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One hundred records with a portable electrocardiograph

McDOUGALL C

Med J Malaya, 1955 Mar;9(3):195-204.

PMID: 14393209

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography/instrumentation*

Application of smartphone electrocardiogram

Wong KC

Med J Malaysia, 2021 07;76(4):565.

PMID: 34305119

No abstract provided.

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography*

Pareto optimization for electrodes placement: compromises between electrophysiological and practical aspects

Mulyadi IH, Fiedler P, Eichardt R, Haueisen J, Supriyanto E

Med Biol Eng Comput, 2021 Feb;59(2):431-447.

PMID: 33495984 DOI: 10.1007/s11517-021-02319-9

Wearable electronics and sensors are increasingly popular for personal health monitoring, including smart shirts containing electrocardiography (ECG) electrodes. Optimal electrode performance requires careful selection of the electrode position. On top of the electrophysiological aspects, practical aspects must be considered due to the dynamic recording environment. We propose a new method to obtain optimal electrode placement by considering multiple dimensions. The electrophysiological aspects were represented by P-, R-, and T-peak of ECG waveform, while the shirt-skin gap, shirt movement, and regional sweat rate represented the practical aspects. This study employed a secondary data set and simulations for the electrophysiological and practical aspects, respectively. Typically, there is no ideal solution that maximizes satisfaction degrees of multiple electrophysiological and practical aspects simultaneously; a compromise is the most appropriate approach. Instead of combining both aspects-which are independent of each other-into a single-objective optimization, we used multi-objective optimization to obtain a Pareto set, which contains predominant solutions. These solutions may facilitate the decision-makers to decide the preferred electrode locations based on application-specific criteria. Our proposed approach may aid manufacturers in making decisions regarding the placement of electrodes within smart shirts.

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography*

Fulltext ECG Parameters for Malignant Ventricular Arrhythmias: A Comprehensive Review

Mandala S, Di TC

Journal of medical and biological engineering, 2017;37(4):441-453.

PMID: 28867990 DOI: 10.1007/s40846-017-0281-x

Many studies showed electrocardiogram (ECG) parameters are useful for predicting fatal ventricular arrhythmias (VAs). However, the studies have several shortcomings. Firstly, all studies lack of effective way to present behavior of various ECG parameters prior to the occurrence of the VAs. Secondly, they also lack of discussion on how to consider the parameters as abnormal. Thirdly, the reports do not include approaches to increase the detection accuracy for the abnormal patterns. The purpose of this study is to address the aforementioned issues. It identifies ten ECG parameters from various sources and then presents a review based on the identified parameters. From the review, it has been found that the increased risk of VAs can be represented by presence and certain abnormal range of the parameters. The variation of parameters range could be influenced by either gender or age. This study also has discovered the facts that averaging, outliers elimination and morphology detection algorithms can contribute to the detection accuracy.

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography

Wavelet-based Encoding Scheme for Controlling Size of Compressed ECG Segments in Telecardiology Systems

Al-Busaidi AM, Khriji L, Touati F, Rasid MF, Mnaouer AB

J Med Syst, 2017 Sep 12;41(10):166.

PMID: 28900815 DOI: 10.1007/s10916-017-0817-1

One of the major issues in time-critical medical applications using wireless technology is the size of the payload packet, which is generally designed to be very small to improve the transmission process. Using small packets to transmit continuous ECG data is still costly. Thus, data compression is commonly used to reduce the huge amount of ECG data transmitted through telecardiology devices. In this paper, a new ECG compression scheme is introduced to ensure that the compressed ECG segments fit into the available limited payload packets, while maintaining a fixed CR to preserve the diagnostic information. The scheme automatically divides the ECG block into segments, while maintaining other compression parameters fixed. This scheme adopts discrete wavelet transform (DWT) method to decompose the ECG data, bit-field preserving (BFP) method to preserve the quality of the DWT coefficients, and a modified running-length encoding (RLE) scheme to encode the coefficients. The proposed dynamic compression scheme showed promising results with a percentage packet reduction (PR) of about 85.39% at low percentage root-mean square difference (PRD) values, less than 1%. ECG records from MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database were used to test the proposed method. The simulation results showed promising performance that satisfies the needs of portable telecardiology systems, like the limited payload size and low power consumption.

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography*

Smartphone electrocardiogram for detecting atrial fibrillation after a cerebral ischaemic event: a multicentre randomized controlled trial

Koh KT, Law WC, Zaw WM, Foo DHP, Tan CT, Steven A, et al.

