The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for the
non-invasive analysis of physiological attributes, such as heart rate,
blood pressure, cardiac output, respiratory response, body composition,
and blood chemistry analytes including glucose, lactate, hemoglobin, and
oxygen saturation. Using a combination of multi-functioning disparate
sensors, such as optical and electrical, improvements are made over
existing physiological measurement devices and techniques. The special
configuration of one or more multi-functional sensors is used to
non-invasively measure multi-wavelength optical plus one or more of ECG,
Bio-impedance, and RF-impedance spectroscopic data. This information is
used to develop self-consistent, non-linear algorithm in order to derive
the physiological attributes while compensating for various forms of
interfering effects including motion artifacts, sensor attachment
variability, device component variability, subject physical and
physiology variability, and various interfering physiological attributes.