In this paper, we present an approach to improve the accuracy and reliability of ECG classification. The proposed method combines features analysis of linear and non-linear ECG dynamics. Non-linear features are represented by complexity measures of assessment of ordinal network non-stationarity. We describe the basic concept of ECG partitioning and provide an experiment on PQRST complex data. The results demonstrate that the proposed technique effectively detects abnormalities via automatic feature extraction and improves the state-of-the-art detection performance on one of the standard collections of heartbeat signals, the ECG5000 dataset.
Keywords: ECG; conditional permutation entropy; global node entropy; neural network; ordinal partition network.