Title | Sinabro: A Smartphone-Integrated Opportunistic Electrocardiogram Monitoring System. | ||
Author | Kwon, Sungjun; Lee, Dongseok; Kim, Jeehoon; Lee, Youngki; Kang, Seungwoo; Seo, Sangwon; Park, Kwangsuk | ||
Journal | Sensors (Basel) | Publication Year/Month | 2016-Mar |
PMID | 26978364 | PMCID | PMC4813936 |
Affiliation + expend | 1.Interdisciplinary Program in Bioengineering, Graduate School, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea. sjkwon@bmsil.snu.ac.kr. |
In our preliminary study, we proposed a smartphone-integrated, unobtrusive electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring system, Sinabro, which monitors a user\'s ECG opportunistically during daily smartphone use without explicit user intervention. The proposed system also monitors ECG-derived features, such as heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV), to support the pervasive healthcare apps for smartphones based on the user\'s high-level contexts, such as stress and affective state levels. In this study, we have extended the Sinabro system by: (1) upgrading the sensor device; (2) improving the feature extraction process; and (3) evaluating extensions of the system. We evaluated these extensions with a good set of algorithm parameters that were suggested based on empirical analyses. The results showed that the system could capture ECG reliably and extract highly accurate ECG-derived features with a reasonable rate of data drop during the user\'s daily smartphone use.