Abstract
Ballistocardiograms (BCG) is an essential signal for vital sign monitoring. Obtaining the beat-to-beat intervals from BCG signal is of great significance for home-care applications, such as sleep staging, heart disease alerting, etc. The current approaches of detecting beat-to-beat intervals from BCG signals are complex. In this paper, we develop a non-invasive BCG monitoring system, and propose an effective and accurate algorithm for beat-to-beat detection. Firstly, a heartbeat shape is adaptively modeled based on a two-step procedure by taking advantage of the J-peak and the K-valley of BCG signals. Then, forward and backward detections with the criteria of both the morphological distance and the cross-correlation are jointly employed to find the position of each BCG signal, and in turn, to determine the beat-to-beat intervals of BCG signals. The proposed method was validated in at least 90 minutes recording from 10 subjects in various setups. The mean absolute beat-to-beat intervals error was 10.72 ms and on an average 97.93% of the beat-to-beat intervals were detected.
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