Automatic recognition of cardiac arrhythmias is important for diagnosis of cardiac abnormalies. Several algorithms have been proposed to classify ECG arrhythmias; however, they cannot perform very well. Therefore, in this paper, an expert system for ElectroCardioGram (ECG) arrhythmia classification is proposed. Discrete wavelet transform is used for processing ECG recordings, and extracting some features, and the Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) neural network performs the classification task. Two types of arrhythmias can be detected by the proposed system. Some recordings of the MIT-BIH arrhythmias database have been used for training and testing our neural network based classifier. The simulation results show that the classification accuracy of our algorithm is 96.5% using 10 files including normal and two arrhythmias.
Classification of ecg signal using artificial neural networkGaurav upadhyay
An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a bio-electrical signal which is used to record the heart's electrical activity with respect to time. Early and accurate detection is important in detecting heart diseases and choosing appropriate treatment for a patient. ECG signals are used as the parameter for detection of Cardiac diseases and most of the data comes from PhysioDataNet and MIT-BIH database .The pre-processing of ECG signal is performed with help of Wavelet toolbox and also used for feature extraction of ECG signal. The complete project is implemented on MATLAB platform. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated on MIT–BIH Database. This paper presents the application of Probabilistic Neural Networks (PNN) for the classification and detection of Electrocardiogram (ECG).
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Classification and Detection of ECG-signals using Artificial Neural NetworksGaurav upadhyay
An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a bio-electrical signal which is used to record the heart's electrical activity with respect to time. Early and accurate detection is important in detecting heart diseases and choosing appropriate treatment for a patient. ECG signals are used as the parameter for detection of Cardiac diseases and most of the data comes from PhysioDataNet and MIT-BIH database .The pre-processing of ECG signal is performed with help of Wavelet toolbox and also used for feature extraction of ECG signal. The complete project is implemented on MATLAB platform. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated on MIT–BIH Database. This paper presents the application of Probabilistic Neural Networks (PNN) for the classification and detection of Electrocardiogram (ECG).
FPGA based Heart Arrhythmia’s Detection AlgorithmIDES Editor
Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal has been widely used
for heart diagnoses .In this paper, we presents the design of
Heart Arrhythmias Detector using Verilog HDL based on been
mapped on small commercially available FPGAs (Field
Programmable Gate Arrays). Majority of the deaths occurs
before emergency services can step in to intervene. In this
research work, we have implemented QRS detection device
developed by Ahlstrom and Tompkins in Verilog HDL. The
generated source has been simulated for validation and tested
on software Verilogger Pro6.5. We have collected data from
MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database for test of proposed digital
system and this data have given MIT-BIH data as an input of
our proposed device using test bench software. We have
compared our device output with MATLAB output and
calculating the error percentage and got desire research key
point of RR interval between the peaks of QRS signal. The
proposed system also investigated with different database of
MIT-BIH for detect different heart Arrhythmias and proposed
device give output exactly same according to our QRS detection
algorithm.
Classification of ecg signal using artificial neural networkGaurav upadhyay
An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a bio-electrical signal which is used to record the heart's electrical activity with respect to time. Early and accurate detection is important in detecting heart diseases and choosing appropriate treatment for a patient. ECG signals are used as the parameter for detection of Cardiac diseases and most of the data comes from PhysioDataNet and MIT-BIH database .The pre-processing of ECG signal is performed with help of Wavelet toolbox and also used for feature extraction of ECG signal. The complete project is implemented on MATLAB platform. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated on MIT–BIH Database. This paper presents the application of Probabilistic Neural Networks (PNN) for the classification and detection of Electrocardiogram (ECG).
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Classification and Detection of ECG-signals using Artificial Neural NetworksGaurav upadhyay
An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a bio-electrical signal which is used to record the heart's electrical activity with respect to time. Early and accurate detection is important in detecting heart diseases and choosing appropriate treatment for a patient. ECG signals are used as the parameter for detection of Cardiac diseases and most of the data comes from PhysioDataNet and MIT-BIH database .The pre-processing of ECG signal is performed with help of Wavelet toolbox and also used for feature extraction of ECG signal. The complete project is implemented on MATLAB platform. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated on MIT–BIH Database. This paper presents the application of Probabilistic Neural Networks (PNN) for the classification and detection of Electrocardiogram (ECG).
FPGA based Heart Arrhythmia’s Detection AlgorithmIDES Editor
Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal has been widely used
for heart diagnoses .In this paper, we presents the design of
Heart Arrhythmias Detector using Verilog HDL based on been
mapped on small commercially available FPGAs (Field
Programmable Gate Arrays). Majority of the deaths occurs
before emergency services can step in to intervene. In this
research work, we have implemented QRS detection device
developed by Ahlstrom and Tompkins in Verilog HDL. The
generated source has been simulated for validation and tested
on software Verilogger Pro6.5. We have collected data from
MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database for test of proposed digital
system and this data have given MIT-BIH data as an input of
our proposed device using test bench software. We have
compared our device output with MATLAB output and
calculating the error percentage and got desire research key
point of RR interval between the peaks of QRS signal. The
proposed system also investigated with different database of
MIT-BIH for detect different heart Arrhythmias and proposed
device give output exactly same according to our QRS detection
algorithm.
