• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.113-124
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• 2011

Electrocardiography (ECG) is a widely accepted approach for monitoring of cardiac activity and clinical diagnosis of heart diseases. Since cardiologists have been well-trained to accept 12-lead ECG information, a huge number of ECG systems are using such number of electrodes and placement configuration to facilitate fast interpretation. Our goal is to design a wireless ECG system which renders conventional 12-lead ECG information.We propose the three-pad ECG system (W3ECG). W3ECG furthers the pad design idea of the single-pad approach. Signals obtained from these three pads, plus their placement information, make it possible to synthesize conventional 12-lead ECG signals.We provide one example of pad placement and evaluate its performance by examining ECG data of four patients available from online database. Feasibility test of our selected pad placement positions show comparable results with respect to the EASI lead system. Experimental results also exhibit high correlations between synthesized and directly observed 12-lead signals (9 out of 12 cross-correlation coefficients higher than 0.75).

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06e
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• pp.89-92
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• 2001

For the diagnosis of arrhythmia in the heart system, the QRS complex of ECG signals is used in many cases. The rejection of the noise in ECG signals is important to acquisition of exact QRS complex. This paper presents some experimental results about instantaneous bandwidth estimation and noise rejection of ECG signals with the purpose of rejection of the 60 Hz power noise and the motion artifacts such as EMG signals and contact noise. ECG signals corrupted by noise are cleaned by using the variable bandwidth filter. For the filtering of ECG signals with noise, the instantaneous bandwidth of the signals is estimated by analysis of time-frequency representation of ECG signal.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.163-171
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• 2009

Precaution is important in cardiac disease above all things. However, current developed tele-monitoring devices limit their communication distance by 100 m and have disadvantage that the device must be activated by the patients themselves. To overcome these shortcomings, we design and implement a cardiac disease management system by sending abnormal ECG signals automatically to the PC in hospital using mobile networks. Experiments show that ECG signals of the patients are transmitted to the database server in hospital without any distortion. Moreover, the amount of SMS data decreased by more than 30% using base64 method than hexadecimal one.

• Journal of The Institute of Information and Telecommunication Facilities Engineering
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.29-33
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• 2012

ECG widely used in cardiac function test is a graph that is recorded by measuring the electrical impulses occurred in the heart. Normal ECG has the form of similar sections that are repeated, and each section has the information occurred in a heart beat. Thus, In order to make the correct diagnosis, correct grasp of the sections and formed analysis must be done. In this research, a system that detects the sections of ECG is proposed. The system is based on ECG stored in the form of files. The ECG can easily have a noise caused by an outside factor. The noise of ECG is easily caused by external factors. Through a band-pass filter, it can be removed. and then, to get this ECG without a noise, interval detection algorithm using R-peak is applied. The clean, intuitive interface will help the above functions to be used without any difficulties.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.75-80
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• 1999

Since a Holter monitor records a patients' ECG when he is in motion, it can monitor complex heart disease effectively. But it can not handle a sudden heart disease because the diagnosis process will be done only after 24 hours. So in this study, a model of ambulatory monitoring system using wireless data communication network is proposed. And a mobile ECG equipment and a doctors' terminal are developed for the proposed system implementation. As a result, we can evaluate that the proposed ambulatory monitoring system is suitable for the management of ambulatory patients who may be at risk form sudden cardiac abnormalities.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.113-118
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• 1982

This paper presents a frequency modulated radio-telemetry, transmitter for monitoring and transmitting an exercise electrocardiogram (ECG) and respiration activity simultaneously on single carrier frequency in the standard FM broadcast band of 88-108 MHz. We have evaluated the performance of the FM telemetry transmitter which is proposed on the basis of an exercise ECG test in the treadmill.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1990.10a
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• pp.580-585
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• 1990

This paper presents a real time FECG signal monitoring system in which an adaptive multichannel noise canceller is implemented using a Texas Instruments TMS32020 digital signal processor. Abdominal ECG signal is applied as the desired output and 3 chest ECG signals as the reference input signals of the adaptive multichannel noise canceller whose coefficients are updated using the LMS algorithms.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.162-171
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• 2020

The incidences of cardiovascular diseases are rapidly increasing worldwide. The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a test to detect and monitor heart issues via electric signals in the heart. Presently, detecting heart disease in real time is not only possible but also easy using the myDAQ data acquisition device and LabVIEW. Hence, this paper proposes a system that can acquire ECG signals in real time, as well as detect heart abnormalities, and through light-emitting diodes (LEDs) it can simultaneously reveal whether a particular waveform is in range or otherwise. The main hardware components used in the system are the myDAQ device, Vernier adapter, and ECG sensor, which are connected to ECG monitoring electrodes for data acquisition from the human body, while further processing is accomplished using the LabVIEW software. In the Results section, the proposed system is compared with some other studies based on the features detected. This system is tested on 10 randomly selected people, and the results are presented in the Simulation Results section.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.39-45
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• 2012

Recently the convergence of healthcare technology is used for daily life healthcare monitoring. Cardiac arrhythmia is presented by the state of the heart irregularity. Abnormal heart's electrical signal pathway or heart's tissue disorder could be the cause of cardiac arrhythmia. Fatal arrhythmia could put patient's life at risk. Therefore arrhythmia detection is very important. Previous studies on the detection of arrhythmia in various ECG analysis and classification methods had been carried out. In this paper, an ECG signal processing techniques to detect abnormal ECG based on DTW minimum accumulation distance through the template matching for normalized data and variable threshold method for ECG R-peak detection. Signal processing techniques able to determine the occurrence of normal ECG and abnormal ECG. Abnormal ECG detection algorithm using DTW minimum accumulation distance method is performed using MITBIH database for performance evaluation. Experiment result shows the average percentage accuracy of using the propose method for Rpeak detection is 99.63 % and abnormal detection is 99.60 %.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.57-61
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• 2012

In order to analyze the ECG, it is important to pinpoint the repeat interval of the ECG. In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm for finding the QRS complex on the ECG. We escaped from the conventional methods to go through multiple steps of preprocessing to make ECG easier to find the QRS complex. We selected the candidate peak that has the possibility of the QRS complex in original ECG, and used technique to find the QRS complex among the candidate peak. In this way, we could get similar efficiency to Pan & Tompkins Algorithm that is most representative QRS complex detection algorithm, just used fewer operations than Pan & Tompkins Algorithm.