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Ou Young T, Wu LW, Hsiu H, Peng TC, Chen WL. Characteristics of sarcopenia subjects in arterial pulse spectrum analysis. Front Public Health 2022; 10:969424. [PMID: 36148365 PMCID: PMC9485458 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.969424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2022] [Accepted: 08/15/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Aims Sarcopenia is significantly associated with the number of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, however, the underlying pathophysiological processes are largely unknown. This study performed harmonic index of finger photoplethysmography (PPG) waveforms with the aims of distinguishing different arterial pulse waveform signals between sarcopenia, presarcopenia, dynapenia, and healthy subjects. Methods Sixty-eight subjects were enrolled and obtained 1-min PPG signals, then were assigned to four age-matched groups: control, dynapenia, presarcopenia, and sarcopenia which definition according to Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia (AWGS): 2019 Consensus Update on Sarcopenia Diagnosis and Treatment. Harmonics 1-10 of the PPG waveform were obtained and calculated each of the amplitude proportions (C n ), standard deviations (SD n ), coefficients of variations (CV n ), and vascular elasticity index (VEI) for to evaluating the blood-pressure harmonic variability. Results The prevalence of sarcopenia in women gender (8 out of 9, 88.9%, p = 0.046) and osteoporosis in dynapenia (7 out of 16, 43.8%, p = 0.005) were significant higher. Among the four groups, compared with control, dynapenia, and presarcopenia, sarcopenia had largest SD n -values for harmonics 1, 2, 3, and 5 (ratio 1, 2, 3, 5 = 0.354, 0.209, 0.137, 0.074); whereas sarcopenia had largest coefficients of variations (CV n ) values for harmonics 1, 2, 3 and 10 (ratio 1, 2, 3, 10 = 0.263, 0.310, 0.402, 0.791). Besides, the Δ odds ratio of ratio 3, 4,and 6 tertile values were significantly increased in sarcopenia and possible sarcopenia group compared with control group. Subjects with sarcopenia had significantly higher VEI in mean, SD, and CV of the PPG waveform (mean = 2.332, SD = 1.479, CV = 0.634, p = 0.007) among the groups and the results of binary logistic regression analysis in the tertiles met statistical significance between the sarcopenia and non-sarcopenia groups whether adjusted or unadjusted (adjusted odds ratio 6.956, p = 0.030, unadjusted odds ratio 3.937, p = 0.039). Conclusions The elasticity of vessels among sarcopenia groups in lower-frequency components of harmonic ratio in which we defined as VEI showed a significantly highest VEI mean, SD, and CV in sarcopenia indicates the poorer elasticity of the arteries. The present findings showed finger PPG waveform measurements may be useful for early detection of vascular diseases with patients with sarcopenia in a non-invasive and easy-to-perform technique which may expand the clinical applicability in the future.
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- Te Ou Young
- Division of Family Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan,School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan,Health Management Center, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Division of Family Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan,School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan,Health Management Center, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan,*Correspondence: Li-Wei Wu
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- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan,Hsin Hsiu
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- Division of Family Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan,School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan,Health Management Center, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Division of Family Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan,School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan,Health Management Center, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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Jiang Z, Guo C, Zhang D. Pressure wrist pulse signal analysis by sparse decomposition using improved Gabor function. COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2022; 219:106766. [PMID: 35395592 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2022.106766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2021] [Revised: 11/29/2021] [Accepted: 03/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE In traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic medicine, wrist pulse wave fluctuations are an important indicator for distinguishing different health states. Owing to the development of modern sensing technology, computational methods have been used in the analysis of pulse wave signals. The description and quantification of the peaks in the pulse wave is significant for the identification of health status. METHODS In this study, we decomposed the pressure pulse waveform of the radial artery into several components by sparse decomposition with an improved Gabor function. To better represent the position, shape, and relationship of the peaks, we designed an improved Gabor function structure based on the characteristics of the pulse waveform to generate a time-frequency dictionary. Compared with conventional representation methods, the shape of the Gabor function is more variable. In addition, owing to the limitation of windowing, the Gabor function can reduce the influence on other positions when it represents a specific position. Feature vectors consisting of decomposed components can be used for computerized pulse signal analysis and disease diagnosis. RESULTS In the binary classification of healthy and diseased pulse signals, the proposed method achieved the best results for health/diabetes, health/cardiac disease, health/hypertension, and health/nephropathy with accuracies of 93.54%, 73.42%, 88.42%, and 82.28%, respectively. The multi-classification performance of the different types of features was evaluated by six classifiers, and the proposed method obtained the highest classification performance with support vector machine-radial basis function for both balanced and imbalanced data. CONCLUSIONS The results indicated that the proposed method enabled to obtain a smaller representation error and exhibited superior performance in distinguishing between the signals collected from patients and healthy individuals. Moreover, for the multi-classification of the pulse signals, the proposed method performed better than the state-of-the-art methods.
