Tri-Spectral PPG: Robust Reflective Photoplethysmography by Fusing Multiple Wavelengths for Cardiac Monitoring

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Main Authors: Meier, Manuel, Demirel, Berken Utku, Holz, Christian
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Published: 2024
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author Meier, Manuel
Demirel, Berken Utku
Holz, Christian
author_facet Meier, Manuel
Demirel, Berken Utku
Holz, Christian
contents Multi-channel photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors have found widespread adoption in wearable devices for monitoring cardiac health. Channels thereby serve different functions -- whereas green is commonly used for metrics such as heart rate and heart rate variability, red and infrared are commonly used for pulse oximetry. In this paper, we introduce a novel method that simultaneously fuses multi-channel PPG signals into a single recovered PPG signal that can be input to further processing. Via signal fusion, our learning-based method compensates for the artifacts that affect wavelengths to different extents, such as motion and ambient light changes. We evaluate our method on a novel dataset of multi-channel PPG recordings and electrocardiogram recordings for reference from 10 participants over the course of 13 hours during real-world activities outside the laboratory. Using the fusion PPG signal our method recovered, participants' heart rates can be calculated with a mean error of 4.5\,bpm (23\% lower than from green PPG signals at 5.9\,bpm).
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spellingShingle Tri-Spectral PPG: Robust Reflective Photoplethysmography by Fusing Multiple Wavelengths for Cardiac Monitoring
Meier, Manuel
Demirel, Berken Utku
Holz, Christian
Signal Processing
Multi-channel photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors have found widespread adoption in wearable devices for monitoring cardiac health. Channels thereby serve different functions -- whereas green is commonly used for metrics such as heart rate and heart rate variability, red and infrared are commonly used for pulse oximetry. In this paper, we introduce a novel method that simultaneously fuses multi-channel PPG signals into a single recovered PPG signal that can be input to further processing. Via signal fusion, our learning-based method compensates for the artifacts that affect wavelengths to different extents, such as motion and ambient light changes. We evaluate our method on a novel dataset of multi-channel PPG recordings and electrocardiogram recordings for reference from 10 participants over the course of 13 hours during real-world activities outside the laboratory. Using the fusion PPG signal our method recovered, participants' heart rates can be calculated with a mean error of 4.5\,bpm (23\% lower than from green PPG signals at 5.9\,bpm).
title Tri-Spectral PPG: Robust Reflective Photoplethysmography by Fusing Multiple Wavelengths for Cardiac Monitoring
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17549