Open Access
FPGA‐based system for heart rate monitoring
Author(s) -
Meddah Karim,
Kedir Talha Malika,
Bahoura Mohammed,
Zairi Hadjer
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iet circuits, devices and systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.251
H-Index - 49
ISSN - 1751-8598
DOI - 10.1049/iet-cds.2018.5204
Subject(s) - field programmable gate array , computer science , qrs complex , embedded system , gate array , reliability (semiconductor) , real time computing , computer hardware , medicine , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , cardiology
The continuous monitoring of cardiac patients requires an ambulatory system that can automatically detect heart diseases. This study presents a new field programmable gate array (FPGA)‐based hardware implementation of the QRS complex detection. The proposed detection system is mainly based on the Pan and Tompkins algorithm, but applying a new, simple, and efficient technique in the detection stage. The new method is based on the centred derivative and the intermediate value theorem, to locate the QRS peaks. The proposed architecture has been implemented on FPGA using the Xilinx System Generator for digital signal processor and the Nexys‐4 FPGA evaluation kit. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed system, a comparative study has been performed between the resulting performances and those obtained with existing QRS detection systems, in terms of reliability, execution time, and FPGA resources estimation. The proposed architecture has been validated using the 48 half‐hours of records obtained from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‐ Beth Israel Hospital (MIT‐BIH) arrhythmia database. It has also been validated in real time via the analogue discovery device.