ECG SIGNAL CODING USING BIORTHOGONAL WAVELET-BASED BURROWS–WHEELER CODER

2011 ◽  
Vol 09 (02) ◽  
pp. 269-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. SHANTHA SELVA KUMARI ◽  
R. SURIYA PRABHA ◽  
V. SADASIVAM
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Ecg Signal ◽  
Biorthogonal Wavelet ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Coding Efficiency ◽  
Frequency Representation ◽  
Mean Square Difference ◽  
Signal Coding

Wavelets are the powerful tool for signal processing especially bio-signal processing. Wavelet transform is used to represent the signal to some other time frequency representation better suited for detecting and removing redundancies. In this paper, electrocardiogram (ECG) signal coding using biorthogonal wavelet-based Burrows–Wheeler Coder is discussed. Biorthogonal wavelet transform is used to decompose the ECG signal. Then the Burrows–Wheeler Coder is applied in order to compress the decomposed ECG signal. The Burrows–Wheeler Coder is the combination of Burrows–Wheeler Transformation (BWT), Move-to-Front (MTF) coder and Huffman coder. Compression Ratio (CR) and Percent Root mean square Difference (PRD) are used as performance measures. ECG signals/records from MIT-BIH arrhythmic database are used to evaluate the performance of this coder. This algorithm is tested with 25 different records from MIT-BIH arrhythmia database and obtained the average PRD as 0.0307% to 3.8706% for the average CR of 3.6362 : 1 to 280.48 : 1. For record 117, the CR of 8.1638 : 1 is achieved with PRD 0.1652%. This experimental results show that this coder outperforms other coders such as Djohn, EZW, SPIHT, Novel algorithm etc. that exist in the literature in terms of coding efficiency and computation.

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 WAVELET-CONVERSION IN ELECTROCARDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
V.F. Telezhkin ◽  
◽  
B.B. Saidov ◽  
P.А. Ugarov ◽  
A.N. Ragozin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Digital Signal ◽  
Automated Analysis ◽  
Discrete Wavelet ◽  
Ecg Signal ◽  
Signal To Noise ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Fourth Level

In the present work, processing of an electro cardio signal using a wavelet transform is consi-dered. In electrocardiography, various digital signal-processing techniques are used to detect, extract, and analyze the various components of an electrocardiogram. Among them, the wavelet transform technique gives promising results in the analysis of the time-frequency characteristics of the electrocardiogram components. The urgency of solving the problem of improving the quality of life of people with the help of early diagnosis and timely treatment of various cardiac diseases is obvious. The process of automated analysis of a huge database of electrocardiographic data is especially important. Wavelet analysis can be successfully used to smooth and remove noise in the ECG signal. Electrocardiogram signal, cleaned from noise components, looks clearer, while its volume is from 10 to 5% of the original signal, which largely solves the problem of storing cardiac records. Aim. Development of an algorithm for threshold processing of wavelet coefficients and filtering of an electrocardiography signal. Materials and methods. Cardiograms were taken for analysis. Then they were digitized and entered into a computer for processing. A program was written in the MATLAB environment that implements continuous and discrete wavelet transform. Results. The work shows the result of filtering the ECG signal with the addition of noise with a signal-to-noise ratio of 35 and 45 dB using the decomposition levels N = 2, N = 3, N = 4. Conclusion. Based on the analysis of the data obtained, it can be concluded that the second level of decomposition is the most optimal for filtering the ECG signal. With an increase in the level of decomposition, the output ratio decreases, at the level N = 4 the output signal-to-noise almost does not exceed the input one, therefore, the filtering becomes ineffective. The correlation coefficient to the fourth level is significantly reduced, which means a significant increase in the distortion introduced by the filtering algorithm.

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.

scholarly journals Application of UAV in Search and Rescue Actions in Underground Mine—A Specific Sound Detection in Noisy Acoustic Signal

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (13) ◽  
pp. 3725
Author(s):  
Paweł Zimroz ◽  
Paweł Trybała ◽  
Adam Wróblewski ◽  
Mateusz Góralczyk ◽  
Jarosław Szrek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
Acoustic Signal ◽  
Processing Technique ◽  
Underground Mine ◽  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Reference Spectrum ◽  
Signal Processing Technique ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Communication Device ◽  
Frequency Representation

The possibility of the application of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in search and rescue activities in a deep underground mine has been investigated. In the presented case study, a UAV is searching for a lost or injured human who is able to call for help but is not able to move or use any communication device. A UAV capturing acoustic data while flying through underground corridors is used. The acoustic signal is very noisy since during the flight the UAV contributes high-energetic emission. The main goal of the paper is to present an automatic signal processing procedure for detection of a specific sound (supposed to contain voice activity) in presence of heavy, time-varying noise from UAV. The proposed acoustic signal processing technique is based on time-frequency representation and Euclidean distance measurement between reference spectrum (UAV noise only) and captured data. As both the UAV and “injured” person were equipped with synchronized microphones during the experiment, validation has been performed. Two experiments carried out in lab conditions, as well as one in an underground mine, provided very satisfactory results.

