Discrimination ability of time-domain features and rules for arrhythmia classification


Arikan U., GÜRGEN S. F.

Mathematical and Computational Applications, cilt.17, sa.2, ss.111-120, 2012 (Scopus, TRDizin)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 17 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2012
  • Doi Numarası: 10.3390/mca17020111
  • Dergi Adı: Mathematical and Computational Applications
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.111-120
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Arrhythmia, C4.5, Classification, ECG, Hot spot algorithm, Multilayer perceptron (MLP) and support vector machines (SVM), Naive bayes, Rule extraction
  • Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study investigates relevant diagnosis information for arrhythmia classification from previously collected cardiac data. Discrimination ability of various time-domain attributes and rules were discussed for automatic diagnosis of arrythmia using electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. Naive Bayes, C4.5, multilayer perceptron (MLP) and support vector machines (SVM) algorithms were tested on a number of the input features selected by correlative feature selection (CFS) method. Hot Spot algorithm was employed to extract a number of rules that is useful in diagnosing cardiac problems from ECG signal. 257 time domain features of 452 cases from a cardiac arrhythmia database [1] were used. Various testing configurations and performance measures such as accuracy, TP and FP rates, precision, recall and AUC were considered. The discrimination ability of selected-features and the extracted-rules were demonstrated.