Atrial fibrillation is the most common persistent cardiac arrhythmia and it is characterized by a disorganized atrial electrical activity. Its occurrence can be detected, and even predicted, through P-waves time-domain and morphological analysis in ECG tracings. Given the low signal-to-noise ratio associated to P-waves, such anal- ysis are possible if noise and artifacts are effectively filtered out from P-waves. In this paper a novel smoothing and denoising algorithm for P-waves is proposed. The algorithm is solution to a convex optimization problem. Smoothing and denoising are achieved reducing the quadratic variation of the measured P-waves. Simulation results confirm the effectiveness of the approach and show that the proposed algorithm is remarkably good at smoothing and denoising P-waves. The achieved SNR gain exceeds 15 dB for input SNR below 6 dB. Moreover the proposed algorithm has a computational complexity that is linear in the size of the vector to be processed. This property makes it suitable also for real-time applications.
ECG P-Wave Smoothing and Denoising by Quadratic Variation Reduction / Villani, Valeria. - (2011). ((Intervento presentato al convegno 4th Int. Conf. Bio-Inspired Syst. Signal Process. (BIOSIGNALS 2011) tenutosi a Rome (IT) nel Jan. 26-29, 2011.
Data di pubblicazione: | 2011 |
Titolo: | ECG P-Wave Smoothing and Denoising by Quadratic Variation Reduction |
Autore/i: | Villani, Valeria |
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Codice identificativo Scopus: | 2-s2.0-79960203418 |
Codice identificativo ISI: | WOS:000308513700048 |
Nome del convegno: | 4th Int. Conf. Bio-Inspired Syst. Signal Process. (BIOSIGNALS 2011) |
Luogo del convegno: | Rome (IT) |
Data del convegno: | Jan. 26-29, 2011 |
Citazione: | ECG P-Wave Smoothing and Denoising by Quadratic Variation Reduction / Villani, Valeria. - (2011). ((Intervento presentato al convegno 4th Int. Conf. Bio-Inspired Syst. Signal Process. (BIOSIGNALS 2011) tenutosi a Rome (IT) nel Jan. 26-29, 2011. |
Tipologia | Relazione in Atti di Convegno |
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