Journal
MAGNETIC RESONANCE MATERIALS IN PHYSICS BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Volume 30, Issue 6, Pages 567-577Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10334-017-0638-8
Keywords
Magnetic field gradient; Electric artefact; Noise reduction
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We describe a new real-time filter to reduce artefacts on electrocardiogram (ECG) due to magnetic field gradients during MRI. The proposed filter is a least mean square (LMS) filter able to continuously adapt its step size according to the gradient signal of the ongoing MRI acquisition. We implemented this filter and compared it, within two databases (at 1.5 and 3 T) with over 6000 QRS complexes, to five real-time filtering strategies (no filter, low pass filter, standard LMS, and two other filters optimized within the databases: optimized LMS, and optimized Kalman filter). The energy of the remaining noise was significantly reduced (26 vs. 68%, p < 0.001) with the new filter vs. standard LMS. The detection error of our ventricular complex (QRS) detector was: 11% with our method vs. 25% with raw ECG, 35% with low pass filter, 17% with standard LMS, 12% with optimized Kalman filter, and 11% with optimized LMS filter. The adaptive step size LMS improves ECG denoising during MRI. QRS detection has the same F1 score with this filter than with filters optimized within the database.
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