Ecg based heart rate monitoring system implementation using fpga for low powe...eSAT Journals
Abstract This paper proposes a new design to monitor the Heart Rate from Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. The proposed design is based on the concept of identifying the voltage level of the R-wave complex component of the ECG signal above a threshold level. A 100 Hertz sample rate is selected to sample the complex ECG signal. A dual-counter based calculation method is used to obtain the mathematical value of Heart Rate. The proposed FPGA based ECG Heart Rate monitoring system can operate with high performance with respect to the low-power and high speed. The system is designed using Verilog hardware design language and Xilinx XC3s500E FPGA. Keywords- ECG, Sampling, Threshold, Heart Rate, FPGA
Performance Evaluation of Percent Root Mean Square Difference for ECG Signals...CSCJournals
Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal compression is playing a vital role in biomedical applications. The signal compression is meant for detection and removing the redundant information from the ECG signal. Wavelet transform methods are very powerful tools for signal and image compression and decompression. This paper deals with the comparative study of ECG signal compression using preprocessing and without preprocessing approach on the ECG data. The performance and efficiency results are presented in terms of percent root mean square difference (PRD). Finally, the new PRD technique has been proposed for performance measurement and compared with the existing PRD technique; which has shown that proposed new PRD technique achieved minimum value of PRD with improved results.
New Method of R-Wave Detection by Continuous Wavelet TransformCSCJournals
In this paper we have employed a new method of R-peaks detection in electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. This method is based on the application of the discretised Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) used for the Bionic Wavelet Transform (BWT). The mother wavelet associated to this transform is the Morlet wavelet. For evaluating the proposed method, we have compared it to others methods that are based on Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). In this evaluation, the used ECG signals are taken from MIT-BIH database. The obtained results show that the proposed method outperforms some conventional techniques used in our evaluation.
Electrocardiogram (ECG) flag is the electrical action of the human heart. The ECG contains imperative data about the general execution of the human heart framework. In this way, exact examination of the ECG flag is extremely critical however difficult undertaking. ECG flag is regularly low adequacy and polluted with various kinds of commotions due to its estimation procedure e.g. control line obstruction, amplifier clamor and standard meander. Benchmark meander is a sort of organic commotion caused by the arbitrary development of patient amid ECG estimation and misshapes the ST fragment of the ECG waveform. In this paper, we present a far reaching near investigation of five generally utilized versatile filtering calculations for the evacuation of low recurrence clamor. We perform broad investigations on the Physionet MIT BIH ECG database and contrast the flag with commotion proportion (SNR), combination rate, and time many-sided quality of these calculations. It is discovered that modified LMS has better execution than others regarding SNR and assembly rate.
Epilepsy is one of the prominent and disturbing neurological disorder and many
people across the world are victims of this problem. The sudden motor disturbances in
the brain cause and trigger these seizures. Due to the hypersynchronous discharges
happening on the cortical regions of the brain, the activities of the motor becomes
abnormal and so seizures are triggered. The seizures caused due to epilepsy are quite
heterogeneous in nature and so diagnosing it is quite challenging.
Electroencephalography (EEG) is the most widely used instrument for the detection of
epileptic seizures. In this work, Haar and Sym8 wavelets are employed to extract the
wavelet features at level 4 from EEG signals. The extracted features like alpha, beta,
theta, gamma and delta are classified through the Soft Discriminant Classifier (SDC) to
obtain the epilepsy risk level from EEG signals. The final results show that when Haar
wavelet is employed and classified with SDC, an average classification accuracy of
95.20% is obtained and when Sym8 wavelet is utilized and classified with SDC, an
average classification accuracy of 94.68% is obtained.
This method gives a new algorithm to detect
nonlinearities in ECG signals and to determine the order of
non-linearity. The ECG bispectrum is analysed and the
bicoherence index is calculated to identify non-linearity. The
diagonal slice of the polycoherence index of any order,
calculated using the diagonal slice of the polyspectrum of the
same order and the power spectrum, is proposed as an
estimator. The possibility of higher-order non-linearities in
ECG signals is investigated using these slices. Physiological and pathological cases have been studied. The polyspectrum and polycoherence slices indicate the presence of higher-order
phase-coupled harmonics, in the physiological cases, which is
attributed to higher order non-linearities. Differences between
physiological and pathological cases are assessed and a decrease in the non-linearity order could be correlated with pathological conditions.
Photoplethysmography (PPG) and Phonocardiography (PCG) are two important non-invasive techniques for monitoring physiological parameters of cardiovascular diagnostics. The PCG signal discloses information about cardiac function through vibrations caused by the working heart. PPG measures relative blood volume changes in the blood vessels close to the skin. This paper emphasizes on simultaneous acquisition of PCG and PPG signals from the same subject with the aid of NIELVIS II+ DAQ and the signals are imported to MATLAB for further processing. Heart rate is extracted from both the signals which are found to be distinctive. This analytical approach of processing these signals can abet for analysis of Heart rate variability (HRV) which is widely used for quantifying neural cardiac control and low variability is particularly predictive of death in patients after myocardial infarction.
Analysis of Human Electrocardiogram for Biometric Recognition Using Analytic ...CSCJournals
The electrocardiograph (ECG) contains cardiac features unique to each individual. By analyzing ECG, it should therefore be possible not only to detect the rate and consistency of heartbeats but to also extract other signal features in order to identify ECG records belonging to individual subjects. In this paper, a new approach for automatic analysis of single lead ECG for human recognition is proposed and evaluated. Eighteen temporal, amplitude, width and autoregressive (AR) model parameters are extracted from each ECG beat and classified in order to identify each individual. Proposed system uses pre-processing stage to decrease the effects of noise and other unwanted artifacts usually present in raw ECG data. Following pre-processing steps, ECG stream is partitioned into separate windows where each window includes single beat of ECG signal. Window estimation is based on the localization of the R peaks in the ECG stream that detected by Filter bank method for QRS complex detection. ECG features – temporal, amplitude and AR coefficients are then extracted and used as an input to K-nn and SVM classification algorithms in order to identify the individual subjects and beats. Signal pre-processing techniques, applied feature extraction methods and some intermediate and final classification results are presented in this paper.
