Key result
Impedance pneumography-referenced adaptive filtering effectively suppresses ECG motion artifacts.
Why the study?
Noise in wearable ECG monitoring can corrupt waveforms and cause inaccurate interpretation, with motion artifact reduction being particularly challenging due to unpredictable time-frequency characteristics.
Does Recursive Least Squares adaptive filtering using a simultaneously recorded 5 Hz low-pass filtered impedance pneumography reference signal reduce motion artifacts in wearable ECG measurements compared to a standard 0.5 Hz IIR high-pass filter in healthy adults?
Does Recursive Least Squares adaptive filtering using a simultaneously recorded 5 Hz low-pass filtered impedance pneumography reference signal reduce motion artifacts in wearable ECG measurements compared to a standard 0.5 Hz IIR high-pass filter in healthy adults?
Simultaneous acquisition of impedance pneumography and ECG through the same textile electrodes provides a correlated reference signal (|r| > 0.6) that enables RLS adaptive filtering to suppress wearable ECG motion artifacts more effectively than standard high-pass IIR filtering.
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Hypothesis-generating for wearable ECG denoising; prospective validation required before clinical adoption.
Noise is a common problem in wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring systems because the presence of noise can corrupt the ECG waveform causing inaccurate signal interpretation. By comparison with electromagnetic interference and its minimization, the reduction of motion artifact is more difficult and challenging because its time-frequency characteristics are unpredictable. Based on the characteristics of motion artifacts, this work uses adaptive filtering, a specially designed ECG device, and an Impedance Pneumography (IP) data acquisition system to combat motion artifacts. The newly designed ECG-IP acquisition system maximizes signal correlation by measuring both ECG and IP signals simultaneously using the same pair of electrodes. Signal comparison investigations between ECG and IP signals under five different body motions were carried out, and the Pearson Correlation Coefficient |r| was higher than 0.6 in all cases, indicating a good correlation. To optimize the performance of adaptive motion artifact reduction, the IP signal was filtered to a 5 Hz low-pass filter and then fed into a Recursive Least Squares (RLS) adaptive filter as a reference input signal. The performance of the proposed motion artifact reduction method was evaluated subjectively and objectively, and the results proved that the method could suppress the motion artifacts and achieve minimal distortion to the denoised ECG signal.
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An et al. (2022) studied Healthy subjects undergoing wearable ECG and impedance pneumography recording during simulated body motions (n=20). Recursive Least Squares (RLS) adaptive filtering using a 5 Hz low-pass filtered Impedance Pneumography (IP) signal as reference input vs. 0.5 Hz Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) high-pass filter and original noisy ECG signal was evaluated on Goodness-of-fit between estimated noise and actual 5 Hz low-pass filtered motion artifact (mean squared error [m_MSE] and R-square [m_R2]) and reduction in ECG baseline drift standard deviation (STD) (m_MSE < 0.15, m_R2 > 0.7). RLS adaptive filtering using a 5 Hz low-pass filtered impedance pneumography reference signal effectively suppressed ECG motion artifacts (m_MSE <0.15, m_R2 >0.7) with correlation |r| >0.6.
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