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Classification of ECG-signals using Artificial
Neural Networks
Prateek A. Madne
S.B.Jain Institute of Technology Management and Research, Dept of ETC, Nagpur
Email: prateekmadne1305@gmail.com
Gaurav D. Upadhyay
S.B.Jain Institute of Technology Management and Research, Dept of ETC, Nagpur
Email: Upadhyay.gaurav1212@gmail.com
Sumit M. Pali
S.B.Jain Institute of Technology Management and Research, Dept of ETC, Nagpur
Email: sumitpali786@gmail.com
Akshay S. Thaware
S.B.Jain Institute of Technology Management and Research, Dept of ETC, Nagpur
Email: akshaythaware0109@gmail.com
Abstract – An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a bio-electrical
signal which is used to record the heart's electrical activity
with respect to time. Early and accurate detection is
important in detecting heart diseases and choosing
appropriate treatment for a patient. ECG signals are used
as the parameter for detection of Cardiac diseases and
most of the data comes from PhysioDataNet and MIT-BIH
database .The pre-processing of ECG signal is performed
with help of Wavelet toolbox and also used for feature
extraction of ECG signal. The complete project is
implemented on MATLAB platform. The performance of
the algorithm is evaluated on MIT–BIH Database. This
paper presents the application of Probabilistic Neural
Networks (PNN) for the classification and detection of
Electrocardiogram (ECG).
Keywords: Electrocardiogram (ECG), MIT-BIH database,
Probabilistic Neural Networks (PNN), Wavelet toolbox.
I. INTRODUCTION
Electrocardiography deals with the electrical activity of the
heart beat. Bio-signals are a non-stationary signals, the
reflection may occur at random in the time-scale.
Therefore, for determining of disease, ECG signal pattern
and heart rate variability may have to be observed for
several hours.Thus the volume of the data being enormous,
the study is tedious and time taking. Hence, computerized
based analysis and classification of heart diseases can be
very helpful in diagnosis process. The ECG may roughly
be divided into the phases of repolarisation and
depolarization of the muscle fibers of heart. The
depolarization phases relates to the P-wave (atrial
depolarization) and QRS-wave (ventricles depolarization).
The re-polarization phases correspond to the T-wave.
Arrhythmia is a heart disorder representing itself as an
irregular heartbeat due to malfunction in the electrical
system cells in the heart. It causes the heart to pump blood
less effectively and causing disorders in the heart
conduction process. Early detection of heart disease is very
helpful for living a long life and increase the improvement
of our technique detection of arrhythmias. The technique
used in ECG pattern recognition comprises: ECG signal
pre-processing, QRS detection, feature extraction and
neural network for signal classification. Probabilistic
Neural Network (PNN) is used as a classifier to detect QRS
and non-QRS regions. Most of the QRS detection
algorithms reported in literature detects R-peak and
separate rules are applied to locate the onsets and offsets of
the QRS complexes.
Fig.1. Normal ECG waveform
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II. LITERATURE SURVEY
Nazmy et al [1] described adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference
system (ANFIS) algorithm for classification of ECG wave
.The feature extraction is done with the help of
Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and Power
spectrum and input is obtained by the RR-interval of ECG.
This paper proposed the classified ECG signals are normal
sinus rhythm, premature ventricular contraction, atrial
premature contraction, Ventricular Tachycardia,
Ventricular Fibrillation and Supraventricular Tachycardia
.using ANFIS approach the classification accuracy is also
obtained.
Alan and Nikola in [2] presented that use chaos theory for
classification of ECG signal and feature extraction. In this
paper consist of phase space and attractors, correlation
dimension, spatial filling index and approximate entropy.
The new program is developed for ECG classification
which is based on the chaos method and has developed
semi-automatic program for the feature extraction. The
program is helpful to classify the ECG Signal and extract
the feature of the signal.
Castro et al. in [3] describe the feature extraction with the
help of wavelet transform technique and gives an
algorithm which will utilize the wavelet transform for
extracting the features of ECG signal . This proposed
method first denoise by use of soft or hard threshold then
the feature of ECG wave divided in to coefficient vector by
optimal wavelet transformation. In this proposed method
choose the mother wavelet transformset of orthogonal and
biorthogonal wavelet filter bank by means of the best
correlation with the ECG signal was developed. After the
analysis of ECG signal coefficient are divided as QRS
complex, T wave, P wave then sum to obtain feature
extraction.
