a method for removal of low frequency components associated with head movements from dual-axis swallowing accelerometry signals方法去除低频组件从双轴吞下个加速器与头部运动信号.pdfVIP

A Method for Removal of Low Frequency Components Associated with Head Movements from Dual-Axis Swallowing Accelerometry Signals ´ 1 2,3 3 Ervin Sejdic *, Catriona M. Steele , Tom Chau 1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, 2 Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 3 Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Abstract Head movements can greatly affect swallowing accelerometry signals. In this paper, we implement a spline-based approach to remove low frequency components associated with these motions. Our approach was tested using both synthetic and real data. Synthetic signals were used to perform a comparative analysis of the spline-based approach with other similar techniques. Real data, obtained data from 408 healthy participants during various swallowing tasks, was used to analyze the processing accuracy with and without the spline-based head motions removal scheme. Specifically, we analyzed the segmentation accuracy and the effects of the scheme on statistical properties of these signals, as measured by the scaling analysis. The results of the numerical analysis showed that the spline-based technique achieves a superior performance in comparison to other existing techniques. Additionally, when applied to real data, we improved the accuracy of the segmentation process by achieving a 27% drop in the number of false negatives and a 30% drop in the number of false positives. Furthermore, the anthropometric trends in the st