Abstract
Photoplethysmography (PPG) is an important signal which contains much physiological information like heart rate and cardiovascular health etc. However, PPG signals are easily corrupted by motion artifacts and body movements during their recordings, which may lead to poor quality. In order to accurately extract cardiovascular information, it is necessary to ensure high PPG quality in these applications. Although there are several existed methods to get the PPG signal quality, those algorithms are complex and the accuracies are not very high. Thus, this work proposes a deep learning network for the signal quality assessment using the STFT time-frequency spectra. A total of 5804 10s signals are preprocessed and transformed into 2D STFT spectra with 250 × 334 pixels. The STFT figures are as the input of the CNN networks, and the model gives the result as good or bad quality. The model accuracy is 98.3% with 98.9% sensitivity, 96.7% specificity, and 98.8% F1-score. And the heart rate error is much reduced after classification with the reference of ECG signals. Thus, the proposed deep learning approaches can be useful in the classification of good and bad PPG signals. As far as we know, this is the first article using deep learning methods combined with STFT time-frequency spectra to get the signal quality assessment of PPG signals.
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