An accelerated algorithm for ECG signal denoising

The Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is an important tool for cardiovascular diseases analysis. However, still today acquisition devices produce noisy signals that degrades the quality of information by corrupting important features. To improve the quality of the acquired data a filtering process is mandatory. Moreover, a real-time filtering of ECGs, in order to obtain a diagnosis as quickly as possible is a very interesting challenge. In this paper, we consider as denoising filter, the Savitzky-Golay method and we propose a parallel algorithm implementing it. The procedure exploits the computational power of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). Results in terms of performance and quality are provided.