National Instruments LabVIEW Biomedical Toolkit for Measuring Heart Beat Rate and ECG LEAD II Features

Abstract

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is undoubtedly the gold method for assessing heart activities. However, the ECG machine for measuring ECG is mostly only available in health care center especially in the third-world countries. Therefore, this research proposed to utilize the product of National Instruments i.e. LabVIEW Biomedical Toolkit and data acquisition device as an alternative approach to acquire ECG features and heart beat rate (HBR). As for performances verification, the NI-LabVIEW instruments are tested simultaneously with two types of ECG machine which are Philips PageWriter TC 30 and KenZ ECG 108. The results indicated that the ECG features and HBR obtained from NI-LABVIEW instruments are agreed well with the measurements attained from both of the ECG machines. Hence, this study proved that NI-LabVIEW instruments are highly potent for measuring ECG features and HBR. Moreover, the computerized NI-LabVIEW instruments with the self-interpretation function can always outperform most of the conventional ECG machines that are still required cardiologists for manually interpreting the results printed on the ECG paper.