Ananta Sinchai. Separation of a photoplethysmographic signal and a motion artifact signal by frequency translation. Doctoral Degree(Electrical Engineering). King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang. Central Library. : King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, 2020.
Separation of a photoplethysmographic signal and a motion artifact signal by frequency translation
Abstract:
A percentage of oxygen saturation, known as a Sp02 value, obtained by a pulse oximeter relies on a pair of proper red and infrared (IR) photoplethysmographic (PPG) signals. In practice, both red and IR PPG signals are frequently distorted by a motion artifact (MA) signal. By having the MA influence on the red and IR PPG signals makes the SpO2 value unreliable. To handle the MA issue, the MA frequency distributions of likely regular postures induced by a patient are studied. The study reveals that the MA frequency components of possible usual poses distribute in the identical range of the PPG frequency components. To solve the overlapping frequency components of both PPG and MA signals, a technique of frequency translation based on an amplitude modulation (AM) is thus applied. The proposed technique remodels a traditional LEDs- driving system in the pulse oximeter. The presented solution emits both red and IR LEDs simultaneously. Each LED is driven by a sinusoidal signal having a distinct frequency generated by an alternating current (AC) source. For the conventional LEDs- shining system, red and IR LEDs are driven by a direct current (DC) source alternately. Besides, change of light intensity emitted by each LED is studied. Also, a comparative study regarding the performances of the proposed technique, the conventional scheme, discrete saturation transform (DST), independent component analysis (ICA) and compression of Fourier coefficients (CFC) is performed. The proposed strategy manifests that the PPG frequency components are shifted to the desirable frequency location and all PPG morphologies are well maintained. To verify the correctness, the SpO2 value is calculated. While motions, the computed SpO2 values are found to be intact and emerge that the change of light intensity neither improves nor deteriorates the SpO2 values. Moreover, the calculated SpO2 values show that the performance of the present approach is superior to the performances of the given methods. The mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of the proposed technique is up to only 1.35%. By contrast, the MAPE values of the methods