07-12-2012, 09:46 PM
An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a graphical representation of hearts functionality and is an important tool used for diagnosis of cardiac abnormalities. In clinical environment during acquisition, the ECG signal encounters with various types of artifacts. These artifacts strongly affects the ST segment, degrades the signal quality, frequency resolution, produces large amplitude signals in ECG that can resemble PQRST waveforms and masks tiny features that are
important for clinical monitoring and diagnosis. Cancelation of these artifacts in ECG signals is an important task for better diagnosis. The goal of ECG signal enhancement is to separate the valid signal components from the undesired artifacts, so as to present an ECG that facilitates easy and accurate interpretation. Many approaches have been reported in the literature to address ECG enhancement using both adaptive and non-adaptive techniques.
