ABSTRACT

Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a classification of cardiac disrhythmia is an arrhythmia in which the heartbeat is irreg- ular, too fast, or too slow. Because of this erratically changing behavior, effective pumping of blood by the heart to other organs results in malfunctioning of them. Generally, AF is seen commonly in elder people who are suffering from heart failure. To effectively treat AF, automatic detection methods based on electrocardiograph (ECG) mon- itoring is highly desirable. The objective of this study is to develop a novel algorithm able to detect atrial fibrilla- tion episodes supervising a standard superficial ECG lead. In this discussion, AF is detected by considering the MIT/BIH arrhythmia database. The features of this database is extracted by using the different orderings of Con- jugate Symmetric–Complex Hadamard Transform (CS–CHT), namely, natural order, Paley order, sequency order, and Cal–Sal order as they are fast and can be implemented with less memory usage as compared with the previ- ous techniques in literature. The results obtained are applied to Levenberg–Marquardt Neural Network (LM NN) classifier and the performances of these techniques were estimated in terms of sensitivity, specificity, and overall detection accuracy on the datasets.

Keywords: Atrial Fibrillation ECG CS–SCHT Neural network classifier