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ArticleDiseases (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Toward Generating More Diagnostic Features from Photoplethysmogram Waveforms.

Mohamed Elgendi, Yongbo Liang, Rabab Ward

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Article in Diseases (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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47citing papers in PubMed
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Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 102 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mohamed ElgendiFaculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V1Y 1T3, Canada. moe.elgendi@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-1831-0202
Yongbo LiangSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada. liangyongbo001@gmail.com.
Rabab WardSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada. rababw@ece.ubc.ca.
University of British Columbia · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals collected using a pulse oximeter are increasingly being used for screening and diagnosis purposes. Because of the non-invasive, cost-effective, and easy-to-use nature of the pulse oximeter, clinicians and biomedical engineers are investigating how PPG signals can help in the management of many medical conditions, especially for global health application. The study of PPG signal analysis is relatively new compared to research in electrocardiogram signals, for instance; however, we anticipate that in the near future blood pressure, cardiac output, and other clinical parameters will be measured from wearable devices that collect PPG signals, based on the signal's vast potential. This article attempts to organize and standardize the names of PPG waveforms to ensure consistent terminologies, thereby helping the rapid developments in this research area, decreasing the disconnect within and among different disciplines, and increasing the number of features generated from PPG waveforms.

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blood pressure estimationclinical parametersdigital healthglobal healthmobile healthphotoplethysmographypulse oximeter

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PMID29534495
PMCPMC5871966
OpenAlexW2792903264

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