Title: ECG Signal Conditioning
Author: Ms Pushpa Gothwal
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v4i1.10
Abstract
This paper presents the designing of real time ECG signal conditioning circuit. For designing the real time ECG signal conditioning circuit need to understand the physiology of heart. For analysis the heart activity a instrument is used, called as Electrocardiogram(ECG). It is widely used for diagnosis of heart diseases. ECG recorded in 12 lead configuration using 10 electrode placed on the human body. This recordings are often corrupted by motion artifacts, power-line interferences and other noises. The corrupted signal leads to misinterpretation of data, which in turn causes very serious consequences as it leads to misdiagnoses of dangerous disease. Hence the artifacts need to be suppressed by using the appropriate methods and a conditioned signal is obtained. In this paper proposed a designed and tested circuit on hardware and software to extract the real time ECG signal from the subject, This circuit also suppressed the artifacts present in the ECG signal.
Keywords—ECG, heart, noise, artifacts etc.
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