Filtration and Classification of ECG Signals

2018 ◽  
pp. 72-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satya Ranjan Dash ◽  
Asim Syed Sheeraz ◽  
Annapurna Samantaray
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Activity ◽  
Electrical Conduction ◽  
Diagnostic Tool ◽  
Noise Level ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Ecg Signal ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg ◽  
Structure And Functions

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.

scholarly journals Classification of Arrhythmia Conditions using Neural Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 421-424
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Activity ◽  
Cardiac Muscle ◽  
Human Heart ◽  
Graphical Form ◽  
Ecg Signal ◽  
Healthy Human ◽  
Signal Change ◽  
Heart Functions ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg

In this paper, we are discussing about a heart disease called Arrhythmia and how it can be identified using the Electrocardiogram. Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a graphical form for electrical activity of cardiac muscle. A healthy human heart beats, 72 times per minute under normal conditions. For every heartbeat the cardiac muscle undergoes specific electrical activity which identifies the pattern in the ECG signal. It consists of PQRST wave which represents heart functions. The patterns of the ECG signal change due to the abnormalities in the heartbeat. The abnormality in the ECG is called Arrhythmia.

scholarly journals Detection and Classification of ECG Signal through Machine learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 3221-3227
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Wave Form ◽  
Ecg Signal ◽  
Software Application ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Temporal Features ◽  
Associate Anomaly ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg

The electrical activity which might be acquired by inserting the probes on the body exterior that is originated within the individual muscle cells of the heart and is summed to indicate an indication wave form referred to as the EKG (ECG). Cardiac Arrhythmia is an associate anomaly within the heart which may be diagnosed with the usage of signals generated by Electrocardiogram (ECG). For the classification of ECG signals a software application model was developed and has been investigated with the usage of the MIT-BIH database. The version is based on some existing algorithms from literature, entails the extraction of a few temporal features of an ECG signal and simulating it with a trained FFNN. The software version may be employed for the detection of coronary heart illnesses in patients. The neural network’s structure and weights are optimized using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). The FFNN trained with set of rules by PSO increase its accuracy. The overall accuracy and sensitivity of the algorithm is about 93.687 % and 92%.

scholarly journals Classification of Heart conditions by Statistical Characterization of ECG Signal

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asma Haque ◽  
Abdur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Ecg Signal ◽  
Statistical Characterization ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Heart Patients ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal exhibits important distinctive feature for different cardiac issues. Automatic classification of electrocardiogram (ECG) signal can be used for primary detection of various heart conditions. Information about heart and ischemic changes of heart may be obtained from cleaned ECG signals. ECG signal has an important role in monitoring and diacritic of the heart patients. An accurate ECG classification is challenging problem. The accuracy often depends on proper selection of observing parameters as well as detection algorithms. Heart disorder means abnormal rhythm or abnormalities present in the heart. In this research work, we have developed a decision tree based algorithm to classify heart problems by utilizing the statistical signal characteristic (SSC) of an ECG signal. The proposed model has been tested with real ECG signal to successfully (60-98%) detect normal, apnea and ventricular tachyarrhythmia condition.

scholarly journals ECG Beats Classification Using Mixture of Features

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manab Kumar Das ◽  
Samit Ari
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Extraction Methods ◽  
Ectopic Beat ◽  
Extraction Techniques ◽  
Efficient System ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Temporal Features ◽  
S Transform ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg

Classification of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals plays an important role in clinical diagnosis of heart disease. This paper proposes the design of an efficient system for classification of the normal beat (N), ventricular ectopic beat (V), supraventricular ectopic beat (S), fusion beat (F), and unknown beat (Q) using a mixture of features. In this paper, two different feature extraction methods are proposed for classification of ECG beats: (i) S-transform based features along with temporal features and (ii) mixture of ST and WT based features along with temporal features. The extracted feature set is independently classified using multilayer perceptron neural network (MLPNN). The performances are evaluated on several normal and abnormal ECG signals from 44 recordings of the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database. In this work, the performances of three feature extraction techniques with MLP-NN classifier are compared using five classes of ECG beat recommended by AAMI (Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation) standards. The average sensitivity performances of the proposed feature extraction technique for N, S, F, V, and Q are 95.70%, 78.05%, 49.60%, 89.68%, and 33.89%, respectively. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed feature extraction techniques show better performances compared to other existing features extraction techniques.

scholarly journals Two Electrode ECG And EOG System For Monitoring Applications

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 262-265
Keyword(s):  
Reference Electrode ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Electrode System ◽  
Ecg Signal ◽  
Biomedical Signal ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Arm Position ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg ◽  
Total Gain

