Advanced method for continuous denoising of far-field arm-ECG bipolar lead data using empirical mode decomposition

The ability to noninvasively monitor heart rhythm in a home care environment is limited by the current ECG signal denoising techniques that can facilitate a robust and stable detection and analysis of heart rhythm, extracted from a far-field bipolar lead, located along the left arm (a comfort zone), offering patient compliance clinical advantages. Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) has been identified as an effective method of fast signal extraction and noise reduction for far-field recorded arm-ECGs. The following work discusses a technique that allows the EMD method to run on a live data stream and provide a filtered stream with latency of less than one second.