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Samit Ari¹, Manab Kumar Das, Anil Chacko

¹Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. samit.ari@gmail.com

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This study introduces an automatic Electrocardiogram (ECG) enhancement technique using the S-Transform to remove noise, improving signal quality for better cardiovascular disease diagnosis without needing prior signal information.

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Signal Processing

Background:

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are crucial for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases but are often corrupted by noise during acquisition.
Common noise sources include channel noise, muscle artifacts, electrode motion, and baseline wander.
Effective noise reduction is essential for accurate ECG interpretation.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose an automatic ECG signal enhancement technique for noise removal.
To represent noisy ECG signals in the time-frequency domain using the S-Transform.
To evaluate the proposed method's performance against existing techniques.

Main Methods:

Utilized the S-Transform to convert noisy ECG signals into the time-frequency domain.
Applied a masking and filtering technique in the time-frequency domain to eliminate noise components.
The method does not require prior information such as R-peak position or reference signals.

Main Results:

The proposed method demonstrated superior signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and lower root-mean-square error (RMSE) compared to Wavelet Transform with soft thresholding (WT-Soft) and subband dependent threshold (WT-Subband).
Statistical evaluation using ANOVA confirmed the proposed method's superior performance at a 1.25dB input SNR level.
Enhanced ECG signals preserved biological information, leading to improved R-peak detection sensitivity and positive predictivity.

Conclusions:

The proposed S-Transform-based ECG enhancement technique effectively removes noise while preserving important diagnostic information.
This method offers a significant improvement over existing wavelet-based denoising techniques.
The enhanced signal quality supports more accurate cardiovascular disease diagnosis.