Multiple switching light sources based motion artifacts reduction in reflectance photoplethysmography.

Abstract

We proposed a technique to eliminate motion artifacts by subtracting the two green signals with different light intensity from single green LED. We used green LED light source with a photodetector to obtain the PPG signals from the wrist. We showed that the signal subtraction with different light intensity from the same light source reduced motion artifacts, and the clean PPG signal was remained. Performance comparison was carried out in five different scenarios: stationary state, fingers movement, gripping, up-down vertically bending and left-right horizontally swinging conditions. As expected, we obtained suitable clean PPG signals in all conditions using our proposed technique.