Orthogonal basis expansion based atrial activity reconstruction for atrial fibrillation electrocardiogram analysis

Sandun Kodituwakku*, Thushara D. Abhayapala, Rodney A. Kennedy

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    Abstract

    We propose a novel algorithm for extracting atrial activity from single lead electrocardiogram (ECG) signal sustained with atrial fibrillation (AF), based on a short-time expansion of an orthogonal basis function set. The method preserves the time variation of spectral content of the underlying AF signal, thus time-frequency analysis of the AF signal can be successfully performed. The new method is compared to the standard average beat subtraction (ABS) method using synthetic AF sustained ECG data. The orthogonal basis expansion method has a higher correlation with the original AF signal compared to the ABS method for a range of signal to noise ratio (SNR) levels, and correlation is improved by 16% at an SNR of 0dB. Time-frequency analysis of the reconstructed AF signal based on Bessel distribution also shows the superiority of the orthogonal basis expansion method over ABS.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
    Subtitle of host publicationEngineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009
    PublisherIEEE Computer Society
    Pages1820-1823
    Number of pages4
    ISBN (Print)9781424432967
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2009
    Event31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009 - Minneapolis, MN, United States
    Duration: 2 Sept 20096 Sept 2009

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

    Conference

    Conference31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityMinneapolis, MN
    Period2/09/096/09/09

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