Wireless Arm Wearable Sensor Band For Long-Term Heart Rhythms Surveillance Using A Bipolar Arm-ECG Lead

OJ Escalona; Angel Villegas; Sephorah Mukhtar; Gilberto Perpiñan; David McEneaney

doi:10.22489/CinC.2020.470

Wireless Arm Wearable Sensor Band For Long-Term Heart Rhythms Surveillance Using A Bipolar Arm-ECG Lead

OJ Escalona, Angel Villegas, Sephorah Mukhtar, Gilberto Perpiñan, David McEneaney

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Abstract

Bipolar ECG leads captured from sensors placed in a comfortable wearable-band on the left upper-arm, can provide ECG signals of sufficient quality after signal-enhancement processing, for reliable heart rhythm analysis in long-term ECG-monitoring and enabling clinical arrhythmias assessment. This study presents an inhouse built cable-free, wearable sensor system (WAMECG1) for a bipolar arm-ECG lead capture and wireless data transmission over a Wi-Fi link. The system’s functional blocks were integrated into a comfortable, ergonomically designed arm-band ECG wearable device.
A retrospective pilot analysis on the WASTCArD arm-ECG mapping database from our previous work, was carried out to find the optimal axis rotation of the bipolar arm-Lead electrodes pair, with respect to the body frontal plane and the arm axilla point; this was found to be at -60o axis rotation. Then, signal quality of the recorded far-field bipolar arm-ECG was validated in a pilot trial with 10 volunteer subjects at rest, using the prototype device. The overall R-peak detection accuracy was 99.67%. Without using any signal enhancement algorithm, the average signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) values was 16.73. Therefore, the performance assessment results assured the performance of the wearable arm-band prototype device.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2020 Computing in Cardiology Proceedings
Publisher	Computing in Cardiology
Number of pages	4
Volume	47
ISBN (Electronic)	2325-887X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22489/CinC.2020.470
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 15 Dec 2020
Event	Computing in Cardiology 2020 - Rimini Palacongressi, Rimini, Italy Duration: 13 Sep 2020 → 16 Sep 2020 https://www.cinc2020.org/

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Conference	Computing in Cardiology 2020
Abbreviated title	CINC 2020
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Rimini
Period	13/09/20 → 16/09/20
Internet address	https://www.cinc2020.org/

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wireless arm wearable sensor
ECG monitoring armband
bipolar arm-ECG leads
heart rhythm monitoring
arm-ECG R peak detection performance

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Armband sensors location assessment for left Arm-ECG bipolar leads waveform components discovery tendencies around the MUAC line
Escalona, OJ., Mukhtar, S., McEneaney, D. & Finlay, D., 24 Sep 2022, (Published online) In: Sensors (Switzerland). 22, 19, 22 p., 7240.
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Wireless Arm Wearable Sensor Band For Long-Term Heart Rhythms Surveillance Using A Bipolar Arm-ECG Lead

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Armband sensors location assessment for left Arm-ECG bipolar leads waveform components discovery tendencies around the MUAC line

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