Europace, 2021 07 18;23(7):1016-1023.

PMID: 33782701 DOI: 10.1093/europace/euab036

AIMS: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a preventable cause of ischaemic stroke but it is often undiagnosed and undertreated. The utility of smartphone electrocardiogram (ECG) for the detection of AF after ischaemic stroke is unknown. The aim of this study is to determine the diagnostic yield of 30-day smartphone ECG recording compared with 24-h Holter monitoring for detecting AF ≥30 s.

METHODS AND RESULTS: In this multicentre, open-label study, we randomly assigned 203 participants to undergo one additional 24-h Holter monitoring (control group, n = 98) vs. 30-day smartphone ECG monitoring (intervention group, n = 105) using KardiaMobile (AliveCor®, Mountain View, CA, USA). Major inclusion criteria included age ≥55 years old, without known AF, and ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA) within the preceding 12 months. Baseline characteristics were similar between the two groups. The index event was ischaemic stroke in 88.5% in the intervention group and 88.8% in the control group (P = 0.852). AF lasting ≥30 s was detected in 10 of 105 patients in the intervention group and 2 of 98 patients in the control group (9.5% vs. 2.0%; absolute difference 7.5%; P = 0.024). The number needed to screen to detect one AF was 13. After the 30-day smartphone monitoring, there was a significantly higher proportion of patients on oral anticoagulation therapy at 3 months compared with baseline in the intervention group (9.5% vs. 0%, P = 0.002).

CONCLUSIONS: Among patients ≥55 years of age with a recent cryptogenic stroke or TIA, 30-day smartphone ECG recording significantly improved the detection of AF when compared with the standard repeat 24-h Holter monitoring.

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography; Electrocardiography, Ambulatory

Fulltext Evaluation of cardiac signals using discrete wavelet transform with MATLAB graphical user interface

John AA, Subramanian AP, Jaganathan SK, Sethuraman B

Indian Heart J, 2015 Nov-Dec;67(6):549-51.

PMID: 26702684 DOI: 10.1016/j.ihj.2015.07.017

To process the electrocardiogram (ECG) signals using MATLAB-based graphical user interface (GUI) and to classify the signals based on heart rate.

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography

Fulltext Two-stage motion artefact reduction algorithm for electrocardiogram using weighted adaptive noise cancelling and recursive Hampel filter

Ghaleb FA, Kamat MB, Salleh M, Rohani MF, Abd Razak S

PLoS One, 2018;13(11):e0207176.

PMID: 30457996 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207176

The presence of motion artefacts in ECG signals can cause misleading interpretation of cardiovascular status. Recently, reducing the motion artefact from ECG signal has gained the interest of many researchers. Due to the overlapping nature of the motion artefact with the ECG signal, it is difficult to reduce motion artefact without distorting the original ECG signal. However, the application of an adaptive noise canceler has shown that it is effective in reducing motion artefacts if the appropriate noise reference that is correlated with the noise in the ECG signal is available. Unfortunately, the noise reference is not always correlated with motion artefact. Consequently, filtering with such a noise reference may lead to contaminating the ECG signal. In this paper, a two-stage filtering motion artefact reduction algorithm is proposed. In the algorithm, two methods are proposed, each of which works in one stage. The weighted adaptive noise filtering method (WAF) is proposed for the first stage. The acceleration derivative is used as motion artefact reference and the Pearson correlation coefficient between acceleration and ECG signal is used as a weighting factor. In the second stage, a recursive Hampel filter-based estimation method (RHFBE) is proposed for estimating the ECG signal segments, based on the spatial correlation of the ECG segment component that is obtained from successive ECG signals. Real-World dataset is used to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed methods compared to the conventional adaptive filter. The results show a promising enhancement in terms of reducing motion artefacts from the ECG signals recorded by a cost-effective single lead ECG sensor during several activities of different subjects.

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography

Is there a role of routine resting ECG at the clinic in early detection of ischaemic heart disease?

Loh KY

Family Physician, 2003;12:23-23.

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography

Idiopathic Fascicular Left Ventricular Tachycardia: A Diagnostic Challenge

Chang CY

J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad, 2022 2 7;33(4):707.

PMID: 35124938

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography

Fulltext Simultaneous electrocardiography and Doppler echocardiography in pulsus alternans

Khalid Y

Med J Malaysia, 1994 Jun;49(2):174-5.

