Machine learning approach to recognize ventricular arrhythmias using VMD based features

The occurrence of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) such as Ventricular tachycardia (VT) and Ventricular fibrillation (VF) leads to sudden cardiac death which requires detection at an early stage. The main aim of this work is to develop an automated system using machine learning tool fo...

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Published in:Multidimensional systems and signal processing 2020, Vol.31 (1), p.49-71
Main Authors: Mohanty, Monalisa, Biswal, Pradyut, Sabut, Sukanta
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Artificial Intelligence
Cardiac arrhythmia
Circuits and Systems
Classifiers
Data analysis
Decomposition
Electrical Engineering
Electrocardiography
Engineering
Feature extraction
Fibrillation
Machine learning
Signal,Image and Speech Processing
Support vector machines
Tachycardia
Ventricular fibrillation
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Summary:The occurrence of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) such as Ventricular tachycardia (VT) and Ventricular fibrillation (VF) leads to sudden cardiac death which requires detection at an early stage. The main aim of this work is to develop an automated system using machine learning tool for accurate prediction of VAs that may reduce the mortality rate. In this paper, a novel method using variational mode decomposition (VMD) based features and C4.5 classifier for detection of ventricular arrhythmias is presented. The VMD model was used to decompose the electrocardiography (ECG) signals to extract useful informative features. The method was tested for ECG signals obtained from PhysioNet database. Two standard databases i.e. CUDB (Creighton University Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia Database) and VFDB (MIT-BIH Malignant Ventricular Ectopy Database) were considered for this work. A set of time–frequency features were extracted and ranked by the gain ratio attribute evaluation method. The ranked features are subjected to support vector machine (SVM) and C4.5 classifier for classification of normal, VT and VF classes. The best detection was obtained with sensitivity of 97.97%, specificity of 99.15%, and accuracy of 99.18% for C4.5 classifier with a 5 s data analysis window. These results were better than SVM classifier result having an average accuracy of 86.87%. Hence, the proposed method demonstrates the efficiency in detecting the life-threatening VAs and can serve as an assistive tool to clinicians in the diagnosis process.
ISSN:0923-6082
1573-0824
DOI:10.1007/s11045-019-00651-w