An Automatic Method to Reduce Baseline Wander and Motion Artifacts on Ambulatory Electrocardiogram Signals.
Hongzu LiPierre BoulangerPublished in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) (2021)
Today's wearable medical devices are becoming popular because of their price and ease of use. Most wearable medical devices allow users to continuously collect and check their health data, such as electrocardiograms (ECG). Therefore, many of these devices have been used to monitor patients with potential heart pathology as they perform their daily activities. However, one major challenge of collecting heart data using mobile ECG is baseline wander and motion artifacts created by the patient's daily activities, resulting in false diagnoses. This paper proposes a new algorithm that automatically removes the baseline wander and suppresses most motion artifacts in mobile ECG recordings. This algorithm clearly shows a significant improvement compared to the conventional noise removal method. Two signal quality metrics are used to compare a reference ECG with its noisy version: correlation coefficients and mean squared error. For both metrics, the experimental results demonstrate that the noisy signal filtered by our algorithm is improved by a factor of ten.
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