Extraction of respiratory rate from ppg signals using pca and emdeSAT Publishing House
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Less computational approach to detect QRS complexes in ECG rhythmsCSITiaesprime
Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are normally affected by artifacts that require manual assessment or use of other reference signals. Currently, Cardiographs are used to achieve basic necessary heart rate monitoring in real conditions. This work aims to study and identify main ECG features, QRS complexes, as one of the steps of a comprehensive ECG signal analysis. The proposed algorithm suggested an automatic recognition of QRS complexes in ECG rhythm. This method is designed based on several filter structure composes low pass, difference and summation filters. The filtered signal is fed to an adaptive threshold function to detect QRS complexes. The algorithm was validated and results were checked with experimental data based on sensitivity test.
Ecg based heart rate monitoring system implementation using fpga for low powe...eSAT Journals
Abstract This paper proposes a new design to monitor the Heart Rate from Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. The proposed design is based on the concept of identifying the voltage level of the R-wave complex component of the ECG signal above a threshold level. A 100 Hertz sample rate is selected to sample the complex ECG signal. A dual-counter based calculation method is used to obtain the mathematical value of Heart Rate. The proposed FPGA based ECG Heart Rate monitoring system can operate with high performance with respect to the low-power and high speed. The system is designed using Verilog hardware design language and Xilinx XC3s500E FPGA. Keywords- ECG, Sampling, Threshold, Heart Rate, FPGA
Performance Evaluation of Percent Root Mean Square Difference for ECG Signals...CSCJournals
Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal compression is playing a vital role in biomedical applications. The signal compression is meant for detection and removing the redundant information from the ECG signal. Wavelet transform methods are very powerful tools for signal and image compression and decompression. This paper deals with the comparative study of ECG signal compression using preprocessing and without preprocessing approach on the ECG data. The performance and efficiency results are presented in terms of percent root mean square difference (PRD). Finally, the new PRD technique has been proposed for performance measurement and compared with the existing PRD technique; which has shown that proposed new PRD technique achieved minimum value of PRD with improved results.
New Method of R-Wave Detection by Continuous Wavelet TransformCSCJournals
In this paper we have employed a new method of R-peaks detection in electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. This method is based on the application of the discretised Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) used for the Bionic Wavelet Transform (BWT). The mother wavelet associated to this transform is the Morlet wavelet. For evaluating the proposed method, we have compared it to others methods that are based on Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). In this evaluation, the used ECG signals are taken from MIT-BIH database. The obtained results show that the proposed method outperforms some conventional techniques used in our evaluation.
Electrocardiogram (ECG) flag is the electrical action of the human heart. The ECG contains imperative data about the general execution of the human heart framework. In this way, exact examination of the ECG flag is extremely critical however difficult undertaking. ECG flag is regularly low adequacy and polluted with various kinds of commotions due to its estimation procedure e.g. control line obstruction, amplifier clamor and standard meander. Benchmark meander is a sort of organic commotion caused by the arbitrary development of patient amid ECG estimation and misshapes the ST fragment of the ECG waveform. In this paper, we present a far reaching near investigation of five generally utilized versatile filtering calculations for the evacuation of low recurrence clamor. We perform broad investigations on the Physionet MIT BIH ECG database and contrast the flag with commotion proportion (SNR), combination rate, and time many-sided quality of these calculations. It is discovered that modified LMS has better execution than others regarding SNR and assembly rate.
Epilepsy is one of the prominent and disturbing neurological disorder and many
people across the world are victims of this problem. The sudden motor disturbances in
the brain cause and trigger these seizures. Due to the hypersynchronous discharges
happening on the cortical regions of the brain, the activities of the motor becomes
abnormal and so seizures are triggered. The seizures caused due to epilepsy are quite
heterogeneous in nature and so diagnosing it is quite challenging.
Electroencephalography (EEG) is the most widely used instrument for the detection of
epileptic seizures. In this work, Haar and Sym8 wavelets are employed to extract the
wavelet features at level 4 from EEG signals. The extracted features like alpha, beta,
theta, gamma and delta are classified through the Soft Discriminant Classifier (SDC) to
obtain the epilepsy risk level from EEG signals. The final results show that when Haar
wavelet is employed and classified with SDC, an average classification accuracy of
95.20% is obtained and when Sym8 wavelet is utilized and classified with SDC, an
average classification accuracy of 94.68% is obtained.
This method gives a new algorithm to detect
nonlinearities in ECG signals and to determine the order of
non-linearity. The ECG bispectrum is analysed and the
bicoherence index is calculated to identify non-linearity. The
diagonal slice of the polycoherence index of any order,
calculated using the diagonal slice of the polyspectrum of the
same order and the power spectrum, is proposed as an
estimator. The possibility of higher-order non-linearities in
ECG signals is investigated using these slices. Physiological and pathological cases have been studied. The polyspectrum and polycoherence slices indicate the presence of higher-order
phase-coupled harmonics, in the physiological cases, which is
attributed to higher order non-linearities. Differences between
physiological and pathological cases are assessed and a decrease in the non-linearity order could be correlated with pathological conditions.
Photoplethysmography (PPG) and Phonocardiography (PCG) are two important non-invasive techniques for monitoring physiological parameters of cardiovascular diagnostics. The PCG signal discloses information about cardiac function through vibrations caused by the working heart. PPG measures relative blood volume changes in the blood vessels close to the skin. This paper emphasizes on simultaneous acquisition of PCG and PPG signals from the same subject with the aid of NIELVIS II+ DAQ and the signals are imported to MATLAB for further processing. Heart rate is extracted from both the signals which are found to be distinctive. This analytical approach of processing these signals can abet for analysis of Heart rate variability (HRV) which is widely used for quantifying neural cardiac control and low variability is particularly predictive of death in patients after myocardial infarction.
