Physical activities recognition from ambulatory ECG signals using neuro-fuzzy classifiers and support vector machines.

The use of wearable recorders for long-term monitoring of physiological parameters has increased in the last few years. The ambulatory electrocardiogram (A-ECG) signals of five healthy subjects with four body movements or physical activities (PA)-left arm up down, right arm up down, waist twisting and walking-have been recorded using a wearable ECG recorder. The classification of these four PAs has been performed using neuro-fuzzy classifier (NFC) and support vector machines (SVM).

RPCA-based detection and quantification of motion artifacts in ECG signals.

In this paper, a recursive principal component analysis (RPCA)-based algorithm is applied for detecting and quantifying the motion artifact episodes encountered in an ECG signal. The motion artifact signal is synthesized by low-pass filtering a random noise signal with different spectral ranges of LPF (low pass filter): 0-5 Hz, 0-10 Hz, 0-15 Hz and 0-20 Hz. Further, the analysis of the algorithm is carried out for different values of SNR levels and forgetting factors (α) of an RPCA algorithm.

Impact of ambulation in wearable-ECG.

Ambulatory ElectroCardioGram (ECG) analysis is adversely affected by motion artifacts induced due to body movements. Knowledge of the extent of motion artifacts could facilitate better ECG analysis. In this paper, our purpose is to determine the impact of body movement kinematics on the extent of ECG motion artifact by defining a notion called impact signal.

Impact analysis of body movement in ambulatory ECG.

Ambulatory ECG analysis is adversely affected by motion artifacts induced due to body movements. Knowledge of the extent of motion artifacts facilitates better ECG analysis. In [1], an unsupervised method using recursive principal component analysis (RPCA) was used to detect transitions between body movements.

Analysis of ambulatory ECG signal.

Ambulatory electrocardiogram (ECG) recorders are increasingly in use by people suffering from cardiac abnormalities. However, the ECG signal acquired by the ambulatory recorder is influenced by motion artifacts induced by any body movement activity (BMA). The goal of the paper is to demonstrate that it is possible to determine the BMA from the motion artifacts in the ECG signal itself.

Transition detection in body movement activities for wearable ECG.

It has been shown by Pawar et al. (2007) that the motion artifacts induced by body movement activity (BMA) in a single-lead wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) signal recorder, while monitoring an ambulatory patient, can be detected and removed by using a principal component analysis (PCA)-based classification technique. However, this requires the ECG signal to be temporally segmented so that each segment comprises of artifacts due to a single type of body movement activity.

Body movement activity recognition for ambulatory cardiac monitoring.

Wearable electrocardiogram (W-ECG) recorders are increasingly in use by people suffering from cardiac abnormalities who also choose to lead an active lifestyle. The challenge presently is that the ECG signal is influenced by motion artifacts induced by body movement activity (BMA) of the wearer. The usual practice is to develop effective filtering algorithms which will eliminate artifacts.