scholarly journals Electrocardiogram (ECG) based stress recognition integrated with different classification of age and gender

Author(s):  
N. S. Nor Shahrudin ◽  
K. A. Sidek ◽  
A. Z. Jusoh

<p class="Abstract"><em><span>Good mental health is important in our daily life. A person commonly finds stress as a barrier to enhance an individual’s performance. Be reminded that not all people have the same level of stress because different people have dissimilar problems in their life. In addition, different level of age and gender will affect unequal amount of stress. Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is an electrical indicator of the heart that can detect changes of human response which relates to our emotions and reactions. Thus, this research proposed a non-intrusive detector to identify stress level for both gender and different classification of age using the ECG. A total of 30 healthy subjects were involved during the data acquisition stage. Data acquisition which initialize ECG data were divided into two conditions; which are normal and stress states. ECG data for normal state only need the participant to breath in and out normally. In other hand, the participants also need to undergo Stroop Colour word test as a stress inducer to represent ECG in stress state. Then, Sgolay filter was selected in the pre-processing stage to remove artifacts in the signal. The process was followed by feature extraction of the ECG signal and finally classified using RR Interval (RRI), different amplitudes of R peaks and Cardioid graph were used to evaluate the performance of the proposed technique. As a result, Class 5 (age range between 50-59 years old) marks the highest changes of stress level rather than other classes, while women are more affected by stress rather than men by showing tremendous percentage changes between normal and stress level over the proposed classifiers. The result proves that ECG signals can be used as an alternative mechanism to recognize stress more efficiently with the integration of gender and age variabilities.</span></em></p>

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Hemant Amhia ◽  
A. K. Wadhwani

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is commonly used biological signals that show an important role in cardiac analysis. The interpretation and acquisition of QRS complex are significant measures of ECG data dispensation. The R wave has a vital character in the analysis of cardiac rhythm irregularities as well as in the determination of heart rate variability (HRV). This manuscript is proposed to design a new artificial-intelligence-based approach of QRS peak detection and classification of the ECG data. The design of reduced order IIR filter is proposed for the low pass smoothening of the ECG signal data. The min-max optimization is used for optimizing the filter coefficient to design the reduced order filter. In this research paper, elimination of baseline wondering and the power line interferences from the ECG signal is of main attention. The result presented that the accuracy is increased by around 13% over the basic Pan–Tompkins method and around 8% over the existing FIR-filter-based classification rules.


PM&R ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. S287
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Fehrmann ◽  
Simone Kotulla ◽  
Thomas Kienbacher ◽  
Patrick Mair ◽  
Josef Kollmitzer ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Ergün Yücesoy

In this study, the classification of the speakers according to age and gender was discussed. Age and gender classes were first examined separately, and then by combining these classes a classification with a total of 7 classes was made. Speech signals represented by Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) and delta parameters were converted into Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) mean supervectors and classified with a Support Vector Machine (SVM). While the GMM mean supervectors were formed according to the Maximum-a-posteriori (MAP) adaptive GMM-Universal Background Model (UBM) configuration, the number of components was changed from 16 to 512, and the optimum number of components was decided. Gender classification accuracy of the system developed using aGender dataset was measured as 99.02% for two classes and 92.58% for three classes and age group classification accuracy was measured as 67.03% for female and 63.79% for male. In the classification of age and gender classes together in one step, an accuracy of 61.46% was obtained. In the study, a two-level approach was proposed for classifying age and gender classes together. According to this approach, the speakers were first divided into three classes as child, male and female, then males and females were classified according to their age groups and thus a 7-class classification was realized. This two-level approach was increased the accuracy of the classification in all other cases except when 32-component GMMs were used. While the highest improvement of 2.45% was achieved with 64 component GMMs, an improvement of 0.79 was achieved with 256 component GMMs.


