TIDUDO6B May 2019 – October 2020
Figure 3-28 shows the PTT measurement.
During testing, it was observed that the power line noise and other motion artifacts getting coupled to the PPG signals drastically reduced the SNR. For HRM applications, it is imperative to remove the noise and baseline drift. Heart-rate estimation usually requires an algorithm that filters the noise and detects the beat-to-beat heart rate and average heart rate. Even under rest conditions, extraction of heart rate data can get complicated, due to sudden changes in the DC level of the signal, due to respiration and motion artifacts. The heart rate can be calculated by measuring the separation between the successive peaks of the signal after eliminating the effect of the sudden DC-level shifts. In the presence of artifacts such as motion, the PPG signal can be buried. This occurrence requires motion cancellation algorithms, usually aided by data from accelerometers, to be able to remove the motion artifact and extract the heart rate.