A METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING QUALITY OF PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAM (PPG) SIGNAL

This disclosure relates generally to a method and a system for determining quality of PPG signal. The PPG signals are extensively used for deducing health parameters of patients to infer the physiological conditions of heart, blood pressure, breathing patterns of the patients. However, analysis based on PPG signals is extremely challenging and is accurate only on high quality PPG signals. However, the existing techniques for determining quality of PPG signal (that are collected using wearable devices) require huge training or use complicated algorithms and cannot be used for real-time analysis. The disclosed methods and system for PPG quality assessment is based on the frequency domain analysis, wherein heart and respiratory components in the frequency spectrum are used effectively to derive the quality checker metric which is further used to estimate a plurality of optimal thresholds that is used for determining the quality of PPG signals at real-time.