Pavan G. Malghan

Work place: Department of Communication Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, 632014, Tamil Nadu, India

E-mail: malghanpavan78@gmail.com

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Research Interests: Graph and Image Processing, Signal Processing

Biography

Pavan G. Malghan received a B.E. (Electronics and Communication Engineering) degree from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, Karnataka, India, in 2015 and an M.E. (Signal Processing) degree from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra, India, in the year 2017. He is pursuing his Ph.D. in ECG signal processing at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. His research interests include digital signal and image processing, optimization algorithms, decomposition techniques, and denoising algorithms in biomedical applications.

Author Articles
50Hz Power Line Interference Removal from an Electrocardiogram Signal Using a VME-DWT-Based Frequency Extraction and Filtering Approach

By Pavan G. Malghan Malaya Kumar Hota

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2024.04.05, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2024

Removing undesirable artifacts in electrocardiogram signals is essential for biological signal processing as the signal gets distorted and makes appropriate investigation challenging. A primary source of distortion affecting recordings is the 50Hz power line interference. To get a high-quality recording, we used a filtering method based on an efficient decomposition technique known as variational mode extraction. This approach is similar to the variational mode decomposition methodology but with a few alterations in mathematical computation. First, it extracts the noise efficiently in a specific frequency band. Then, we apply the discrete wavelet transform to the signal, employing soft thresholding. As a result, it eliminates the extra noise and filters the electrocardiogram signal. We evaluated the efficacy of our proposed method using an arrhythmia database. Furthermore, we compared recent decomposition methods on six random signals using signal-to-noise ratios, mean square errors, correlation coefficients, and other signal features. Our method also efficiently eliminates varying amplitude of powerline noise and finally outperforms decomposition strategies regarding noise reduction and processing complexity across all signal parameters.

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