Combining Low-dimensional Wavelet Features and Support Vector Machine for Arrhythmia Beat Classification

Qin, Qin, Li, Jianqing, Zhang, Li, Yue, Yinggao and Liu, Chengyu (2017) Combining Low-dimensional Wavelet Features and Support Vector Machine for Arrhythmia Beat Classification. Scientific Reports, 7 (1). p. 6067. ISSN 2045-2322

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Abstract

Automatic feature extraction and classification are two main tasks in abnormal ECG beat recognition. Feature extraction is an important prerequisite prior to classification since it provides the classifier with input features, and the performance of classifier depends significantly on the quality of these features. This study develops an effective method to extract low-dimensional ECG beat feature vectors. It employs wavelet multi-resolution analysis to extract time-frequency domain features and then applies principle component analysis to reduce the dimension of the feature vector. In classification, 12-element feature vectors characterizing six types of beats are used as inputs for one-versus-one support vector machine, which is conducted in form of 10-fold cross validation with beat-based and record-based training schemes. Tested upon a total of 107049 beats from MIT-BIH arrhythmia database, our method has achieved average sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of 99.09%, 99.82% and 99.70%, respectively, using the beat-based training scheme, and 44.40%, 88.88% and 81.47%, respectively, using the record-based training scheme.

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