• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.113-120
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• 2010

This research is to evaluate the arousal level by using cardiovascular response. PPG was used in this study as one of the method of measuring it rather than ECG (Electrocardiography) for the purpose of solving ergonomic problem of sensing. The participants were in the age group of 20 (mean=24, standard deviation=1.25): five men and five women. Each experiment composed with four identical sets. First, a black screen was displayed for 30 second rest. Then, the prepared 6 pair images were randomly presented for 10 second stimulation and for 30 second non-stimulation. PPG was measured on the earlobes of experimenters at 200Hz sampling frequency. PPG amplitude, PPI(Pulse to Pulse Interval), and PRV(Pulse Rate Variability) were analyzed according to arousal level. T-test was performed to compare between the PPG variables of rest and relaxation, rest and arousal, and relaxation and arousal. Relative to the rest state, PPG amplitude decreased in relaxed state and increased in aroused state. Relative to the rest state, PPI decreased in both emotional states. However, more significant decline was observed in aroused state. PRV's LF and HF were used in the form of LF/HF to compare between the relaxed and the aroused state. Therefore, PPG signal showed significant differences between relaxed and aroused state. In conclusion, evaluation of human arousal level used in the PPG analysis demonstrated that PPG has better usability and comforter measurement than ECG and is clearly an alternative method of measuring arousal level.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.60-70
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• 2008

Objectives: The aim of the present investigation was to determine whether the finger photoplethysmography (PPG) of the young will become analogous to those of the old when the PPG harmonic components in the young decrease. Methods: The PPG was measured in 46 old men (21 males and 25 females) over the age of 60 years and 10 young men (5 males and 5 females). We acquired the representative pulse waveform of old men by averaging the PPG waveforms measured in the old men. after the PPG harmonic components in the young men were diminished with notch filtering, we compared the representative pulse waveform of old men and those of the young men. Results: The PPG waveform of the young males became analogous to the representative pulse waveform of the old as the PPG harmonic components in the young were diminished with notch filtering. Especially after the second harmonic component in the young was diminished with notch filtering, increase of the Pearson's correlation coefficient was prominent. On the other hand, the Pearson's correlation coefficient between the PPG waveforms of the young females and that of the old deceased after the second harmonic component diminished in the young. Conclusions: Decrease of the second harmonic component may be a precondition of typical age-related change of the pulse waveform in the healthy male.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.138-142
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• 2017

광전용적맥파(PPG)는 조직의 미세혈관에서 혈류의 변화를 감지할 수 있는 간단하고 저가의 광학기법이다. PPG는 피부 표면에서 비침습 방식의 측정에 사용된다. 본 논문에서는 PPG 센서를 이용한 심박 모니터링 시스템을 구현하였다. 제안한 시스템은 PPG 센서를 이용하여 데이터를 수집하고, 2차 미분 방식으로 심박수를 검출한다. 제안한 시스템의 유용성을 확인하기 위하여 상용 의료기기와 RR-구간의 측정을 수행하였다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.71-78
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• 2016

PPG signal measured by pulse oximeter can measure pulse and the oxygen saturation of arterial blood. But the PPG signal is distorted by finger movement or other movement in the body. To detect pulse from the PPG signal with motion artifact, we use band pass filter(BPF), Independent component analysis(ICA) and nonlinear autocorrelation(NAC). BPF is used to remove DC component and high frequency noise in the PPG signal with motion artifacts. ICA is used to separate pulse signal and motion artifact. However, pulse signal separated by ICA have no choice but to accompany signal distortion because pulse signal and motion artifact are not completely independent. So, we use nonlinear autocorrelation to emphasize the pure pulse signal from the distorted signal.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.1431-1437
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• 2016

모바일 헬스 장치에서 PPG 신호를 이용하여 심박수를 측정함에 있어 사용자의 움직임인 동잡음에 따라 그 성능이 현저하게 떨어진다. 이의 원인은 PPG 신호의 주파수 대역과 동잡음의 주파수 대역이 겹쳐있기 때문이고, 일반적인 대역필터로는 동잡음을 제거하기가 어렵다. 이러한 문제점 해결하기 위해 본 연구에서는 필터뱅크와 ICA를 이용하여 PPG 신호에 포함되어 있는 동잡음 제거 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법을 검증하기 위해 인위적으로 다양한 동잡음을 가하여 기존의 이동평균필터법과 ICA법의 심박수 변화를 비교 평가를 하였다. 이 실험의 결과에서 제안된 기법은 동잡음 환경에서도 기존의 이동평균필터와 ICA 보다 심박수 오차가 매우 낮게 나타났다. 이와 같이 제안된 방법을 헬스케어 단말기 설계에 적용한다면, 보다 안정적인 심박수 측정이 가능할 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제10권8호
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• pp.53-58
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• 2019

