Modified fuzzy ARTMAP for cardiac arrhythmia recognition
by Mohammed Hakim Bendiabdallah; Mohamed Amine Chikh; Belabbas Yagoubi
International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (IJBET), Vol. 22, No. 1, 2016

Abstract: Cardiovascular diseases are one of the most common causes of mortality in the world. Therefore, early detection and treatment of arrhythmia remains a major challenge in cardiac care. Cardiac activity is one of the most significant tools to determine the status of the patient, which is primarily reflected by a physiological signal also known as Electrocardiogram (ECG). A number of algorithms have been proposed for the automatic recognition of cardiac arrhythmia. We propose in this paper a modified architecture of the fuzzy adaptive resonance theory - supervised predictive mapping neural network (fuzzy ARTMAP) algorithm for the diagnosis of cardiac rhythm; we introduced a statistical and a probabilistic approach in the neurons of the hidden layer, requiring only one epoch for learning. This showed a significant improvement in the obtained results, which were validated using ECG signals of different patients from the 'MIT-BIH arrhythmia databases'. Our results therefore demonstrate the effectiveness of this modified classifier compared to those already reported in the literature.

Online publication date: Thu, 08-Sep-2016

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