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- Zhixing Jiang
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China; University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China; Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, Shenzhen, China
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- The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China; Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, Shenzhen, China.
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Refined Multiscale Entropy Analysis of Wrist Pulse for Gender Difference in Traditional Chinese Medicine among Young Individuals. EVIDENCE-BASED COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE 2022; 2022:7285312. [PMID: 35178107 PMCID: PMC8846990 DOI: 10.1155/2022/7285312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2021] [Accepted: 12/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Pulse signal analysis plays an important role in promoting the objectification of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Like electrocardiogram (ECG) signals, wrist pulse signals are mainly caused by cardiac activities and are valuable in analyzing cardiac diseases. A large number of studies have reported ECG signals can distinguish gender characteristics of normal healthy subjects using entropy complexity measures, consistently showing more complexity in females than males. No research up to date, however, has been found on examining gender differences with wrist pulse signals of healthy subjects on entropy complexity measures. This paper is aimed to fill in the research gap, which could, in turn, provide a deeper insight into the pulse signal and might identify potential differences between ECG signals and pulse signals. In particular, several complementary entropy measures with corresponding refined composite multiscale versions are established to perform the analysis for the filtered TCM pulse signals. Experimental results reveal that regardless of entropy measures used, there is no statistically significant gender difference in terms of entropy complexity, indicating that the pulse signal holds less gender characteristics than the ECG signal. In view of these findings, wrist pulse signals could be likely to provide different pieces of information to ECG signals. The present study is the first to quantitatively evaluate gender differences in healthy pulse signals with measures of entropy complexity and more importantly; we expect this study could make contribution to the ongoing pulse intelligent diagnosis and objective analysis, further facilitating the modernization of TCM pulse diagnosis.
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Zhang X, Zhang Y. Frequency-Domain Characteristics Response to Passive Exercise in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease. Front Cardiovasc Med 2022; 8:760320. [PMID: 34970607 PMCID: PMC8712480 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.760320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2021] [Accepted: 11/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Purpose: The enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP), a kind of passive exercise, is a novel non-invasive therapy used to improve peripheral perfusion in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). However, whether frequency-domain characteristics of peripheral hemodynamics may benefit from passive exercise needs to be verified. Methods: We recruited 21 patients with CAD and 21 healthy controls in this study. Ultrasonic blood flow velocity spectrum in left carotid (LC) and right carotid (RC) common arteries, and right brachial (RB) and right femoral (RF) arteries was monitored using an ultrasonic Doppler. Frequency-domain characteristics before, during, and after passive exercise were extracted from ultrasonic spectrum images. The first and second peak amplitudes/frequencies (y1, y2, x1, x2) and power spectral energy ratio (PSER) in the 0–2.05 Hz/0.87 Hz (p5, p6) were calculated by fast Fourier transform and power spectrum density analysis. Results: For the amplitude and frequency characteristics of the spectrum, y1 in the LC of patients with CAD was significantly decreased during exercise (p = 0.036), whereas, y2 was significantly decreased immediately after passive exercise (p = 0.038). Besides those, y1 only in the RC and RB of controls was significantly decreased during exercise. Immediately after exercise, y2 in the LC of control was significantly lower than at the baseline (p = 0.014). For the energy ratio characteristics of the spectrum, there was an opposite response in the two groups that p6 was significantly reduced and elevated in the LC of controls and in the RB of patients with CAD during exercise (both p < 0.05). Conclusions: Passive exercise reduces amplitude and frequency characteristics of carotid arteries, while there was an opposite response of energy ratio characteristics in the LC and RB arteries to passive exercise between CAD patients and controls. Additionally, energy ratio characteristics of spectrum in the brachial artery were markedly elevated in CAD patients during passive exercise. Moreover, passive exercise only reduces amplitude characteristics of LC artery in the control group.
