Title : 
Classification of PVCs with a fuzzy logic system
         
        
            Author : 
Wieben, Oliver ; Tompkins, Willis J. ; Afonso, Valtino X.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI, USA
         
        
        
        
            fDate : 
30 Oct-2 Nov 1997
         
        
        
            Abstract : 
The authors propose a fuzzy logic system for the classification of premature ventricular beats (PVCs) in ECGs. The classifier uses novel features extracted from a time-frequency analysis performed by a filter bank in addition to measurements related to the timing of R-R intervals and morphology analysis. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated on the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database following the AAMI recommendations. The achieved sensitivity is 81.34% and the positive predictivity is 80.64%
         
        
            Keywords : 
electrocardiography; feature extraction; fuzzy logic; medical signal processing; time-frequency analysis; AAMI recommendations; MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database; R-R intervals timing; algorithm performance; electrodiagnostics; filter bank; morphology analysis; positive predictivity; premature ventricular beats classification; Electrocardiography; Feature extraction; Filter bank; Fuzzy logic; Heart rate variability; Morphology; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Time frequency analysis; Timing;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1997. Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Chicago, IL
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-4262-3
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/IEMBS.1997.754464