Heart and Eye are two vital organs in the human system. By knowing the Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Electro-oculogram (EOG), one will be able to tell the stability of the heart and eye respectively. In this project, we have developed a circuit to pick the ECG and EOG signal using two wet electrodes. Here no reference electrode is used. EOG and ECG signals have been acquired from ten healthy subjects. The ECG signal is obtained from two positions, namely wrist and arm position respectively. The picked-up biomedical signal is recorded and heart rate information is extracted from ECG signal using the biomedical workbench. The result found to be promising and acquired stable EOG and ECG signal from the subjects. The total gain required for the arm position is higher than the wrist position for the ECG signal. The total gain necessary for the EOG signal is higher than the ECG signal since the ECG signal is in the range of millivolts whereas EOG signal in the range of microvolts. This two-electrode system is stable, cost-effective and portable while still maintaining high common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR).

scholarly journals Capturing Electrocardiogram Signals from Chairs by Multiple Capacitively Coupled Unipolar Electrodes

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 2835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongjie Hou ◽  
Jinxi Xiang ◽  
Yonggui Dong ◽  
Xiaohui Xue ◽  
Hao Xiong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Printed Circuit Board ◽  
Experimental Tests ◽  
Circuit Board ◽  
Signal Acquisition ◽  
Ecg Signal ◽  
Capacitively Coupled ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Printed Circuit ◽  
Electrocardiogram Signals ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg

A prototype of an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal acquisition system with multiple unipolar capacitively coupled electrodes is designed and experimentally tested. Capacitively coupled electrodes made of a standard printed circuit board (PCB) are used as the sensing electrodes. Different from the conventional measurement schematics, where one single lead ECG signal is acquired from a pair of sensing electrodes, the sensing electrodes in our approaches operate in a unipolar mode, i.e., the biopotential signals picked up by each sensing electrodes are amplified and sampled separately. Four unipolar electrodes are mounted on the backrest of a regular chair and therefore four channel of signals containing ECG information are sampled and processed. It is found that the qualities of ECG signal contained in the four channel are different from each other. In order to pick up the ECG signal, an index for quality evaluation, as well as for aggregation of multiple signals, is proposed based on phase space reconstruction. Experimental tests are carried out while subjects sitting on the chair and clothed. The results indicate that the ECG signals can be reliably obtained in such a unipolar way.

scholarly journals Intelligent Deep Models Based on Scalograms of Electrocardiogram Signals for Biometrics

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 935 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeong-Hyeon Byeon ◽  
Sung-Bum Pan ◽  
Keun-Chang Kwak
Keyword(s):  
Frequency Domain ◽  
Training Transfer ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Electrocardiogram Signals ◽  
Noisy Signals ◽  
The Time Domain ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg

This paper conducts a comparative analysis of deep models in biometrics using scalogram of electrocardiogram (ECG). A scalogram is the absolute value of the continuous wavelet transform coefficients of a signal. Since biometrics using ECG signals are sensitive to noise, studies have been conducted by transforming signals into a frequency domain that is efficient for analyzing noisy signals. By transforming the signal from the time domain to the frequency domain using the wavelet, the 1-D signal becomes a 2-D matrix, and it could be analyzed at multiresolution. However, this process makes signal analysis morphologically complex. This means that existing simple classifiers could perform poorly. We investigate the possibility of using the scalogram of ECG as input to deep convolutional neural networks of deep learning, which exhibit optimal performance for the classification of morphological imagery. When training data is small or hardware is insufficient for training, transfer learning can be used with pretrained deep models to reduce learning time, and classify it well enough. In this paper, AlexNet, GoogLeNet, and ResNet are considered as deep models of convolutional neural network. The experiments are performed on two databases for performance evaluation. Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)-ECG is a well-known database, while Chosun University (CU)-ECG is directly built for this study using the developed ECG sensor. The ResNet was 0.73%—0.27% higher than AlexNet or GoogLeNet on PTB-ECG—and the ResNet was 0.94%—0.12% higher than AlexNet or GoogLeNet on CU-ECG.

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.

scholarly journals Anticipating Atrial Fibrillation Signal Using Efficient Algorithm

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (02) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Mohand Lokman Ahmad Al-dabag ◽  
Haider Th. Salim ALRikabi ◽  
Raid Rafi Omar Al-Nima
Keyword(s):  
Atrial Fibrillation ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Extraction Methods ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Ecg Signal ◽  
Heart Problem ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
The Right ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg ◽  
Low Computational Cost

One of the common types of arrhythmia is Atrial Fibrillation (AF), it may cause death to patients. Correct diagnosing of heart problem through examining the Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal will lead to prescribe the right treatment for a patient. This study proposes a system that distinguishes between the normal and AF ECG signals. First, this work provides a novel algorithm for segmenting the ECG signal for extracting a single heartbeat. The algorithm utilizes low computational cost techniques to segment the ECG signal. Then, useful pre-processing and feature extraction methods are suggested. Two classifiers, Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), are separately used to evaluate the two proposed algorithms. The performance of the last proposed method with the two classifiers (SVM and MLP) show an improvement of about (19% and 17%, respectively) after using the proposed segmentation method so it became 96.2% and 97.5%, respectively.

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