• 센서학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.338-345
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• 2013

Premature ventricular contractions are the most common of all arrhythmias and may cause more serious situation like ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia in some patients. Therefore, the detection of this arrhythmia becomes crucial in the early diagnosis and the prevention of possible life threatening cardiac diseases. Most methods for detecting arrhythmia require pp interval, or the diversity of P wave morphology, but they are difficult to detect the p wave signal because of various noise types. Thus, it is necessary to use noise-free R wave. So, the new approach for the detection of PVC is presented based on the rhythm analysis and the beat matching in this paper. For this purpose, we removed baseline wandering of low frequency band and made summed signals that are composed of two high frequency bands including the frequency component of QRS complex using the wavelet filter. And then we designed R wave detection algorithm using the adaptive threshold and window through RR interval. Also, we developed algorithm to classify PVC using RR interval. The performance of R wave and PVC detection is evaluated by using MIT-BIH arrhythmia database. The achieved scores indicate average detection rate of 99.76%, sensitivity of 99.30% and specificity of 98.66%; accuracy respectively for R wave and PVC detection.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.96-101
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• 2011

최근 들어 실시간 원격 ECG모니터링 시스템에 대한 수요가 늘어가고 있으며 가입자의 증가와 더불어 실시간 모니터링 시스템의 자동화에 대한 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 비정상적인 ECG 비트의 자동검출은 이러한 실시간 원격 ECG모니터링 시스템의 성공적인 상업화를 위해서는 반드시 필요한 요소기술이다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 점에 착안하여 QRS 폭(width)과 RR interval의 패턴을 이용한 효율적인 비정상적 ECG 비트 자동검출알고리듬을 제안하였다. 기존에는 주로 ECG 비트의 상세한 분류에 대해서 많은 연구가 이루어졌으나 이러한 방법들은 분류 오류가 많고 주변 환경이 변화함에 따라서 분류성능의 변동성이 심하다는 단점이 있었다. 또한 정확한 ECG 비트 분류를 위해서는 충분한 양의 훈련데이터를 필요로 하며 특히 분류시에 많은 계산량을 필요로 한다는 문제점도 있었다. 그러나 자동화된 원격 ECG모니터링 시스템을 위해서는 ECG 비트의 세세한 분류 보다는 비트의 정상여부판단이 더 중요하다. 이러한 점에 착안하여 본 논문에서는 ECG 신호의 비정상적인 비트중에서도 가장 빈번이 발생하는 VEBs(Ventricular ectopic beats) 비트의 검출을 시도하였고 제안된 알고리듬을 MIT-BIH 부정맥 데이터베이스에 적용한 결과 만족스러운 VEBs 바트 검출성능을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1987년도 전기.전자공학 학술대회 논문집(II)
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• pp.1276-1279
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• 1987

Cardiac arrhythmias are associated with electrical Instability and, hence, with abnormal mechanical activity of the heart in many cases, arrhythmias can be treated with drugs or electric shock to control and/or stop them. Hence fast arrhythmia detection is very important. In this paper RR interval, QRS width, and morphology are used for diagnosis and QRS complex is detected by hardware system. hence diagnosing time is shorten. Moreover doctors or nurses who have little knowledge of computer manipulation can get the Information of Patient's ECG by showing characteristics of abnormal waveform and by mapping graphs of RR interval .vs. QRS width and RR interval .vs. morphology on screen.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1993년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.167-170
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• 1993

matched filter는 신호와 잡음의 통계적 값을 알고 있을 때 신호대 잡음비를 최대로 하는 filter이다. 그런데, matched filter가 최적화 되려면 잡음이 white noise이어야한다. 그러나 ECG신호에 존재하는 잡음은 여러가지 성분이 공존하는 서로 연관되어있는 잡음이다. 따라서 whitening filter를 사용하여 잡음을 whitening시킨후에 matched filter를 통과 시켜야한다. 본 논문에서는 QRS complex를 검출하기 위한 matched filter에 있어서 LMS방법을 이용한 linear whitening filter와 neural network을 이용한 non-linear whitening filter의 특성을 비교하였다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회논문집B
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• pp.42-47
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• 2001

Analyzing the ECG signal, we can find heart disease, for example, arrhythmia and myocardial infarction, etc. Particularly, detecting arrhythmia is more important, because serious arrhythmia can take away the life from patients within ten minutes. In this paper, we would like to introduce the signal processing for ECG analysis and the device made for wireless communication of ECG data. In the signal processing, the wavelet transform decomposes the ECG signal into high and low frequency components using wavelet function. Recomposing the high frequency bands including QRS complex, we can detect QRS complex and eliminate the noise from the original ECG signal. To recognize the ECG signal pattern, we adopted the polynomial approximation partially and statistical method. The ECG signal is divided into small parts based on QRS complex, and then, each part is approximated to the polynomials. Comparing the approximated ECG pattern with the database, we can detect and classify the heart disease. The ECG detection device consists of amplifier, filters, A/D converter and RF module. After amplification and filtering, the ECG signal is fed through the A/D converter to be digitalized. The digital ECG data is transmitted to the personal computer through the RF transceiver module and serial port.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.277-284
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• 1991

