An Efficient Algorithm and Embedded Multicore Implementation of ECG Analysis in Multi-lead Electrocardiogram Records

Electrocardiography (ECG) is an interpretation of the electrical activity of the heart over time captured and externally recorded by electrodes. An effective approach to speed up this and other biomedical operations is to integrate a very high number of processing elements in a single chip so that the massive scale of fine-grain parallelism inherent in several biomedical applications can be exploited efficiently. In this paper, we exploit parallel processing techniques to process electrocardiography computation kernels in parallel. We present an efficient ECG analysis algorithm based on Period-Peak Detection (PPD) approach. The system is implemented in a multicore System-on-Chip. System architecture and evaluation results are given in detail.