A New Approach for Automatic Removal of Movement Artifacts in Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Time Series by Means of Acceleration Data

Metz, Andreas Jaakko (2015). A New Approach for Automatic Removal of Movement Artifacts in Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Time Series by Means of Acceleration Data. Algorithms, 8(4), pp. 1052-1075. MDPI 10.3390/a8041052

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Abstract: Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) enables the non-invasive measurement of changes in hemodynamics and oxygenation in tissue. Changes in light-coupling due to movement of the subject can cause movement artifacts (MAs) in the recorded signals. Several methods have been developed so far that facilitate the detection and reduction of MAs in the data. However, due to fixed parameter values (e.g., global threshold) none of these methods are perfectly suitable for long-term (i.e., hours) recordings or were not time-effective when applied to large datasets. We aimed to overcome these limitations by automation, i.e., data adaptive thresholding specifically designed for long-term measurements, and by introducing a stable long-term signal reconstruction. Our new technique (“acceleration-based movement artifact reduction algorithm”, AMARA) is based on combining two methods: the “movement artifact reduction algorithm” (MARA, Scholkmann et al. Phys. Meas. 2010, 31, 649–662), and the “accelerometer-based motion artifact removal” (ABAMAR, Virtanen et al. J. Biomed. Opt. 2011, 16, 087005). We describe AMARA in detail and report about successful validation of the algorithm using empirical NIRS data, measured over the prefrontal cortex in adolescents during sleep. In addition, we compared the performance of AMARA to that of MARA and ABAMAR based on validation data.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Medical Education > Institute of Complementary and Integrative Medicine (IKIM)

UniBE Contributor:

Metz, Andreas Jaakko

ISSN:

1999-4893

Publisher:

MDPI

Language:

English

Submitter:

Andreas Jaakko Metz

Date Deposited:

28 Dec 2015 16:14

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:50

Publisher DOI:

10.3390/a8041052

Uncontrolled Keywords:

movement artifact reduction algorithm (MARA); acceleration-based motion artifact removal (ABAMAR); acceleration-based movement artifact reduction algorithm (AMARA); motion artifacts; movement artifacts; near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS); functional-near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.74328

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/74328

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