Authors:
Farid Melgani
1
and
Yakoub Bazi
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Trento, Italy
;
2
College of Engineering, Al Jouf University, Saudi Arabia
Keyword(s):
ECG classification, feature reduction, particle swarm optimization, support vector machine.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications and Services
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Signal Processing
;
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Data Manipulation
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Medical Image Detection, Acquisition, Analysis and Processing
;
Methodologies and Methods
;
Neurocomputing
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Pattern Recognition
;
Physiological Computing Systems
;
Sensor Networks
;
Soft Computing
Abstract:
In this paper, we propose a novel classification system for ECG signals based on particle swarm optimization (PSO). The main objective of this system is to optimize the performance of the support vector machine (SVM) classifier in terms of accuracy by automatically: i) searching for the best subset of features where to carry out the classification task; and ii) solving the SVM model selection issue. Experiments conducted on the basis of ECG data from the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database to classify five kinds of abnormal waveforms and normal beats confirm the effectiveness of the proposed PSO-SVM classification system.