Wisnu Jatmiko, et al. employed Back-Propagation Neural
Network and Fuzzy Neuro Learning Vector Quantization
(FLVQ) as classifier in ECG classification [3]. In their
work they used only the MLII lead as source data. The
classes that are considered are Left Bundle Branch Block
beat, Normal beat , Right Bundle Branch Block beat ,
Premature Ventricular Contraction . They used training
classification methods namely Back propagation and
FLVQ for their experiment. It provides an average
accuracy 99.20% using Back- Propagation and 95.50% for
FLVQ. The result shows that back-propagation leading
than FLVQ and back-propagation has disadvantages to
classified unknown category beat but not for FLVQ. FLVQ
has stable accuracy although contain unknown category
beat.
Maedeh Kiani Sarkaleh, [4], proposed a Neural Network
based algorithm for classification of Paced Beat, Atrial
Premature Beat arrhythmias as well as the normal beat
signal. They applied Discrete Wavelet Transform for
feature extraction and used it along with timing interval
features to train the Neural Network. About 10 recording
of the MIT/BIH arrhythmia database have been used for
training and testing the neural network based classifiers.
The model result shows that the classification accuracy is
96.54%.
Karpagachelvi.S, [5], this paper describes an ECG beat
classification system using RVM is proposed and applied
to MIT-BIH arrhythmia database to classify five kinds of
abnormal waveforms and normal beats. In feature exacting,
the sensitivity of the RVM classifier is tested and that is
compared with ELM. The obtained result confirms the
superiority of the RVM approach when compared to
traditional classifiers.
Ruchita Gautam and Anil Kumar Sharma [6] proposed a
method based on the Dyadic wavelet transform technique
this method is applied for finding the QRS complex. In this
method focused on the interval of the two consecutive R
wave and calculate the heartbeat. This method is on the
ECG waveforms for detect the dieses Ventricular Late
Potentials, and separate the wave P R & T which is
associated with features of ECG waveforms. In this method
the main consideration is to find out the R waves and
threshold is set to 75% of the maximum peak.
Manpreet Kaur, A.S.Arora [7] shows with the help of K-
clustering techniques the output signal is analyzed, the
parameter is wave shape, duration and amplitude. With the
help of K-clustering technique minimize the sum of point
to centroid distance, this clustered K summed. In this
technique first phase give information about the point are
resigned to the closest cluster around the centroid. The
second phase gives information on line value where values
are self-resigned. The data is taken from MIT-BIH for
analysis. The success rate of classification for set 2, set 3,
set 4, set 5 and set 7 is 99.98%, for set 1 it is 87.5% and for
set 6 it is 75%.
III. Probabilistic Neural Network
An artificial neural network (ANN) has been used to solve
a wide variety of tasks that are hard to solve using ordinary
rule based programming. In this Probabilistic Neural
Network was used for classification. A probabilistic neural
network is a feed-forward neural network derived from the
Bayesian-network and a statistical algorithm called Kernel-
Fisher Discriminant analysis. In a PNN, the operation are
organised into a multi-layered feed-forward neural network
with three layers namely Input layer, hidden layer and
Decision layer. There is only one neuron in the input layer
for each predictor variable value. The input neurons then
supply the values to each of the neurons in the Hidden
layer. Hidden layer has one neuron for each case in the
training data set. The neurons store the values of the
predictor variable for the case beside with the target value.
Fig.2:Artifical Neural Network
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IV. Wavelet Transform
The wavelet transform is a convolution of the wavelet
functions y(t) with the signal x(t). Discrete Wavelets are
associated with scaling functions ϕ(t). Wavelet transform:
For extracting parameters of ECG signal, we have used
wavelet transform. Wavelet analysis breaks a signal into its
constituent parts for analysis. The scaling function can be
convolved with the signal to provide approximation
coefficients. The discrete Wavelet Transform can be
written as follows:
Tm,n =∫ x(t)*ym,n (t)dt
A. Performance Measure
We have used three parameters for estimate the
performance of our algorithm. Those are accuracy,
sensitivity. These parameters are defined using 4 measures
True Positive , True Negative , False Positive , and False
Negative .