Analysis of Human Electrocardiogram for Biometric Recognition Using Analytic ...CSCJournals
The electrocardiograph (ECG) contains cardiac features unique to each individual. By analyzing ECG, it should therefore be possible not only to detect the rate and consistency of heartbeats but to also extract other signal features in order to identify ECG records belonging to individual subjects. In this paper, a new approach for automatic analysis of single lead ECG for human recognition is proposed and evaluated. Eighteen temporal, amplitude, width and autoregressive (AR) model parameters are extracted from each ECG beat and classified in order to identify each individual. Proposed system uses pre-processing stage to decrease the effects of noise and other unwanted artifacts usually present in raw ECG data. Following pre-processing steps, ECG stream is partitioned into separate windows where each window includes single beat of ECG signal. Window estimation is based on the localization of the R peaks in the ECG stream that detected by Filter bank method for QRS complex detection. ECG features – temporal, amplitude and AR coefficients are then extracted and used as an input to K-nn and SVM classification algorithms in order to identify the individual subjects and beats. Signal pre-processing techniques, applied feature extraction methods and some intermediate and final classification results are presented in this paper.
Extraction of respiratory rate from ppg signals using pca and emdeSAT Publishing House
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Less computational approach to detect QRS complexes in ECG rhythmsCSITiaesprime
Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are normally affected by artifacts that require manual assessment or use of other reference signals. Currently, Cardiographs are used to achieve basic necessary heart rate monitoring in real conditions. This work aims to study and identify main ECG features, QRS complexes, as one of the steps of a comprehensive ECG signal analysis. The proposed algorithm suggested an automatic recognition of QRS complexes in ECG rhythm. This method is designed based on several filter structure composes low pass, difference and summation filters. The filtered signal is fed to an adaptive threshold function to detect QRS complexes. The algorithm was validated and results were checked with experimental data based on sensitivity test.
Classification of cardiac vascular disease from ecg signals for enhancing mod...hiij
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In this paper we analyze the abnormalities found i
n the
ECG signals by identifying the Normal, Bradycardia
Arrhythmia, Tachycardia Arrhythmia and Ischemia
signal using the method of Neuro Fuzzy Classifier.
Daubechies Wavelet Transforms is used for feature
extraction and Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference Syste
m (ANFIS) is used for classification. The compressi
on
algorithm is performed by using Huffman coding.
Rule Based Identification of Cardiac Arrhythmias from Enhanced ECG Signals Us...CSCJournals
The detection of abnormal cardiac rhythms, automatic discrimination from rhythmic heart activity, became a thrust area in clinical research. Arrhythmia detection is possible by analyzing the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal features. The presence of interference signals, like power line interference (PLI), Electromyogram (EMG) and baseline drift interferences, could cause serious problems during the recording of ECG signals. Many a time, they pose problem in modern control and signal processing applications by being narrow in-band interference near the frequencies carrying crucial information. This paper presents an approach for ECG signal enhancement by combining the attractive properties of principal component analysis (PCA) and wavelets, resulting in multi-scale PCA. In Multi-Scale Principal Component Analysis (MSPCA), the PCA’s ability to decorrelate the variables by extracting a linear relationship and wavelet analysis are utilized. MSPCA method effectively processed the noisy ECG signal and enhanced signal features are used for clear identification of arrhythmias. In MSPCA, the principal components of the wavelet coefficients of the ECG data at each scale are computed first and are then combined at relevant scales. Statistical measures computed in terms of root mean square deviation (RMSD), root mean square error (RMSE), root mean square variation (RMSV) and improvement in signal to noise ratio (SNRI) revealed that the Daubechies based MSPCA outperformed the basic wavelet based processing for ECG signal enhancement. With enhanced signal features obtained after MSPCA processing, the detectable measures, QRS duration and R-R interval are evaluated. By using the rule base technique, projecting the detectable measures on a two dimensional area, various arrhythmias are detected depending upon the beat falling into particular place of the two dimensional area.
Electrocardiograph signal recognition using wavelet transform based on optim...IJECEIAES
Due to the growing number of cardiac patients, an automatic detection that detects various heart abnormalities has been developed to relieve and share physicians’ workload. Many of the depolarization of ventricles complex waves (QRS) detection algorithms with multiple properties have recently been presented; nevertheless, real-time implementations in low-cost systems remain a challenge due to limited hardware resources. The proposed algorithm finds a solution for the delay in processing by minimizing the input vector’s dimension and, as a result, the classifier’s complexity. In this paper, the wavelet transform is employed for feature extraction. The optimized neural network is used for classification with 8-classes for the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal this data is taken from two ECG signals (ST-T and MIT-BIH database). The wavelet transform coefficients are used for the artificial neural network’s training process and optimized by using the invasive weed optimization (IWO) algorithm. The suggested system has a sensitivity of over 70%, a specificity of over 94%, a positive predictive of over 65%, a negative predictive of more than 93%, and a classification accuracy of more than 80%. The performance of the classifier improves when the number of neurons in the hidden layer is increased.
Automatic Detection of Heart Disease Using Discreet Wavelet Transform and Art...Editor IJMTER
ECG plays an important role for analysis and diagnosis of heart disease. ECG signals are
affected by different noises. These noises can be removed by de noise the ECG signal. After de
noising ECG signals, a pure ECG signal is used to detect ECG parameters. Then Feature extraction
of ECG signal is carried out by DWT techniques which are applied to ANN for classification to
detect cardiac arrhythmia. This paper introduces the Electrocardiogram (ECG) pattern recognition
method based on wavelet transform and neural network technique has been used to classify two
different types of arrhythmias, namely, Left bundle branch block (LBBB), Right bundle Branch
block (RBBB) with normal ECG signal. The MIT-BIH arrhythmias ECG Database has been used for
training and testing our neural network based classifier. The simulation results given at the end.
