Shubhada S.Ardhapurkar; Ramandra R. Manthalkar; Suhas S.Gajre

Interpretation of Normal and Pathological ECG Beats using Multiresolution Wavelet Analysis

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Author(s)

Shubhada S.Ardhapurkar ^1,* Ramandra R. Manthalkar ² Suhas S.Gajre ²

1. International Center of Excellence in Engineering and Management, Aurangabad, India

2. S.G.G.S. Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nanded, Maharashtra, India

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2013.01.01

Received: 3 Apr. 2012 / Revised: 7 Aug. 2012 / Accepted: 3 Oct. 2012 / Published: 8 Dec. 2012

Index Terms

Discrete Wavelet Transform, QRS Complex, Feature Extraction

Abstract

The Discrete wavelet transform has great capability to analyse the temporal and spectral properties of non stationary signal like ECG. In this paper, we have developed and evaluated a robust algorithm using multiresolution analysis based on the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) for twelve-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) temporal feature extraction. In the first step, ECG was denoised considerably by employing kernel density estimation on subband coefficients then QRS complexes were detected. Further, by selecting appropriate coefficients and applying wave segmentation strategy P and T wave peaks were detected. Finally, the determination of P and T wave onsets and ends was performed. The novelty of this approach lies in detection of different morphologies in ECG wave with few decision rules. We have evaluated the algorithm on normal and abnormal beats from various manually annotated databases from physiobank having different sampling frequencies. The QRS detector obtained a sensitivity of 99.5% and a positive predictivity of 98.9% over the first lead of the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database.

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Shubhada S.Ardhapurkar, Ramandra R. Manthalkar, Suhas S.Gajre, "Interpretation of Normal and Pathological ECG Beats using Multiresolution Wavelet Analysis", International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science(IJITCS), vol.5, no.1, pp.1-14, 2013.DOI:10.5815/ijitcs.2013.01.01

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