• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.201-206
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• 2012

The indirect-contact ECG measurement is a newly developed method for unconstrained and nonconscious measurement in daily life. This study introduced a new method of electrode circuit design developed for reducing the 60Hz power line noise observed at the indirect-contact ECG measurement. By the introduced common-mode-driven shielding, the voltage of the electrical shield surrounding the capacitive coupling electrode is maintained at the same as the common mode voltage. Though the method cannot reduce the level of common mode voltage itself, that reduces effectively the differential mode noise converted from the common mode voltage by the difference of cloth impedance between the two capacitive coupling electrode. The experiment results using the actual indirect-contact ECG showed that the 60Hz power line noise was reduced remarkably though the reduction ratio was smaller than the expected by the theory. Especially, the reduction ratio became large for the large difference of cloth. It is expected that the introduced method is useful for reducing the power line noise under condition of poor electrical grounding.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.280-287
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• 2008

For the reduction of common-mode noise level in Indirect-contact ECG (IDC-ECG) measurement a driven-right-leg grounding method was a lied to the IDC-ECG. Because the IDC-ECG does not require any direct contact between the electrodes and the human skin. it is adequate for un-constraining long-term ECG measurement at home and its various applications are now under development. However, larger 60 Hz noise induced by power line a ears in IDC-BCG than in conventional ECG, that is a restriction of IDC-ECG a application. In this study, the driven-right-leg ground which has been used in conventional direct-contact ECG, was adapted to the IDC-ECG measurement by feedback of the inversion of amplified common-mode noise to the body through the conductive fertile laid on the chair seat By this study, indirect-contact driven-right-leg ground was developed and it was shown to work stably. It was shown that the level of 60Hz power line noise was reduced to about -40 dB when the driven-right-leg gain was 1000. This study shows that we can extend the upper limit of the frequency band of IDC-ECG to 100Hz from 30Hz which is conventional upper limit in IDC-ECG, and we can raise the ground impedance between the body and conductive textile. So it is expected that the application area of the IDC-ECG will be extended by the results of this study.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.447-454
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• 2011

Power-line interference(PLI) can distort certain regions in analysing the ECG signal. In particular, the regions such as P and R wave that are important element in diagnosing with arrhythmia is expressed as different type of noise according to the case whether power-line frequency is multiples of sampling frequency and or not. Noise characteristics is also divided into linearity and non-linearity. In this paper, adaptive subtraction method for removing variable PLI of ECG signal is proposed. We classify the multiple relationship between power line and sampling frequency as Multiple and Non-multiple. PLI of Linear segment is extracted through moving average filter, PLI of non-linear segment is extracted through the interference component that is extracted in the linear segment and stored in the temporary buffer. The performance of P wave and R wave detection is evaluated by using 119 data record of MIT-BIH arrhythmia database. The achieved scores indicate P wave detection rate of 97.91%, R wave detection rate of 96.66% and P wave detection rate of 99.01%, R wave detection rate of 97.93% accuracy respectively for Notch filter and proposed subtraction method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.5 no.7
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• pp.1287-1294
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• 2001

As size of waveform is very small, ECG(electrocardiogram) signal is difficult to analyze for noise which is occurred when it measures. In order to obtain ECG clearly, it must eliminate that power line interference, baseline wandering, noise of muscle constriction. In ECG, the worst problem which is recorded signal of ECG is the baseline wandering elimination, which is occurred by rhythm of respiration and muscle constriction of part from attaching to an electrode. Such the baseline is roughly irregular wandering and shaking up and down therefore the part of the baseline wandering elimination is very important because it is difficulty of ECG diagnosis. In this study, as implementation of real-time signal processing digital filter it is applicable to analyze patient's heart disease by way of design of the baseline wandering elimination system.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07d
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• pp.2531-2533
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• 2004

