Detection and classification of cardiovascular abnormalities using FFT based multi-objective genetic algorithm

Abstract

Signal processing and data analysis are widely used methods in a biomedical research. In recent years, detection of cardiovascular abnormalities in patients can be achieved by using electrocardiogram (ECG) recording. In this paper, a fuzzy-based multi-objective algorithm using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is proposed. Initially, an effective FFT is used to extract the feature points in ECG signals, such as PQRST wave's amplitude and wave function and then the proposed multi-objective genetic algorithm is used to classify the abnormality of heart patient. Basically, the ECG behaviour depends on various factors such as age, physical condition of patients and the surrounding environment. The efficient detection of abnormalities (e.g. arrhythmia and myocardial abstraction) can be achieved by initializing the above-mentioned factors and maintaining a database containing previously attributed signals, such MIT-BIH arrhythmia. The present study provides efficiency of around 98.7% in detection of abnormalities in patients.