Journal of Applied Research in Electrical Engineering

Journal of Applied Research in Electrical Engineering

Improving the Diagnosis of Sudden Cardiac Death by Using Non-Linear Features of the ECG Signal and Hybrid RBF

Document Type : Research article

Authors
Afshin Koliji 1
Sara Mihandoost 1
Nematollah Ezzati 1
Ehsan Mostafapour 2
1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Industrial Technologies, Urmia University of Technology, Urmia, Iran
2 Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
10.22055/jaree.2023.43231.1068
Abstract
Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) leads to the killing of millions of people worldwide every year. In this article, sudden cardiac death is predicted by utilizing electrocardiogram signal processing. For this purpose, after extracting the signal of heart rate variations from the electrocardiogram signal, temporal and non-linear features have been extracted. In the next step, by applying LDA to the combined feature vector, the feature dimensions are reduced and finally, healthy people and high-risk people are classified through Hybrid-RBF classifiers. The obtained results show that there are features in the signal of heart rate variations related to risk-taking individuals near the occurrence of sudden cardiac death, that completely distinguish them from healthy persons. It has also been shown that from 6 minutes before the occurrence of cardiac death, this increase in the probability of risk is quite evident, so that as we get closer to the occurrence of the accident, the probability of its occurrence also increases, and this is enough time to adopt strategies to prevent it. The simulation results achieved by the data available in the MIT-BIH database prove the ability of the presented methods to achieve accurate diagnosis.

Highlights

  • Using linear and non-linear features to detect SCD.
  • Using Hybrid RBF for SCD detection.
  • Reducing detection complexity.
  • Detecting SCD for 3 different times and comparing the results with the previous studies.

Keywords
Variations in heart rate
Sudden cardiac death
Linear features
Nonlinear features
Subjects
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Journal of Applied Research in Electrical Engineering
Volume 2, Issue 2
Summer and Autumn 2023
July 2023
Pages 120-126

  • Receive Date 07 March 2023
  • Revise Date 29 July 2023
  • Accept Date 13 August 2023