A Frequency Tracking Adaptive Power Line Interference Canceller for Electrocardiogram

Abstract:

Power line interference (PLI) may lead to the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) decline sharply on biomedical signals, including the electrocardiogram (ECG). The proposed method employs the relationship of frequency and weights in adaptive filter to track the frequency variation of PLI. Real ECG signals from MIT-BIH database was used in the experiment, and they were corrupt by an artificial PLI signal for experiment. Correction performances of the proposed method and traditional adaptive method were compared by SNR in the paper. The results showed that the proposed method is consistently superior to the traditional one when the power line interference is vary with time, and the proposed method can track the variation of power line interference effectively.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 556-562)
• Pages: 1506-1509
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.556-562.1506
• Online since: May 2014
• Authors: Bao Jie Wang*, Yan Men, Gang Zheng
• Keywords: Adaptive Filtering, ECG, Frequency Tracking, Power Line Interference

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