Dual-ratio approach to pulse oximetry and the effect of skin tone

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Auteurs principaux: Blaney, Giles, Frias, Jodee, Tavakoli, Fatemeh, Sassaroli, Angelo, Fantini, Sergio
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author Blaney, Giles
Frias, Jodee
Tavakoli, Fatemeh
Sassaroli, Angelo
Fantini, Sergio
author_facet Blaney, Giles
Frias, Jodee
Tavakoli, Fatemeh
Sassaroli, Angelo
Fantini, Sergio
contents Significance: Pulsatile blood Oxygen Saturation (SpO2 ) via pulse oximetry is a valuable clinical metric for assessing oxygen delivery. Individual anatomical features, including skin tone, may affect current optical pulse oximetry methods. Aim: Develop an optical pulse oximetry method based on Dual-Ratio (DR) measurements to suppress individual anatomical features on SpO2. Approach: Design a DR-based finger pulse oximeter, hypothesizing that DR would suppress confounds from optical coupling and superficial tissue-absorption. This method is tested using Monte Carlo (MC) simulations and in vivo experiments. Results: Different melanosome volume fraction in the epidermis, a surrogate for skin tone, cause changes in the recovered SpO2 on the order of 1%. Different heterogeneous pulsatile hemodynamics cause greater changes on the order of 10%. SpO2 recovered with DR measurements showed less variability than the traditional Single-Distance (SD) transmission method. Conclusions: For the models and methods considered here, SpO2 measurements are more strongly impacted by heterogeneous pulsatile hemodynamics than by melanosome volume fraction. This is consistent with previous reports that, the skin tone bias is smaller than the observed variation in recovered SpO 2 across individual people. The partial suppression of variability in the SpO2 recovered by DR suggests promise of DR for pulse oximetry.
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spellingShingle Dual-ratio approach to pulse oximetry and the effect of skin tone
Blaney, Giles
Frias, Jodee
Tavakoli, Fatemeh
Sassaroli, Angelo
Fantini, Sergio
Medical Physics
Optics
Significance: Pulsatile blood Oxygen Saturation (SpO2 ) via pulse oximetry is a valuable clinical metric for assessing oxygen delivery. Individual anatomical features, including skin tone, may affect current optical pulse oximetry methods. Aim: Develop an optical pulse oximetry method based on Dual-Ratio (DR) measurements to suppress individual anatomical features on SpO2. Approach: Design a DR-based finger pulse oximeter, hypothesizing that DR would suppress confounds from optical coupling and superficial tissue-absorption. This method is tested using Monte Carlo (MC) simulations and in vivo experiments. Results: Different melanosome volume fraction in the epidermis, a surrogate for skin tone, cause changes in the recovered SpO2 on the order of 1%. Different heterogeneous pulsatile hemodynamics cause greater changes on the order of 10%. SpO2 recovered with DR measurements showed less variability than the traditional Single-Distance (SD) transmission method. Conclusions: For the models and methods considered here, SpO2 measurements are more strongly impacted by heterogeneous pulsatile hemodynamics than by melanosome volume fraction. This is consistent with previous reports that, the skin tone bias is smaller than the observed variation in recovered SpO 2 across individual people. The partial suppression of variability in the SpO2 recovered by DR suggests promise of DR for pulse oximetry.
title Dual-ratio approach to pulse oximetry and the effect of skin tone
topic Medical Physics
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15782