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Poincaré plot analysis for pulse interval extracted from non-contact photoplethysmography
Yihong Qiu1, Yuanyuan Cai, Yisheng Zhu
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1954 Huashan Road, Shanghai 200030, China.
Abstract:
An analysis of pulse-to-pulse interval (PPI) derived from non-contact photoplethysmography (PPG) is performed using the Poincaré plot technique. Eleven healthy volunteers participated in a protocol utilising both spontaneous and paced breathing methodologies with a customised non-contact PPG system to obtain adequate quality signals for a distance of 80mm between source and detector. An adaptive trough-searching algorithm (ATSA) is developed to extract the PPI which is effective in the presence of artefact during non-contact PPG measurement. A Poincaré plot for each 5 minute period of the protocol shows significant pattern differences between spontaneous and paced breathing measurements. Geometric parameters extracted from the Poincaré plot are shown to be sensitive to breathing interval changes and are a useful indicator for the variation of pulse rate variability measured using non-contact PPG.
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