title: Fully digital pacemaker detection in ECG signals using a non-linear filtering approach.
abstract: This paper deals with the detection of pacemaker pulses in an electrocardiogram (ECG) waveform. In order to realize a pulse detector that is robust to a wide-band electromyographic (EMG) noise, we propose a (patent pending) fully digital approach that exploits a two step filtering strategy, followed by a threshold comparison. By resorting to computer simulations which employ a synthetic and realistic ECG signal model, we show that our approach is particularly effective and it significantly outperforms a well known patented algorithm.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Perugia, 06125 Perugia, Italy. paolo.banelli@diei.unipg.it
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Polpetta
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Banelli
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial / Q000379:methods*; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*