This study describes the ambulatory ECG monitoring system for the remote autom atic diagnosis. System: tlardware is based on one chip microcomputer(80c31) and its peripherals which consists of A/D, EPROM, RAM, LCD display and two preamplifiers, Power circuits, control logic circuits. A/D converted data were differentiated and low pass filtered. The detection of QRS complex and R point were accomplished by software algorithm based on adaptive threshold computed on low pass fi:leered signal. Rhythm analysis is performed by RR interval and average RR interval. The performance of QRS detection algorithm is evaluated by using MIT/BIH data base. Using this system, the trends of the arrythmia during the long term could be saved and displayed.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1996년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.288-292
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• 1996

This paper describes far the detection of heart event that is, QRS complex and P wave which are result from heart activity. The proposed QRS detection method by using the spatial velocity was identified as having the 99.6% detection accuracy as well as fast processing time. Atrial flutter, coupled P wave, and noncoupled P wave as well as atrial fibrillation could be detected correctly by three different algorithms according to their origination farm. About 99.6% correction accuracy coupled P wave could be obtained and we could be found that most detection errors are caused by establishing wrong search interval.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.1034-1042
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• 2016

The detection of P-waves and T-wave in the electrocardiogram signal analysis is an important issue. But the accuracy of the boundary detection algorithm is an insufficient level in the change of slow transition in the signal compared to the QRS complex. This study proposes an algorithm to detect P-wave and T-wave sequentially after determining local baseline using QRS complex. First, we detected the peak points based on local baseline and determined the onset and offset through the calculation of the area of the section. After modifying the baseline using detected waveform, we detected the other waveform in the same way and separated the P-wave and the T-wave based on the location. We used the PhysioNet QT database to evaluate the performances of the algorithm, and calculate the mean and the standard deviations. The experiment results show that standard deviations are under the tolerances accepted by expert physicians, and outperform the results obtained by the other algorithms.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.818-825
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• 2016

The existing R-peak detection research suggests improving the distortion of the signal such as baseline variations in ECG signals by using preprocessing techniques such as a bandpass filtering. However, preprocessing can introduce another distortion, as it can generate a false detection in the R-wave detection. In this paper, we propose an R-peak detection algorithm in ECG signal, based on primitive signal in order to detect reliably an R-peak in baseline variation. First, the proposed algorithm decides the primitive signal to represent the QRS complex in ECG signal, and by scaling the time axis and voltage axis, extracts multiple primitive signals. Second, the algorithm detects the candidates of the R-peak using the value of the voltage. Third, the algorithm measures the similarity between multiple primitive signals and the R-peak candidates. Finally, the algorithm detects the R-peak using the mean and the standard deviation of similarity. Throughout the experiment, we confirmed that the algorithm detected reliably a QRS group similar to multiple primitive signals. Specifically, the algorithm can achieve an R-peak detection rate greater than an average rate of 99.9%, based on eight records of MIT-BIH ADB used in this experiment.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.192-200
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• 2015

부정맥 분류를 위한 기존 연구들은 특정 ECG 데이터에 종속적으로 개발되었기 때문에 다른 환경에 적용할 경우 그 성능에 변화가 많아 임상 적용에 한계가 있다. 즉, 생체 신호의 특성상 개인 간의 차이가 있음에도 불구하고, 일반적인 ECG 신호의 판단규칙에 따라 진단을 수행하기 때문이다. 또한 이러한 대부분의 방법들은 P, Q, R, S, T 지점의 정확한 측정을 필요로 하며, 데이터의 가공 및 연산이 복잡하다. 따라서 이러한 문제점을 극복하기 위해서는 개인별 특성을 가진 ECG 데이터를 분석하여 최소한의 특징점을 추출함으로써 그에 따른 패턴을 분류하는 것이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 이상 심전도와 같은 다양한 신호를 고려하여 Q, R, S 피크 변화에 따른 개인별 ECG 신호의 패턴 분석기법을 제안한다. 이를 위해 전처리를 통해 잡음이 제거된 심전도 신호에서 R파를 검출하고 Q, R, S의 진폭과 위상변화에 따른 8개의 특징점을 추출하였다. 이후 각 특징점의 피크 변화와 형태에 따른 ECG 신호를 분석하고 부정맥 유형에 따른 9가지 패턴을 정의하였다. 제안한 방법의 우수성을 입증하기 위해 43개의 MIT-BIH 레코드를 대상으로 Normal, PVC, PAC, LBBB, RBBB, Paced Beat의 각 패턴을 분석하였다. 실험결과 9가지 패턴에 대한 검출율은 93.72%로 우수하게 나타났다.