Intricating cardiac complexities are the primary factor associated with healthcare costs and the highest cause of death rate in the world. However, preventive measures like the early detection of cardiac anomalies can prevent severe cardiovascular arrests of varying complexities and can impose a substantial impact on healthcare cost. Encountering such scenarios usually the electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) is the first diagnostic choice of a medical practitioner or clinical staff to measure the electrical and muscular fitness of an individual heart. This paper presents a system which is capable of reading the recorded ECG and predict the cardiac anomalies without the intervention of a human expert. The paper purpose an algorithm which read and perform analysis on electrocardiogram datasets. The proposed architecture uses the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) at first place to perform preprocessing of ECG data followed by undecimated Wavelet transform (UWT) to extract nine relevant features which are of high interest to a cardiologist. The probabilistic mode named Bayesian Network Classifier is trained using the extracted nine parameters on UCL arrhythmia dataset. The proposed system classifies a recorded heartbeat into four classes using Bayesian Network classifier and Tukey's box analysis. The four classes for the prediction of a heartbeat are (a) Normal Beat, (b) Premature Ventricular Contraction (PVC) (c) Premature Atrial Contraction (PAC) and (d) Myocardial Infarction. The results of experimental setup depict that the proposed system has achieved an average accuracy of 96.6 for PAC 92.8 for MI and 87 for PVC, with an average error rate of 3.3 for PAC, 6 for MI and 12.5 for PVC on real electrocardiogram datasets including Physionet and European ST-T Database (EDB).
Numerous vendors and nano-tech industries have introduced different varieties of WBANs and ECG monitoring systems since the last decade. These ECG systems are WBANs are widely in healthcare application for the collection of patient data and transmit to a relevant healthcare service provider. These devices are advantageous for medical practitioners to collect and monitor their patient's health remotely. After a thorough investigation it is observed that the use of these devices is prevailing in healthcare, but still, many improvements can be incorporated. These ECG devices are not capable of processing the ECG signals nor having a mechanism to detect and notify the CVD anomaly. Moreover, another limitation not capable for the provision of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) analysis. Those mentioned above are the main limitations existing in the healthcare monitoring systems for instance, LifeMonitor @cite_15 , MyHeart @cite_11 , CodeBlue @cite_12 , LiveNet @cite_16 , MEDiSN @cite_2 , AliveCor @cite_28 , PhysioMem @cite_8 ,etc.
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Some patients, especially patients with chronic diseases such as heart disease, require continuous monitoring of their condition. Wearable devices for patient monitoring were introduced many years ago – for instance, wearable ambulatory ECG (electrocardiogram) recorders commonly known as Holter monitors (Figure 1) are used for monitoring cardiac patients. However, these monitors are quite bulky and can only record the signal for a limited time. Patients are often asked to wear a Holter monitor for a few days and then return to the clinic for diagnosis. This often overlooks transient but life-threatening events. In addition, we don’t know under what condition the signals are acquired, and this often leads to false alarms. For example, a sudden rise in heart rate may be caused by emotion, such as watching a horror movie, or by exercise, rather than by a heart condition. Body sensing To address these issues, the concept of Body Sensor Networks (BSN) was first proposed in 2002 by Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang from Imperial College London. The aim of the BSN is to provide a truly personalised monitoring platform that is pervasive, intelligent, and Figure 1 A patient wearing a Holter monitor The processing of ECG signal provides a wealth of information on cardiac function and overall cardiovascular health. While multi-lead ECG recordings are often necessary for a proper assessment of cardiac rhythms, they are not always available or practical, for example in fet al ECG applications. Moreover, a wide range of small non-obtrusive single-lead ECG ambulatory monitoring devices are now available, from which heart rate variability (HRV) and other health-related metrics are derived. Proper beat detection and classification of abnormal rhythms is important for reliable HRV assessment and can be challenging in single-lead ECG monitoring devices. In this manuscript, we modelled the heart rate signal as an adaptive non-harmonic model and used the newly developed synchrosqueezing transform (SST) to characterize ECG patterns. We show how the proposed model can be used to enhance heart beat detection and classification between normal and abnormal rhythms. In particular, using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Beth Israel Hospital (MIT-BIH) arrhythmia database and the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) beat classes, we trained and validated a support vector machine (SVM) classifier on a portion of the annotated beat database using the SST-derived instantaneous phase, the R-peak amplitudes and R-peak to R-peak interval durations, based on a single ECG lead. We obtained sentivities and positive predictive values comparable to other published algorithms using multiple leads and many more features. Abstract Detecting and classifying cardiac arrhythmias is critical to the diagnosis of patients with cardiac abnormalities. In this paper, a novel approach based on deep learning methodology is proposed for the classification of single-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. We demonstrate the application of the Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) and deep belief networks (DBN) for ECG classification following detection of ventricular and supraventricular heartbeats using single-lead ECG . The effectiveness of this proposed algorithm is illustrated using real ECG signals from the widely-used MIT-BIH database. Simulation results demonstrate that with a suitable choice of parameters, RBM and DBN can achieve high average recognition accuracies of ventricular ectopic beats (93.63 ) and of supraventricular ectopic beats (95.57 ) at a low sampling rate of 114 Hz . Experimental results indicate that classifiers built into this deep learning-based framework achieved state-of-the art performance models at lower sampling rates and simple features when compared to traditional methods. Further, employing features extracted at a sampling rate of 114 Hz when combined with deep learning provided enough discriminatory power for the classification task. This performance is comparable to that of traditional methods and uses a much lower sampling rate and simpler features. Thus, our proposed deep neural network algorithm demonstrates that deep learning-based methods offer accurate ECG classification and could potentially be extended to other physiological signal classifications, such as those in arterial blood pressure (ABP), nerve conduction (EMG), and heart rate variability (HRV) studies. Recent developments and technological advancements in wireless communication, MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) technology and integrated circuits has enabled low-power, intelligent, miniaturized, invasive non-invasive micro and nano-technology sensor nodes strategically placed in or around the human body to be used in various applications, such as personal health monitoring. This exciting new area of research is called Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) and leverages the emerging IEEE 802.15.6 and IEEE 802.15.4j standards, specifically standardized for medical WBANs. The aim of WBANs is to simplify and improve speed, accuracy, and reliability of communication of sensors actuators within, on, and in the immediate proximity of a human body. The vast scope of challenges associated with WBANs has led to numerous publications. In this paper, we survey the current state-of-art of WBANs based on the latest standards and publications. Open issues and challenges within each area are also explored as a source of inspiration towards future developments in WBANs.