A Morphology-Preserving Algorithm for Denoising of EMG-Contaminated ECG Signals

Autor: Vladimir Atanasoski, Jovana Petrovic, Lana Popovic Maneski, Marjan Miletic, Milos Babic, Aleksandra Nikolic, Dorin Panescu, Marija D. Ivanovic
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Vol 5, Pp 296-305 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2644-1276
DOI: 10.1109/OJEMB.2024.3380352
Popis: Goal: Clinical interpretation of an electrocardiogram (ECG) can be detrimentally affected by noise. Removal of the electromyographic (EMG) noise is particularly challenging due to its spectral overlap with the QRS complex. The existing EMG-denoising algorithms often distort signal morphology, thus obscuring diagnostically relevant information. Methods: Here, a new iterative regeneration method (IRM) for efficient EMG-noise suppression is proposed. The main hypothesis is that the temporary removal of the dominant ECG components enables extraction of the noise with the minimum alteration to the signal. The method is validated on SimEMG database of simultaneously recorded reference and noisy signals, MIT-BIH arrhythmia database and synthesized ECG signals, both with the noise from MIT Noise Stress Test Database. Results: IRM denoising and morphology-preserving performance is superior to the wavelet- and FIR-based benchmark methods. Conclusions: IRM is reliable, computationally non-intensive, fast and applicable to any number of ECG channels recorded by mobile or standard ECG devices.
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