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- Xiaodong Zhang
- Department of Physical Education, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, The Eighth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China
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Liao CK, Tsai JS, Lin LY, Lee SC, Lai CF, Ho TW, Lai F. Characteristics of Harmonic Indexes of the Arterial Blood Pressure Waveform in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2020; 8:638. [PMID: 32733859 PMCID: PMC7360801 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.00638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 05/26/2020] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is an important public health issue worldwide. T2DM correlates with cardiovascular disease. Arterial stiffness is also a key factor that can be thought of as a surrogate marker. Nevertheless, it was unclear which harmonic indexes of blood pressure waveforms (BPWs) from subjects' radial artery pulses would be affected by T2DM. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate whether and how harmonic indexes can be used to discriminate hemodynamic differences between patients with T2DM and non-T2DM. This helps us to build objective results no matter who conducts the examination instead of pulse diagnosis in traditional way. We enrolled T2DM and non-T2DM patients as experimental and control groups, respectively, from the Department of Family Medicine in the National Taiwan University Hospital and the Department of Internal Medicine in Taipei's Veterans General Hospital from December 2017 to January 2019. ANSWatch® Model TS-0411 was used to capture the BPWs. Amplitude proportions (Cn values) were calculated from harmonics 1-10 of the BPW using fast Fourier transform. Thirty-two T2DM and 15 non-T2DM patients were enrolled. T2DM patients had significant differences in C1 (p = 0.031) and C5 (p = 0.041). The study suggests that analyzing the harmonic characteristics of non-invasively measured BPW of radial artery may be a potential and easy-to-perform approach to discriminate T2DM-induced hemodynamic changes.
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- Chen-Kai Liao
- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Lao De Yan Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic, New Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Department of Family Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.,Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.,College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Wang H, Wang L, Sun N, Yao Y, Hao L, Xu L, Greenwald SE. Quantitative Comparison of the Performance of Piezoresistive, Piezoelectric, Acceleration, and Optical Pulse Wave Sensors. Front Physiol 2020; 10:1563. [PMID: 32009976 PMCID: PMC6971205 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2019.01563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2019] [Accepted: 12/12/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The accurate measurement of the arterial pulse wave is beneficial to clinical health assessment and is important for the effective diagnosis of many types of cardiovascular disease. A variety of sensors have been developed for the non-invasive detection of these waves, but the type of sensor has an impact on the measurement results. Therefore, it is necessary to compare and analyze the signals obtained under a range of conditions using various pulse sensors to aid in making an informed choice of the appropriate type. From the available types we have selected four: a piezoresistive strain gauge sensor (PESG) and a piezoelectric Millar tonometer (the former with the ability to measure contact force), a circular film acceleration sensor, and an optical reflection sensor. Pulse wave signals were recorded from the left radial, carotid, femoral, and digital arteries of 60 subjects using these four sensors. Their performance was evaluated by analyzing their susceptibilities to external factors (contact force, measuring site, and ambient light intensity) and by comparing their stability and reproducibility. Under medium contact force, the peak-to-peak amplitude of the signals was higher than that at high and low force levels and the variability of signal waveform was small. The optical sensor was susceptible to ambient light. Analysis of the intra-class correlation coefficients (ICCs) of the pulse wave parameters showed that the tonometer and accelerometer had good stability (ICC > 0.80), and the PESG and optical sensor had moderate stability (0.46 < ICC < 0.86). Intra-observer analysis showed that the tonometer and accelerometer had good reproducibility (ICC > 0.75) and the PESG and optical sensor had moderate reproducibility (0.42 < ICC < 0.91). Inter-observer analysis demonstrated that the accelerometer had good reproducibility (ICC > 0.85) and the three other sensors had moderate reproducibility (0.52 < ICC < 0.96). We conclude that the type of sensor and measurement site affect pulse wave characteristics and the careful selection of appropriate sensor and measurement site are required according to the research and clinical need. Moreover, the influence of external factors such as contact pressure and ambient light should be fully taken into account.
