Using the Electrocardiogram Signal to Identify and Detection Heart Diseases by Combining Time and Frequency Characteristics

Subject Areas : BioElectric

Mohamad Reza Yousefi ¹ (Department of Electrical Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran)
Zahra Khodadadi ² (Department of Electrical Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran)
Amin Dehghani ³ (Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA)

Received: 2024-01-19 Published : 2024-07-14

Keywords: electrocardiogram, heart disease classification, k nearest neighbor, support vector machine, neural network,

Abstract :

One highly valuable tool for diagnosing heart diseases is the Electrocardiogram (ECG). This method involves recording the electrical signals emitted by the heart, using electrodes placed on the chest and various organs. The primary objective of this project is to employ digital signal pro-cessing of ECG signals to classify and diagnose heart diseases. The conditions that can be classi-fied through this digital processing of ECG signals encompass arrhythmia, atrioventricular block, cardiomyopathy, bundle branch block, and more. Therefore, this study primarily focuses on the classification and diagnosis of some of these heart diseases. The Pan-Tompkins algorithm is em-ployed in this study to detect the QRS complex in the ECG signals. Various classification algo-rithms, such as K-nearest neighbor, support vector machine, decision tree, and neural network, have been utilized to classify these signals. The digital processing of ECG signals is conducted using MA‌TLAB software. The ECG signals utilized in this project were sourced from the PTB Diagn‌ostic database available at physionet.org. Ultimately, the K-NN classifier with an F-criterion of 0.88 and a K-value of 20 demonstrated the most robust performance in classifying these heart diseases.