Electrocardiography (ECG)

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Just finished reviewing a paper talking about Electrocardiography (ECG) biometrics 10 minutes ago. Let's continue having some fun of ECG right away.

Fundamental Knowledge About ECG

Details can be found on ACLS Medical Training. Let's cite the key graph as follows:

ECG Basics

BioSPPy

BioSppy is a Python tool which can display various types of biosignals. Its source code can be found on github.

Installation

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➜  ~ pip install -U biosppy --user
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➜  ~ pip show biosppy
Name: biosppy
Version: 0.6.1
Summary: A toolbox for biosignal processing written in Python.
Home-page: https://github.com/PIA-Group/BioSPPy
Author: Instituto de Telecomunicacoes
Author-email: carlos.carreiras@lx.it.pt
License: BSD 3-clause
Location: /home/lvision/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages
Requires: scipy, numpy, matplotlib, scikit-learn, h5py, six, shortuuid, bidict
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Test

A sample ECG data can be found at BioSPPy example.

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from biosppy import storage
from biosppy.signals import ecg

# load raw ECG signal
signal, mdata = storage.load_txt('./examples/ecg.txt')

# process it and plot
out = ecg.ecg(signal=signal, sampling_rate=1000., show=True)
ECG Summary