PPG-based heart rate estimation using Wiener filter, phase vocoder and Viterbi decoding

  • Andriy Temko

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingsChapterpeer-review

Abstract

Accurate heart rate (HR) estimation from the photoplethysmographic (PPG) signal during intensive physical exercises is tackled in this paper. Wiener filters are designed to attenuate the influence of motion artifacts. The phase vocoder is used to improve the initial Discrete Fourier transform (DFT) based frequency estimation. Additionally, Viterbi decoding is used as a novel post-processing step to find the path through time-frequency state-space plane. The system performance is assessed on a publically available dataset of 23 PPG recordings. The resulting algorithm is designed for scenarios that do not require online HR monitoring (swimming, offline fitness statistics). The resultant system with an error rate of 1.31 beats per minute outperforms all other systems reported to-date in literature and in contrast to existing alternatives requires no parameter to tune at the post-processing stage and operates at a much lower computational cost. The Matlab implementation is provided online.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1013-1017
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781509041176
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Jun 2017
Event2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017 - New Orleans, United States
Duration: 5 Mar 20179 Mar 2017

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Orleans
Period5/03/179/03/17

Keywords

  • motion artifacts
  • Photoplethysmography
  • spectrum estimation
  • Viterbi decoding

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'PPG-based heart rate estimation using Wiener filter, phase vocoder and Viterbi decoding'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this