• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 20, Issue 1, 011702 (2022)
Sungchul Kim1, Evgenii Kim2, Eloise Anguluan1, and Jae Gwan Kim1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Biomedical Science & Engineering, Institute of Integrated Technology, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea
  • 2Center for Bionics, Biomedical Research Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202220.011702 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Sungchul Kim, Evgenii Kim, Eloise Anguluan, Jae Gwan Kim. Sample entropy analysis of laser speckle fluctuations to suppress motion artifact on blood flow monitoring[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2022, 20(1): 011702 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Laser speckle imaging is a common technique to monitor blood flow. The fluctuations in speckle intensity can be related to the blood flow by calculating the speckle contrast, the ratio between the standard deviation of speckle fluctuations and the average intensity. However, this simple statistic calculation is easily affected by motion artifacts. In this study, we applied sample entropy analysis instead of calculating standard deviations of the speckle fluctuations. Similar to the traditional method, sample entropy-based speckle contrast increases linearly with flow rate but was shown to be more immune to sudden movements during an upper arm occlusion test.
    Kt=σtI.

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    SampEn(N,r,m)=lni=1NmCim+1i=1NmCim,

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    KSE=SampEnI.

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    Sungchul Kim, Evgenii Kim, Eloise Anguluan, Jae Gwan Kim. Sample entropy analysis of laser speckle fluctuations to suppress motion artifact on blood flow monitoring[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2022, 20(1): 011702
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