Comparative study of ANN and fuzzy classifier for forecasting electrical activity of heart to diagnose Covid-19

Mater Today Proc. 2021:45:2293-2305. doi: 10.1016/j.matpr.2020.10.400. Epub 2020 Oct 27.

Abstract

Covid-19 is a dangerous communicable virus which lets down the world economy. Severe respiratory syndrome SARS-COV-2 leads to Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) and has the capability of transmission through human-to-human and surface-to-human transmission leads the world to catastrophic phase. Computational system based biological signal analysis helps medical officers in handling COVID-19 tasks like ECG monitoring at Intensive care, fatal ventricular fibrillation, etc., This paper is on diagnosing heart dysfunctions such as tachycardia, bradycardia, ventricular fibrillation, cardiac arrhythmia using fuzzy relations and artificial intelligence algorithm. In this study, the heart pulse base signal and features like spectral entropy, largest lyapunov exponent, Poincare plot and detrended fluctuation analysis are extracted and presented for classification purpose. The RR intervals of Poincare plot summarize RR time series obtained from an ECG in one picture, and a time interval quantities derives information duration of HRV. This analysis eases the prediction of heart rate fluctuation due to Covid or other heart disorders. The better accuracy level in diagnosing heart pulse irregularity using Artificial Neural network(ANN) is an integer value (0 to 4)but for Fuzzy Classifier, it is 0.8 to 0.9.The processing time for analyzing heart dysfunctionalties is 0.05 s using ANN which is far better than Fuzzy classifier.

Keywords: Covid-19; First return maps; HRV signal; Lyapunov exponent; Spectral entropy.