Heart rate extraction from PPG signals using variational mode decomposition

Publication date: Available online 14 November 2018Source: Biocybernetics and Biomedical EngineeringAuthor(s): Hemant SharmaAbstractMonitoring of vital signs using the photoplethysmography (PPG) signal is desirable for the development of home-based healthcare systems in the aspect of feasibility, mobility, comfort, and cost-effectiveness of the PPG device. In this paper, a new technique based on the variational mode decomposition (VMD) for estimating heart rate (HR) from the PPG signal is proposed. The VMD decomposes an input PPG signal into a number of modes or sub-signals. Afterward, the modes which are dominantly influenced by the HR information are selected and further processed for extracting HR of the patient. The proposed scheme is validated over a large number of recordings acquired from three independent databases, namely the Capnobase, MIMIC, and University of Queens Vital Sign (UQVS). Experiments are performed over different data length segments of the PPG recordings. Using the data length of 30 s, the proposed technique outperformed the existing techniques by achieving the lower median (1st quartile, 3rd quartile) values of root mean square error (RMSE) as 0.23 (0.19, 0.31) beats per minute (bpm), 0.41 (0.31, 0.56) bpm and 1.1 (0.9, 1.22) bpm for the Capnobase, MIMIC, and UQVS datasets, respectively. Since the shorter data length is more suitable for the clinical applications, the proposed technique also provided satisfactory agreement between the derived and...
Source: Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering - Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research