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Extracting instantaneous respiratory rate from multiple photoplethysmogram respiratory-induced variations

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Dehkordi, Parastoo, Garde, Ainara, Molavi, Behnam, Ansermino, J. Mark, Dumont, Guy A.·2018·Frontiers in Physiology

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In this study, we proposed a novel method for extracting the instantaneous respiratory rate (IRR) from the pulse oximeter photoplethysmogram (PPG). The method was performed in three main steps: (1) a time-frequency transform called synchrosqueezing transform (SST) was used to extract the respiratory-induced intensity, amplitude and frequency variation signals from PPG, (2) the second SST was applied to each extracted respiratory-induced variation signal to estimate the corresponding IRR, and (3) the proposed peak-conditioned fusion method then combined the IRR estimates to calculate the final IRR. We validated the implemented method with capnography and nasal/oral airflow as the reference RR using the limits of agreement (LOA) approach. Compared to simple fusion and single respiratory-induced variation estimations, peak-conditioned fusion shows better performance. It provided a bias of 0.28 bpm with the 95% LOAs ranging from -3.62 to 4.17, validated against capnography and a bias of 0.04 bpm with the 95% LOAs ranging from -5.74 to 5.82, validated against nasal/oral airflow. This algorithm would expand the functionality of a conventional pulse oximetry beyond the measurement of heart rate and oxygen saturation to measure the respiratory rate continuously and instantly.

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  • RIFV induces a phase shift between each cycle by elongating or squeezing each wave.

    “RIFV induces a phase shift between each cycle by elongating or squeezing each wave.”
  • RIIV modulates the DC baseline of the PPG curve superimposing the wave on top of a low frequency sinusoid.

    “RIIV modulates the DC baseline of the PPG curve superimposing the wave on top of a low frequency sinusoid.”
  • Dehkordi et al. and Addison et al. identified three significant variations to the PPG signal by respiratory rate: respiratory-induced intensity variation (RIIV), respiratory-induced amplitude variation (RIAV), and respiratory induced frequency variation (RIFV).

    “Dehkordi et al. and Addison et al. identified the three significant variations to the PPG signal by respiratory rate after analyzing PPG from 139 healthy adults (67–18 years old) and the Capnobase dataset [115,121]. These variations are respiratory-induced intensity variation (RIIV), respiratory-induced amplitude variation (RIAV), and respiratory induced frequency variation (RIFV), as shown in FIG”
  • RIAV causes significant changes in each peak amplitude.

    “RIAV causes significant changes in each peak amplitude.”

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Authors
Dehkordi, P., Garde, A., Molavi, B., Ansermino, J. M., & Dumont, G. A.
Affiliations
  • University of British Columbia (CA)
  • University of Twente (NL)
Corresponding author
Dehkordi, Parastoo
Venue
Frontiers in Physiology
Published
2018-07-18
Volume
9
Pages
948-948
ISSN
1664-042X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2810701344
Cited by
66
References
29
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 3
FWCI
2.80
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Frontiers in Physiology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • University of Twente Research Information (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (CRDPJ 434659-12)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › ECG Monitoring and Analysis
Keywords
photoplethysmogram, pulse oximetry, synchrosqueezing transform, time-frequency analysis, capnography, nasal airflow

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