ECG Monitoring in an Airplane Seat: Appraising the Signal Quality

A contactless electrocardiogram (ECG) system in an airplane seat aims to monitor the well-being of passengers afraid to fly, but passenger movements can disturb the signal. The authors discuss how passenger activity influences ECG signals and present a novel method for automatically appraising signal quality.

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