최근 만성질환자 건강관리의 목적으로 혈압측정에 대한 접근성을 높이는 제품 연구가 지속적으로 이루어지고 있다. 기존 연구에서는 심전도(ECG)와 광전용전맥파(PPG)를 분석하여 수축기혈압과 이완기 혈압을 산출하는 방식을 사용하고 있다. 주 과제는 정확도와 재현성을 위한 분석 알고리즘 개발이다. 본 연구에서는 초소형 혈압측정장치를 개발하는 단계에서 장치의 크기를 줄이고 측정방법도 간단히 하는 동시에 알고리즘도 두 개의 PPG만을 이용하여 최고혈압(SBP)을 추출하고 이에 따른 최저혈압(DBP)을 구하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 두 개의 PPG에서 얻은 측정값과 SBP, DBP 관계를 통계적으로 추적하여 상호관계를 분석하였다. PPG의 차이 값인 DF_P는 SBP와 반비례 관계가 있으며, DBP와는 비례적 관계가 성립되어 알고리즘에 의해 혈압값을 유추할 수 있으며, SBP를 통해 DBP를 추적할 수 있다.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.701-706
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• 2007

The measurement accuracy for heart rate or $SpO_2$ using photoplethysmography (PPG) is influenced by how well the noise from motion artifacts and other sources can be removed. Eliminating the motion artifacts is particularly difficult since its frequency band overlaps that of the basic PPG signal. Therefore, we propose the Periodic Moving Average Filter (PMAF) to remove motion artifacts. The PMAF is based on the quasi-periodicity of the PPG signals. After segmenting the PPG signal on periodic boundaries, we average the $m^{th}$ samples of each period. As a result, we remove the motion artifacts well without the deterioration of the characteristic point.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2015년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.572-574
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• 2015

최근 스마트폰 내장 카메라와 플래시를 사용하여 PPG 신호를 측정하고 생체정보를 측정하는 연구가 많이 진행되고 있다. 그러나 스마트폰 카메라를 사용하여 측정하는 PPG신호는 스마트폰 카메라와 플래시 위치에 따라 각 측정 영역의 신호의 세기가 다르다. 본 논문에서는 스마트폰 카메라와 플래시 위치에 따라 강한 PPG 신호를 가지는 ROI를 찾기 위해 비교, 분석하였다. ROI를 계산하기 위해 PPG 신호를 측정하고 ROI를 선정할 수 있는 스마트폰 애플리케이션을 개발하여 각 ROI의 PPG 신호의 편차를 계산하고 가장 최적의 영역을 실험을 통해 비교분석하였다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.777-785
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• 2007

In this paper, Finger-Toe Index (FTI) is proposed as an analytic parameter for the characterization of arterial vessel. Different from the currently being employed pulse wave velocity (PWV) information of the volume pulse wave measured from 4 arterial channels, the proposed FTI uses the ratio of the shorter of the two up-stroke time of PPG from fingers ($UT_{finger}$) and that of PPG (Photoplethysmography) from toes ($UT_{toe}$). To verify the usefulness of the proposed method, Finger-Toe Indexes were derived from the volume pulse waves acquired from 50 people under examination aged from 12 to 81 years old, and they were then compared with blood pressure ankle-brachial index (ABI). It was successfully demonstrated that the arterial stiffness can be estimated with respect to age and FTI is more strongly correlated with the pulse transit time than ABI. From the regression analysis, we also found that FTI has significant correlation PWV for a quantitative index of arterial stiffness and provides more accurate information than ABI for the characterization of arterial vessel.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.51-58
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• 2023

This paper proposes a deep learning method for estimating the heart rate from facial videos. Our proposed method estimates remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) signals to predict the heart rate. Although there have been proposed several methods for estimating rPPG signals, most previous methods can not be utilized in low-power single board computers due to their computational complexity. To address this problem, we construct a lightweight student model and employ a knowledge distillation technique to reduce the performance degradation of a deeper network model. The teacher model consists of 795k parameters, whereas the student model only contains 24k parameters, and therefore, the inference time was reduced with the factor of 10. By distilling the knowledge of the intermediate feature maps of the teacher model, we improved the accuracy of the student model for estimating the heart rate. Experiments were conducted on the UBFC-rPPG dataset to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Moreover, we collected our own dataset to verify the accuracy and processing time of the proposed method on a real-world dataset. Experimental results on a NVIDIA Jetson Nano board demonstrate that our proposed method can infer the heart rate in real time with the mean absolute error of 2.5183 bpm.