successively connected with each other.

11. An apparatus for eliminating motion artifacts in a bio signal, the apparatus comprising:

a bio signal acquisition unit configured to acquire a bio signal from a patient;

a reconstruction signal generator configured to generate a reconstruction signal of the acquired bio signal by successively connecting bio signal patterns of the patient with each other so that locations of peaks in the bio signal patterns of the patient correspond to locations of peaks in the acquired bio signal; and

a motion artifact elimination unit configured to eliminate motion artifacts in the acquired bio signal based on a difference between the reconstruction signal and the acquired bio signal.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the bio signal patterns of the patient are a pattern that is periodically repeated in a bio signal measured from the patient.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, further comprising a bio signal pattern generator configured to:

divide the acquired bio signal into a plurality of periods to obtain divided bio signals; and

average a predetermined number of the divided bio signals having a predetermined degree of similarity to each other to generate a bio signal pattern of the patient;

wherein the reconstruction signal generator is further configured to successively connect the bio signal patterns of the patient with each other by successively connecting a plurality of the generated bio signal pattern of the patient with each other so that locations of peaks in the plurality of the generated bio signal pattern of the patient correspond to the locations of peaks in the acquired bio signal.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the bio signal pattern generator is further configured to select the predetermined number of the divided bio signals having the predetermined degree similarity to each other based on correlation values between the divided bio signals.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the reconstruction signal generator comprises:

a peak estimation unit configured to estimate the locations of the peaks in the acquired bio signal; and

a pattern matching unit configured to generate the reconstruction signal by successively connecting the bio signal patterns of the patient with each other so that the locations of the peaks in the bio signal patterns of the patient coincide with the estimated locations of the peaks in the acquired bio signal.

16. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the motion artifact elimination unit is further configured to perform adaptive filtering using the reconstruction signal as a target signal and the acquired bio signal as an input signal.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the motion artifact elimination unit is further configured to perform the adaptive filtering using a least means square (LMS) filter.

18. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the acquired bio signal is an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal.

19. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the reconstruction signal generator is further configured to adjust respective widths of the bio signal patterns so that each bio signal pattern ends where a next bio pattern signal begins in the bio signal patterns successively connected with each other.