Figure 5
From: Reduction of CPR artifacts in the ventricular fibrillation ECG by coherent line removal
Illustration of coherent line removal. Here human VF-ECG data (without CPR-related artifacts) have been mixed with ECG containing CPR-artifacts only at a VF-to-CPR ratio of -10 dB, with subsequent purging of CPR-artifacts by coherent line removal. The original CPR is shown in red, whereas the CPR-ECG reconstructed by coherent line removal is shown in blue (the criterion being optimal error variance). The improvement in signal-to-noise ratio is 7.3 dB. In this particular example, the human ECG mixed with CPR-ECG had a "fibrillation band" in the frequency range [1 Hz, 5 Hz], which is expected to be difficult to separate from CPR-related artifacts with ~1.8 Hz and harmonics at ~3.7 Hz, ~5.5 Hz etc.