Removal of high frequency noise from ECG signal using digital IIR butterworth filter

ECG is the main tool used by the physicians for identifying and for interpretation of Heart condition. The ECG should be free from noise and of good quality for the correct diagnosis. In real time situations ECG are corrupted by many types of artifacts. The high frequency noise is one of them. The present paper deals with removing of noise from ECG of high frequency contents with help of Low pass digital filter of the cutoff frequency 100Hz. The sampling period used is .001sec. The filter is designed with Butterworth Approximations. The results of before filtration and after filtration are depicted in the paper. Paper contains detail design of the digital Butterworth filter and its realization. The experimentation is performed on the database generated in Laboratory. The simulation results show the filter works satisfactorily with some modifications in PQRST waveform.

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