Design of embedded atrial fibrillation detection scheme for wireless body area networks
by Manan AlMusallam; Adel Soudani
International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES), Vol. 11, No. 1, 2019

Abstract: Wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) and wearable technologies are the new trends in healthcare applications. This technology can provide real-time monitoring of the patient's biosignals and health condition. In this context, the analysis of ECG signals, reflecting the heart activity, is considered as the key tool in diagnosing cardiac disorders such as atrial fibrillation (AF) that can lead to strokes and heart failure. Classical approaches for sensor-based AF detection require continuous transmission of ECG signals to a remote server, which can rapidly exhaust the sensor energy and shorten the lifetime of the application. In this paper, we propose a new low-power scheme for AF episodes detection in ECG signal that is intended for implementation in WBSN. The paper details the design of this scheme and demonstrates its high accuracy for AF detection and shows that it saves 93% of energy.

Online publication date: Tue, 29-Jan-2019

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