MobileECG: An Ubiquitous Heart Health Guardian

Abstract

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a widespread and efficient medical procedure for monitoring heart health. ECG is a fast, low-cost and non-invasive examination. Its output allows anomaly analysis by health experts. Despite its application in clinical environments, ECG acquisition and analysis as a daily routine is far from being a reality for a large part of the world’s population. In this context, we present here a mobile and pervasive platform, named MobileECG, which provides ECG signal acquisition, automatic feature extraction and real-time prediagnosis. Furthermore, MobileECG implements the ubiquitous computing features. Hence, it runs on mobile devices (smartphone or tablet), assuring this way anytime and anywhere access for anyone to its functionalities. MobileECG is in fact an ubiquitous Heart Health Guardian. Besides, MobileECG supports ECG data integration and publication using Linked Data technology, providing a public knowledge base, which may be used to support complex queries, run mining algorithms and yield collaboration among experts.