Neural network classifier based on the features of multi-lead ECG

Abstract

In this study, two methods for the electrocardiogram (ECG) QRS waves detection were presented and compared. One hand, a modified approach of the linear approximation distance thresholding (LADT) algorithm was studied and the features of the ECG were gained for the later work. The other hand, Mexican-hat wavelet transform was adopted to detect the character points of ECG. A part of the features of the ECG were used to train the RBF network, and then all of them were used to examine the performance of the network. The algorithms were tested with ECG signals of MIT-BIH, and compared with other tests, the result shows that the detection ability of the Mexican-hat wavelet transform is very good for its quality of time-frequency representation and the ECG character points was represented by the local extremes of the transformed signals and the correct rate of QRS detection rises up to 99.9%. Also, the classification performance with its result is so good that the correct rate with the trained wave is 100%, and untrained wave is 86.6%. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.