A PROTOTYPE DESIGN OF HOLTER ECG SYSTEM

Year 2014, Volume: 14 Issue: 2, 1809 - 1815, 25.03.2015

Gürcan Taşpınar , Mehmet Engın , Erkan Engin

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the world. Holter ECG devices that have a great importance in the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases are simple and useful devices that take the heart signals by non-invasive method. Because of the rapid developments in microcontrollers and Digital Signal Controllers (DSC) capable of real-time signal processing, it is intended that the use of DSC in the devices will create some advantages.
Due to the developments of Digital Signal Controllers technology, holter device was preferred to be based on dsPIC by taking the skills of real-time signal processing of these controllers. Secure Digital Card (SDC), Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), Buzzer and Universal Serial Bus (USB) converter circuit were used in the device as peripheral units. It was enabled for patient or those around patient to take precautions by adding device the feature of calculating instant beating during the record in the situations of tachycardia and bradycardia that was possible to take precautions by hearing the aural warning. In addition, a Graphical User Interface (GUI), which provided transferring and processing the data to a computer for the medical specialist, was designed.

Keywords

Cardiovascular, Holter ECG, non-invasive, Digital Signal Controllers, dsPIC

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• Gürcan TASPINAR received B.Sc.
• degree from Gazi University and M.Sc.
• degree from Ege University, 2008 and
• 2012, respectively. And also, he is
• currently continuing his Ph.D. education
• at IYTE. From 2010 to 2012, he was
• Lecturer at Electronics Technology
• Department of Usak University. He is
• currently Lecturer at Electronics and
• Automation Technology Department of
• Ege University. His research interests include biomedical signal
• and image processing, medical instrumentation design.
• Mehmet ENGIN received M.Sc.
• degree from Marmara University
• and Ph.D. degree from Kocaeli University,
• respectively. From 1996 to 1999,
• he was Assistant Professor at Electronic
• Education Department of Kocaeli University.
• Associate Professor at Electrical & Electronics
• Department of Ege University.
• His research interests include biomedical optical imaging,
• medical instrumentation design, biomedical signal and image
• processing, wavelet transform and its applications.
• Erkan Zeki ENGIN received B.Sc.
• M.Sc., and Ph.D. degree in Electrical
• and Electronics Engineering from Ege
• University, 2000, 2003, and 2010,
• respectively. He is currently Assistant
• Professor at Electrical & Electronics
• Engineering Department of Ege University.
• include biomedical signal and image
• processing, biomedical instrumentation,
• voice/speech processing/analysis.