A simple and effective algorithm for R-wave detection using smartphones

摘要

Developing simple and effective algorithms for detecting cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) using smartphones has been the trend of research in pervasive healthcare. This paper proposes an efficient R-wave detection algorithm and tested it in an Android Smartphone. We use the complete datasets of MIT-BIH arrhythmia database to verify its relative performance with three other algorithms. Our results show that it can obtain an average error rate of 0.22%, a sensitivity of 99.88% and a predictive accuracy of 99.90%; while, only takes 12ms to process 10 seconds data in a smartphone; thus, it is more suitable for use at mobile devices.