VERB: VFCDM-Based Electrocardiogram Reconstruction and Beat Detection Algorithm
UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular MedicineDocument Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2019-01-21Keywords
ElectrocardiogramQRS complex
T-wave
peak detection
signal reconstruction
variable frequency complex demodulation
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering
Cardiology
Cardiovascular Diseases
Cardiovascular System
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
We have developed a novel method to accurately detect QRS complex peaks using the variable frequency complex demodulation (VFCDM) method. The approach's novelty stems from reconstructing an ECG signal using only the frequency components associated with the QRS waveforms by VFCDM decomposition. After signal reconstruction, both top and bottom sides of the signal are used for peak detection, after which we compare locations of the peaks detected from both sides to ensure false peaks are minimized. Finally, we impose position-dependent adaptive thresholds to remove any remaining false peaks from the prior step. We applied the proposed method to the widely benchmarked MIT-BIH arrhythmia dataset, and obtained among the best results compared to many of the recently published methods. Our approach resulted in 99.94% sensitivity, 99.95% positive predictive value and a 0.11% detection error rate. Three other datasets-the MIMIC III database, University of Massachusetts atrial fibrillation data, and SCUBA diving in salt water ECG data-were used to further test the robustness of our proposed algorithm. For all these three datasets, our method retained consistently higher accuracy when compared to the BioSig Matlab toolbox, which is publicly available and known to be reliable for ECG peak detection.Source
Bashar SK, Walkey AJ, McManus DD, Chon KH. VERB: VFCDM-Based Electrocardiogram Reconstruction and Beat Detection Algorithm. IEEE Access. 2019;7:13856-13866. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2894092. Epub 2019 Jan 21. PMID: 31741809; PMCID: PMC6860377. Link to article on publisher's site
DOI
10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2894092Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/29520PubMed ID
31741809Related Resources
ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2894092