Artifact free ECG
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Piotrode Medical AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 1 490 000 |
| Project duration | May 2022 - October 2024 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Swelife and Medtech4Health - Collaborative Projects for Improved Health |
| Call | Swelife and Medtech4Health - Collaborative projects for better health autumn 2021 |
Important results from the project
We had an ambitious goal: To validate and confirm the scientific basis for a methodology for producing true artifact-free ECG during everyday activities. The project has been very successful and largely fulfilled the goals set from the start. The project has shown that the new technology can significantly reduce the noise level in ECG measurements, facilitating the assessment of patients´ health and eliminating false alarms, which constitute a major problem in hospital settings.
Expected long term effects
The results achieved in this project should enable us, within a few months, to showcase to potential customers and investors the substantial improvements in healthcare quality that our new technologies can enable. If these results can be repeated in clinical studies for typical patient groups, that would indicate that the problem with false ECG alarms in healthcare can be eliminated.
Approach and implementation
This project has been carried out with three partners: Piotrode Medical AB, Lund University, and Karolinska Institute. Piotrode has been responsible for developing electrodes with low susceptibility to external noise. Piotrode has also developed data-collection hardware and algorithms for data processing. Lund has evaluated new algorithms for data processing. Karolinska has provided medical-based guidance and evaluation of ECG data to ensure clinical relevance.