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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications

Photoplethysmography Measurement Algorithm for a Smartphone Camera

Sangjoon LEE, Chul Geun PARK, Kuk Won KO

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In this study, we propose a method for measuring a photoplethysmograph using a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor image sensor (CMOS) or smartphone camera for the adaptation of a mobile health (m-health) services. The proposed algorithm consists of six procedures. Before measuring the photoplethysmograph, the human fingertip must make contact with the smartphone camera lens and turn on the camera light. The first procedure converts the red-green-blue (RGB) to a gray image from a camera image, Then, region of interest (ROI) must be detected from the obtained image. The third procedure calculates the baseline level to reduce direct current (DC) offset effect, before extracting the photoplethysmograph from the camera image. The baseline is filtered, and the last step oversamples the resulting baseline filtered data using cubic spline interpolation. The proposed algorithm has been tested on six people using CMOS image sensors of several smartphones, which can effectively acquire a PPG signal in any situation. We believe that the proposed algorithm could easily be adapted into any m-health system that used a CMOS image sensor.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E99-B No.3 pp.586-591
Publication Date
2016/03/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.2015MIP0001
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Information and Communication Technology for Healthcare and Medical Applications in Conjunction with Main Topics of ISMICT2015)
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Sangjoon LEE
  SUN MOON University
Chul Geun PARK
  SUN MOON University
Kuk Won KO
  SUN MOON University

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