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- Hongju Wang
- College of Medicine and Biomedical Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- College of Medicine and Biomedical Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- College of Medicine and Biomedical Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- College of Medicine and Biomedical Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- College of Medicine and Biomedical Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
- Neusoft Research of Intelligent Healthcare Technology, Co. Ltd., Shenyang, China
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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Characteristics of spectral indexes of the blood pressure waveform in patients with breast cancer. Blood Press Monit 2017; 22:217-220. [DOI: 10.1097/mbp.0000000000000260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Chang YW, Hsiu H, Yang SH, Fang WH, Tsai HC. Characteristics of beat-to-beat photoplethysmography waveform indexes in subjects with metabolic syndrome. Microvasc Res 2016; 106:80-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2016.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2015] [Revised: 03/15/2016] [Accepted: 04/03/2016] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Modeling the Pulse Signal by Wave-Shape Function and Analyzing by Synchrosqueezing Transform. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0157135. [PMID: 27304979 PMCID: PMC4909275 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2015] [Accepted: 05/25/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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We apply the recently developed adaptive non-harmonic model based on the wave-shape function, as well as the time-frequency analysis tool called synchrosqueezing transform (SST) to model and analyze oscillatory physiological signals. To demonstrate how the model and algorithm work, we apply them to study the pulse wave signal. By extracting features called the spectral pulse signature, and based on functional regression, we characterize the hemodynamics from the radial pulse wave signals recorded by the sphygmomanometer. Analysis results suggest the potential of the proposed signal processing approach to extract health-related hemodynamics features.
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Chang CW, Wang WK. Reliability assessment for pulse wave measurement using artificial pulse generator. J Med Eng Technol 2015; 39:177-84. [PMID: 25693606 DOI: 10.3109/03091902.2015.1016190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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This study aimed to assess intrinsic reliabilities of devices for pulse wave measurement (PWM). An artificial pulse generator system was constructed to create a periodic pulse wave. The stability of the periodic output was tested by the DP103 pressure transducer. The pulse generator system was then used to evaluate the TD01C system. Test-re-test and inter-device reliability assessments were conducted on the TD01C system. First, 11 harmonic components of the pulse wave were calculated using Fourier series analysis. For each harmonic component, coefficient of variation (CV), intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) and Bland-Altman plot were used to determine the degree of reliability of the TD01C system. In addition, device exclusion criteria were pre-specified to improve consistency of devices. The artificial pulse generator system was stable to evaluate intrinsic reliabilities of devices for PWM (ICCs > 0.95, p < 0.001). TD01C was reliable for repeated measurements (ICCs of test-re-test reliability > 0.95, p < 0.001; CVs all < 3%). Device exclusion criteria successfully excluded the device with defect; therefore, the criteria reduced inter-device CVs of harmonics and improved consistency of the selected devices for all harmonic components. This study confirmed the feasibility of intrinsic reliability assessment of devices for PWM using an artificial pulse generator system. Moreover, potential novel findings on the assessment combined with device exclusion criteria could be a useful method to select the measuring devices and to evaluate the qualities of them in PWM.
