scholarly journals An Analysis of the Effects of Noisy Electrocardiogram Signal on Heartbeat Detection Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Ziti Fariha Mohd Apandi ◽  
Ryojun Ikeura ◽  
Soichiro Hayakawa ◽  
Shigeyoshi Tsutsumi

Heartbeat detection for ambulatory cardiac monitoring is more challenging as the level of noise and artefacts induced by daily-life activities are considerably higher than monitoring in a hospital setting. It is valuable to understand the relationship between the characteristics of electrocardiogram (ECG) noises and the beat detection performance in the cardiac monitoring system. For this purpose, three well-known algorithms for the beat detection process were re-implemented. The beat detection algorithms were validated using two types of ambulatory datasets, which were the ECG signal from the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database and the simulated noise-contaminated ECG signal with different intensities of baseline wander (BW), muscle artefact (MA) and electrode motion (EM) artefact from the MIT-BIH Noise Stress Test Database. The findings showed that signals contaminated with noise and artefacts decreased the potential of beat detection in ambulatory signal with the poorest performance noted for ECG signal affected by the EM artefacts. In conclusion, none of the algorithms was able to detect all QRS complexes without any false detection at the highest level of noise. The EM noise influenced the beat detection performance the most in comparison to the MA and BW noises that resulted in the highest number of misdetections and false detections.

Author(s):  
WANSONG XU ◽  
TIANWU CHEN ◽  
FANYU DU

Objective: The detection of QRS complexes is an important part of computer-aided analysis of electrocardiogram (ECG). However, most of the existing detection algorithms are mainly for single-lead ECG signals, which requires high quality of signal. If the signal quality decreases suddenly due to some interference, then the current algorithm is easy to cause misjudgment or missed detection. To improve the detection ability of QRS complexes under sudden interference, we study the QRS complexes information on multiple leads in-depth, and propose a two-lead joint detection algorithm of QRS complexes. Methods: Firstly, the suspected QRS complexes are screened on the main lead. For the suspected QRS complexes with low confidence and the complexes that may be missed, further accurate detection and joint judgment shall be carried out at the corresponding position of the auxiliary lead. At the same time, the adaptive threshold adjustment algorithm and backtracking mechanism are used to modify the detection results. Results: The proposed detection algorithm is validated using 48 ECG records of the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database, and achieves average detection accuracy of 99.71%, sensitivity of 99.88% and positive predictivity of 99.81%. Conclusion: The proposed algorithm has high accuracy, which can effectively deal with the sudden interference of ECG signal. Meanwhile, the algorithm requires small amount of computation, and can be embedded into hardware for real-time detection.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eko Ihsanto ◽  
Kalamullah Ramli ◽  
Dodi Sudiana ◽  
Teddy Surya Gunawan

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is relatively easy to acquire and has been used for reliable biometric authentication. Despite growing interest in ECG authentication, there are still two main problems that need to be tackled, i.e., the accuracy and processing speed. Therefore, this paper proposed a fast and accurate ECG authentication utilizing only two stages, i.e., ECG beat detection and classification. By minimizing time-consuming ECG signal pre-processing and feature extraction, our proposed two-stage algorithm can authenticate the ECG signal around 660 μs. Hamilton’s method was used for ECG beat detection, while the Residual Depthwise Separable Convolutional Neural Network (RDSCNN) algorithm was used for classification. It was found that between six and eight ECG beats were required for authentication of different databases. Results showed that our proposed algorithm achieved 100% accuracy when evaluated with 48 patients in the MIT-BIH database and 90 people in the ECG ID database. These results showed that our proposed algorithm outperformed other state-of-the-art methods.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd Porr ◽  
Luis Howell

AbstractThe R peak detection of an ECG signal is the basis of virtually any further processing and any error caused by this detection will propagate to further processing stages. Despite this, R peak detection algorithms and annotated databases often allow large error tolerances around 10%, masking any error introduced. In this paper we have revisited popular ECG R peak detection algorithms by applying sample precision error margins. For this purpose we have created a new open access ECG database with sample precision labelling of both standard Einthoven I, II, III leads and from a chest strap. 25 subjects were recorded and filmed while sitting, solving a maths test, operating a handbike, walking and jogging. Our results show that using an error margin with sample precision, common R peak detection algorithms perform much worse than previously reported. In addition, there are significant performance differences between detectors which can have detrimental effects on applications such as heartrate variability, thus leading to meaningless results.


