A wearable long-term single-lead ECG processor for early detection of cardiac arrhythmia

Cardiac arrhythmia (CA) is one of the most serious heart diseases that lead to a very large number of annual casualties around the world. The traditional electrocardiography (ECG) devices usually fail to capture arrhythmia symptoms during patients' hospital visits due to their recurrent nature. This paper presents a wearable long-term single-lead ECG processor for the CA detection at an early stage. To achieve on-sensor integration and long-term continuous monitoring, an ultra-low complexity feature extraction engine using reduced feature set of four (RFS4) is proposed. It reduces the area by >25% compared to the conventional QRS complex detection algorithms without compromising the accuracy. Moreover, RFS4 eliminates the need for complex machine learning decision logic for the detection of premature ventricular contraction (PVC) and nonsustained ventricular tachycardia (NVT). To ensure correct functional verification, the proposed system is implemented on FPGA and tested using the MIT-BIH ECG arrhythmia database. It achieves a sensitivity and specificity of 94.64% and 99.41%, respectively. The proposed processor is also synthesized using 0.18um CMOS technology with an overall energy efficiency of 139 nJ/detection.

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