Deep Learning Based Patient-Specific Classification of Arrhythmia on ECG signal

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2019 Jul:2019:1500-1503. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8856650.

Abstract

The classification of the heartbeat type is an essential function in the automatical electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis algorithm. The guideline of the ANSI/AAMI EC57 defined five types of heartbeat: non-ectopic or paced beat (N), supraventricular ectopic beat (S), ventricular ectopic beat (V), fusion of a ventricular and normal beat (F), pace beat or fusion of a paced and a normal or beat that cannot be classified (Q). In the work, a deep neural network based method was proposed to classify these five types of heartbeat. After removing the noise from ECG signals by a low-pass filter, the two-lead heartbeat segments with 2-s length were generated on the filtered signals, and classified by an adaptive ResNet model. The proposed method was evaluated on the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database with the patient-specific pattern. The overall accuracy was 98.6% and sensitivity of N, S, V, F were 99.4%, 85.4%, 96.6%, 90.6% respectively. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieved a good performance, and would be useful in the clinic practice.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Deep Learning*
  • Electrocardiography*
  • Heart Rate
  • Humans
  • Neural Networks, Computer*
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted