Intelligent Classifier for Atrial Fibrillation (ECG)

نویسندگان

  • Olga Valenzuela
  • Ignacio Rojas
  • Fernando Rojas Ruiz
  • Alberto Guillén
  • Luis Javier Herrera
  • Fernando J. Rojas
  • Maria del Mar Cepero
چکیده

This chapter is focused on the analysis and classification of arrhythmias. An arrhythmia is any cardiac pace that is not the typical sinusoidal one due to alterations in the formation and/or transportation of the impulses. In pathological conditions, the depolarization process can be initiated outside the sinoatrial (SA) node and several kinds of extra-systolic or ectopic beatings can appear. Besides, electrical impulses can be blocked, accelerated, deviated by alternate trajectories and can change its origin from one heart beat to the other, thus originating several types of blockings and anomalous connections. In both situations, changes in the signal morphology or in the duration of its waves and intervals can be produced on the ECG, as well as a lack of one of the waves. This work is focused on the development of intelligent classifiers in the area of biomedicine, focusing on the problem of diagnosing cardiac diseases based on the electrocardiogram (ECG), or more precisely on the differentiation of the types of atrial fibrillations. First of all we will study the ECG, and the treatment of the ECG in order to work with it, with this specific pathology. In order to achieve this we will study different ways of elimination, in the best possible way, of any activity that is not caused by the auriculars. We will study and imitate the ECG treatment methodologies and the characteristics extracted from the electrocardiograms that were used by the researchers that obtained the best results in the Physionet Challenge, where the classification of ECG recordings according to the type of Atrial Fibrillation (AF) that they showed, was realised. We will extract a great amount of characteristics, partly those used by these researchers and additional characteristics that we consider to be important for the distinction mentioned before. A new method based on evolutionary algorithms will be used to realise a selection of the most relevant characteristics and to obtain a classifier that will be capable of distinguishing the different types of this pathology.

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تاریخ انتشار 2009