Atrial fibrillation (AF), as one of the most common arrhythmia diseases in clinic, is a malignant threat to human health. However, AF is difficult to monitor in real time due to its intermittent nature. Wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring equipment has flourished in the context of telemedicine due to its real-time monitoring and simple operation in recent years, providing new ideas and methods for the detection of AF. In this paper, we propose a low computational cost classification model for robust detection of AF episodes in ECG signals, using RR intervals of the ECG signals and feeding them into artificial neural network (ANN) for classification, to compensate the defect of the computational complexity in traditional wearable ECG monitoring devices. In addition, we compared our proposed classifier with other popular classifiers. The model was trained and tested on the AF Termination Challenge Database and MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database. Experimental results achieve the highest sensitivity of 99.3%, specificity of 97.4%, and accuracy of 98.3%, outperforming most of the others in the recent literature. Accordingly, we observe that ANN using RR intervals as an input feature can be a suitable candidate for automatic classification of AF.
Arrhythmia is a common cardiovascular disease; the electrocardiogram (ECG) is widely used as an effective tool for detecting arrhythmia. However, real-time arrhythmia detection monitoring is difficult, so this study proposes a long short-term memory-residual model. Individual beats provide morphological features and combined with adjacent segments provide temporal features. Our proposed model captures the time-domain and morphological ECG signal information simultaneously and fuses the two information types. At the same time, the attention block is applied to the network to further strengthen the useful information, capture the hidden information in the ECG signal, and improve the model classification performance. Our model was finally trained and tested on the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database, and the entire dataset was divided into intrapatient and interpatient modes. Accuracies of 99.11% and 85.65%, respectively, were obtained under the two modes. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method is an efficient automated detection method.
12 August 2022 in Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
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