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ECG Arrhythmia Classification using Fast Fourier Transform and Principal Component Analysis

Most of cardiovascular disorders and diseases can be prevented, but death count happens of it rises due to inadequate treatment and misdiagnose. One such kind of disease is popularly known as Arrhythmia. An arrhythmia is a disorder of the heart rate (pulse) or heart rhythm, when it beats too fast it is called as tachycardia and when too slow it is called as bradycardia, therefore the timely detection of arrhythmia proves lifesaving for the cardiac patients. The detection is performed analyzing the electrocardiogram (ECG) signals and extracting some features from them. Arrhythmia comes under the cardiovascular disease. Sometimes it becomes difficult to analyze electrocardiogram (ECG) recording for Arrhythmia detection. So it became need of the hour to develop an error proof method to be applied in the computer to train the system for the detection of Arrhythmia. Here one can seek help of Artificial Neural Network. It starts to be widely used for Speech Recognition, Bioinformatics, Computer Vision, and many others. The Present research puts forth FFT and PCA to classify Arrhythmia. The researchers compared the result to other existing algorithms to show that FFT and PCA methods achieve better accuracy of classification of Arrhythmia.

ANALYSIS OF CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS USING NEURAL NETWORKS

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is the recording of the electrical potential of heart versus time. The analysis of ECG signal has great importance in the detection of cardiac abnormalities. The electrocardiographic signals are often contaminated by noise from diverse sources. Noises that commonly disturb the basic electrocardiogram are power line interference, instrumentation noise, external electromagnetic field interference, noise due to random body movements and respirational movements. These noises can be classified according to their frequency content. It is essential to reduce these disturbances in ECG signal to improve accuracy and reliability. Proposed research works offers ECG signal classification system uses Principal Component Analysis (PCA) technique to reduce the dimensionality of test signal. Discrete Wavelet Transform is used for feature extraction. Spectral flatness is another feature for the spectrum of ECG. This process helps in enhancing the classification accuracy. Classification is done using Neural Network classifier.

Automatic detection and classification of cardiac arrhythmia using neural network

International Journal of Engineering & Technology

This paper proposes a Neural Network classifier model for the automatic identification of the ventricular and supraventricular arrhythmias cardiac arrhythmias. The wavelet transform (DWT) and dual tree complex wavelet transform (DTCWT) is applied for QRS complex detec-tion. After segmentation both feature of DWT and DTCWT is combined for feature extraction, statistical feature has been calculated to re-duce the overhead of classifier. An adaptive filtering with the soft computed wavelet thersholding to the signals before the extraction is done in pre-processing. Different ECG database is considered to evaluate the propose work with MIT-BIH database Normal Sinus Rhythm Da-tabase (NSRD) , and MIT-BIH Supraventricular Arrhythmia Database (svdb) .The evaluated outcomes of ECG classification claims 98 -99 % of accuracy under different training and testing situation.

Neural Network Based Method FOR Automatic ECG Arrhythmias Classification

Automatic classification of electrocardiogram (ECG) arrhythmias is essential to timely and early diagnosis of conditions of the heart. In this paper, a new method for ECG arrhythmias classification using Wavelet Transform (WT) and neural networks (NN) is proposed. Here, we have used a discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) for processing ECG recordings, and extracting some time-frequency features. In addition, we have combined the features extracted by DWT with ECG morphology and heartbeat interval features, to obtain our final set of features to be used for training a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) neural network. The MLP Neural Network performs the classification task. In recent years, many algorithms have been proposed and discussed for arrhythmias detection. the results reported in them, have generally been limited to relatively small set of data patterns. In this paper 26 recordings of the MIT-BIH arrhythmias database have been used for training and testing our neural network based classifier. The simulation results of best structure show that the classification accuracy of the proposed method is 94.72% over 360 patterns using 26 files including normal and five arrhythmias.

Analysis of Arrhythmia Classification on ECG Dataset

2022 IEEE 7th International conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT)

The heart is one of the most vital organs in the human body. It supplies blood and nutrients in other parts of the body. Therefore, maintaining a healthy heart is essential. As a heart disorder, arrhythmia is a condition in which the heart's pumping mechanism becomes aberrant. The Electrocardiogram is used to analyze the arrhythmia problem from the ECG signals because of its fewer difficulties and cheapness. The heart peaks shown in the ECG graph are used to detect heart diseases, and the R peak is used to analyze arrhythmia disease. Arrhythmia is grouped into two groups-Tachycardia and Bradycardia for detection. In this paper, we discussed many different techniques such as Deep CNNs, LSTM, SVM, NN classifier, Wavelet, TQWT, etc., that have been used for detecting arrhythmia using various datasets throughout the previous decade. This work shows the analysis of some arrhythmia classification on the ECG dataset. Here, Data preprocessing, feature extraction, classification processes were applied on most research work and achieved better performance for classifying ECG signals to detect arrhythmia. Automatic arrhythmia detection can help cardiologists make the right decisions immediately to save human life. In addition, this research presents various previous research limitations with some challenges in detecting arrhythmia that will help in future research.