일반적으로 ECG(electrocardiogram)파형은 정상인의 경우에도 그 형태가 일정하지 않으며, 측정시간 및 측정인의 상태에 따라서도 파형이 변화하기 때문에 표준화된 ECG파형 검사로는 개인의 특성에 따른 정밀 진단이 어려웠다. 따라서 자동화된 개인별 맞춤형 진단을 위해서는 측정대상에 대한 사용자인식 기술이 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 세 가지 잡음제거법을 이용하여 파형의 잡음성분을 제거하고, ECG Limb Lead III 파형의 다양한 신호간격(interval) 특성치와 미분변화량을 통한 꼭짓점 분석 등을 통하여 파형으로부터 특정인의 특징을 추출한 후 신경회로망을 이용하여 생체인식을 수행하였다. 실험은 동일한 연령대인 7명의 성인남녀를 대상으로 하였고, 재현성을 평가하기 위해서 인위적인 변화(커피, 담배, 알코올 섭취 및 스트레스)후의 ECG파형을 측정, 특정인 인식률을 실험한 결과 실험에 이용된 제한된 변동 내에서 90.9%의 인식률을 보였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.76-84
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• 2002

In this paper, it is studied to remove the baseline wander and to minimize the distortion of ST segment in the noise filtering of ECG. In general, the standard filter and adaptive filter are used to remove the baseline wander of the ECG. But the standard filter is limited because the frequency of the baseline signal is variable and the apative filter is difficult to select the reference signal in case of using the adaptive filter. So we proposed a new method of the structure without reference signal using neural networks. To be convinced of the performance of this method, we used ECG data of MIT-BIHs. and obtained the result of the high performance,(-53.3[dB]) than standard filter(-16.3[dB]) and adaptive filter (-44.9[dB]).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.162-171
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• 2017

Low frequency noise components causes the baseline drift in the ECG signals. In this paper, a morphological operation and smoothing spline technique are used for ECG signal processing in order to accomplish baseline correction. Removing the baseline drift from ECG signal using morphology operation, the feature of original signal may be distorted. To resolve this distortion problem, we applied a smoothing spline operation after morphology operation. In order to compare with existing morphology operation method for baseline correction, we apply proposed method to ECG data in MIT/BIH database. Compared to other existing method, our proposed method achieved low data distortion on the original signal.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.574-579
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• 2010

The baseline wander is most fatal noise, because it obstructs reliable diagnosis of cardiac disorder. Thus, in this paper, the morphology-pair is proposed for estimation of baseline wander except P, T-wave and QRS-complex. Proposed Morphology-pair is able to except P, R, T-wave which have characteristics of local maxima. Likewise Q, S-wave such as local minima are excepted by proposed Morphology-pair. The final baseline wander eliminated ECG signal is deducted by subtraction of original ECG and estimated baseline wander. The experimental results based on the MIT/BIH database show that the proposed algorithms produce promising results.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.10
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• pp.202-208
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• 2012

Fetal heart rate monitoring is important information to assess fetal well-being. Non-invasive fetal ECG (electrocardiography) can be derived from maternal abdominal signal. And various promising signal processing methods have been introduced to extract fetal ECG from mother's composite abdominal signal. However, non-invasive fetal ECG monitoring still has not been widely used in clinical practice due to insufficient reliable measurement and difficulty of signal processing. In application of signal processing method to extract fetal ECG, it might be lower signal to noise ratio due to time varying white Gaussian noise. In this paper, time varying Kalman smoother is proposed to remove white noise in fetal ECG and its feasibility is confirmed. Wiener process was set as Kalman system model and covariance matrix was modified according to white Gaussian noise level. Modified error covariance matrix changed Kalman gain and degree of smoothness. Optimal covariance matrix according to various amplitude in Gaussian white noise was extracted by 5 channel fetal ECG model, and feasibility of proposed method could be confirmed.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.553-558
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• 1999

The ECG signal is very important information for diagnosis of patient and a cardiac disorder That signal is hard to filter the noise because that is mixed with a lot of noise, and the error of the filtering will distort the ECG signal. The existing method for the filtering of the ECG signal has structure that has many steps for filtering, so that structure is complex and the processing speed is slow. For the improvement of that problem, we propose the method of filtering that has simple structure using the RBF neural networks and have good results.