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Photoplethysmogram Recording Length: Defining Minimal Length Requirement from Dynamical Characteristics

Version 1 : Received: 8 June 2022 / Approved: 9 June 2022 / Online: 9 June 2022 (02:57:47 CEST)

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Sviridova, N.; Zhao, T.; Nakano, A.; Ikeguchi, T. Photoplethysmogram Recording Length: Defining Minimal Length Requirement from Dynamical Characteristics. Sensors 2022, 22, 5154. Sviridova, N.; Zhao, T.; Nakano, A.; Ikeguchi, T. Photoplethysmogram Recording Length: Defining Minimal Length Requirement from Dynamical Characteristics. Sensors 2022, 22, 5154.

Abstract

Photoplethysmography is a widely used technique to noninvasively assess heart rate, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation. This technique has a large potential for further applications, for example in the field of physiological and mental health monitoring. However, advanced applications of photoplethysmography have been hampered by the lack of accurate and reliable methods to analyze the characteristics of the complex nonlinear dynamics of the photoplethysmogram. Methods of nonlinear time series analysis may be used to estimate the dynamical characteristics of the photoplethysmogram but they are highly influenced by the length of the time series, which is often limited in practical photoplethysmography applications. The aim of this study was to evaluate the error in the estimation of the dynamical characteristics of the photoplethysmogram associated to the limited length of the time series. The dynamical properties were evaluated using recurrence quantification analysis, and the estimation error was computed as a function of the length of the time series. Results demonstrated that properties such as de-terminism and entropy can be estimated with an error lower than 1% even for short photople-thysmogram recordings. Additionally, the lower limit for the time series length to estimate the average prediction time was computed.

Keywords

photoplethysmogram; nonlinear dynamics; nonlinear time series analysis; data length assessment

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Other

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