AR-based Method for ECG Classification and Patient RecognitionCSCJournals
The electrocardiogram (ECG) is the recording of heart activity obtained by measuring the signals from electrical contacts placed on the skin of the patient. By analyzing ECG, it is possible to detect the rate and consistency of heartbeats and identify possible irregularities in heart operation. This paper describes a set of techniques employed to pre-process the ECG signals and extract a set of features – autoregressive (AR) signal parameters used to characterise ECG signal. Extracted parameters are in this work used to accomplish two tasks. Firstly, AR features belonging to each ECG signal are classified in groups corresponding to three different heart conditions – normal, arrhythmia and ventricular arrhythmia. Obtained classification results indicate accurate, zero-error classification of patients according to their heart condition using the proposed method. Sets of extracted AR coefficients are then extended by adding an additional parameter – power of AR modelling error and a suitability of developed technique for individual patient identification is investigated. Individual feature sets for each group of detected QRS sections are classified in p clusters where p represents the number of patients in each group. Developed system has been tested using ECG signals available in MIT/BIH and Politecnico of Milano VCG/ECG database. Achieved recognition rates indicate that patient identification using ECG signals could be considered as a possible approach in some applications using the system developed in this work. Pre-processing stages, applied parameter extraction techniques and some intermediate and final classification results are described and presented in this paper.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA C...IAEME Publication
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.
Novel method to find the parameter for noise removal from multi channel ecg w...eSAT Journals
Abstract In general, electrocardiogram (ECG) waveforms are affected by noise and artifacts and it is essential to remove the noise in order to support any decision making for specialist. It is very difficult to remove the noise from 12 channel ECG waveforms using standard noise removal methodologies. Removal of the noise from ECG waveforms is majorly classified into two types in signal processing namely Digital filters and Analog filters. Digital filters are more accurate than analog filters because analog filters introduce nonlinear phase shift. Most advanced research digital filters are FIR and IIR.FIR filters are stable as they have non-recursive structure. They give the exact linear phase and efficiently realizable in hardware. The filter response is finite duration. Thus noise removal using FIR digital filter is better option in comparison with IIR digital filter. But it is very difficult to find the cut-off frequency parameter for dynamic multi-channel ECG waveforms using existing traditional methods. So, in this research, newly introduced Multi-Swarm Optimization (MSO) methodology for automatically identifying the cut-off frequency parameter of multichannel ECG waveforms for low-pass filtering is inspecting. Generally, the spectrums of the ECG waveforms are extracted from four classes: normal sinus rhythm, atria fibrillation, arrhythmia and supraventricular. Baseline wander is removed using the Moving Median Filter. A dataset of the extracted features of the ECG spectrums is used to train the MSO. The performance of the MSO with various parameters is investigated. Finally, the MSO-identified cut-off frequency parameter, it’s applied to a Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter. The resulting signal is evaluated against the original clean and conventional filtered ECG signal. Keywords: 12 Channel ECG Waveforms, Multi Swarm Optimization Neural Network, Low-pass filtering, Finite Impulse Response (FIR).
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
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CLASSIFICATION OF ECG ARRHYTHMIAS USING /DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM AND NEURAL NETWORKS
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DOI : 10.5121/ijcsea.2012.2101 1
CLASSIFICATION OF ECG ARRHYTHMIAS USING
DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM AND NEURAL
NETWORKS
Maedeh Kiani Sarkaleh and Asadollah Shahbahrami
Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
P.O.Box: 3756-41635
University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
shahbahrami@guilan.ac.ir
ABSTRACT
Automatic recognition of cardiac arrhythmias is important for diagnosis of cardiac abnormalies. Several
algorithms have been proposed to classify ECG arrhythmias; however, they cannot perform very well.
Therefore, in this paper, an expert system for ElectroCardioGram (ECG) arrhythmia classification is
proposed. Discrete wavelet transform is used for processing ECG recordings, and extracting some
features, and the Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) neural network performs the classification task. Two types
of arrhythmias can be detected by the proposed system. Some recordings of the MIT-BIH arrhythmias
database have been used for training and testing our neural network based classifier. The simulation
results show that the classification accuracy of our algorithm is 96.5% using 10 files including normal and
two arrhythmias.
KEYWORDS
ECG, Arrhythmia, Daubechies Wavelets, Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), Neural Network (NN).
1. INTRODUCTION
The ElectroCardioGram (ECG) signal is an important signal among all bioelectrical signals.
Analysis of the ECG signal is widely used in the diagnosis of many cardiac disorders. It can be
recorded from the wave passage of the depolarization and repolarization processes in the heart.
The potential in the heart tissues is conducted to the body surface where it is measured using
electrodes.
Figure 1 illustrates two periods of the normal ECG signal. The P, Q, R, S and T waves are the
most important characteristic features of the ECG. The peaked area in the ECG beat, commonly
called QRS complex, together with its neighboring P wave and T wave, is the portion of the
signal through to contain most of the diagnostically important information. Other important
information includes the elevation of the ST segment and heartbeat rate, the RR or PP.
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Figure 1. Two periods of the normal ECG signal [33].
The shape of ECG conveys very important hidden information in its structure. The amplitude and
duration of each wave in ECG signals are often used for the manual analysis. Thus, the volume of
the data being enormous and the manual analysis is tedious and very time-consuming task.
Naturally, the possibility of the analyst missing vital information is high. Therefore, medical
diagnostics can be performed using computer-based analysis and classification techniques [1].
Several algorithms have been proposed to classify ECG heartbeat patterns based on the features
extracted from the ECG signals. Fourier transform analysis provides the signal spectrum or range
of frequency amplitudes within the signal; however, Fourier transform only provides the spectral
components, not their temporal relationships. Wavelets can provide a time versus frequency
representation of the signal and work well on non-stationary data [2-4]. Other algorithms use
morphological features [5], heartbeat temporal intervals [6], frequency domain features and
multifractal analysis [7]. Biomedical signal processing algorithms require appropriate classifiers
in order to best categorize different ECG signals. In 1976, Shortliffe presented an early computer-
aided diagnostic system for diagnosis and treatment of symptoms of bacterial infection [8].
