Noise reduction using anisotropic diffusion filter in inverse electrocardiology. 2012

Alireza Mazloumi Gavgani, and Yesim Serinagaoglu Dogrusoz
Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. alireza.gavgani@metu.edu.tr

Filtering has been widely used in biomedical signal processing and image processing applications to cancel noise effects in signals recorded from the body. However, it is important to keep the desired characteristics of the physiological signal of interest while suppressing the noise characteristics. In this study, we used anisotropic diffusion filter (ADF) to cancel the noise on the body surface potentials measurements (BSPM) with the goal of improving the corresponding solutions of the inverse problem of electrocardiology (ECG). ADFs have been applied to image processing and they have the advantage of preserving sharp edges while rejecting the noise, thus we have chosen ADFs instead of more conventional filtering techniques. We used unfiltered and filtered BSPMs to estimate the epicardial potential distributions. We compared Tikhonov regularization results when the data included measurement noise and geometric errors. In both cases, filtering of BSPMs using the ADF improved our solutions.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D009622 Noise Any sound which is unwanted or interferes with HEARING other sounds. Noise Pollution,Noises,Pollution, Noise
D004562 Electrocardiography Recording of the moment-to-moment electromotive forces of the HEART as projected onto various sites on the body's surface, delineated as a scalar function of time. The recording is monitored by a tracing on slow moving chart paper or by observing it on a cardioscope, which is a CATHODE RAY TUBE DISPLAY. 12-Lead ECG,12-Lead EKG,12-Lead Electrocardiography,Cardiography,ECG,EKG,Electrocardiogram,Electrocardiograph,12 Lead ECG,12 Lead EKG,12 Lead Electrocardiography,12-Lead ECGs,12-Lead EKGs,12-Lead Electrocardiographies,Cardiographies,ECG, 12-Lead,EKG, 12-Lead,Electrocardiograms,Electrocardiographies, 12-Lead,Electrocardiographs,Electrocardiography, 12-Lead

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