A Novel Approach for the Reduction of 50Hz Noise in Electrocardiogram Using Variational Mode Decomposition

Title:A Novel Approach for the Reduction of 50Hz Noise in Electrocardiogram Using Variational Mode Decomposition

Volume: 12 Issue: 1

Author(s): Suchetha Manikandan*Kumaravel Natesan

Affiliation:

• School of Electronics Engineering, VIT University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 632014,India

Keywords: Empirical mode decomposition, empirical wavelets, synchrosqueezing, intrinsic mode function, power line interference, noise.

Abstract: Background: Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals provide confirmation about the cardiac rhythmic deviations and its function. But throughout the acquisition of Electrocardiogram signal from the human body, it becomes distorted with artifacts like 50 Hz power line interference, wandering of base line, respiratory signals and muscle artifacts. In spite of the noises in ECG, 50 Hz power line interference will relentlessly disturb the nature of the ECG signal. In 1990, Huang presented the algorithm called Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD). It is an adaptive recursive decomposing algorithm that disintegrates the signal into different levels called Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMF). EMD has the limitations like sensitivity to noise and sampling. This problem is only partially addressed by other techniques like synchrosqueezing and empirical wavelets. Variational mode decomposition (VMD) is a non-recursive method in which the modes are extracted concomitantly. This technique is more robust to sampling and noise.

Methods: In this paper novel VMD based subtraction techniques are developed and its denoising performances are analysed. This proposed that method outperforms other denoising methods like notch filtering and wavelet transform. Thus the characteristic features of ECG signal are undisturbed by preserving its originality.

Results: The comparative performance of various methods in terms of the performance parameters like MSE, SNR, PRD and PSNR is carried out. The SNR level is stable in all noise levels. The SNR is varying from 19dB to25dB using hard and soft thresholding techniques. But it is almost double when our proposed approach is applied. The SNR value of direct method is ranging from 38dB to 43dB with a minimum MSE of 0.004 at 5% noise level. The noise band of 48 Hz to 51Hz is separated from the VMF level so that the desired ECG signal component is undestroyed. Thus compared to direct subtraction indirect subtraction technique performs well. The SNR value ranging from a range of 54dBto 55dB is obtained using an indirect method. Highest SNR value of 55.98 dB is obtained at 5% noise level and a very low MSE value is also obtained.

Conclusion: This paper provides a novel method in the area of denoising Biosignals. Two techniques are proposed for denoising such as direct subtraction and indirect subtraction techniques. A comparative study is performed to study the performance of the proposed method. The parameters used for comparison are MSE, SNR, PRD and PSNR. Indirect subtraction technique outperforms the direct subtraction method. An improved SNR value and minimized MSE indicates the performance of denoising method. Thus VMD based subtraction techniques give better denoised signals even though the decomposition process takes time.

Cite this article as:

Manikandan Suchetha*, Natesan Kumaravel, A Novel Approach for the Reduction of 50Hz Noise in Electrocardiogram Using Variational Mode Decomposition, Current Signal Transduction Therapy 2017; 12 (1) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1574362412666170307092351

DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1574362412666170307092351	Print ISSN 1574-3624
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher	Online ISSN 2212-389X