Interference reduction in ECG using digital FIR filters based on rectangular window

Abstract

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the all over the world and India too. CHD is caused by a narrowing of the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart, and often results in a heart attack. Each year, about millions man kind suffers from heart attack. About maximum of those heart attacks are fatal. About half of those deaths occur within 1 hour of the start of symptoms and before the person reaches the hospital. A heart attack is a medical emergency. Hospitalization is required and possibly intensive care. ECG signal is very important signal in the cardiology. Different artifacts are the reason behind the corruption of the signal care should be taken to avoid the interferences in the ECG. The work is in that direction. Present paper deals with the design of the FIR filter using rectangular window. Basically three filters are designed namely low pass filter high pass filter and notch filter. All the filters are cascaded also. These filters are applied on the ECG signal in the real time manner. For the real time application the 711B add-on card has been used. Results clearly indicate that there is noise reduction in the ECG signal. A Comparative Results are Provided in the paper.