Atrial fibrillation detection from face videos by fusing subtle variations |
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Author: | Shi, Jingang1; Alikhani, Iman1; Li, Xiaobai1; |
Organizations: |
1Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis, University of Oulu, FI-90014 Oulu, Finland 2School of Information and Technology, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China |
Format: | article |
Version: | accepted version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 3.1 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2019121648360 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
2020
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Publish Date: | 2019-07-03 |
Description: |
AbstractAtrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most common cardiac arrhythmias, which particularly occurs in the elderly individuals with heart disease. Though AF is often asymptomatic during normal activities, it has huge potential risks for stroke and other severe diseases. Thus, early detection of AF has great importance in the field of public health. Currently, electrocardiography (ECG) is the commonly used measure for the diagnosis of AF, which presents the irregular rhythm of waveform for AF patients. However, the measurement of the ECG signal requires special medical acquisition devices, which are not comfortable for practical monitoring in daily life. In this paper, we explore a very promising algorithm to detect AF from remote face videos by analyzing the color variations of face skin. The main challenge is that the current remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) technique is rather immature, which causes difficulty in extracting accurate pulse signals for describing the cardiac rhythm. To solve this problem, we first utilize various rPPG algorithms to capture pulse rhythms from different regions on the face video. We then investigate biomedical statistical methods to extract suitable features from each pulse signal. Due to the imprecision of video-extracted pulse signals, some traditional physiological features may lose their utility since they were originally proposed for ECG signals. Furthermore, some of them are very susceptible to the influence of noise. Thus, we propose a feature fusion algorithm to select and combine reasonable information from multiple physiological features, which aims to preserve the discriminability of detecting AF in the presence of the noise and outlier disturbances. The experimental results on a real-world database demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in providing useful information for AF detection. see all
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Series: |
IEEE transactions on circuits and systems for video technology |
ISSN: | 1051-8215 |
ISSN-E: | 1558-2205 |
ISSN-L: | 1051-8215 |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 8 |
Pages: | 2781 - 2795 |
DOI: | 10.1109/TCSVT.2019.2926632 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1109/TCSVT.2019.2926632 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
113 Computer and information sciences |
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Funding: |
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61772419), Academy of Finland, Tekes Fidipro Program (No. 1849/31/2015), Business Finland Project (No. 3116/31/2017), Academy of Finland 6Genesis Flagship (No. 318927), Tekniikan Edistämissäätiö and Infotech Oulu. |
Academy of Finland Grant Number: |
318927 |
Detailed Information: |
318927 (Academy of Finland Funding decision) |
Copyright information: |
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