Title : 
Noncontact ECG Recording System With Real Time Capacitance Measurement for Motion Artifact Reduction
         
        
            Author : 
Torfs, Tom ; Yun-Hsuan Chen ; Hyejung Kim ; Yazicioglu, Refet Firat
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Body Area Networks Dept., imec, Leuven, Belgium
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A system for noncontact ECG recording is proposed that measures the real time electrode-body capacitance concurrently with the ECG as a reference signal for motion artifact reduction. Simultaneous recordings of these two signals from the human body in the presence of electrode motion artifacts are shown and an adaptive least-mean-squares (LMS) filtering algorithm run on these signals is demonstrated to be able to reduce the severity of certain types of electrode motion artifacts.
         
        
            Keywords : 
bioelectric potentials; biomedical electrodes; capacitance; capacitance measurement; electrocardiography; least mean squares methods; medical signal processing; adaptive least-mean-squares filtering algorithm; motion artifact reduction; noncontact ECG recording system; real time electrode-body capacitance measurement; Capacitance; Capacitance measurement; Couplings; Electrocardiography; Electrodes; Impedance; Real-time systems; Adaptive filters; biomedical electrodes; capacitive sensors; electrocardiography; wearable sensors;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Biomedical Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TBCAS.2014.2359053