True Positive (TP): It describes that arrhythmia detection
coincides with decision of physician.
True Negative (TN): In this both classifier and physician
suggested absence of arrhythmia.
False Positive (FP): The system labels a healthy case as an
arrhythmia one.
False Negative (FN): The system labels an arrhythmia as
healthy.
Accuracy: Accuracy is the ratio of number of correctly
classified cases and is given as,
Accuracy= (TP+TN) / N
Total number of cases are N
Sensitivity: Sensitivity refers to the rate of correctly
classified positive. Sensitivity may be related as a True
Positive Rate. Sensitivity should be high for a classifier.
Sensitivity = TP / (TP+FN)
V. METHODOLOGY
Denoising and detection of the QRS complex in an ECG
signal provides the information about various cardiac
abnormalities. It provides validation for the diagnosis of
cardiac diseases. For this important reason, it has earned a
great respect in medical community. The presence of noise
and time varying morphology makes the detection difficult.
Fig. 3: Block diagram of ECG classification
Preprocessing ECG signals helps us to remove
contaminants from the ECG signal. ECG pollutants can be
classified into the following categories: Power line
interference, contact noise, Patient–electrode motion
artifacts, Muscle noise, Baseline wandering. Digital
filtering methods and wavelet based methods are used to
remove baseline wandering and the other wideband noise.
The baseline wandering and the above noises are removed
by taking two-approximation level coefficients.
Detection of R peaks is very important since they define
the cardiac beats. Heart rate is the very important parameter
that is used to detected for analyzing the abnormality in the
heart. Heart rate is calculated based on RR interval. The
detection of the QRS complex is the most important job in
automatic ECG signal analysis. Q and S point are detected
after detecting the R peak by the slope inversion method.
Wave shape and the signal are classified into different
arrhythmia case.
VI. RESULT
Fig.4 : Extracted signal from database with Noise
Fig.5: Correlating the signal with Symlet4
Fig.6 Detection of R-peaks
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Fig.7: GUI of Disease Detection
VII. CONCLUSION
This study is on detection and classification of arrhythmia
beats. The heart beats are different for different person and
all these beats are having different variations with
nonlinear nature. Thus the proposed computerized system
will be helpful for early detection of heart status and to
decrease the death percentage of human which occurs due
to the heart disease.
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Classification and Detection of ECG-signals using Artificial Neural Networks

  • 1. Page | 1 Classification of ECG-signals using Artificial Neural Networks Prateek A. Madne S.B.Jain Institute of Technology Management and Research, Dept of ETC, Nagpur Email: [email protected] Gaurav D. Upadhyay S.B.Jain Institute of Technology Management and Research, Dept of ETC, Nagpur Email: [email protected] Sumit M. Pali S.B.Jain Institute of Technology Management and Research, Dept of ETC, Nagpur Email: [email protected] Akshay S. Thaware S.B.Jain Institute of Technology Management and Research, Dept of ETC, Nagpur Email: [email protected] Abstract – An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a bio-electrical signal which is used to record the heart's electrical activity with respect to time. Early and accurate detection is important in detecting heart diseases and choosing appropriate treatment for a patient. ECG signals are used as the parameter for detection of Cardiac diseases and most of the data comes from PhysioDataNet and MIT-BIH database .The pre-processing of ECG signal is performed with help of Wavelet toolbox and also used for feature extraction of ECG signal. The complete project is implemented on MATLAB platform. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated on MIT–BIH Database. This paper presents the application of Probabilistic Neural Networks (PNN) for the classification and detection of Electrocardiogram (ECG). Keywords: Electrocardiogram (ECG), MIT-BIH database, Probabilistic Neural Networks (PNN), Wavelet toolbox. I. INTRODUCTION Electrocardiography deals with the electrical activity of the heart beat. Bio-signals are a non-stationary signals, the reflection may occur at random in the time-scale. Therefore, for determining of disease, ECG signal pattern and heart rate variability may have to be observed for several hours.Thus the volume of the data being enormous, the study is tedious and time taking. Hence, computerized based analysis and classification of heart diseases can be very helpful in diagnosis process. The ECG may roughly be divided into the phases of repolarisation