Modeling of electrocardiogram generation based on electric field analysis with numerical human model

摘要

In this study, we proposed an electrocardiogram (ECG) generation model by electric field analysis to develop a performance evaluation of wearable devices. The propagation of the electrical excitation in the conduction pathway of the heart can be approximated by sequentially-placed small electric dipole. We conducted computer simulations that solve potentials based on the scalar-potential finite-difference (SPFD) method with one electric dipole placed as a source. Post-processing is then applied to simulate the ECG waveforms for multiple computations. Our computational results demonstrated the effectiveness of ECG modeling using electric dipoles.