A method and an apparatus for monitoring a heartbeat signal are provided based on an Empirical Mode Decomposition method. The method for monitoring the heartbeat signal includes: receiving the heartbeat signal, acquiring a characteristic wave from the heartbeat signal performing an adaptive signal decomposition to the acquired characteristic wave, so as to extract a plurality of characteristic wave components selecting the characteristic wave componenet which has the highest frequency component to be a test component calculating a ratio between a root-mean-square (RMS) value of the test component and a RMS value of the characteristic wave and determining whether the heartbeat signal is an abnormal heartbeat signal according to the evaluation parameter.一種基於經驗模態分解法之心跳訊號檢測方法與檢測裝置。心跳訊號檢測方法包括接收心跳訊號;截取心跳訊號中的特徵波;對所截取的特徵波進行適應性訊號分解以取得多個特徵波成分;從多個特徵波成分中選擇具有最高頻率分量的特徵波成分為測試成分;計算測試成分的均方根值與特徵波的均方根值的比值以取得評估參數;以及依據評估參數判斷心跳訊號是否為異常心跳訊號。S210~260‧‧‧心跳訊號檢測方法的步驟