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Off-the-person electrocardiography: performance assessment and clinical correlation

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Previous work by our group introduced a novel concept and sensor design for “off-the-person” ECG, for which evidence on how it compares against standard clinical-grade equipment has been largely missing. Our objectives with this work are to characterise the off-the-person approach in light of the current ECG systems landscape, and assess how the signals acquired using this simplified setup compare with clinical-grade recordings. Empirical tests have been performed with real-world data collected from a population of 38 control subjects, to analyze the correlation between both approaches. Results show off-the-person data to be correlated with clinical-grade data, demonstrating the viability of this approach to potentially extend preventive medicine practices by enabling the integration of ECG monitoring into multiple dimensions of people’s everyday lives.

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Acknowledgements

The team would like to thank all the anonymous volunteers that willingly agreed to participate in this sudy and also to the team that supported the data acquisition process at the Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Central, in particular to the head of pneumology technicians Isabel Carlos.

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  1. IT - Instituto de Telecomunicações, IST - Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, Torre Norte - Piso 10, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal

    Hugo Plácido da Silva, Carlos Carreiras & Ana Fred

  2. ISEL - Inst. Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, R. Conselheiro Emídio Navarro, 1, 1959-007, Lisboa, Portugal

    André Lourenço

  3. CAST - Cons. e Apl. em Sistemas e Tecnologias, Lda., R. General Silva Freire 157 H, 1800-210, Lisbon, Portugal

    Rui César das Neves

  4. Hospital de Santa Marta, R. de Santa Marta 50, 1169-1024, Lisbon, Portugal

    Rui Ferreira

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Correspondence to Hugo Plácido da Silva.

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This work was partially funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) under grants PTDC/EEI-SII/2312/2012, SFRH/BD/65248/2009 and SFRH/PROTEC/49512/2009.

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da Silva, H.P., Carreiras, C., Lourenço, A. et al. Off-the-person electrocardiography: performance assessment and clinical correlation. Health Technol. 4, 309–318 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-015-0098-y

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