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I hope you can help me with this question.

I am trying to calculate the fundamental frequency (to know the beats per minute) of a cardiac pulse signal using partial autocorrelation. I use a 12-bit ADC and taking 4096 samples at Fs=512 Hz.

Heres what I'm trying:

First I do an offset of -2048 to align the signal to 0 (since the ADC gives me values from 0 to 4096).

Signal with offset

Then I multiply it by the Hamming window wich I calculated as

$$ w[n] = 0.54 - 0.46 \cos \left(2 \pi \frac{n}{N} \right) $$

Hamming window

To get this

Signal windowed

Then I do the partial autocorrelation like this.

$$ C_{xx}[n] = \frac{1}{N} \sum\limits_{m=0}^{N-1-n} x[m]x[m+n] $$

PACF

And finally I look for the maximum peak (that is not in the 0 position).

In this case I'm getting the maximum value at $n$ = 506.

But I don't know what to do with that index of the maximum of 506 if what I'm trying to get are the beats per minute.

Thanks you for your help.

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  • $\begingroup$ Thank you for the edit, I will do it this way in future questions. $\endgroup$
    – user0104
    May 4, 2019 at 1:31

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Very simple: your sampling rate is 512Hz and your sample time is the inverse of this: about 1.953 ms. Multiply with 506 and you get the time length of the fundamental: 0.988s.

So you have one beat every 0.988s which is 1.0119Hz or 60.711 beats per minute.

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  • $\begingroup$ Thank you for the answer! you explain it very easy. $\endgroup$
    – user0104
    May 4, 2019 at 1:29

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