Efficient ECG classification based on Chi-square distance for arrhythmia detection

This study introduces a new classifier tailored to address the limitations inherent in conventional classifiers such as K-nearest neighbor(KNN),random forest(RF),decision tree(DT),and support vector machine(SVM)for arrhythmia detection.The proposed classifier leverages the Chi-square distance as a primary metric,providing a specialized and original approach for precise arrhythmia detection.To optimize feature selection and refine the classifier’s performance,particle swarm optimization(PSO)is integrated with the Chi-square distance as a fitness function.This synergistic integration enhances the classifier’s capabilities,resulting in a substantial improvement in accuracy for arrhythmia detection.Experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method,achieving a noteworthy accuracy rate of 98% with PSO,higher than 89% achieved without any previous optimization.The classifier outperforms machine learning(ML)and deep learning(DL)techniques,underscoring its reliability and superiority in the realm of arrhythmia classification.The promising results render it an effective method to support both academic and medical communities,offering an advanced and precise solution for arrhythmia detection in electrocardiogram(ECG)data.

Meta-Heuristic Optimized Hybrid Wavelet Features for Arrhythmia Classification

The non-invasive evaluation of the heart through EectroCardioG-raphy(ECG)has played a key role in detecting heart disease.The analysis of ECG signals requires years of learning and experience to interpret and extract useful information from them.Thus,a computerized system is needed to classify ECG signals with more accurate results effectively.Abnormal heart rhythms are called arrhythmias and cause sudden cardiac deaths.In this work,a Computerized Abnormal Heart Rhythms Detection(CAHRD)system is developed using ECG signals.It consists of four stages;preprocessing,feature extraction,feature optimization and classifier.At first,Pan and Tompkins algorithm is employed to detect the envelope of Q,R and S waves in the preprocessing stage.It uses a recursive filter to eliminate muscle noise,T-wave interference and baseline wander.As the analysis of ECG signal in the spatial domain does not provide a complete description of the signal,the feature extraction involves using frequency contents obtained from multiple wavelet filters;bi-orthogonal,Symlet and Daubechies at different resolution levels in the feature extraction stage.Then,Black Widow Optimization(BWO)is applied to optimize the hybrid wavelet features in the feature optimization stage.Finally,a kernel based Support Vector Machine(SVM)is employed to classify heartbeats into five classes.In SVM,Radial Basis Function(RBF),polynomial and linear kernels are used.A total of∼15000 ECG signals are obtained from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Beth Israel Hospital(MIT-BIH)arrhythmia database for performance evaluation of the proposed CAHRD system.Results show that the proposed CAHRD system proved to be a powerful tool for ECG analysis.It correctly classifies five classes of heartbeats with 99.91%accuracy using an RBF kernel with 2nd level wavelet coefficients.The CAHRD system achieves an improvement of∼6%over random projections with the ensemble SVM approach and∼2%over morphological and ECG segment based features with the RBF classifier.

An Attention Based Neural Architecture for Arrhythmia Detection and Classification from ECG Signals

Arrhythmia is ubiquitous worldwide and cardiologists tend to provide solutions from the recent advancements in medicine.Detecting arrhythmia from ECG signals is considered a standard approach and hence,automating this process would aid the diagnosis by providing fast,costefficient,and accurate solutions at scale.This is executed by extracting the definite properties from the individual patterns collected from Electrocardiography(ECG)signals causing arrhythmia.In this era of applied intelligence,automated detection and diagnostic solutions are widely used for their spontaneous and robust solutions.In this research,our contributions are two-fold.Firstly,the Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform(DT-CWT)method is implied to overhaul shift-invariance and aids signal reconstruction to extract significant features.Next,A neural attention mechanism is implied to capture temporal patterns from the extracted features of the ECG signal to discriminate distinct classes of arrhythmia and is trained end-to-end with the finest parameters.To ensure that the model’s generalizability,a set of five traintest variants are implied.The proposed model attains the highest accuracy of 98.5%for classifying 8 variants of arrhythmia on the MIT-BIH dataset.To test the resilience of the model,the unseen(test)samples are increased by 5x and the deviation in accuracy score and MSE was 0.12%and 0.1%respectively.Further,to assess the diagnostic model performance,AUC-ROC curves are plotted.At every test level,the proposed model is capable of generalizing new samples and leverages the advantage to develop a real-world application.As a note,this research is the first attempt to provide neural attention in arrhythmia classification using MIT-BIH ECG signals data with state-of-the-art performance.

ECG beat classification using particle swarm optimization and support vector machine

In this paper, we propose a novel ECG arrhythmia classification method using power spectral-based features and support vector machine （SVM） classifier. The method extracts electrocardiogram＇s spectral and three timing inter- val features. Non-parametric power spectral density （PSD） estimation methods are used to extract spectral features. The proposed approach optimizes the relevant parameters of SVM classifier through an intelligent algorithm using parti- cle swarm optimization （PSO）. These parameters are： Gaus- sian radial basis function （GRBF） kernel parameter o- and C penalty parameter of SVM classifier. ECG records from the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database are selected as test data. It is observed that the proposed power spectral-based hybrid par- ticle swarm optimization-support vector machine （SVMPSO） classification method offers significantly improved perfor- mance over the SVM which has constant and manually ex- tracted parameter.