Determination of the heart beats on single arm ECG signals by using computational methods

The purpose of this thesis is to develop a quick and simple automated computerized method that analyzes the heart rhythm from ECG signal. The system consists of five ECG electrodes, customized hardware (ADS1298ECG FE) and MATLAB program on a computer. At first, to prepare a dataset, ECG electrodes placed on the left arm of each person. In order check the final success, we also collect dual-arm signals simultaneously by customized hardware (ADS1298ECG FE). All data from the ECG sensors are recorded on the computer. Then a MATLAB code is prepared to analyze ECG signals by inspiring literature methods. Each ECG signal in the dataset is processed with this analyzer code, and the results from left-arm are compared and commented at first with ones of dual-arm experiments and also with the values of the previous methods. Although the dataset used in the study is very small, the reached success shows that this kind of a system can be useful.