Chapter 20
An Approach for Detecting Heart Rate
Analyzing QRS Complex in Noise
and Saturation Filtered ECG Signal
Sanjana Khan Shammi, Faysal Bin Hasan, and Jia Uddin
1 Introduction
QRS complexes and ventricular beats in an electrocardiogram represent the depo-
larization phenomenon of the ventricles and yield useful information about their
behavior [1]. Beat detection is a procedure preceding any kind of ECG processing
and analysis. For morphological analysis, this is the reference for the detection of
other ECG waves and parameters. This process analysis requires the classification of
QRS and other ventricular beat complexes as normal and abnormal. Real-time ven-
tricular beat detection is essential for monitoring of patients in critical heart condition
[2, 3]. Since it reflects the electrical activity within the heart during the ventricular
contraction, the time of its occurrence, as well as its shape, provides much information
about the current state of the heart. In ECG QRS heartbeat experiment, it is observed
that abnormalities of the left heart, abnormalities of the right heart, and abnormali-
ties of the atria with an abnormally fast rates or abnormally slow rates (bradycardia
and conduction blocks) cause the heart attacks. As QRS is the most essential part
of this topic, we considered two parameters for our experimental approach—ECG
heartbeat rate and QRS peak measurement. This approaches guided us to find peaks
with efficiency and calculate heartbeat rate from noisy signal.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 shows the literature review
on related works. Section 3 describes the proposed QRS detection methodology, and
S. K. Shammi · F. Bin Hasan
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Brac University, 66 Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212,
Bangladesh
e-mail: shammisanjana@gmail.com
F. Bin Hasan
e-mail: mahinhasan56@gmail.com
J. Uddin (B )
Department of Technology Studies, Woosong University, Daejeon, South Korea
e-mail: jia.uddin@wsu.ac.kr
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