Title :
Making sense of personal data in clinical settings
Author :
Garudadri, Harinath
Author_Institution :
Qualcomm Inst., Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
This contribution addresses clinical data, but acquired outside hospital walls, to improve the quality of care and/or to reduce the cost of healthcare delivery. Such data must meet the clinical quality requirements for one to leverage current best practices with minimal changes to clinical workflows. We present signal-processing solutions for acquiring electrocardiogram (ECG) signals outside hospital walls and validate them against current gold standards in clinical settings. We show that the proposed approaches enable wired ECG quality and resting state ECG quality in the presence of packet losses and motions artifacts, with low sensor power to enable wearable form factors.
Keywords :
electrocardiography; medical signal detection; medical signal processing; ECG signal acquisition; clinical data; clinical quality requirements; clinical workflows; electrocardiogram signal acquisition; gold standards; healthcare delivery cost reduction; motion artifacts; packet losses; personal data; quality-of-care improvement; sensor power; signal-processing; state ECG quality resting; wearable form factors; wired ECG quality enabling; Accelerometers; Electrocardiography; Monitoring; Noise; Packet loss; Wireless sensor networks; ECG; Signal processing; clinical grade monitoring; motion artifacts; packet loss mitigation;
Conference_Titel :
Signals, Systems and Computers, 2014 48th Asilomar Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-8295-0
DOI :
10.1109/ACSSC.2014.7094841