PMID: 8090099

Pulsus alternans, the alternating strong and week pulses which occur in patients with severe heart failure, was first described by Traube in 1872. Since then various methods, both invasive1,2 and non-invasive3,4, have been used to study this phenomenon. This study demonstrates the utility of using simultaneous electrocardiography (ECG) and Doppler echocardiography to document pulsus alternans, and to differentiate it from other causes of alternating pulses.

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography*

Fulltext Clinical interpretations of the effectiveness of changes in body position during aerobic fitness after neurologic injury

Izan NF, Salleh SH, Ting CM, Noman F, Sh-Hussain H, Poznanski RR, et al.

J Integr Neurosci, 2020 Sep 30;19(3):479-487.

PMID: 33070527 DOI: 10.31083/j.jin.2020.03.222

The purpose is to estimate the effectiveness of electrocardiograms during resting and active participation by the differentiation between the electrical activity of the heart while standing and sitting in a resting state. The concern is to identify the electrocardiogram parameters that did not show significant changes within these positions. The electrocardiogram parameters can be considered to be a standard marker for medically compromised patients. The electrocardiogram is recorded in the standing and sitting positions focusing on healthy participants using standard electrode placement of lead-I. Combined lead-I patterns (camel-hump or ST-segment prolongation) are usually seen in neurologic injury or hypothermia patients. The pairwise comparisons of a year data are about 454,400 cycles of sitting and 493,470 cycles of standing data. Thus, it is essential to quantify the nature and magnitude of changes seen in the electrocardiogram with a change of posture from sitting to standing in a healthy individual. This makes the findings of electrocardiogram analysis in this paper interesting in which some parameters (i.e., camel-hump patterns in lead-I) are helpful for clinical interpretations and could be suggestive of neurologic injury.

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography*

Fulltext Multi-Agent Systems in Fog-Cloud Computing for Critical Healthcare Task Management Model (CHTM) Used for ECG Monitoring

Mutlag AA, Ghani MKA, Mohammed MA, Lakhan A, Mohd O, Abdulkareem KH, et al.

Sensors (Basel), 2021 Oct 19;21(20).

PMID: 34696135 DOI: 10.3390/s21206923

In the last decade, the developments in healthcare technologies have been increasing progressively in practice. Healthcare applications such as ECG monitoring, heartbeat analysis, and blood pressure control connect with external servers in a manner called cloud computing. The emerging cloud paradigm offers different models, such as fog computing and edge computing, to enhance the performances of healthcare applications with minimum end-to-end delay in the network. However, many research challenges exist in the fog-cloud enabled network for healthcare applications. Therefore, in this paper, a Critical Healthcare Task Management (CHTM) model is proposed and implemented using an ECG dataset. We design a resource scheduling model among fog nodes at the fog level. A multi-agent system is proposed to provide the complete management of the network from the edge to the cloud. The proposed model overcomes the limitations of providing interoperability, resource sharing, scheduling, and dynamic task allocation to manage critical tasks significantly. The simulation results show that our model, in comparison with the cloud, significantly reduces the network usage by 79%, the response time by 90%, the network delay by 65%, the energy consumption by 81%, and the instance cost by 80%.

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography*

Fulltext Remote Arrhythmia Detection for Eldercare in Malaysia

Chew KT, Raman V, Then PHH

Sensors (Basel), 2021 Dec 08;21(24).

PMID: 34960291 DOI: 10.3390/s21248197

Cardiovascular disease continues to be one of the most prevalent medical conditions in modern society, especially among elderly citizens. As the leading cause of deaths worldwide, further improvements to the early detection and prevention of these cardiovascular diseases is of the utmost importance for reducing the death toll. In particular, the remote and continuous monitoring of vital signs such as electrocardiograms are critical for improving the detection rates and speed of abnormalities while improving accessibility for elderly individuals. In this paper, we consider the design and deployment characteristics of a remote patient monitoring system for arrhythmia detection in elderly individuals. Thus, we developed a scalable system architecture to support remote streaming of ECG signals at near real-time. Additionally, a two-phase classification scheme is proposed to improve the performance of existing ECG classification algorithms. A prototype of the system was deployed at the Sarawak General Hospital, remotely collecting data from 27 unique patients. Evaluations indicate that the two-phase classification scheme improves algorithm performance when applied to the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database and the remotely collected single-lead ECG recordings.

