Automated diagnosis of atrial fibrillation ECG signals using entropy features extracted from flexible analytic wavelet transform

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 564-573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohit Kumar ◽  
Ram Bilas Pachori ◽  
U. Rajendra Acharya
Keyword(s):  
Atrial Fibrillation ◽  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Automated Diagnosis ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Analytic Wavelet

scholarly journals SS-SWT and SI-CNN: An Atrial Fibrillation Detection Framework for Time-Frequency ECG Signal

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Hongpo Zhang ◽  
Renke He ◽  
Honghua Dai ◽  
Mingliang Xu ◽  
Zongmin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Atrial Fibrillation ◽  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
High Morbidity ◽  
Ecg Signal ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Convolution Process ◽  
The Time Domain ◽  
Atrial Fibrillation Detection

Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia and is associated with high morbidity and mortality from stroke, heart failure, myocardial infarction, and cerebral thrombosis. Effective and rapid detection of atrial fibrillation is critical to reducing morbidity and mortality in patients. Screening atrial fibrillation quickly and efficiently remains a challenging task. In this paper, we propose SS-SWT and SI-CNN: an atrial fibrillation detection framework for the time-frequency ECG signal. First, specific-scale stationary wavelet transform (SS-SWT) is used to decompose a 5-s ECG signal into 8 scales. We select specific scales of coefficients as valid time-frequency features and abandon the other coefficients. The selected coefficients are fed to the scale-independent convolutional neural network (SI-CNN) as a two-dimensional (2D) matrix. In SI-CNN, a convolution kernel specifically for the time-frequency characteristics of ECG signals is designed. During the convolution process, the independence between each scale of coefficient is preserved, and the time domain and the frequency domain characteristics of the ECG signal are effectively extracted, and finally the atrial fibrillation signal is quickly and accurately identified. In this study, experiments are performed using the MIT-BIH AFDB data in 5-s data segments. We achieve 99.03% sensitivity, 99.35% specificity, and 99.23% overall accuracy. The SS-SWT and SI-CNN we propose simplify the feature extraction step, effectively extracts the features of ECG, and reduces the feature redundancy that may be caused by wavelet transform. The results shows that the method can effectively detect atrial fibrillation signals and has potential in clinical application.

scholarly journals Discrete Biorthogonal Wavelet Transform Based Convolutional Neural Network for Atrial Fibrillation Diagnosis from Electrocardiogram

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingsong Xie ◽  
Shikui Tu ◽  
Guoxing Wang ◽  
Yong Lian ◽  
Lei Xu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Atrial Fibrillation ◽  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Representation Learning ◽  
Heart Beat ◽  
Biorthogonal Wavelet ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Noisy Information ◽  
Biorthogonal Wavelet Transform

For the problem of early detection of atrial fibrillation (AF) from electrocardiogram (ECG), it is difficult to capture subject-invariant discriminative features from ECG signals, due to the high variation in ECG morphology across subjects and the noise in ECG. In this paper, we propose an Discrete Biorthogonal Wavelet Transform (DBWT) Based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for AF detection, shortly called DBWT-AFNet. In DBWT-AFNet, rather than directly feeding ECG into CNN, DBWT is used to separate sub-signals in frequency band of heart beat from ECG, whose output is fed to CNN for AF diagnosis. Such sub-signals are better than the raw ECG for subject-invariant CNN representation learning because noisy information irrelevant to human beat has been largely filtered out. To strengthen the generalization ability of CNN to discover subject-invariant pattern in ECG, skip connection is exploited to propagate information well in neural network and channel attention is designed to adaptively highlight informative channel-wise features. Experiments show that the proposed DBWT-AFNet outperforms the state-of- the-art methods, especially for ECG segments classification across different subjects, where no data from testing subjects have been used in training.

scholarly journals Automatic Detection of Short-Term Atrial Fibrillation Segments Based on Frequency Slice Wavelet Transform and Machine Learning Techniques

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (16) ◽  
pp. 5302
Author(s):  
Yaru Yue ◽  
Chengdong Chen ◽  
Pengkun Liu ◽  
Ying Xing ◽  
Xiaoguang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Atrial Fibrillation ◽  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Automatic Detection ◽  
Gaussian Kernel ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Ventricular Activity

