Research on Biomedical Engineering
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Research on Biomedical Engineering
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Real-time premature ventricular contractions detection based on Redundant Discrete Wavelet Transform  

Ernano Arrais Junior, Ricardo Alexsandro de Medeiros Valentim, Gláucio Bezerra Brandão

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Abstract

Introduction: Premature Ventricular Contraction (PVC) is among the most common types of ventricular cardiac arrhythmia. However, it only poses danger if the person suffers from a heart disease, such as heart failure. Hence, this is an important factor to consider in heart disease people. This paper presents an ECG real-time analysis system for PVC detection. Methods: This system is based on threshold adaptive methods and Redundant Discrete Wavelet Transform (RDWT), with a real-time approach. This analysis is based on wavelet coefficients energy for PVC detection. It is presented also a study to find the most indicated wavelet mother for ECG analysis application among the following wavelet families: Daubechies, Coiflets and Symlets. The system detection performance was validated on the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database. Results: The best results were verified with db2 wavelet
mother: the Sensitivity Se = 99.18%, Positive Predictive Value P+ = 99.15% and Specificity Sp = 99.94%, on 80.872 annotated beats, and 61.2 s processing speed for a half-hour record. Conclusion: The proposed system exhibits reliable PVC detection, with real-time approach, and a simple algorithmic structure that can be implemented in many platforms.

Keywords

Electrocardiogram, Premature ventricular contraction, Redundant Discrete Wavelet Transform.

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