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Smart grid systems include many different power sources such as renewable and fossil energy basis. While collecting all type of energy on the grid, phase order, frequency, maximum voltage value and synchronization time of each power station should be known for a smooth operation of the smart grid. Therefore, the detection of peak values of grid voltages will help the smart grid operators to connect...
Ballistocardiogram (BCG) has been revisited in the last years as an unobtrusive method to detect heart beats. New electromechanical film (EMFi) sensors are now able to detect minimal oscillations in its surface, allowing to detect the mechanical action of the heart as it beats. This has allowed to develop unobtrusive systems for heart rate monitoring to be used as Point-of-Care devices, and to deploy...
To realize Electrocardiography (ECG) signals monitoring systems, compressive sensing (CS) is a new technique to reduce power of biosensors and data transmission. Instead of spending high complexity on reconstructing back to data domain to do signal analysis, compressed analysis (CA) exploits the data structure preserved by CS to directly analyze in the compressed domain. However, compressively-sensed...
In this paper, we proposed a novel biometric identification system which can extract more distinguishable features from the ECG signal. Based on the reference point detection, piecewise correction method was used to solve the problem of heart rate variability (HRV). Besides, we used some details of parts of the wavelet coefficient structure to reconstruct more distinguishable signal. At last, the...
Objective: For long-term electrocardiography (ECG) recordings, accurate R-wave detection is essential. Several algorithms have been proposed but not yet compared on large, noisy, or pathological data, since manual ground-truth establishment is impossible on such large data. Methods: We apply the simultaneous truth and performance level estimation (STAPLE) method to ECG signals comparing nine R-wave...
Compressive sensing (CS) is a recent signal processing paradigm that exploits the inherent sparsity in input signal through data compression before wireless transmission. Recent CS implementations have shown impressive energy-efficiencies with good signal recovery but require apriori sparsity estimation and are thus not adaptable dynamic IoT environments resulting in loss of accuracy. This paper describes...
Paroxysmal tachycardia (supraventricular and ventricular) is an episodic condition with an abrupt onset and termination followed by a rapid heart rate, usually between 140 and 250 beats per minute. Paroxysmal tachycardia can be discovered by detecting a QRS complex in ECG signals. Supraventricular tachycardia is characterized by a narrow QRS complex, and on the other side, ventricular tachycardia...
A lot of information can be attained with analysing biological signals which are electroencephalogram, electrocardiogram, electromyogram, magnetoencephalogram and photoplethysmography (PPG). This information is utilizez for in both diagnosis and criminal research. Photoplethysmography is a painless, simple and inexpensive optical technique that can be used to detect blood volume changes in microvascular...
Use of spectral transform at oriented basis in order to provide express diagnostics of cardiovascular system is proposed. It is shown that choice of spectral transform to solve diagnostics task provides significant processing time savings (up to 30%) Example of express diagnostics is presented.
Suppression of interference from narrowband frequency signals play vital role in many signal processing and communication applications. A transform based method for suppression of narrow band interference in a biomedical signal is proposed. As a specific example Electrocardiogram (ECG) is considered for the analysis. ECG is one of the widely used biomedical signal. ECG signal is often contaminated...
A duration of century past over to the invention of electrocardiogram (ECG) but even today also electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring is playing its important role of help to take care of patients having cardiac diseases. Electrocardiogram (ECG) data compression is important for portable solutions, for reducing the storage requirements and low power consumption. Large variety of ECG compression algorithms...
Ramanujan Periodic Transform (RPT) is a newly emerging transformation technique in the field of signal processing. It uses an integer bases (obtained from Ramanujan sum) for transformation. A recorded ECG signal often contains artifacts (bioelectric signals) namely, baseline wander, muscle artifacts (EMG-Electromyogram), motion artifacts, powerline interference (PLI) and its harmonics. With certain...
In this paper, the Arduino Uno based e-Health Sensor Platform V2.0 by Libelium is enhanced with the ECG Multiple Fiducial-points based Binary Sequence Generation (MFBSG) algorithm to secure wireless sensors within Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). The eHealth kit includes biometric and other medical related functionalities to monitor the human body conditions by utilizing 10 different sensors that...
This study presents a new technique which allows identification of individual heartbeats from seismocardiograms (SCG) with high accuracy. Our method is electrocardiogram (ECG) independent and designed based upon S-transform and Shannon energy. The S-transform which is a time-frequency (TF) representation first provides frequency-dependent resolution while preserving a direct relationship with Fourier...
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a sleep disorder highly prevalent in the general population. Cardiorespiratory Phase Synchronization (CRPS) is a form of non-linear interaction between respiratory and cardiovascular systems that was found to be reduced in severe OSA patients. The Hilbert Transform (HT) method was the recommended choice for estimating the respiratory phase in CRPS studies. But we have...
T-wave amplitude (TWA) is a well know index of the autonomic innervation of the myocardium. However, until now it has been evaluated only manually or with simple and inefficient algorithms. In this paper, we developed a new robust single-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) T-wave delineation algorithm that is able to detect the T-wave with a wavelet based method and automatically calculate the TWA. We evaluated...
This paper presents a methodology to extract the respiration from a single-lead ECG waveform using the iterated Hilbert transform (IHT) technique. It is proposed that the amplitude components (envelopes) obtained in the initial iterations of the ECG decomposition using the IHT technique contain the information about the respiration, and these amplitude components can be utilized to estimate the respiration...
Signal processing a major tool used for ECG analysis and interpretation in today's life. In ECG signal processing is used to improve the measurement accuracy and reproducibility comparatively. Separating respiration signals from ECG is one way of obtaining knowledge related to respiration especially when specialized equipments are not used to monitor the respiration continuously. There are chances...
An intelligent tachycardia diagnosis system assists the clinicians in discriminating normal and various tachycardia classes of heartbeats generally in the life-threatening conditions. This paper proposes, a methodology to classify multiclass tachycardia class using Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. In this work, tachycardia classes are marked using nonlinear transform domain method Empirical Mode Decomposition...
Telecardiology includes variety of applications and is one of the fastest-growing fields in telemedicine. In telecardiology the amount of recorded ECG data is very much high, hence the necessity of efficient data compression methods for biomedical signals is currently widely recognized. In this paper improved version of existing ASCII character encoding ECG data compression method is proposed. The...
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