| Title |
Mobile ECG Measurement System Design with Fetal ECG Extraction Capability |
| Authors |
최철형(Choi, Chul-Hyung) ; 김영필(Kim, Young-Pil) ; 김시경(Kim, Si-Kyung) ; 유정봉(You, Jeong-Bong) ; 서봉균(Seo, Bong-Gyun) |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5370/KIEE.2017.66.2.431 |
| Keywords |
Fetal ECG ; Motal ECG ; ICA ; IOT ; BLE |
| Abstract |
In this paper, the abdomen ECG(AECG) is employed to measure the mother's ECG instead of the conventioanl thoracic ECG measurement. The fetus ECG signal can be extracted from the AECG using an algorithm that utilizes the mobile fetal ECG measurement platform, which is based on the BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy). The algorithm has been implemented by using a replacement processor processed directly from the platform BLE instead of the large statistical data processing required in the ICA(Independent component analysis). The proposed algorithm can be implemented on a mobile BLE wireless ECG system hardware platform to process the maternal ECG. Wireless technology can realize a compact, low-power radio system for short distance communication and the IOT(Intenet of Things) enables the transmission of real-time ECG data. It was also implemented in the form of a compact module in order for mothers to be able to download and store the collected ECG data without having to interrupt or move the logger, and later link the module to a computer for downloading and analyzing the data. A mobile ECG measurement prototype is manufactured and tested to measure the FECG for pregnant women. The experimental results verify a real-time FECG extraction capability for the proposed system. In this paper, we propose an ECG measurement system that shows approximately 91.65% similarity to the MIT database and the conventional algorithm and SNR performance about 10% better. |