A WBAN based cableless ECG acquisition system

Author

Rui Pan ; Dingjuan Chua ; Pathmasuntharam, Jaya Shankar ; Yong Ping Xu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2014

fDate

26-30 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

910

Lastpage

913

Abstract

A Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) based 3-lead cableless electrocardiography (ECG) acquisition system is described. To enable truly cableless ECG monitoring, a new ECG measurement configuration and method that acquires ECG signals at individual lead locations referenced to a localized ground is proposed. The synthesized ECG signals are evaluated against the standard wired 3-lead configuration on the same test subject. Average Pearson correlation coefficients of 0.82, 0.95 and 0.86 have been achieved for Lead I, II and III signals respectively, demonstrating a high degree of similarity in the synthesized signals. Measurements are obtained via a custom wireless network platform utilizing a TDMA-based MAC protocol supporting the star topology and a proprietary front-end ECG acquisition system.

Keywords

bioelectric potentials; biomedical telemetry; body area networks; electrocardiography; medical signal detection; medical signal processing; statistical analysis; telemedicine; time division multiple access; TDMA-based MAC protocol; WBAN based cableless ECG acquisition system; average Pearson correlation coefficients; electrocardiography; proprietary front-end ECG acquisition system; star topology; wireless body area network; Base stations; Correlation; Electrocardiography; Electrodes; Monitoring; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943739

Filename

6943739