Title :
ECG waveform synthesizer
Author :
Lamberti, Claudio ; Fanti, Guido
Author_Institution :
Dipartimento di Elettronica, Inf. e Sistemistica, Bologna Univ., Italy
Abstract :
A technique for electrocardiogram (ECG) synthesis is described. The synthesizer is based on identifying several characteristic points by their zero first derivative. It describes the ECG signal morphology by piecewise cubic approximation and incorporates routines to alter the basic signal with power-line and random noise errors. The technique has been implemented on a personal computer and is general enough to allow the synthesized signal to be used for testing of QRS detection and pattern recognition algorithms
Keywords :
electrocardiography; ECG signal morphology; ECG waveform synthesizer; QRS detection; characteristic point identification; pattern recognition algorithms; personal computer; piecewise cubic approximation; power-line errors; random noise errors; zero first derivative; Electrocardiography; Heart rate variability; Noise figure; Noise level; Polynomials; Signal generators; Signal synthesis; Synthesizers; White noise; Working environment noise;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1989.95972
