Near infrared spectroscopy(NIRS)is very sensitive to the movement of a body. The motion artifacts(MA)coupled to the optical measurement seriously affect the subsequent analysis results. Aiming at this problem
a method by empirical mode decomposition(EMD)to remove the motion artifacts(EMD-MAR)is presented. The moving standard deviation(MSD)of a NIRS signal is evaluated. From the characteristics of the probability distribution of the MSD
the thresholds of MA detection are determined and the ranges of the MAs are detected automatically. Then EMD is adopted to decompose the signal into intrinsic mode functions(IMF). The values of the IMFs with obvious abnormal patterns within the detected range are set to zero to eliminate the MAs. All the IMFs treated are employed to reconstruct the corrected signal. The EMD-MAR is validated with simulated and real NIRS signals. The results show that it can effectively detect and eliminate the three kinds of MAs:baseline drift
transient impulse and transient oscillation
and a significant reduction of MAs and an increase in signal quality are achieved. The EMD-MAR method greatly improves the degree of automatic detection of motion artifacts to effectively keep the physiological information in a NIRS signal while the MAs are removed by the empirical mode decomposition.
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