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- Chi-Wei Chang
- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University , Taipei, Taiwan , ROC and
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Wang YYL, Wang SH, Jan MY, Wang WK. Past, Present, and Future of the Pulse Examination ( mài zhěn). J Tradit Complement Med 2014; 2:164-85. [PMID: 24716130 PMCID: PMC3942893 DOI: 10.1016/s2225-4110(16)30096-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The pulse examination (脈診 mài zhěn) is a unique diagnostic approach of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The description of pulse examination in the history of Traditional Chinese Medicine is full of amazement and mythology. After researching in hemodynamics and investigating in clinical application for three decades, this article describes the development and the merits and demerits of pulse examination. The experiences of the ancients are tried to be illustrated with modern knowledge and language. As the theory of resonant blood circulation is discovered, Traditional Chinese Medicine could be on the shoulder of Newton and then lead the development of modern medicine. Hope the tool of pulse examination constructed according to eigen-vector with specific time domain and position can bring the running water for Traditional Chinese Medicine. Quantitative research could overcome the plight of analog logic qualitative research, and therefore bring new health revolution.
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- Yuh-Ying Lin Wang
- Biophysics Laboratory Department of Physics, National Taiwan Normal University
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- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronic and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University
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- Biophysics Laboratory Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica
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- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronic and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University
- Correspondence to: Wei-Kung Wang,
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He Z, Zhang Y, Ma Z, Hu F, Sun Y. A low-pass differentiation filter based on the 2nd-order B-spline wavelet for calculating augmentation index. Med Eng Phys 2014; 36:786-92. [DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2014.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2013] [Revised: 01/06/2014] [Accepted: 02/08/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Possibility of quantifying TCM finger-reading sensations: I. Bi-Sensing Pulse Diagnosis Instrument. Eur J Integr Med 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eujim.2012.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Hsiu H, Huang SM, Hsu CL, Hu SF, Lin HW. Effects of cold stimulation on the harmonic structure of the blood pressure and photoplethysmography waveforms. Photomed Laser Surg 2011; 30:77-84. [PMID: 22136594 DOI: 10.1089/pho.2011.3124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Cold stimulation (CS) accompanied by vasoconstriction can increase the stiffness of the arterial system. The vascular responses during CS have been studied using photoplethysmography (PPG), but most have focused on time-domain waveform indexes. Focusing on the radial arterial blood pressure (BPW) and the finger PPG waveforms, we aimed to determine if harmonic index could help to noninvasively characterize the changes in arterial pulse transmission following mild CS. METHODS Trials were measured on male healthy volunteers (n=29); mild CS was applied by placing a bag filled with 2000 cc of water at a temperature of 19-21°C around the right lower arm. For each experiment, we recorded a 3-min baseline-data sequence, applied local mild CS and recorded a 3-min effect sequence, and then recorded another 3-min effect sequence immediately after stopping CS. BPW and PPG spectra were used to calculate the amplitude proportion (C(n)) and phase angle (P(n)) for each harmonic (for n=1-10) from averages of all the pulses during the measurement period. RESULTS Several harmonic indexes were prominently increased following CS, including C(4)-C(10) and P(3)-P(10) for the BPW and C(5)-C(10) and P(3) and P(4) for PPG waveforms. CONCLUSIONS It was demonstrated that the application of mild CS significantly changes several harmonic-analysis indexes of the BPW and the PPG waveforms. By providing detailed information about the pulse transmission of each frequency component, harmonic analysis may improve the ability to detect arterial elastic properties induced by CS, other forms of external stimulation, or pathological factors. It may be pertinent to the development of medical devices for application in telemedicine.