Computational Intelligence for Cardiac Arrhythmia Classification

This paper presents a comparative study of automatic classification of different types of heart beat arrhythmias. The heart beats are classified into normal, premature ventricular contraction, atrial premature, right bundle branch block and left bundle branch block classes. Different classifiers are used in this work, namely support vector machine, multilayer perceptron neural networks, and TreeBoost. We carried out several experiments using the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database and obtained promising results. The computed average accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity are 98.89%, 90.63%, and 98.71%, respectively. Results have demonstrated that TreeBoost and support vector machine have an edge over multilayer perceptron neural networks for arrhythmia classification.

Conception of intelligent classifiers for cardiac arrhythmias detection

Nowadays support systems for diagnosis constitute technical means which are necessary in the medical field, particularly in cardiology. In such field, traditional methods of classification such as the tree approach and the statistical one are inadequate. The introduction of emerging smart technologies such as neural networks is more efficient than other methods. The neural network approach is proved as an effective technique for solving the classification problem. The aim of this paper is to design a neural network classifier, able to reliably identify cases of pathological tachycardia family such as ventricular tachycardia (SVT) and supra ventricular tachycardia (SVT). To achieve this goal, we use several neuronal network algorithms namely the multilayer perceptron network (MLP), the Kohonen Self-Organizing Maps (SOM), the learning vector quantization (LVQ) and the probabilistic neural network (PNN). Test of performances are conducted to verify the reliability margin proposed neura...

Detection of Arrhythmia using Neural Network

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Information Technology and Knowledge Management

There is an increase in cardio logical patients all over the world due to change in modern life style. It forces the medical researchers to search for smart devices that can diagnosis and predict the onset of cardiac problem before it is too late. This motivates the authors to predict Arrhythmia that can help both the patients and the medical practitioners for better healthcare services. The proposed method uses the frequency domain information which can represent the ECG signals of Arrhythmia patients better. Features representing the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia are extracted using the efficient Short Time Fourier Transform and the Wavelet transform. A comparison of these features is made with that of normal human being using Neural Network based classifier. Wavelet based features has shown an improvement of Accuracy over that of STFT features in classifying Arrhythmia as our results reveal. A Mean Square Error (MSE) of with wavelet transform has validated our results.

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA CLASSIFICATION

In this paper an effective and most reliable method for appropriate classification of cardiac arrhythmia using automatic Artificial Neural Network (ANN) has been proposed. The results are encouraging and are found to have produced a very confident and efficient arrhythmia classification, which is easily applicable in diagnostic decision support system. The authors have employed 3 neural network classifiers to classify three types of beats of ECG signal, namely Normal (N), and two abnormal beats Right Bundle Branch Block (RBBB) and Premature Ventricular Contraction (PVC). The classifiers used in this paper are K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Naive Bayes Classifier (NBC) and Multi-Class Support Vector Machine (MSVM). The performance of the classifiers is evaluated using 5 parametric measures namely Sensitivity (Se), Specificity (Sp), Precision (Pr), Bit Error Rate (BER) and Accuracy (A). Hence MSVM classifier using Crammers method is very effective for proper ECG beat classification.

Artificial Neural Network Models based Cardiac Arrhythmia Disease Diagnosis from ECG Signal Data

International Journal of Computer Applications, 2012

Changes in the normal rhythm of a human heart may result in different cardiac arrhythmias, which may be immediately causes irreparable damage to the heart sustained over long periods of time. The ability to automatically identify arrhythmias from ECG recordings is important for clinical diagnosis and treatment. In this paper we proposed an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based cardiac arrhythmia disease diagnosis system using standard 12 lead ECG signal recordings data. In this study, we are mainly interested in classifying disease in normal and abnormal classes. We have used UCI ECG signal data to train and test three different ANN models. In arrhythmia analysis, it is unavoidable that some attribute values of a person would be missing. Therefore we have replaced these missing attributes by closest column value of the concern class. ANN models are trained by static backpropagation algorithm with momentum learning rule to diagnose cardiac arrhythmia. The classification performance is evaluated using measures such as mean squared error (MSE), classification specificity, sensitivity, accuracy, receiver operating characteristics (ROC) and area under curve (AUC). Out of three different ANN models Multilayer perceptron ANN model have given very attractive classification results in terms of classification accuracy and sensitivity of 86.67% and 93.75% respectively while Modular ANN have given 93.1% classification specificity.