Fuad A. M. Al-Yarimi^*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.1, pp. 129-142, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.024297

Abstract A critical component of dealing with heart disease is real-time identification, which triggers rapid action. The main challenge of real-time identification is illustrated here by the rare occurrence of cardiac arrhythmias. Recent contributions to cardiac arrhythmia prediction using supervised learning approaches generally involve the use of demographic features (electronic health records), signal features (electrocardiogram features as signals), and temporal features. Since the signal of the electrical activity of the heartbeat is very sensitive to differences between high and low heartbeats, it is possible to detect some of the irregularities in the early stages of arrhythmia. This paper describes the training… More >

Anas Bushnag^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.33, No.1, pp. 51-70, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.024005

Abstract A portable electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring system is essential for elderly and remote patients who are not able to visit the hospital regularly. The system connects a patient to his/her doctor through an Internet of Things (IoT) cloud server that provides all the information needed to diagnose heart diseases. Patients use an ECG monitoring device to collect and upload information regarding their current medical situation via the Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol to the server. The IoT cloud server performs further analysis that can be useful for both the doctor and the patient. Moreover, the proposed system has an alert… More >

S. Karthik¹, M. Santhosh^1,*, M. S. Kavitha¹, A. Christopher Paul²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.42, No.1, pp. 183-199, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.021698

Abstract Automated biomedical signal processing becomes an essential process to determine the indicators of diseased states. At the same time, latest developments of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have the ability to manage and analyzing massive amounts of biomedical datasets results in clinical decisions and real time applications. They can be employed for medical imaging; however, the 1D biomedical signal recognition process is still needing to be improved. Electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the widely used 1-dimensional biomedical signals, which is used to diagnose cardiovascular diseases. Computer assisted diagnostic models find it difficult to automatically classify the 1D ECG signals owing to… More >

Mohd Zubir Suboh^1,2, Nazrul Anuar Nayan^1,3,*, Noraidatulakma Abdullah^4,5, Nurul Ain Mhd Yusof⁴, Mariatul Akma Hamid⁴, Azwa Shawani Kamalul Arinfin⁴, Syakila Mohd Abd Daud⁴, Mohd Arman Kamaruddin⁴, Rosmina Jaafar¹, Rahman Jamal⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.1, pp. 1111-1132, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.022123

Abstract A comprehensive study was conducted to differentiate cardiovascular disease (CVD) subjects from non-CVD subjects using short recording electrocardiogram (ECG) of 244 Malaysian adults in The Malaysian Cohort project. An automated peak detection algorithm to detect nine fiducial points of electrocardiogram (ECG) was developed. Forty-eight features were extracted in both time and frequency domains, including statistical features obtained from heart rate variability and Poincare plot analysis. These include five new features derived from spectrum counts of five different frequency ranges. Feature selection was then made based on p-value and correlation matrix. Selected features were used as input for five classifiers of… More >

R. Krishnaswamy^1,*, B. Sivakumar², B. Viswanathan³, Fahd N. Al-Wesabi^4,5, Marwa Obayya⁶, Anwer Mustafa Hilal⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.1, pp. 255-268, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.021995

Abstract Automatic biomedical signal recognition is an important process for several disease diagnoses. Particularly, Electrocardiogram (ECG) is commonly used to identify cardiovascular diseases. The professionals can determine the existence of cardiovascular diseases using the morphological patterns of the ECG signals. In order to raise the diagnostic accuracy and reduce the diagnostic time, automated computer aided diagnosis model is necessary. With the advancements of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, large quantity of biomedical datasets can be easily examined for decision making. In this aspect, this paper presents an intelligent biomedical ECG signal processing (IBECG-SP) technique for CVD diagnosis. The proposed IBECG-SP technique examines… More >

Jianbo Xu, Wenxi Chen^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.1, pp. 1807-1819, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.021154

Abstract This study proposes a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based identity recognition scheme using electrocardiogram (ECG) at different water temperatures (WTs) during bathing, aiming to explore the impact of ECG length on the recognition rate. ECG data was collected using non-contact electrodes at five different WTs during bathing. Ten young student subjects (seven men and three women) participated in data collection. Three ECG recordings were collected at each preset bathtub WT for each subject. Each recording is 18 min long, with a sampling rate of 200 Hz. In total, 150 ECG recordings and 150 WT recordings were collected. The R peaks were… More >

V. R. Vimal^1,*, P. Anandan², N. Kumaratharan³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.32, No.1, pp. 31-43, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.017622

Abstract

Electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring models are commonly employed for diagnosing heart diseases. Since ECG signals are normally acquired for a longer time duration with high resolution, there is a need to compress the ECG signals for transmission and storage. So, a novel compression technique is essential in transmitting the signals to the telemedicine center to monitor and analyse the data. In addition, the protection of ECG signals poses a challenging issue, which encryption techniques can resolve. The existing Encryption-Then-Compression (ETC) models for multimedia data fail to properly maintain the trade-off between compression performance and signal quality. In this view, this study… More >

Shubha Sumesh¹, John Yearwood¹, Shamsul Huda¹ and Shafiq Ahmad^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 4503-4521, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.015474

Abstract

Clinical Study and automatic diagnosis of electrocardiogram (ECG) data always remain a challenge in diagnosing cardiovascular activities. The analysis of ECG data relies on various factors like morphological features, classification techniques, methods or models used to diagnose and its performance improvement. Another crucial factor in the methodology is how to train the model for each patient. Existing approaches use standard training model which faces challenges when training data has variation due to individual patient characteristics resulting in a lower detection accuracy. This paper proposes an adaptive approach to identify performance improvement in building a training model that analyze global training… More >

Ratha Yeu¹, Namhui Ra², Seong-A Lee³, Yunyoung Nam^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.2, pp. 1411-1425, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.013761

Abstract Electrocardiogram (ECG) electrodes are conductive pads applied to the skin to measure cardiac activity. Ag/AgCl electrodes are the commercial product which widely used to obtain ECGs. When monitoring the ECG in a hot spring, Ag/AgCl electrodes must be waterproofed; however, this is time-consuming, and the adhesive may tear the skin on removal. For solving the problem, we developed the carbon pencil lead (CPL) electrodes for use in hot springs. Both CPL and Ag/AgCl electrodes were connected to ECG100C’s cables. The Performance was evaluated in three conditions as following: hot spring water with and without bubble, and in cold water. In… More >

Fei Yang^1,2,#, Xiaoqing Zhang^1,*,#, Yong Zhu³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.125, No.1, pp. 365-382, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.010798

Abstract Heart arrhythmia is a group of irregular heartbeat conditions and is usually detected by electrocardiograms (ECG) signals. Over the past years, deep learning methods have been developed to classify different types of heart arrhythmias through ECG based on computer-aided diagnosis systems (CADs), but these deep learning methods usually cannot trade-off between classification performance and parameters of deep learning methods. To tackle this problem, this work proposes a convolutional neural network (CNN) model named PDNet to recognize different types of heart arrhythmias efficiently. In the PDNet, a convolutional block named PDblock is devised, which is comprised of a pointwise convolutional layer… More >