27Mar 2017

ESTIMATION OF HEART RATE USING SIGNAL FUSION OF ECG AND BP SIGNALS

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The main aim of this paper is to estimate the heart rate and ECG pattern of a person as obtained from a polysomnographic record for detection of respiration related sleep disorders by fusing the data contained from the ECG and BP waveforms.. Polysomnography records the brain waves, the oxygen level in the blood, heart rate and breathing, as well as eye and leg movements during the study Data fusion can be defined as a combination of data from multiple sources to obtain improved information, meaning less expensive, higher quality, or more relevant information. For this study two specific signals from the polysomnogram is chosen- ECG and Blood pressure (BP). They are fused to obtain the improved heart rate of the subjects. Initially the individual heart rates are computed and compared against the heart rate of the fused signal. In case of noisy measurement environments, this method can be implemented.

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[Bhargavi B. G. S, Devi Nallammai RM and Palani Thanaraj. K. (2017); ESTIMATION OF HEART RATE USING SIGNAL FUSION OF ECG AND BP SIGNALS Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Mar). 1263-1271] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3631      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3631

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