Ismail Sadiq^*, Adil M. Zuberi, Idrees Zaman, Ammad Hassan, Tahir Zaidi

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Centre for Advanced Research in Engineering, Pakistan.
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Abstract: The paper presents a novel approach to adaptive removal of power-line interference, taken to be at 50 Hz, from high resolution ECG sampled at 1 KHz. ECG data consists of 12 lead data. Each of the 12 leads contains power line interference at the time of acquisition. So power line interference needs to be removed from each lead. An approach that uses the power spectral density over the range of interest is used to determine the exact frequency of the interfering component and filter coefficients for the desired notch filter are determined using an interpolation technique.

Keywords: Notch Filter; Power Spectrum; Linear Interpolation; Adaptive Noise Removal

Cite this paper: Sadiq, I. , Zuberi, A. , Zaman, I. , Hassan, A. and Zaidi, T. (2012) Adaptive removal of power-line interference from high resolution ECG. Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology, 3, 324-326. doi: 10.4236/abb.2012.34047.

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