and depolarization of the muscle fibers of heart. The depolarization phases relates to the P-wave (atrial depolarization) and QRS-wave (ventricles depolarization). The re-polarization phases correspond to the T-wave. Arrhythmia is a heart disorder representing itself as an irregular heartbeat due to malfunction in the electrical system cells in the heart. It causes the heart to pump blood less effectively and causing disorders in the heart conduction process. Early detection of heart disease is very helpful for living a long life and increase the improvement of our technique detection of arrhythmias. The technique used in ECG pattern recognition comprises: ECG signal pre-processing, QRS detection, feature extraction and neural network for signal classification. Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) is used as a classifier to detect QRS and non-QRS regions. Most of the QRS detection algorithms reported in literature detects R-peak and separate rules are applied to locate the onsets and offsets of the QRS complexes. Fig.1. Normal ECG waveform
  • 2. Page | 2 II. LITERATURE SURVEY Nazmy et al [1] described adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) algorithm for classification of ECG wave .The feature extraction is done with the help of Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and Power spectrum and input is obtained by the RR-interval of ECG. This paper proposed the classified ECG signals are normal sinus rhythm, premature ventricular contraction, atrial premature contraction, Ventricular Tachycardia, Ventricular Fibrillation and Supraventricular Tachycardia .using ANFIS approach the classification accuracy is also obtained. Alan and Nikola in [2] presented that use chaos theory for classification of ECG signal and feature extraction. In this paper consist of phase space and attractors, correlation dimension, spatial filling index and approximate entropy. The new program is developed for ECG classification which is based on the chaos method and has developed semi-automatic program for the feature extraction. The program is helpful to classify the ECG Signal and extract the feature of the signal. Castro et al. in [3] describe the feature extraction with the help of wavelet transform technique and gives an algorithm which will utilize the wavelet transform for extracting the features of ECG signal . This proposed method first denoise by use of soft or hard threshold then the feature of ECG wave divided in to coefficient vector by optimal wavelet transformation. In this proposed method choose the mother wavelet transformset of orthogonal and biorthogonal wavelet filter bank by means of the best correlation with the ECG signal was developed. After the analysis of ECG signal coefficient are divided as QRS complex, T wave, P wave then sum to obtain feature extraction. Wisnu Jatmiko, et al. employed Back-Propagation Neural Network and Fuzzy Neuro Learning Vector Quantization (FLVQ) as classifier in ECG classification [3]. In their work they used only the MLII lead as source data. The classes that are considered are Left Bundle Branch Block beat, Normal beat , Right Bundle Branch Block beat , Premature Ventricular Contraction . They used training classification methods namely Back propagation and FLVQ for their experiment. It provides an average accuracy 99.20% using Back- Propagation and 95.50% for FLVQ. The result shows that back-propagation leading than FLVQ and back-propagation has disadvantages to classified unknown category beat but not for FLVQ. FLVQ has stable accuracy although contain unknown category beat. Maedeh Kiani Sarkaleh, [4], proposed a Neural Network based algorithm for classification of Paced Beat, Atrial Premature Beat arrhythmias as well as the normal beat signal. They applied Discrete Wavelet Transform for feature extraction and used it along with timing interval features to train the Neural Network. About 10 recording of the MIT/BIH arrhythmia database have been used for training and testing the neural network based classifiers. The model result shows that the classification accuracy is 96.54%. Karpagachelvi.S, [5], this paper describes an ECG beat classification system using RVM is proposed and applied to MIT-BIH arrhythmia database to classify five kinds of abnormal waveforms and normal beats. In feature exacting, the sensitivity of the RVM classifier is tested and that is compared with ELM. The obtained result confirms the superiority of the RVM approach when compared to traditional classifiers. Ruchita Gautam and Anil Kumar Sharma [6] proposed a method based on the Dyadic wavelet transform technique this method is applied for finding the QRS complex. In this method focused on the interval of the two consecutive R wave and calculate the heartbeat. This method is on the ECG waveforms