An iterative method of Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition for enhanced ECG signal denoising

Author(s):  
Sreedevi Gandham ◽  
B. Anuradha
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 7536-7541
Author(s):  
W. Mohguen ◽  
S. Bouguezel

In this paper, a novel electrocardiogram (ECG) denoising method based on the Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) is proposed by introducing a modified customized thresholding function. The basic principle of this method is to decompose the noisy ECG signal into a series of Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs) using the EEMD algorithm. Moreover, a modified customized thresholding function was adopted for reducing the noise from the ECG signal and preserve the QRS complexes. The denoised signal was reconstructed using all thresholded IMFs. Real ECG signals having different Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) levels were employed from the MIT-BIH database to evaluate the performance of the proposed method. For this purpose, output SNR (SNRout), Mean Square Error (MSE), and Percentage Root mean square Difference (PRD) parameters were used at different input SNRs (SNRin). The simulation results showed that the proposed method provided significant improvements over existing denoising methods.


2014 ◽  
Vol 651-653 ◽  
pp. 2090-2093 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shou Cheng Zhang ◽  
Li Li Sui

In non-parametric signal denoising area, empirical mode decomposition is potentially useful. In this paper, the wavelet thresholding principle is directly used in EMD-based denoising. The basic principle of the method is to reconstruct the signal with IMFs previously thresholded. A novel threshold function is proposed to improve denoising effect by exploiting the special characteristics of the hard and soft thresholding method. The denoising method is validated through experiments on the “Doppler” signal and a real ECG signal from MIT-BIH databases corrupted by additive white Gaussian random noise. The simulations show that the proposed EMD-based method provides very good results for denoising.


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