Liang Hualou, Lin Zhiyue
Center for Computational Biomedicine, School of Health Information Sciences, The University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston 77030, USA.
IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2002 Jul;49(7):681-8. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2002.1010851.
Previous studies have shown that electrical stimulation of the stomach (i.e., gastric pacing) with appropriate parameters is a promising method for treatment of gastroparetic patients. The recording of gastric myoelectric activity (GMA) by serosal electrodes is often used to evaluate the effect of stimulation. However, the major problem with the measurement of GMA during gastric pacing is the stimulus artifacts which are often superimposed on the serosal recording and make analysis difficult. The frequency-domain adaptive filter has been used to reduce the stimulus artifacts but only with limited success. This paper describes a wavelet transform-based method for the reduction of stimulus artifacts in the serosal recordings of GMA. The key of this method lies in the use of the fuzzy set theory to select the stimulus artifact-related modulus maxima in the wavelet domain. Both quantitative and qualitative measures show that significant stimulus artifact cancellation was achieved through a series of computer simulations. Results from both single- and multichannel serosally recorded myoelectric signals during gastric pacing are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method for the cancellation of stimulus artifacts.
先前的研究表明,采用适当参数对胃进行电刺激(即胃起搏)是治疗胃轻瘫患者的一种很有前景的方法。通过浆膜电极记录胃肌电活动(GMA)常用于评估刺激效果。然而,胃起搏期间测量GMA的主要问题是刺激伪迹,其常常叠加在浆膜记录上,使得分析变得困难。频域自适应滤波器已被用于减少刺激伪迹,但效果有限。本文描述了一种基于小波变换的方法,用于减少GMA浆膜记录中的刺激伪迹。该方法的关键在于利用模糊集理论在小波域中选择与刺激伪迹相关的模极大值。定量和定性测量均表明,通过一系列计算机模拟实现了显著的刺激伪迹消除。给出了胃起搏期间单通道和多通道浆膜记录的肌电信号结果,以证明所提出的消除刺激伪迹方法的有效性。