Signal Quality Assessment of Photoplethysmogram Signals using Quantum Pattern Recognition Technique and lightweight...

Photoplethysmography (PPG) signal comprises physiological information related to cardiorespiratory health. High-quality PPG signals are necessary to extract cardiores-piratory information accurately. Motion artifacts can easily corrupt PPG signals due to human locomotion, leading to noise enriched, poor quality signals. Several rule-based and Machine-Learning (ML) - based approaches for PPG signal quality estimation are available, but those algorithms' efficacy is questionable. So, the authors propose a lightweight CNN architecture for signal quality assessment by employing a novel Quantum Pattern Recognition (QPR) technique. The proposed algorithm is validated on manually annotated data obtained from the University of Queensland database. A total of 28366, 5s signal segments are preprocessed and transformed into image files of 20 x 500 pixels for input to the 2D CNN architecture. The developed model classifies the PPG signal as 'good' and 'bad' with an accuracy of 98.3% with 99.3% sensitivity, 94.5% specificity and 98.9% F1-score. The experimental analysis concludes that slim module based architecture and novel Spatio-temporal pattern recognition technique improve the system's performance. The proposed approach is suitable for a resource-constrained wearable implementation.