Towards real-time heartbeat classification: Evaluation of nonlinear morphological features and voting method

Rajesh N.V.P.S. Kandala, Ravindra Dhuli, Paweł Pławiak, Ganesh R. Naik, Hossein Moeinzadeh, Gaetano D. Gargiulo, Suryanarayana Gunnam

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Abstract

Abnormal heart rhythms are one of the significant health concerns worldwide. The current state-of-the-art to recognize and classify abnormal heartbeats is manually performed by visual inspection by an expert practitioner. This is not just a tedious task; it is also error prone and, because it is performed, post-recordings may add unnecessary delay to the care. The real key to the fight to cardiac diseases is real-time detection that triggers prompt action. The biggest hurdle to real-time detection is represented by the rare occurrences of abnormal heartbeats and even more are some rare typologies that are not fully represented in signal datasets; the latter is what makes it difficult for doctors and algorithms to recognize them. This work presents an automated heartbeat classification based on nonlinear morphological features and a voting scheme suitable for rare heartbeat morphologies. Although the algorithm is designed and tested on a computer, it is intended ultimately to run on a portable i.e., field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices. Our algorithm tested on Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Beth Israel Hospital(MIT-BIH) database as per Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation(AAMI) recommendations. The simulation results show the superiority of the proposed method, especially in predicting minority groups: the fusion and unknown classes with 90.4% and 100%.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5079
Number of pages27
JournalSensors (Switzerland)
Volume19
Issue number23
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2019
Externally publishedYes

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Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Keywords

  • Classification
  • Electrocardiogram signal
  • FPGA
  • Improved complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition
  • Inter-patient scheme
  • Nonlinear features
  • Voting

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