Simultaneous powerline interference and baseline wander removal from ECG and EMG signals by sinusoidal modeling

We present a compact approach to joint modeling of powerline interference (PLI) and baseline wonder (BW) for denoising of biopotential signals. Both PLI and BW are modeled by a set of harmonically related sinusoids modulated by low-order time polynomials. The sinusoids account on the harmonicity and mean instantaneous frequency of the PLI in the analysis window, while the polynomials capture the frequency and amplitude deviations from their nominal values and characterize the BW at the same time. The resulting model is linear-in-parameters and the solution to the corresponding linear system is estimated in a simple and efficient way through linear least-squares. The proposed modeling method was evaluated on real electrocardiographic (ECG) and electromyographic (EMG) signals against three reference methods for different analysis scenarios. The comparative study suggests that the proposed method outperforms the reference methods in terms of residual interference energy in the denoised biopotential signals. (C) 2013 IPEM. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.