Power Line Interference Removal for High-Quality Continuous Biosignal Monitoring With Low-Power Wearable Devices
- 1 March 2016
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Sensors Journal
- Vol. 16 (10), 3887-3895
- https://doi.org/10.1109/jsen.2016.2536363
Abstract
Mobile and long-term recording of biomedical signals, such as electrocardiogram (ECG), electromyogram (EMG), and EEG, can improve diagnosis and monitor the evolution of several widespread diseases. However, it requires specific solutions, such as wearable devices, that should be particularly comfortable for patients, while at the same time ensuring medical-grade signal acquisition quality, including power line interference (PLI) removal. This paper focuses on the on-board real-time PLI filtering on a low-power biopotential acquisition wearable system. This paper analyzes in depth basic and advanced PLI filtering techniques and evaluates them in a wearable real-time processing scenario, assessing performance on EMG and ECG signals. Our experiments prove that most PLI removal algorithms are not usable in this challenging context, because they lack robustness or they require offline processing and large amounts of available data. On the other hand, adaptive filtering techniques are robust and well suited for lightweight online processing. We substantiate this finding with offline analysis and comparison, as well as with a complete embedded implementation on our low-power low-cost wearable device.Keywords
Funding Information
- Nano-Tera.ch ICYSoC Project through the Swiss Confederation and scientifically evaluated by the Swiss National Science Foundation
- EuroCPS EU Project (644090)
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