Independent component analysis and decision trees for ECG holter recording de-noising

PLoS One. 2014 Jun 6;9(6):e98450. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098450. eCollection 2014.

Abstract

We have developed a method focusing on ECG signal de-noising using Independent component analysis (ICA). This approach combines JADE source separation and binary decision tree for identification and subsequent ECG noise removal. In order to to test the efficiency of this method comparison to standard filtering a wavelet- based de-noising method was used. Freely data available at Physionet medical data storage were evaluated. Evaluation criteria was root mean square error (RMSE) between original ECG and filtered data contaminated with artificial noise. Proposed algorithm achieved comparable result in terms of standard noises (power line interference, base line wander, EMG), but noticeably significantly better results were achieved when uncommon noise (electrode cable movement artefact) were compared.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Data Interpretation, Statistical
  • Decision Trees
  • Electrocardiography, Ambulatory / methods*
  • Principal Component Analysis
  • Signal-To-Noise Ratio*

Grants and funding

This work was supported by post doctoral research project by Czech Science Foundation GACR #P103/11/P106 and by the CTU Grant SGS13/203/OHK3/3T/13. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.