Combining accelerometer data with Gabor energy feature vectors for body movements classification in ambulatory ECG signals

Wearable ambulatory ECG (A-ECG) signals obtained using wearable ECG recorders inherently contain the motion artifacts due to various body movements of the subject. Classification of four such body movement activities (BMA) - left arm up-down, right arm up-down, waist twisting and walking-of five healthy subjects has been performed using artificial neural networks (ANN). The accelerometer data and the Gabor energy feature vectors have been combined to train the ANN. The overall BMA classification accuracy achieved by the ANN classifier is over 95%.