REMOVAL OF ECG SIGNALS ARTIFACTS USING MULTISTAGE ADAPTIVE FILTERING TECHNIQUE

Authors:

Faizan Ahmad Khan Durrani,Samad Baseer,Aamir Mehmood,Mehr-e-Munir,Laeeq Aslam,

DOI NO:

https://doi.org/10.26782/jmcms.2020.01.00023

Keywords:

ECG,Noise Removal,Adaptive filtering algorithms,Feature Extraction,Neural Networks,

Abstract

This paper is about the technique used for removal of ECG Signals Artifacts Using Multistage Adaptive Filtering. Electrocardiogram (ECG) is the diagnostic tool to monitor rhythm of heart activity. it is of low amplitude and contain numerous noise which includes power line interference, baseline drift , movement artifacts and electrosurgical noise. For better diagnostic and treatment of cardiac patient the removal of such noise are very much important. Initially various method were proposed to remove the artifacts for better understanding of cardiac problem. These were static or fixed filters i.e. Band pass Low pass or High pass which based on the nature of the noise. The static filters possess fixed filter coefficients which makes it strenuous to eliminate time varying noise from the signals. To overcome this shortcoming of the fixed filters, various adaptive filtering procedures have been introduced. Since the ECG signal suffers from several artifacts at a time, which makes a single stage adaptive filter unsuitable for multiple noise signals removal. This paper presents a Multistage Modified Normalized Least Mean Square (MNLMS) algorithm for the eradication of multiple artifacts from signals of ECG. The results of the suggested algorithm are compared with existing adaptive algorithms including Multistage LMS,MNLS ,CNN,DNN including Signal to Noise ratio (SNR), convergence rate as well as the computational time, which elaborate the effectiveness of the suggested algorithm. After the removal of noise, db’6 wavelets are used for the detection of features (PQRST) of ECG wave because wavelet tree offers a very good time-frequency resolution analysis which is not possible with the Fourier transform.

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