Notch Filter to remove noise from an ECG Signal

This experiment is based on a question at the Lab Exam (EN1093).

According to the following difference equation which relates output (y[n]) and input (x[n]) we were asked to derive the transfer function H(z). This filter removes the 50Hz noise component.

download the ECG Signal distorted with noise

Pole-zero Plot

MATLAB code to implement the Notch Filter with the above characteristics

Implementation output ->

For Further reading:

https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/6373/what-do-the-zeros-of-the-transfer-function-tell-you-about-a-system

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Control_Systems/Poles_and_Zeros

http://web.mit.edu/2.14/www/Handouts/PoleZero.pdf

https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/6103/adding-noise-to-an-ecg-signal