for detect the dieses Ventricular Late Potentials, and separate the wave P R & T which is associated with features of ECG waveforms. In this method the main consideration is to find out the R waves and threshold is set to 75% of the maximum peak. Manpreet Kaur, A.S.Arora [7] shows with the help of K- clustering techniques the output signal is analyzed, the parameter is wave shape, duration and amplitude. With the help of K-clustering technique minimize the sum of point to centroid distance, this clustered K summed. In this technique first phase give information about the point are resigned to the closest cluster around the centroid. The second phase gives information on line value where values are self-resigned. The data is taken from MIT-BIH for analysis. The success rate of classification for set 2, set 3, set 4, set 5 and set 7 is 99.98%, for set 1 it is 87.5% and for set 6 it is 75%. III. Probabilistic Neural Network An artificial neural network (ANN) has been used to solve a wide variety of tasks that are hard to solve using ordinary rule based programming. In this Probabilistic Neural Network was used for classification. A probabilistic neural network is a feed-forward neural network derived from the Bayesian-network and a statistical algorithm called Kernel- Fisher Discriminant analysis. In a PNN, the operation are organised into a multi-layered feed-forward neural network with three layers namely Input layer, hidden layer and Decision layer. There is only one neuron in the input layer for each predictor variable value. The input neurons then supply the values to each of the neurons in the Hidden layer. Hidden layer has one neuron for each case in the training data set. The neurons store the values of the predictor variable for the case beside with the target value. Fig.2:Artifical Neural Network
  • 3. Page | 3 IV. Wavelet Transform The wavelet transform is a convolution of the wavelet functions y(t) with the signal x(t). Discrete Wavelets are associated with scaling functions ϕ(t). Wavelet transform: For extracting parameters of ECG signal, we have used wavelet transform. Wavelet analysis breaks a signal into its constituent parts for analysis. The scaling function can be convolved with the signal to provide approximation coefficients. The discrete Wavelet Transform can be written as follows: Tm,n =∫ x(t)*ym,n (t)dt A. Performance Measure We have used three parameters for estimate the performance of our algorithm. Those are accuracy, sensitivity. These parameters are defined using 4 measures True Positive , True Negative , False Positive , and False Negative . True Positive (TP): It describes that arrhythmia detection coincides with decision of physician. True Negative (TN): In this both classifier and physician suggested absence of arrhythmia. False Positive (FP): The system labels a healthy case as an arrhythmia one. False Negative (FN): The system labels an arrhythmia as healthy. Accuracy: Accuracy is the ratio of number of correctly classified cases and is given as, Accuracy= (TP+TN) / N Total number of cases are N Sensitivity: Sensitivity refers to the rate of correctly classified positive. Sensitivity may be related as a True Positive Rate. Sensitivity should be high for a classifier. Sensitivity = TP / (TP+FN) V. METHODOLOGY Denoising and detection of the QRS complex in an ECG signal provides the information about various cardiac abnormalities. It provides validation for the diagnosis of cardiac diseases. For this important reason, it has earned a great respect in medical community. The presence of noise and time varying morphology makes the detection difficult. Fig. 3: Block diagram of ECG classification Preprocessing ECG signals helps us to remove contaminants from the ECG signal. ECG pollutants can be classified into the following categories: Power line interference, contact noise, Patient–electrode motion artifacts, Muscle noise, Baseline wandering. Digital filtering methods and wavelet based methods are used to remove baseline wandering and the other wideband noise. The baseline wandering and the above noises are removed by taking two-approximation level coefficients. Detection of R peaks is very important since they define the cardiac beats. Heart rate is the very important parameter that is used to detected for analyzing the abnormality in the heart. Heart rate is calculated based on RR interval. The detection of the QRS complex is the most important job in automatic ECG signal analysis. Q and S point are detected after detecting the R peak by the slope inversion method. Wave shape and the signal are classified into different arrhythmia case. VI. RESULT Fig.4 : Extracted signal from database with Noise Fig.5: Correlating the signal with Symlet4 Fig.6 Detection of R-peaks
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