An impedance pneumography signal quality index: Design, assessment and application to respiratory rate monitoring
Impedance pneumography (ImP) is widely used for respiratory rate (RR) monitoring. However, ImP-derived RRs can be imprecise. The aim of this study was to develop a signal quality index (SQI) for the ImP signal, and couple it with a RR algorithm, to improve RR monitoring. An SQI was designed which id...
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| author | Charlton, PH Bonnici, T Tarassenko, L Clifton, DA Beale, R Watkinson, PJ Alastruey, J |
| author_facet | Charlton, PH Bonnici, T Tarassenko, L Clifton, DA Beale, R Watkinson, PJ Alastruey, J |
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| description | Impedance pneumography (ImP) is widely used for respiratory rate (RR) monitoring. However, ImP-derived RRs can be imprecise. The aim of this study was to develop a signal quality index (SQI) for the ImP signal, and couple it with a RR algorithm, to improve RR monitoring. An SQI was designed which identifies candidate breaths and assesses signal quality using: the variation in detected breath durations, how well peaks and troughs are defined, and the similarity of breath morphologies. The SQI categorises 32 s signal segments as either high or low quality. Its performance was evaluated using two critical care datasets. RRs were estimated from high-quality segments using a RR algorithm, and compared with reference RRs derived from manual annotations. The SQI had a sensitivity of 77.7 %, and specificity of 82.3 %. RRs estimated from segments classified as high quality were accurate and precise, with mean absolute errors of 0.21 and 0.40 breaths per minute (bpm) on the two datasets. Clinical monitor RRs were significantly less precise. The SQI classified 34.9 % of real-world data as high quality. In conclusion, the proposed SQI accurately identifies high-quality segments, and RRs estimated from those segments are precise enough for clinical decision making. This SQI may improve RR monitoring in critical care. Further work should assess it with wearable sensor data. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:11142a6f-1c5d-45f3-8034-7f200ac89cb72022-03-26T10:00:14ZAn impedance pneumography signal quality index: Design, assessment and application to respiratory rate monitoringJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:11142a6f-1c5d-45f3-8034-7f200ac89cb7EnglishSymplectic ElementsElsevier2020Charlton, PHBonnici, TTarassenko, LClifton, DABeale, RWatkinson, PJAlastruey, JImpedance pneumography (ImP) is widely used for respiratory rate (RR) monitoring. However, ImP-derived RRs can be imprecise. The aim of this study was to develop a signal quality index (SQI) for the ImP signal, and couple it with a RR algorithm, to improve RR monitoring. An SQI was designed which identifies candidate breaths and assesses signal quality using: the variation in detected breath durations, how well peaks and troughs are defined, and the similarity of breath morphologies. The SQI categorises 32 s signal segments as either high or low quality. Its performance was evaluated using two critical care datasets. RRs were estimated from high-quality segments using a RR algorithm, and compared with reference RRs derived from manual annotations. The SQI had a sensitivity of 77.7 %, and specificity of 82.3 %. RRs estimated from segments classified as high quality were accurate and precise, with mean absolute errors of 0.21 and 0.40 breaths per minute (bpm) on the two datasets. Clinical monitor RRs were significantly less precise. The SQI classified 34.9 % of real-world data as high quality. In conclusion, the proposed SQI accurately identifies high-quality segments, and RRs estimated from those segments are precise enough for clinical decision making. This SQI may improve RR monitoring in critical care. Further work should assess it with wearable sensor data. |
| spellingShingle | Charlton, PH Bonnici, T Tarassenko, L Clifton, DA Beale, R Watkinson, PJ Alastruey, J An impedance pneumography signal quality index: Design, assessment and application to respiratory rate monitoring |
| title | An impedance pneumography signal quality index: Design, assessment and application to respiratory rate monitoring |
| title_full | An impedance pneumography signal quality index: Design, assessment and application to respiratory rate monitoring |
| title_fullStr | An impedance pneumography signal quality index: Design, assessment and application to respiratory rate monitoring |
| title_full_unstemmed | An impedance pneumography signal quality index: Design, assessment and application to respiratory rate monitoring |
| title_short | An impedance pneumography signal quality index: Design, assessment and application to respiratory rate monitoring |
| title_sort | impedance pneumography signal quality index design assessment and application to respiratory rate monitoring |
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