An FPGA Based Arrhythmia Recognition System for Wearable Applications

Author

Armato, A. ; Nardini, E. ; Lanata, Antonio ; Valenza, G. ; Mancuso, C. ; Scilingo, E.P. ; De Rossi, D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

Nov. 30 2009-Dec. 2 2009

Firstpage

660

Lastpage

664

Abstract

The aim of this paper is constituted by the feasibility study and development of a system based on field programmable gate array for the most significant cardiac arrhythmias recognition by means of Kohonen self-organizing map. The feasibility study on an implementation on the XILINX Virtex^Â®-4 FX12 FPGA is proposed, in which the QRS complexes are extracted and classified in real time between normal or pathologic classes. The whole digital implementation is validated to be integrated in wearable cardiac monitoring systems.

Keywords

biomedical electronics; cardiology; field programmable gate arrays; medical computing; self-organising feature maps; Kohonen self-organizing map; QRS complexes extraction; XILINX Virtex-4 FX12 field programmable gate array; cardiac arrhythmias recognition; wearable cardiac monitoring systems; Biomedical monitoring; Electrocardiography; Feature extraction; Field programmable gate arrays; Fourier transforms; Frequency; IIR filters; Morphology; Neural networks; Rhythm; FPGA; Neural Networks; QRS complex; Real-time arrhythmia recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, 2009. ISDA '09. Ninth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4735-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3872-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISDA.2009.246

Filename

5365051