Outlier Pulse Detection and Feature Extraction for Wrist Pulse Analysis

Wrist pulse analysis for identification of health status is found in Ancient Indian as well as Chinese literature. The preprocessing of wrist pulse is necessary to remove outlier pulses and fluctuations prior to the analysis of pulse pressure signal. This paper discusses the identification of irregular pulses present in the pulse series and intricacies associated with the extraction of time domain pulse features. An approach of Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) has been utilized for the identification of outlier pulses in the wrist pulse series. The ambiguity present in the identification of pulse features is resolved with the help of first derivative of Ensemble Average of wrist pulse series. An algorithm for detecting tidal and dicrotic notch in individual wrist pulse segment is proposed.

Authors:

• Bhaskar Thakker
• Anoop Lal Vyas

Keywords:

• Wrist Pulse Segment
• Ensemble Average
• Dynamic Time Warping (DTW)
• Pulse Similarity Vector.

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