2020 ◽  
Vol 30.8 (147) ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
Van Manh Hoang ◽  
◽  
Manh Thang Pham

The stress Electrocardiogram (ECG) gives more efficient results for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases, which may not be apparent when the patients are at rest. However, the noise produced by the movement of the patient and the environment often contaminates the ECG signal. Motion artifact is the most prevalent and difficult type of interference to filter in stress test ECG. It corrupts the quality of the desired signal thus reducing the reliability of the stress test. In this work, we first describe a quantitative study of adaptive filtering for processing the stress ECG signals. The proposed method uses the motion information obtained from a 3-axis accelerometer as a noise reference signal for the adaptive filter and the optimal weight of the adaptive filter is adjusted by the Modified Error Data Normalized Step-Size (MEDNSS) algorithm. Finally, the performance of the proposed algorithm is tested on the stress ECG signal from the subject.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asma Haque ◽  
Abdur Rahman

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal exhibits important distinctive feature for different cardiac issues. Automatic classification of electrocardiogram (ECG) signal can be used for primary detection of various heart conditions. Information about heart and ischemic changes of heart may be obtained from cleaned ECG signals. ECG signal has an important role in monitoring and diacritic of the heart patients. An accurate ECG classification is challenging problem. The accuracy often depends on proper selection of observing parameters as well as detection algorithms. Heart disorder means abnormal rhythm or abnormalities present in the heart. In this research work, we have developed a decision tree based algorithm to classify heart problems by utilizing the statistical signal characteristic (SSC) of an ECG signal. The proposed model has been tested with real ECG signal to successfully (60-98%) detect normal, apnea and ventricular tachyarrhythmia condition.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyo-Chang Seo ◽  
Seok Oh ◽  
Hyunbin Kim ◽  
Segyeong Joo

AbstractAtrial fibrillation (AF) is an arrhythmia that can cause blood clot and may lead to stroke and heart failure. To detect AF, deep learning-based detection algorithms have recently been developed. However, deep learning models were often trained with limited datasets and were evaluated within the same datasets, which makes their performance generally drops on the external datasets, known as data dependency. For this study, three different databases from PhysioNet were used to investigate the data dependency of deep learning-based AF detection algorithm using the residual neural network (Resnet). Resnet 18, 34, 50 and 152 model were trained with raw electrocardiogram (ECG) signal extracted from independent database. The highest accuracy was about 98–99% which is evaluation results of test dataset from the own database. On the other hand, the lowest accuracy was about 53–92% which was evaluation results of the external dataset extracted from different source. There are data dependency according to the train dataset and the test dataset. However, the data dependency decreased as a large amount of train data.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyo-Chang Seo ◽  
Seok Oh ◽  
Segyeong Joo

Abstract Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an arrhythmia that can cause blood clot and may lead to stroke and heart failure. To detect AF, deep learning-based detection algorithms have recently been developed. However, deep learning models were often trained with limited datasets and were evaluated within the same datasets, which makes their performance generally drops on the external datasets, known as data dependency. For this study, three different databases from PhysioNet were used to investigate the data dependency of deep learning-based AF detection algorithm using the residual neural network (Resnet). Resnet 18, 34, 50 and 152 model were trained with raw electrocardiogram (ECG) signal extracted from independent database. The highest accuracy was about 98–99% which is evaluation results of test dataset from the own database. On the other hand, the lowest accuracy was about 53–92% which was evaluation results of the external dataset extracted from different source. There are data dependency according to the train dataset and the test dataset. However, the data dependency decreased as a large amount of train data.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Khaleel Husain ◽  
Mohd Soperi Mohd Zahid ◽  
Shahab Ul Hassan ◽  
Sumayyah Hasbullah ◽  
Satria Mandala

It is well-known that cardiovascular disease is one of the major causes of death worldwide nowadays. Electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor is one of the tools commonly used by cardiologists to diagnose and detect signs of heart disease with their patients. Since fast, prompt and accurate interpretation and decision is important in saving the life of patients from sudden heart attack or cardiac arrest, many innovations have been made to ECG sensors. However, the use of traditional ECG sensors is still prevalent in the clinical settings of many medical institutions. This article provides a comprehensive survey on ECG sensors from hardware, software and data format interoperability perspectives. The hardware perspective outlines a general hardware architecture of an ECG sensor along with the description of its hardware components. The software perspective describes various techniques (denoising, machine learning, deep learning, and privacy preservation) and other computer paradigms used in the software development and deployment for ECG sensors. Finally, the format interoperability perspective offers a detailed taxonomy of current ECG formats and the relationship among these formats. The intention is to help researchers towards the development of modern ECG sensors that are suitable and approved for adoption in real clinical settings.


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