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  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Signal Processing
  • Cardiology

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  • Electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring is crucial for diagnosing heart conditions.
  • Traditional multi-lead ECG systems generate large data volumes, posing storage and transmission challenges.
  • Compressed Sensing (CS) offers a potential solution for efficient signal acquisition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a novel dynamic Compressed Sensing (CS) method for multi-lead ECG monitoring.
  • To adapt a single-lead CS technique for simultaneous compression of multiple ECG leads.
  • To assess the performance of the proposed method across diverse cardiac conditions.

Main Methods:

  • A dynamic CS method was extended from single-lead to multi-lead ECG signal acquisition.
  • A single sensing matrix, derived from a combination of multiple leads, was utilized.
  • The method was tested on ECG signals from healthy individuals and patients with various cardiac pathologies (myocardial infarction, cardiomyopathy, bundle branch block).

Main Results:

  • The proposed CS method achieved effective compression of multi-lead ECG signals.
  • Signal quality was maintained at Compression Ratios (CR) up to 10.
  • At CR=10, the average root-mean-squared difference across various ECG signals was below 3%.

Conclusions:

  • The developed dynamic CS method is suitable for efficient multi-lead ECG monitoring.
  • The technique offers a significant reduction in data requirements without compromising diagnostic accuracy.
  • This approach has potential applications in remote patient monitoring and wearable ECG devices.