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography*

Fulltext Anterior praecordial ST-segment elevation

Liao CM, Soo CS

Singapore Med J, 1996 Feb;37(1):101, 122-3.

PMID: 8783924

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography*

Intelligent classification of electrocardiogram (ECG) signal using extended Kalman Filter (EKF) based neuro fuzzy system

Meau YP, Ibrahim F, Narainasamy SA, Omar R

Comput Methods Programs Biomed, 2006 May;82(2):157-68.

PMID: 16638620

This study presents the development of a hybrid system consisting of an ensemble of Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) based Multi Layer Perceptron Network (MLPN) and a one-pass learning Fuzzy Inference System using Look-up Table Scheme for the recognition of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. This system can distinguish various types of abnormal ECG signals such as Ventricular Premature Cycle (VPC), T wave inversion (TINV), ST segment depression (STDP), and Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT) from normal sinus rhythm (NSR) ECG signal.

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography/classification*

Fulltext Images in clinical medicine. Dextrocardia with situs inversus

Loh KY, Mohamed AL

N Engl J Med, 2005 Sep 1;353(9):933.

PMID: 16135838 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMicm040398

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography*

Dynamic ECG features for atrial fibrillation recognition

Abdul-Kadir NA, Mat Safri N, Othman MA

Comput Methods Programs Biomed, 2016 Nov;136:143-50.

PMID: 27686711 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2016.08.021

BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation (AF) can cause the formation of blood clots in the heart. The clots may move to the brain and cause a stroke. Therefore, this study analyzed the ECG features of AF and normal sinus rhythm signals for AF recognition which were extracted by using a second-order dynamic system (SODS) concept.
OBJECTIVE: To find the appropriate windowing length for feature extraction based on SODS and to determine a machine learning method that could provide higher accuracy in recognizing AF.
METHOD: ECG features were extracted based on a dynamic system (DS) that uses a second-order differential equation to describe the short-term behavior of ECG signals according to the natural frequency (ω), damping coefficient, (ξ), and forcing input (u). The extracted features were windowed into 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 10 second episodes to find the appropriate windowing size for AF signal processing. ANOVA and t-tests were used to determine the significant features. In addition, pattern recognition machine learning methods (an artificial neural network (ANN) and a support vector machine (SVM)) with k-fold cross validation (k-CV) were used to develop the ECG recognition system.
RESULTS: Significant differences (p

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography/methods*

Normal electrocardiogram after myocardial infarction

Ng WH, Ahmad Z

Med J Malaysia, 1978 Dec;33(2):128-32.

PMID: 755162

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography*

Fulltext Low tube voltage prospectively ECG-triggered coronary CT angiography: a systematic review of image quality and radiation dose

Tan SK, Yeong CH, Raja Aman RRA, Ng KH, Abdul Aziz YF, Chee KH, et al.

Br J Radiol, 2018 Jul;91(1088):20170874.

PMID: 29493261 DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20170874

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed (1) to perform a systematic review on scanning parameters and contrast medium (CM) reduction methods used in prospectively electrocardiography (ECG-triggered low tube voltage coronary CT angiography (CCTA), (2) to compare the achievable dose reduction and image quality and (3) to propose appropriate scanning techniques and CM administration methods.

METHODS: A systematic search was performed in PubMed, the Cochrane library, CINAHL, Web of Science, ScienceDirect and Scopus, where 20 studies were selected for analysis of scanning parameters and CM reduction methods.

RESULTS: The mean effective dose (HE) ranged from 0.31 to 2.75 mSv at 80 kVp, 0.69 to 6.29 mSv at 100 kVp and 1.53 to 10.7 mSv at 120 kVp. Radiation dose reductions of 38 to 83% at 80 kVp and 3 to 80% at 100 kVp could be achieved with preserved image quality. Similar vessel contrast enhancement to 120 kVp could be obtained by applying iodine delivery rate (IDR) of 1.35 to 1.45 g s-1 with total iodine dose (TID) of between 10.9 and 16.2 g at 80 kVp and IDR of 1.08 to 1.70 g s-1 with TID of between 18.9 and 20.9 g at 100 kVp.

CONCLUSION: This systematic review found that radiation doses could be reduced to a rate of 38 to 83% at 80 kVp, and 3 to 80% at 100 kVp without compromising the image quality. Advances in knowledge: The suggested appropriate scanning parameters and CM reduction methods can be used to help users in achieving diagnostic image quality with reduced radiation dose.

Matched MeSH terms: Electrocardiography*

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