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A Novel Approach to ECG R-Peak Detection

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Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal processing and analysis is becoming more and more popular as it is useful in diagnosis and prognosis of human heart and clinically automatic machine estimation is based upon it. R-peak is the most important component in ECG beat and is widely used to investigate normal and abnormal subjects (patients). From the last few decades, R-peak detection in ECG has been the most challenging topic in the biomedical research. As QRS complex has high frequency in ECG as compared to other waves (P, T, U-wave), so majority of algorithms estimate QRS complex by either filtering or suppressing the lower frequency waves, including various artifacts like baseline wander, power line interference, and electromyograph noises. This paper demonstrates a new kind of ECG denoising algorithm based on self-convolution window (SCW) concept. The SCW based on Hamming window, herein referred to as Hamming self-convolution window, is used to design a new kind of filter which possesses negligible ripples in the stop band, as compared to the conventional window-based filters. This algorithm is validated on MIT-BIH arrhythmia database and the results outperform in terms of sensitivity, positive predictivity, and error rate obtained as 99.93%, 99.95%, and 0.117%, respectively, as compared to the other well-established works. The approach has also outperformed the results of well-established window-based filters (Hamming and Kaiser) in terms of reduced false negative, false positive, and error rate.

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The work was supported by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) (No. SB/S3/EECE/0149/2016), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, India.

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  1. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab, 147 004, India

    Amandeep Kaur, Alpana Agarwal & Sanjay Kumar

  2. Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab, 147 004, India

    Ravinder Agarwal

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Kaur, A., Agarwal, A., Agarwal, R. et al. A Novel Approach to ECG R-Peak Detection. Arab J Sci Eng 44, 6679–6691 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-018-3557-8

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