Heart Rate Estimation from Ballistocardiography Based on Hilbert Transform and Phase Vocoder
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This paper presents a robust method to monitor heart rate from BCG (Ballistocardiography) signal, which is acquired from the sensor embedded in a chair or a mattress by introducing Hilbert Transform to extract the pulse envelope that models the repetition of J-peaks in BCG signal.
Abstract
This paper presents a robust method to monitor heart rate (HR) from BCG (Ballistocardiography) signal, which is acquired from the sensor embedded in a chair or a mattress. The proposed algorithm addresses the shortfalls in traditional Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) based approaches by introducing Hilbert Transform to extract the pulse envelope that models the repetition of J-peaks in BCG signal. The frequency resolution is further enhanced by applying FFT and phase vocoder to the pulse envelope. The performance of the proposed algorithm is verified by experiment from 7 subjects. For HR estimation, mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.90 beats per minute (BPM) and standard deviation of absolute error (STD) of 1.14 BPM are obtained. Pearson correlation coefficient between estimated HR and ground truth HR of 0.98 is also achieved.
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