Improved filtering methods to suppress cardiovascular contamination in electrical impedance tomography recordings.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: IOP Pub. Ltd Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9306921 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1361-6579 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 09673334 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Physiol Meas Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Original Publication: Bristol, UK : IOP Pub. Ltd., c1993-
    • Subject Terms:
      Electric Impedance* ; Tomography*/methods ; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted* ; Artifacts*; Humans ; Signal-To-Noise Ratio ; Adult ; Wavelet Analysis ; Cardiovascular System ; Infant, Newborn
    • Abstract:
      Objective. Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) produces clinical useful visualization of the distribution of ventilation inside the lungs. The accuracy of EIT-derived parameters can be compromised by the cardiovascular signal. Removal of these artefacts is challenging due to spectral overlapping of the ventilatory and cardiovascular signal components and their time-varying frequencies. We designed and evaluated advanced filtering techniques and hypothesized that these would outperform traditional low-pass filters. Approach. Three filter techniques were developed and compared against traditional low-pass filtering: multiple digital notch filtering (MDN), empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and the maximal overlap discrete wavelet transform (MODWT). The performance of the filtering techniques was evaluated (1) in the time domain (2) in the frequency domain (3) by visual inspection. We evaluated the performance using simulated contaminated EIT data and data from 15 adult and neonatal intensive care unit patients. Main result. Each filter technique exhibited varying degrees of effectiveness and limitations. Quality measures in the time domain showed the best performance for MDN filtering. The signal to noise ratio was best for DLP, but at the cost of a high relative and removal error. MDN outbalanced the performance resulting in a good SNR with a low relative and removal error. MDN, EMD and MODWT performed similar in the frequency domain and were successful in removing the high frequency components of the data. Significance. Advanced filtering techniques have benefits compared to traditional filters but are not always better. MDN filtering outperformed EMD and MODWT regarding quality measures in the time domain. This study emphasizes the need for careful consideration when choosing a filtering approach, depending on the dataset and the clinical/research question.
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    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: cardiovascular artefacts; electrical impedance tomography; empirical mode decomposition; filtering; heart rate detection; maximal overlap discrete wavelet transform
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20240502 Date Completed: 20240521 Latest Revision: 20240521
    • Publication Date:
      20240521
    • Accession Number:
      10.1088/1361-6579/ad46e3
    • Accession Number:
      38697210