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most frequently encountered cardiac arrhythmia and is often associated with other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, such as ischemic heart disease, chronic heart failure, and stroke. Automatic detection of AF by analyzing electrocardiogram (ECG) signals has an important application value. Using the contaminated and actual ECG signals, it is not enough to only analyze the atrial activity of disappeared P wave and appeared F wave in the TQ segment. Moreover, the best analysis method is to combine nonlinear features analyzing ventricular activity based on the detection of R peak. In this paper, to utilize the information of the P-QRS-T waveform generated by atrial and ventricular activity, frequency slice wavelet transform (FSWT) is adopted to conduct time-frequency analysis on short-term ECG segments from the MIT-BIH Atrial Fibrillation Database. The two-dimensional time-frequency matrices are obtained. Furthermore, an average sliding window is used to convert the two-dimensional time-frequency matrices to the one-dimensional feature vectors, which are classified using five machine learning (ML) techniques. The experimental results show that the classification performance of the Gaussian-kernel support vector machine (GKSVM) based on the Bayesian optimizer is better. The accuracy of the training set and validation set are 100% and 93.4%. The accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of the test set without training are 98.15%, 96.43%, and 100%, respectively. Compared with previous research results, our proposed FSWT-GKSVM model shows stability and robustness, and it could achieve the purpose of automatic detection of AF.

scholarly journals The Effects of Compression on the Detection of Atrial Fibrillation in ECG Signals

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 5908
Author(s):  
Raquel Cervigón ◽  
Brian McGinley ◽  
Darren Craven ◽  
Martin Glavin ◽  
Edward Jones
Keyword(s):  
Atrial Fibrillation ◽  
Characteristic Curve ◽  
Set Partitioning ◽  
Constrained Systems ◽  
Battery Life ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Ecg Signal ◽  
Signal Compression ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Cardiac Devices

Although Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most frequent cause of cardioembolic stroke, the arrhythmia remains underdiagnosed, as it is often asymptomatic or intermittent. Automated detection of AF in ECG signals is important for patients with implantable cardiac devices, pacemakers or Holter systems. Such resource-constrained systems often operate by transmitting signals to a central server where diagnostic decisions are made. In this context, ECG signal compression is being increasingly investigated and employed to increase battery life, and hence the storage and transmission efficiency of these devices. At the same time, the diagnostic accuracy of AF detection must be preserved. This paper investigates the effects of ECG signal compression on an entropy-based AF detection algorithm that monitors R-R interval regularity. The compression and AF detection algorithms were applied to signals from the MIT-BIH AF database. The accuracy of AF detection on reconstructed signals is evaluated under varying degrees of compression using the state-of-the-art Set Partitioning In Hierarchical Trees (SPIHT) compression algorithm. Results demonstrate that compression ratios (CR) of up to 90 can be obtained while maintaining a detection accuracy, expressed in terms of the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, of at least 0.9. This highlights the potential for significant energy savings on devices that transmit/store ECG signals for AF detection applications, while preserving the diagnostic integrity of the signals, and hence the detection performance.

scholarly journals Automatic ECG Classification Using Continuous Wavelet Transform and Convolutional Neural Network

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Tao Wang ◽  
Changhua Lu ◽  
Yining Sun ◽  
Mei Yang ◽  
Chun Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Continuous Wavelet Transform ◽  
Continuous Wavelet ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Rr Interval ◽  
Frequency Components ◽  
Fully Connected

Early detection of arrhythmia and effective treatment can prevent deaths caused by cardiovascular disease (CVD). In clinical practice, the diagnosis is made by checking the electrocardiogram (ECG) beat-by-beat, but this is usually time-consuming and laborious. In the paper, we propose an automatic ECG classification method based on Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). CWT is used to decompose ECG signals to obtain different time-frequency components, and CNN is used to extract features from the 2D-scalogram composed of the above time-frequency components. Considering the surrounding R peak interval (also called RR interval) is also useful for the diagnosis of arrhythmia, four RR interval features are extracted and combined with the CNN features to input into a fully connected layer for ECG classification. By testing in the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database, our method achieves an overall performance of 70.75%, 67.47%, 68.76%, and 98.74% for positive predictive value, sensitivity, F1-score, and accuracy, respectively. Compared with existing methods, the overall F1-score of our method is increased by 4.75~16.85%. Because our method is simple and highly accurate, it can potentially be used as a clinical auxiliary diagnostic tool.

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