Paper Info
Title
Design and evaluation of a novel wireless three-pad ECG system for generating conventional 12-lead signals.
Abstract
Electrocardiography (ECG) is a widely accepted approach for monitoring of cardiac activity and clinical diagnosis of heart diseases. In order to make ECG systems portable, easy to setup, comfortable to patients and tolerant of artifacts, wireless single-pad ECG systems have been developed. To tackle the problems raised by wireless single-pad ECG systems, we propose an upgraded version, the wireless three-pad ECG system (W3ECG). W3ECG furthers the pad design idea of the single-pad approach. We add two more pads to the W3ECG to gain spatial variety of heart activity. Signals obtained from these three pads, plus their placement information, make it possible to synthesize conventional 12-lead ECG signals. We provide one example of pad placement and evaluate its performance by examining ECG data of four patients available from online database. Feasibility test of our selected pad placement positions show comparable results with respect to the EASI lead system. Experimental results also exhibit high correlations between synthesized and directly observed 12-lead signals (9 out of 12 cross-correlation coefficients higher than 0.75).
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/2221924.2221942
BODYNETS
Keywords
Field
DocType
pad design idea,ecg data,selected pad placement position,ecg system,easi lead system,pad placement,12-lead signal,12-lead ecg signal,single-pad approach,novel wireless,placement information,gossiping,quality of service,cross correlation,wireless sensor network,body area network
Cardiac activity,Online database,Wireless,Computer science,Quality of service,Real-time computing,Body area network,Clinical diagnosis,Wireless sensor network
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.74
4
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huasong Cao174738.47
Haoming Li210310.06
Leo Stocco3328.20
Victor C. M. Leung49717759.02