1st International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Research Article

Heart Rate Measurement in the Presence of Noises

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361651,
        author={Jen-Liang Cheng and Jing-Ren Jeng and Zhe-Wei Chiang},
        title={Heart Rate Measurement in the Presence of Noises},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
        year={2007},
        month={5},
        keywords={Wireless and wear-able devices for pervasive healthcare Sensing of vital signs and transmission.},
        doi={10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361651}
    }
    
  • Jen-Liang Cheng
    Jing-Ren Jeng
    Zhe-Wei Chiang
    Year: 2007
    Heart Rate Measurement in the Presence of Noises
    PERVASIVEHEALTH
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361651
Jen-Liang Cheng1,*, Jing-Ren Jeng2,*, Zhe-Wei Chiang3,*
  • 1: Department of Medical Informatics, Tzu-Chi University. No.701, sec.3 Chung-Yang Rd., Hua-Lien City 970, Taiwan.
  • 2: Division of Cardiology, Buddhist Tzu-Chi General Hospital. No.707, Sec.3 Chung-Yang Rd., Hua-Lien City 970, Taiwan
  • 3: Department of Medical Informatics, Tzu-Chi University. No.701, Sec.3 Chung-Yang Rd., Hua-Lien City 970, Taiwan.
*Contact email: tomcheng@mail.tcu.edu.tw, jrjeng@tzuchi.com.tw, 92316131@stmail.tcu.edu.tw

Abstract

Heart rate profile related to exercise or other physical activities can be a crucial indicator of individual health according to recent researches. This makes heart rate measurement without interfering ongoing activity plays an important role in medical services and pervasive computing applications. However, there are challenges for wearable apparatuses to measure the heart rate in good accuracy and reliability: the lack of sophisticated signal processing capability and the generation of noises caused by physical activity. In this paper, a robust heart rate measuring algorithm is proposed. Several experiments are conducted to give evidence of the robustness and accuracy of the proposed algorithm