ECG heart beat detection via Mathematical Morphology and Quadratic Spline wavelet transform

Presented is a novel ECG heart beat detection algorithm combining Mathematical Morphology operations and Quadratic Spline wavelet transform for hard-wired realization. Experimentally demonstrated in FPGA under the MIT/BIH Arrhythmia database, the algorithm shows 98.16% sensitivity, 99.7% predictivity and 97.29% overall accuracy.