Abstract: Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal denoising has always been a hot research issue. In order to eliminate the noises in ECG signal, a denoising method based on adaptive complete set empirical mode decomposition (CEEMDAN) and wavelet improved threshold function is proposed. Firstly, this method firstly decomposes the ECG signal by CEEMDAN to obtain a set of intrinsic modal functions (IMFs) from high frequency to low frequency. CEEMDAN decomposition is performed on ECG signal to yield several modal components (IMF). Secondly, the correlation coefficient method is used to perform wavelet denoising with improved threshold on the high frequency IMFs. For the lowfrequency IMFs, by setting a fixed threshold, the IMFs below the threshold is considered to be the baseline drift signal and removed. Finally, the denoised IMFs and the retained IMFs are reconstructed. The experimental results show that the proposed method is more effective than the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) wavelet denoising, and the global average empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) wavelet denoising method.

Key words: CEEMDAN, ECG signal, denoising, wavelet threshold