Classification techniques for ECG patterns include linear discriminate analysis [2], support vector
machines [9], artificial neural networks [10-14], mixture-of-experts algorithms [12], and
statistical Markov models [15, 16]. In addition, unsupervised clustering of the ECG signal has
been performed using self-organizing maps in [17].
Besides the fact the ECG record can be noisy, the main problem in computer-based classification
is the wide variety in the shape of beats belonging to the same class and beats of similar shape
belonging to different classes [18, 19]. Computer-based diagnosis algorithms have generally three
steps, namely: EGC beat detection, extraction of useful features from beats, and classification.
In this paper, we propose a Neural Network (NN) based algorithm for classification of Paced Beat
(PB), Artial Premature Beat (APB) arrhythmias as well as the normal signal. Our algorithm uses
some features obtained by the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) along with timing interval
features to train an MLP NN. We extract some important features from the wavelet coefficients to
achieve both an accurate and a robust NN based classifier by using a number of training patterns.
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This paper is organized as follows. Section 2 describes the background information about DWT
and Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). The proposed feature extraction technique as well as our
classification system is present in Section 3. Section 4 explains the experimental results.
Conclusions are drawn in Section 5.
2. BACKGROUND
2.1. Discrete Wavelet Transform
The wavelet transform was presented at the beginning of the 1980s by Morlet, who used it to
evaluate seismic data [16]. Wavelets provide an alternative to classical Fourier algorithms for one
and multi-dimensional data analysis and synthesis, and have numerous applications such as in
mathematics, physics, and digital image processing. The wavelet transform can be applied in both
continuous-time signal and discrete-time signal. For example, The wavelet representation of a
discrete signal X consisting of N samples can be computed by convolving X with the Low-Pass
Filters (LPF) and High-Pass Filters (HPF) and down-sampling the output signal by 2, so that the
two frequency bands each contains N/2 samples.
This technique is based on the use of wavelets as the basis functions for representing other
functions. These basis functions have a finite support in time and frequency domain. Multi-
resolution analysis is achieved by using the mother wavelet, and a family of wavelets generated
by translations and dilations of it [20, 21]. There are different approaches to implement the 2D
DWT such as traditional convolution-based and lifting scheme methods. The convolutional
algorithms apply filtering by multiplying the filter coefficients with the input samples and
accumulating the results. These algorithms are implemented using Finite Impulse Response (FIR)
filter banks. The lifting scheme has been proposed for the efficient implementation of the wavelet
transform. This approach has three phases, namely: split, predict, and update [22, 23, 24]. In one-
dimensional DWT, at each decomposition level, the HPF associated with scaling function
produces detail information which is related to high-frequency components, while the LPF
associated with scaling function produces coarse approximations, which are related to low-
frequency components of the signal. The approximation part can be iteratively decomposed. This
process for two-level decomposition is depicted in Figure 2. A signal is broken down into many
lower resolution components. This operation is called the wavelet decomposition tree [24].
Figure 2. Sub-band decomposition of discrete wavelet transform implementation.
The wavelet transform is reversible. The reconstruction is the reverse process of decomposition.
The approximation and detail wavelet coefficients at every level are up sampled by two, passed
through the LPF and HPF and then added. This process is continued through the same number of
levels as in the decomposition process to obtain the original signal. Figure 3 depicts this process.
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HPF↑2
LPF
X[n]HPF
LPF↑2
↑2
↑2
Figure 3. Wavelet reconstruction process.
Various wavelet families are defined in the literature. Daubechies wavelets are the most popular
wavelets. The Daubechies wavelets are used in different applications. The wavelets filters are
selected based on their ability to analyze the signal and their shape in an application. Figure 4
shows nine members of the Daubechies family.
Figure 4. Nine members of the Daubechies family.
The ECG signals are considered as representative signals of cardiac physiology, useful in
diagnosing cardiac disorders. The most complete way to display this information is to perform
spectral analysis. The wavelet transform provides very general technique which can be applied to
many signal processing applications. Different features can be computed and manipulated in
compressed domain using wavelet coefficients. All these means that we can apply the wavelet
transform on the ECG signal and convert it to the wavelet coefficients or parameters. The
obtained coefficients characterize the behavior of the ECG signal and the number of these
coefficients are small than the number of the original signal. This reduction of feature space is
particularly important for recognition and diagnostic purposes [25].
2.2. Artificial Neural Networks
The Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are the tools, which can be used to model human
cognition or neural biology using mathematical operations. An ANN is a processing element. It
has has certain performance characteristics in common with biological neural networks. A neural
network is characterized by 1) its pattern of connections between the neurons (called its
architecture), 2) its algorithm of determining the weights on the connections (called its training,
or learning algorithm), and 3) its activation function [26]. The MultiLayer Perceptron (MLP) is
the most common neural network. This type of neural network is known as a supervised network
because it requires a desired output in order to learn. The purpose of the MLP is to develop a
model that correctly maps the input data to the output using historical data so that the model can
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then be used to produce the output result when the desired output is unknown. A graphical
representation of an MLP is shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5. MLP architecture with two hidden layers [34].
In the first step, the MLP is used to learn the behaviour of the input data using back-propagation
algorithm. This step is called the training phase. In the second step, the trained MLP is used to
test using unknown input data. The back-propagation algorithm compares the result that is
obtained in this step with the result that was expected. This kind of classification is called
supervised classification. The MLP computes the error signal using the obtained output and
desired output. The computed signal error is then fed back to the neural network and used to
adjust the weights such that with each iteration the error decreases and the neural model gets
closer and closer to produce the desired output. Figure 6 shows this process [24].
Figure 6. Neural network learning algorithm [34].
There are different training algorithms, while it is very difficult to know which training algorithm
is the fastest for a given problem. In order to determine the fastest training algorithm, many
parameters should be considered. For instance, the complexity of the problem, the number of
data points in the training set, the number of weights, and biases in the network, the and error
goal should be evaluated.
