title: Reduction of skin stretch induced motion artifacts in electrocardiogram monitoring using adaptive filtering.
abstract: The effectiveness of electrocardiogram (ECG) monitors can be significantly impaired by motion artifacts which can cause misdiagnoses, lead to inappropriate treatment decisions, and trigger false alarms. Skin stretch associated with patient motion is a significant source of motion artifacts in current ECG monitoring. In this study, motion artifacts are adaptively filtered by using skin strain as the reference variable. Skin strain is measured non-invasively using a light emitting diode (LED) and an optical sensor incorporated in an ECG electrode. The results demonstrate that this device and method can significantly reduce skin strain induced ECG artifacts.
authors.affiliation: Center for Adv. Life Cycle Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD 20742, USA.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Michael G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Pecht
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016477:Artifacts; D002138:Calibration; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D004566:Electrodes; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D008027:Light; D009038:Motion; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology*; D012879:Skin Physiological Phenomena; D012984:Software; D013552:Swine