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- Hsin Hsiu
- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Temporal and spatial properties of arterial pulsation measurement using pressure sensor array. EVIDENCE-BASED COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE 2011; 2012:745127. [PMID: 21754947 PMCID: PMC3132467 DOI: 10.1155/2012/745127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2010] [Revised: 01/06/2011] [Accepted: 05/02/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Conventionally, a pulse taking platform is based on a single sensor, which initiates a feasible method of quantitative pulse diagnosis. The aim of this paper is to implement a pulse taking platform with a tactile array sensor. Three-dimensional wrist pulse signals are constructed, and the length, width, ascending slope, and descending slope are defined following the surface of the wrist pulse. And the pressure waveform of the wrist pulse obtained through proposed pulse-taking platform has the same performance as the single sensor. Finally, the results of a paired samples t-test reveal that the repeatability of the proposal platform is consistent with clinical experience. On the other hand, the results of ANOVA indicate that differences exist among different pulse taking depths, and this result is consistent with clinical experience in traditional Chinese medicine pulse diagnosis (TCMPD). Hence, the proposed pulse taking platform with an array sensor is feasible for quantification in TCMPD.
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Xu L, Meng MQH, Shi C, Wang K, Li N. Quantitative Analyses of Pulse Images in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Med Acupunct 2008. [DOI: 10.1089/acu.2008.0632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Lisheng Xu
- School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250061 China
- Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Nanjing University of TCM, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001 China
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Xu L, Zhang D, Wang K, Li N, Wang X. Baseline wander correction in pulse waveforms using wavelet-based cascaded adaptive filter. Comput Biol Med 2007; 37:716-31. [PMID: 16930579 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2006.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2005] [Revised: 05/15/2006] [Accepted: 06/12/2006] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Pulse diagnosis is a convenient, inexpensive, painless, and non-invasive diagnosis method. Quantifying pulse diagnosis is to acquire and record pulse waveforms by a set of sensor firstly, and then analyze these pulse waveforms. However, respiration and artifact motion during pulse waveform acquisition can introduce baseline wander. It is necessary, therefore, to remove the pulse waveform's baseline wander in order to perform accurate pulse waveform analysis. This paper presents a wavelet-based cascaded adaptive filter (CAF) to remove the baseline wander of pulse waveform. To evaluate the level of baseline wander, we introduce a criterion: energy ratio (ER) of pulse waveform to its baseline wander. If the ER is more than a given threshold, the baseline wander can be removed only by cubic spline estimation; otherwise it must be filtered by, in sequence, discrete Meyer wavelet filter and the cubic spline estimation. Compared with traditional methods such as cubic spline estimation, morphology filter and Linear-phase finite impulse response (FIR) least-squares-error digital filter, the experimental results on 50 simulated and 500 real pulse signals demonstrate the power of CAF filter both in removing baseline wander and in preserving the diagnostic information of pulse waveforms. This CAF filter also can be used to remove the baseline wander of other physiological signals, such as ECG and so on.
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- Lisheng Xu
- Department of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
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Evaluation of the transfer function of human pulse system based on signal detection. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1999. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02886093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Karamanoglu M. A system for analysis of arterial blood pressure waveforms in humans. COMPUTERS AND BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL 1997; 30:244-55. [PMID: 9281331 DOI: 10.1006/cbmr.1997.1450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Recent developments in arterial hemodynamics have indicated that the human arterial pressure waveform contains more information than is available from conventional sphygmomanometry. This information includes indices describing left ventricular systolic function and arterial properties. A cheap and reliable system was designed and implemented using readily available hardware for recording, analysis, and storage of arterial pressure waveforms. The system embodies an online technique for synthesizing ascending aortic pressure waveform from recordings made at different peripheral sites of the human arterial system. Eighteen indices are then derived from arterial pressure waveforms. This system can be used in an outpatient clinic for assisting in current pharmacological management of cardiovascular disease. It can also be extended to the critical care area, where the extra information provided aid in assessing the patient's condition.
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- M Karamanoglu
- Center for Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Kensington, 2033, Australia
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