Efficient enhanced Recursive Least Square algorithm adaptive filtering scheme for artifacts removal in ECG signals

Abstract

This paper proposes an improved Recursive Least Square (RLS) algorithm to address the limitations of the conventional RLS algorithm, which suffers from poor performance when dealing with non-stationary noise. The proposed algorithm, along with various algorithms, have been designed using Xilinx System Generator (XSG). These algorithms have been tested to denoise ECG signals that have been corrupted with four types of real noise obtained from the MIT-BIH dataset. The improved algorithm utilizes a systolic architecture that enables faster processing and better noise reduction capabilities. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm with and without systolic architecture outperforms the conventional RLS algorithm and other state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), mean squared error (MSE), and convergence speed.