An enhanced method for real-time modelling of cardiac related biosignals using Gaussian mixtures

Abstract

Cardiac related biosignals modelling is very important for detecting, classification, compression and transmission of such health-related signals. This paper introduces a new, fast and accurate method for modelling the cardiac related biosignals (ECG and PPG) based on a mixture of Gaussian waves. For any signal, at first, the start and end of the ECG beat or PPG pulse is detected, then the baseline is detected then subtracted from the original signal, after that the signal is divided into two signals positive and negative, each modelled separately then incorporated together to form the modelled signal. The proposed method is applied in the MIMIC, and MIT-BIH Arrhythmia databases available online at PhysioNet.

Keywords:

• Biosignals
• ECG
• PPG
• modelling
• Gaussian modelling

Disclosure statement

The author reports no conflicts of interest. The author alone is responsible for the content and writing of this paper.