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3. PROPOSED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
Figure 7 shows the block diagram of the proposed system. The system is based on wavelet
transform and neural networks. This system consists of two phases: the feature extraction phase
and the classification phase which are discussed in the following sections.
Figure 7. Block diagram of the proposed classification system.
3.1. Feature Extraction Phase
The first phase consists of two stages: preprocessing stage and processing stage. The
preprocessing stage improves the classification accuracy of any algorithm; because, it gives us
more accurate features.
The obtained ECG from body electrodes has the baseline noise. Baseline wander, which may
appear due to a number of factors arising from biological or instrument sources such as electrode
skin resistance, respiration, and amplifiers thermal drift. It is a low-frequency noise. In
preprocessing stage, the ECG signal is filtered using the moving average filter to eliminate the
baseline wander. This process is equivalent to LPF with the response of the smoothing given
using “Eq. (1)”.
))(...)1()((
12
1
)( NixNixNix
N
iy −++−+++
+
= (1)
Where, y(i) is the smoothed value for the ith
data point, N is the number of neighboring data
points on either side of y(i), 2N+1 is the span and x is input vector [26].
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Figure 8 depicts an original ECG signal along with its noise, which has the offset of 0.5. Figure 9
depicts the baseline eliminated ECG signal, which has the offset of 0.
Figure 8. Original ECG signal with baseline noise which has the offset of 0.5.
Figure 9. Baseline eliminated ECG signal which has the offset of 0
In the processing stage, the ECG features are extracted using selecting 2 Sec of an ECG records.
For feature extraction stage, we used DWT. As already mentioned there are many wavelet filters
to apply on a signal. We have selected the Daubechies wavelet of order 6 (db6). This is because
the Daubechies wavelet family is similar in shape to QRS complexes and their energy spectra are
concentrated around low frequencies. The number of decomposition levels was set to 8. In other
words, the ECG signals have been decomposed into the details D1-D8. In order to reduce the
dimensionality of the extracted feature vectors, 24 statistics over the set of the wavelet
coefficients were used from first level to eighth level. The sets of features are given bellow:
• Maximum of the wavelet coefficients in each level.
• Minimum of the wavelet coefficients in each level.
• Variance of the wavelet coefficients in each level.
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
Time (Seconds)
Voltage(mV)
ECG Signal e0103.dat
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500
-0.5
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
sample (n)
Voltage(mV)
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3.2. Classification Phase
In the classification phase, we have used an MLP neural network. The best architecture of the
MLP NN is usually obtained using a trial-and-error process [27], [28]. Therefore, after running
many simulations, we chose an MLP NN with 24 input neurons, one hidden layer, and 2 linear
output neurons. Bipolar outputs using +1 and -1 numbers were used as the output target for the
three selected classes. The performance of the proposed MLP NN was tested using the Mean-
Squared Error (MSE) parameter. This error is computed using the differences between the actual
outputs and the outputs obtained by the trained NN.
In the neural network model that has been implemented using MATLAB programming tools,
there were several training algorithms which have a variety of different computation and storage
requirements. However, it is hard to find an algorithm that is well suited to all applications. In our
works, we tried to implement our algorithm using several high-performance algorithms such as
Variable Learning Rate (or “traingdx”), Resilient Backpropagation (or “trainrp”) and Reduced
Memory Levenberg-Marquardt (or “trainlm”) algorithms as the training algorithm. Two bipolar
outputs were used as the target of network. The targets for three classified patterns are: [1, 1] for
normal signal, [-1,-1] for PB arrhythmia, [-1, 1] for APB arrhythmia. Heuristic techniques are
used by traingdx and trainrp algorithms. The heuristic techniques were developed using an
analysis of the performance of the standard steepest descent algorithm. The trainlm algorithm
uses standard numerical optimization techniques [29]. The training curve for proposed MLP
neural network is depicted in Figure 10. As can be seen in the figure, the best and goal training
curve are overlapped.
Figure 10. Training curve for proposed MLP neural network.
4. EXPERIMENTS AND SIMULATION RESULTS
The MIT–BIH arrhythmia database consists of 48 ECG signal records. Each record comprises
several files, the signals, annotations and specifications of signal attributes. Each record of the
MIT–BIH database is 30 minutes selected from 24 hours. The sampling frequency of the ECG
signals in this database is 360Hz, and records are annotated throughout; by this we mean that
each beat is described by a label called an annotation. Typically an annotation file for an MIT–
BIH record contains about 2000 beat annotations, and smaller numbers of rhythm and signal
quality annotations.
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In this study, we used 10 records from this database that is listed in Table 1 and we selected 500
samples from each record.
Table 1. Selected records from database.
Class Record numbers
Normal 103-115-121-123
PB 104-107-217
APB 209-220-223
The proposed MLP neural networks were trained using 90 training vectors from 10 files of the
MIT–BIH arrhythmia database. The trained MLP NNs were tested using 45 patterns (15 testing
patterns for each class) using 10 files including normal and two arrhythmias. In order to test the
performance of the trained MLP NN, We have used two criteria to compare the trained networks,
recognition samples and recognition rate. Recognition rate is defined as follows:
(2)
Where A is the recognition rate, Nc is the number of correctly classified patterns, and Nt
represents the total number of patterns.
The simulation results are depicted in Table 2, 3 and 4.The test results obtained by training the
proposed MLP NN using different number of neurons in the hidden layer.
Table 2 shows the results which have been obtained using training traingdx algorithm. We use 12,
13, and 14 neurons in the hidden layer. As can be seen the best performance is obtained using 13
neurons. The proper setting of the learning rate for traingdx algorithm is very important. This is
because its performance is very sensitive to the proper setting of this rate. For example, if the
learning rate is set too high, the algorithm can oscillate and it became unstable, while if the
learning rate is too small, the algorithm takes too long to converge. It is hard to determine and
obtain the optimal setting for this variable before trainings phase. This is because during the
training process, the optimal learning rate is changed.