Bernoulli's Chaotic Map-Based 2D ECG Image Steganography

2019 ◽  
pp. 208-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anukul Pandey ◽  
Barjinder Singh Saini ◽  
Butta Singh ◽  
Neetu Sood
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
Chaotic Map ◽  
Image Steganography ◽  
Cover Image ◽  
Ecg Signal ◽  
Mean Square ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Mean Square Difference ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg ◽  
Ecg Steganography

Signal processing technology comprehends fundamental theory and implementations for processing data. The processed data is stored in different formats. The mechanism of electrocardiogram (ECG) steganography hides the secret information in the spatial or transformed domain. Patient information is embedded into the ECG signal without sacrificing the significant ECG signal quality. The chapter contributes to ECG steganography by investigating the Bernoulli's chaotic map for 2D ECG image steganography. The methodology adopted is 1) convert ECG signal into the 2D cover image, 2) the cover image is loaded to steganography encoder, and 3) secret key is shared with the steganography decoder. The proposed ECG steganography technique stores 1.5KB data inside ECG signal of 60 seconds at 360 samples/s, with percentage root mean square difference of less than 1%. This advanced 2D ECG steganography finds applications in real-world use which includes telemedicine or telecardiology.

scholarly journals Fall Detection Using Multiple Bioradars and Convolutional Neural Networks

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (24) ◽  
pp. 5569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesya Anishchenko ◽  
Andrey Zhuravlev ◽  
Margarita Chizh
Keyword(s):  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Input Data ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Fall Detection ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Radar Signal ◽  
Continuous Wavelet ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Frequency Representation ◽  
Life Threatening

A lack of effective non-contact methods for automatic fall detection, which may result in the development of health and life-threatening conditions, is a great problem of modern medicine, and in particular, geriatrics. The purpose of the present work was to investigate the advantages of utilizing a multi-bioradar system in the accuracy of remote fall detection. The proposed concept combined usage of wavelet transform and deep learning to detect fall episodes. The continuous wavelet transform was used to get a time-frequency representation of the bio-radar signal and use it as input data for a pre-trained convolutional neural network AlexNet adapted to solve the problem of detecting falls. Processing of the experimental results showed that the designed multi-bioradar system can be used as a simple and view-independent approach implementing a non-contact fall detection method with an accuracy and F1-score of 99%.

Wavelet transform with generalized beta wavelets for seismic time-frequency analysis

Geophysics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. O47-O56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiguo Wang ◽  
Bing Zhang ◽  
Jinghuai Gao ◽  
Qingzhen Wang ◽  
Qing Huo Liu
Keyword(s):  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Frequency Analysis ◽  
Seismic Data ◽  
Significant Information ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Time Frequency Analysis ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Reflection Seismic ◽  
Seismic Waveform ◽  
Frequency Representation

Using the continuous wavelet transform (CWT), the time-frequency analysis of reflection seismic data can provide significant information to delineate subsurface reservoirs. However, CWT is limited by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, with a trade-off between time and frequency localizations. Meanwhile, the mother wavelet should be adapted to the real seismic waveform. Therefore, for a reflection seismic signal, we have developed a progressive wavelet family that is referred to as generalized beta wavelets (GBWs). By varying two parameters controlling the wavelet shapes, the time-frequency representation of GBWs can be given sufficient flexibility while remaining exactly analytic. To achieve an adaptive trade-off between time-frequency localizations, an optimization workflow is designed to estimate suitable parameters of GBWs in the time-frequency analysis of seismic data. For noise-free and noisy synthetic signals from a depositional cycle model, the results of spectral component using CWT with GBWs display its flexibility and robustness in the adaptive time-frequency representation. Finally, we have applied CWT with GBWs on 3D seismic data to show its potential to discriminate stacked fluvial channels in the vertical sections and to delineate more distinct fluvial channels in the horizontal slices. CWT with GBWs provides a potential technique to improve the resolution of exploration seismic interpretation.

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM APPLIED ON PERSONAL IDENTITY VERIFICATION WITH ECG SIGNAL

2009 ◽  
Vol 07 (03) ◽  
pp. 341-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHUANG-CHIEN CHIU ◽  
CHOU-MIN CHUANG ◽  
CHIH-YU HSU
Keyword(s):  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Discrete Wavelet Transform ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Rejection Rate ◽  
Normal Subjects ◽  
Discrete Wavelet ◽  
Ecg Signal ◽  
Identity Verification ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg

The main purpose of this study is to present a novel personal authentication approach with the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. The electrocardiogram is a recording of the electrical activity of the heart and the recorded signals can be used for individual verification because ECG signals of one person are never the same as those of others. The discrete wavelet transform was applied for extracting features that are the wavelet coefficients derived from digitized signals sampled from one-lead ECG signal. By the proposed approach applied on 35 normal subjects and 10 arrhythmia patients, the verification rate was 100% for normal subjects and 81% for arrhythmia patients. Furthermore, the performance of the ECG verification system was evaluated by the false acceptance rate (FAR) and false rejection rate (FRR). The FAR was 0.83% and FRR was 0.86% for a database containing only 35 normal subjects. When 10 arrhythmia patients were added into the database, FAR was 12.50% and FRR was 5.11%. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed approach worked well for normal subjects. For this reason, it can be concluded that ECG used as a biometric measure for personal identity verification is feasible.

Design of Adaptive Filter for Health Monitoring on a Gearbox

2006 ◽  
Vol 321-323 ◽  
pp. 1237-1240
Author(s):  
Sang Kwon Lee ◽  
Jung Soo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
Frequency Domain ◽  
Adaptive Filter ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Background Noise ◽  
Adaptive Signal Processing ◽  
Vibration Signals ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Frequency Representation ◽  
Adaptive Signal

Impulsive vibration signals in gearbox are often associated with faults, which lead to due to irregular impacting. Thus these impulsive vibration signals can be used as indicators of machinery faults. However it is often difficult to make objective measurement of impulsive signals because of background noise signals. In order to ease the measurement of impulsive signal embedded in background noise, we enhance the impulsive signals using adaptive signal processing and then analyze them in time and frequency domain by using time-frequency representation. This technique is applied to the diagnosis of faults within laboratory gearbox.

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