Title :
Efficient and fast ECG baseline wander reduction without distortion of important clinical information
Author_Institution :
Innomed Med. Inc, Budapest
Abstract :
Baseline wander makes manual and automatic analysis of ECG records difficult, especially the measuring of ST-segment deviation. Since the spectrum of baseline wander and low frequency component of ECG signal usually overlaps, removing of baseline wander can cause distortion of important clinical information, particularly ST-segment distortion. The use of digital linear phase high-pass filter minimizes this undesirable effect, but it requires large computational complexity. A multirate architecture with linear phase low-pass filter working at low sampling rate is presented for removal of the baseline wander. Design tradeoff between transition band width and filter delay was considered. We determined the optimal decimation factor with respect to complexity and filter delay. For testing and assessment of behavior of baseline filter we used test signals, normal and wide QRS complexes with different heat rate.
Keywords :
computational complexity; electrocardiography; linear phase filters; low-pass filters; medical signal processing; signal sampling; spectral analysis; ECG baseline wander spectrum; QRS complex; ST-segment distortion measurement; computational complexity; electrocardiography; filter delay; heat rate; linear phase low-pass filter; low-sampling rate; optimal decimation factor; transition bandwidth; Clinical diagnosis; Computational complexity; Delay; Digital filters; Distortion measurement; Electrocardiography; Frequency; Low pass filters; Nonlinear filters; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Computers in Cardiology, 2008
Conference_Location :
Bologna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3706-1
DOI :
10.1109/CIC.2008.4749173