Two solutions for the processing of ambulatory electrocardiogram

Abstract

The Electrocardiogram (ECG) ambulatory monitoring has three stages: acquisition, processing and analysis, in each one, the information on ECG signal itself or the time series extracted from it are affected by noises, interferences and artifacts. T he analysis of the duration and variability of heart intervals establishes rules for the selection of valid beats and to determine with accuracy the fiducially points, especially the T wave end. This paper describes two problems and their solutions involved in the processing stage. First, a method is described to identify the valid beats for heart rate variability analysis, and then another one is presented for the determination of T wave end point, based on the calculation of trapezes areas. The validation of both methods exhibits excellent performance indexes in comparison with other approaches.