Electrocardiogram (ECG) examination via computer techniques that involve feature extraction, pre-processing and post-processing was implemented due to its significant advantages. Extracting ECG signal standard features that requires high processing operation level was the main focusing point for many studies. In this paper, up to 6 different ECG signal classes are accurately predicted in the absence of ECG feature extraction. The corner stone of the proposed technique in this paper is the Linear predictive coding (LPC) technique that regress and normalize the signal during the pre-processing phase. Prior to the feature extraction using Wavelet energy (WE), a direct Wavelet transform (DWT) is implemented that converted ECG signal to frequency domain. In addition, the dataset was divided into two parts , one for training and the other for testing purposes Which have been classified in this proposed algorithm using support vector machine (SVM). Moreover, using MIT AI2 Companion was developed by MIT Center for Mobile Learning, the classification result was shared to the patient mobile phone that can call the ambulance and send the location in case of serious emergency. Finally, the confusion matrix values are used to measure the proposed classification performance. For 6 different ECG classes, an accuracy ration of about 98.15% was recorded. This ratio became 100% for 3 ECG signal classes and decreases to 97.95% by increasing ECG signal to 7 classes.


The primary objective of the project is to analyze speech signals by determining the important parameters that affect the voice of an individual which leads to various voice disorders. The analysis is carried out based on the individual’s age and gender with the help of the pattern recognized from each sample and the value of each parameter is compared with the nominal values of the healthy person with respect to their age and gender using the Praat software. The secondary objective is the classification of the voice signal into normal and abnormal voice samples using the machine learning software Konstanz Information Miner (KNIME).


Author(s):  
Jai Utkarsh ◽  
Raju Kumar Pandey ◽  
Shrey Kumar Dubey ◽  
Shubham Sinha ◽  
S. S. Sahu

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is an important tool used by clinicians for successful diagnosis and detection of Arrhythmias, like Atrial Fibrillation (AF) and Atrial Flutter (AFL). In this manuscript, an efficient technique of classifying atrial arrhythmias from Normal Sinus Rhythm (NSR) has been presented. Autoregressive Modelling has been used to capture the features of the ECG signal, which are then fed as inputs to the neural network for classification. The standard database available at Physionet Bank repository has been used for training, validation and testing of the model. Exhaustive experimental study has been carried out by extracting ECG samples of duration of 5 seconds, 10 seconds and 20 seconds. It provides an accuracy of 99% and 94.3% on training and test set respectively for 5 sec recordings. In 10 sec and 20 sec samples it shows 100% accuracy. Thus, the proposed method can be used to detect the arrhythmias in a small duration recordings with a fairly high accuracy.


2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (02) ◽  
pp. 273-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M. PATIL ◽  
K. SUBBA RAO ◽  
U. C. NIRANJAN ◽  
K. SATYANARAYAN

This paper presents a new approach in the field of electrocardiogram (ECG) feature extraction system based on the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) coefficients using Daubechies Wavelets. Real ECG signals recorded in lead II configuration are chosen for processing. The ECG signal was acquired by a battery operated, portable ECG data acquisition and signal processing module. In the second step the ECG signal was denoised using soft thresholding with Symlet4 wavelet. Further denoising was achieved by removing the corresponding wavelet coefficients at higher levels of decomposition. Later the ECG data files were converted to .txt files and subsequently to. mat files before being imported into the Matlab 7.4.0 environment for the computation of the decomposition coefficients. The QRS complexes were grouped as normal or myocardial ischaemic ones based on these decomposition coefficients. The algorithm developed by us was evaluated with control database comprising 120 records and validated using 60 records making up test database. By using the DWT coefficients, we have successfully achieved the myocardial ischaemia detection rates up to 97.5% with the technique developed by us for control data and up to 100% for validation test data.


Author(s):  
Satya Ranjan Dash ◽  
Asim Syed Sheeraz ◽  
Annapurna Samantaray

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a kind of process of recording the electrical activity/signals of the heart with respect to the time. ECG conveys a wide amount of information related to the structure and functions of the heart, its electrical conduction processes. ECG is a diagnostic tool that the doctors and medical professionals use to measure patients' heart activity by paying attention to the electric current flowing in the heart. Due to the presence of noises, it needs to carry out the filtration process. Filtration is the process of keeping the components of the signals of desired frequencies by setting up an “fc” value and removing the components apart from the said “fc” frequency. It is required to eliminate the noise level from the ECG signal, such that the resultant ECG signal must be free from noises. All these techniques and algorithms have their advantages and limitations which are discussed in this chapter.


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