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The recording of a long-term ECG is an important diagnostic method in the field of cardiology, e.g. in order to investigate occasional arrhythmia. Standard Holter ECGs using adhesive electrodes may cause skin irritations to the patients and can also detach. In order to increase patient comfort and ease of handling, we developed a wearable 12-lead ECG T-shirt with dry textile electrode patches connected to a recording device by active circuitry. In this paper, we present the application and evaluation of our T-shirt in a clinical study, during which we obtained 422 hours of data from five subjects. We investigated the temporal coverage of our ECG T-shirt by identifying ECG signal segments with artefacts and those unaffected by artefacts using a three-stage artefact detection algorithm. Average coverage for individual leads ranged from 20.9% to 56.3%. After temporal fusion of all leads, coverage increased to up to 81.9%.
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Yu, X. et al. (2018). A wearable 12-lead ECG T-shirt with textile electrodes for unobtrusive long-term monitoring – Evaluation of an ongoing clinical trial. In: Eskola, H., Väisänen, O., Viik, J., Hyttinen, J. (eds) EMBEC & NBC 2017. EMBEC NBC 2017 2017. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 65. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5122-7_176
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