Patent ID: 8311600

Claim:
An optical measurement instrument, for a living body, comprising: a light irradiation unit configured to irradiate a plurality of irradiation points on an object being tested with light; a light reception unit configured to detect light at a plurality of detection points on said object being tested to derive a plurality of detection signals each representing light transmittance at each of measurement points in said object being tested; and a calculation unit for calculating hemodynamics of a plurality of factors of each of said measurement points in said object being tested, which includes a first concentration change of oxygenated hemoglobin as a first measurement factor and a second concentration change of deoxygenated hemoglobin as a second measurement factor, from each of the signals derived from said light reception unit, a separation calculation unit for separating a plurality of statistically independent time series signal components from each of said first concentration change and second concentration change by using an independent component analysis method and determining, for each of the separated time series signal components, a first mixing coefficient matrix that indicates how the corresponding time series signal component contributes to the first concentration change of oxygenated hemoglobin at each of said measurement points and a second mixing coefficient matrix that indicates how the corresponding time series signal components contributes to the second concentration change of deoxygenated hemoglobin at each of said measurement points; a selection unit for calculating, for each of said time series signal components, a correlation coefficient between said first mixing coefficient matrix and said second mixing coefficient matrix to discriminate the corresponding time series signal component as noise signal when said correlation coefficient is a predetermined value or greater as a noise signal; and a reconstruction calculation unit for reconfiguring signals representing hemodynamics of oxygenated hemoglobin and hemodynamics of deoxygenated hemoglobin from the time series signal components excluding the noise signal discriminated by said selection unit.