Table 3 depicts results which have been calculated using training trainrp algorithm. It uses 10, 11,
and 12 neurons in the hidden layer. The best performance was obtained by using 11 neurons in
the hidden layer. The gradient can have a very small magnitude when the steepest descent has
been used to train the ANN with sigmoid functions. This leads small changes in the biases and the
weights, even though the biases and weights are far from their optimal values. The goal of the
trainrp algorithm is to remove these harmful effects of the magnitudes of the partial derivatives.
The obtained results using training trainlm algorithm is depicted in Table 4. We got the best
performance using 14 neurons among 13, 14, and 15 neurons in the hidden layer. This algorithm
is the fastest algorithm but the main drawback of this algorithm is that it requires the storage of
some matrices that can be quite large for certain problems. In addition, the best recognition rate of
the trained MLP NN with three train algorithms is 96.5%.
=
Nt
Nc
A 100
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In addition, Table 5 summarizes the results obtained by the other algorithms proposed in the
literature. As it can be seen in Table 5, our proposed algorithm has high performance in compared
to some other algorithms for ECG arrhythmias classification.
Table 2. Simulation result with traingdx algorithm.
Data
# of
samples
# of hidden neurons # of hidden neurons
12 13 14 12 13 14
Recognized samples Recognition rate (%)
Normal
Train 30 30 30 30 100 100 100
Test 15 12 13 13 80 86 86
PB
Train 30 30 30 30 100 100 100
Test 15 15 15 15 100 100 100
APB
Train 30 30 30 30 100 100 100
Test 15 13 14 13 86 93 86
Total 135 130 132 131 94.3 96.5 95.3
Table 3. Simulation result with trainrp algorithm.
Data
# of
samples
# of hidden neurons # of hidden neurons
10 11 12 10 11 12
Recognized samples Recognition rate (%)
Normal
Train 30 30 30 30 100 100 100
Test 15 12 13 12 80 86 80
PB
Train 30 30 30 30 100 100 100
Test 15 15 15 15 100 100 100
APB
Train 30 30 30 30 100 100 100
Test 15 13 14 14 86 93 93
Total 135 130 132 131 94.3 96.5 95.5
Table 4. Simulation result with trainlm algorithm.
Data
# of
samples
# of hidden neurons # of hidden neurons
13 14 15 14 15 16
Recognized samples Recognition rate (%)
Normal
Train 30 30 30 30 100 100 100
Test 15 13 13 12 86 86 80
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PB
Train 30 30 30 30 100 100 100
Test 15 15 15 10 100 100 100
APB
Train 30 30 30 30 100 100 100
Test 15 13 14 13 86 93 86
Total 135 131 132 130 95.3 96.5 94.3
Table 5. Comparison between other related algorithms and our proposed algorithm.
Accuracy
(%)
Arrhythmia typesData baseMethodAuthors
96.89
normal beat,
congestive heart
failure beat,
ventricular
tachyarrhythmia beat,
atrial fibrillation beat,
partial epilepsy beat
(Physiobank
database)
discrete wavelet
transform / mixture
of experts network
structures
(E. D. Ubeyli,
2008)[25]
95.16
PVC – Normal –
Other beat
22 files
(MIT-BIH
arrhythmias
data base)
Combining wavelet
and timing interval /
neural network
(T. Inan
Omer, L.
Giovangrandi,
and T. A.
Kovacs
Gregory,
2006)[30]
98
Normal, Non-
conducted P wave,
Premature ventricular
contraction beats, and
Right bundle branch
block beats
4 files
(MIT-BIH
arrhythmias
data base)
wavelet transform
variance, third-order
cumulant and AR
model/fuzzy-cmeans
classifier and MLP
neural network
(M. Engin,
2004)[31]
88.33
Normal – PVC – PB
– RBBB-
artial premature beat
– fusion of paced and
normal beat
10 files
(MIT-BIH
arrhythmias
data base)
Multi stage Neural
network
(H. G.
Hosseini, K.
J. Reynolds,
and D.
Powers,
2001)[32]
96.5Normal – PB – APB
10 files
(MIT-BIH
arrhythmias
data base)
DWT and NNThis work
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5. CONCLUSIONS
In this paper, a neural network based system for automatic ECG arrhythmias classification was
proposed. We have used 10 recordings from the MIT-BIH arrhythmias database for training as
well as testing our classifier. The proposed system consists of two phases: the feature extraction
phase and the classification phase. In the first phase, moving average filter is employed to
eliminate the baseline noise from the ECG signals. Then the DWT is applied on filtered signal
and some features from the wavelet coefficients are extracted. In the second phase, the extracted
features are used to train an MLP NN as the classifier. The simulation results demonstrated the
proposed system could be employed for the classification of the ECG arrhythmias with a
recognition rate of 96.5%, when 13 neurons were in the hidden layer in traingdx, 11 neurons in
trainrp algorithm and 14 neurons in trainlm.
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Authors:
A. Shahbahrami is an assistant professor in Department of Computer Engineering at the
University of Guilan , Rasht, Iran. He got his PhD degree from Delft University of
Technology, The Netherlands in 2008. His research interests include advanced computer
architecture, image and video processing, signal processing, reconfigurable computing,
parallel processing, and SIMD programming. E-mail: shahbahrami@guilan.ac.ir,
asadshahbahrami@gmail.com
M. Kiani is an M.Sc. student in Information Technology at the University of Guilan, Iran. She received
her B.Sc degree in computer science in 2009. Her research interests include signal processing, e-Learning,
security in e-learning, m-learning and e-commerce. She may be reached at maedeh.kiani@gmail.com