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A Non-invasive Measurement of Abdominal Pressure on Ambulatory Urodynamics Study Using Surface Electromyography

휴대용 요역동학 검사 시 근전도 신호를 이용한 복압측정 방법

  • Published : 2008.11.25
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Abstract

Conventional rectal catheters which are used for the measurement of abdominal pressure can cause erroneous result affecting detrusor pressure, and the catheter itself is not comfortable to the patients. To reduce these problems, we invented a new method for measuring abdominal pressure in non invasive manner using surface electromyography (EMG) signals of the rectus abdominis muscle. Our results showed that the correlation coefficient and root mean square error (RMSE) between the measured abdominal pressures by the conventional rectal catheters and the estimated values by our proposed algorithm were $0.79{\pm}0.06$ and $0.10{\pm}0.07$, respectively. These findings suggest that the surface EMG of rectus abdominis muscle might be used indirectly for more convenient measurement of abdominal pressure on ambulatory urodynamic study.

복압 측정을 위한 기존의 카데터 방법은 배뇨압에 영향을 줄 수 있는 많은 오차를 유발할 수 있으며 환자에게 불편함을 야기한다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해, 본 연구에서는 표면 근전도를 이용하여 비침습적으로 복압을 측정할 수 있는 새로운 방법을 개발하였다. 연구 결과, 기존 직장 카테터를 이용하여 측정된 복압과 복압측정 알고리즘을 이용하여 추정된 복압 간의 상관계수는 $0.79{\pm}0.06$이었으며, 두 신호간의 오차는 $0.10{\pm}0.07$이었다. 본 연구에서 개발된 복압추정 알고리즘을 이용하면 휴대용 요역동학 검사 시 편리하게 간접적으로 복압을 측정할 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.

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