The electrocardiogram signal morphology analysis based on convolutional neural network

Abstract

The analysis of electrocardiogram signal morphology based on convolutional neural network is considered. Input data is obtained by splitting the signal into cardiac cycles. The calculation the average cycle is performed to exclude the artefacts. The Haar wavelet transform of the average cycle is performed. The images of size 200x6 are input data for the recognition system: 200 – number of counts constituting the cycle; 6 – number of Haar transform time scales. This work is a reconsideration of the previous work of the authors. The training samples base of marked cardiac cycle segments is the same (1500 cycles): the average cycle and the segment’s start and end indexes. In the previous work, the original composite system consisting of several modules was used as a recognition system. In current work it is proposed to use the convolutional neural network with the special structure: 4 convolutional layers, 2 dense layers, and 200 outputs for every of 3 segment. The recognition system based on neural network showed results slightly superior to the previous system. The percent of acceptable localization of the segments is the following: P – 82.2%, QRS – 88.7%, and T – 85.4%. The proposed system effectively solves the problem using the standard modules of modern artificial neural networks.